luxembourg's -- has won the last stage of the tour de france. he crossed the line after a grueling right that included a three high-altitude climes. he was still 15 seconds short of taking the overall leader's jersey. moving on to soccer now with a double dose of testosterone. paraguaq and venezuela faced off at the semifinal at the copa america on wednesday. paraguay one in a penalty shootout and that is when the fist's started flying. >> they kept their nerve. jubilation for the favorites after a disappointing game. the match ended in a scoreless draw up. venezuela credits and good old chances. paraguay hung on by the skin of their teeth. -- venezuela created some good goal chances. >> may him broke out on the pitc. the brawl involved players and coaching staff ended with police escorting them off the field. paraguay will have to wait and see if disciplinary action will interfere with their plans against uruguay. >> the space shuttle is officially history. the space shuttle touched down in florida. the atlantis pierced the sky just before dawn

when luxembourg attacked, there was another half minute lost on the main contenders. a further toward a france victory is looking less likely for the spaniard. >> france is also celebrating bastille day to day, its national holiday, with the traditional military parades attracting thousands. this marks the storming of the bastille prison in paris on july 14, 1789, viewed as the start of the french revolution. >> of bastille day celebrations are always an elaborate display of military might. french fighter jets painted these guys and thousands recorded the regiments, marching down the street. the death of five french troops in afghanistan a day earlier overshadowed the festivities. the president began the day with a visit to a military hospital in paris, where he strongly condemned the attack. >> the french soldiers were protecting the village gathering that aimed to facilitate the reconciliation of different groups in afghanistan. the attack was a terrorist act, not a military one. >> the day was supposed to be a happy one, dedicated to the overseas territories. the p

in cycling there was an instant of brotherly success of the swords of france says luxembourg siblings and frank schleck secured a one. track. stage in a gripping race the younger brother andy captured the victory of the year seven seconds ahead of frank. was third fastest. to come in fourth. from just fifteen seconds frank schleck his third overall and with just one second separating the top four with three stages to go. defending champion sebastian vettel may be the runaway leader midway through the formula one season but all is not yet lost for the chasing back including former world champion jenson button has more than points to race for in the next two grand prix he's the englishman who claimed the overall title two years ago is the lingering in that place five points behind that's all but boston that broke his mettle last month and winning their rain drenched canadian grand prix in style. will be hoping to have more reason to celebrate. as the formula one circus travels to evergreen this weekend and then to budapest a week later. mikaela yet a shelf has had a remarkable twenty ye

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fifty seven second deficit on stage twenty eight to take the yellow jersey from andy schleck of luxembourg and his brother frank schleck third. and finally it may be some other but one of russia's top ice hockey teams is getting ready to take part in the boston hockey night tournament in the u.s. one of the most prestigious events in junior hockey which upon porfiry reports. sunday promises to be a long day for the stanleys see still folks is always talking to the cipher might be to go from russia's urals wants us to play in a junior tournament in boston trip which will take a moment day the event will see the russian won't be taking on five science for north america mainly from the u.s. cities eastern coast could be a game of trying to make the grand final of the thirty first of july we consider it's very important for the players and for the coaching staff and for the leak to have serious contacts with the international players as foreign players especially canadian players and us players this is a first experience for us to go we decided that i would too should participate in this tourn

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the belgian foreign minister announced that the looks the group of belgium the netherlands and luxembourg now recognize the national transitional council as the legitimate representative of the libyan people and nato spokesman says it's hoped the meeting will be an opportunity to hear a vision for the future of the come back country and under the current situation ongoing. hundreds of iraqis were poisoned by a chlorine gas crowd that spread across baghdad after an explosion at a water treatment plant health officials said no one died in all those affected have already been released from hospital but most of them were from the city's poorest neighborhood security officials believe the blast happened you have mechanical problems at the facility. the taliban's the biggest achievement in ten years that's what the group called the assassination of the heart brother of the afghan president. karzai headed the kandahar province a volatile region on the border with pakistan kerry vandyke who back in two thousand and eight was held by the taliban for forty five days says the killing it leaves washi

in the -- in germany rosa luxembourg went to prison for her opinions. in france a staunch opponent of the war which he saw coming and spoke out repeatedly as he saw it drawing closer was the socialist leader, um, who was assassinated by a right-wing nationalist three days before the war began. in england the country's leading philosopher, bertrand russell, was to my mind the most eloquent of all the war opponents. and i think what i like about russell so much is that he was so honest about the conflict in his own feelings. let me read you something where he describes his state of mind as the war began. he describes himself very poignantly as being, quote, tortured by patriotism. i desire the defeat of germany as around tendly as any -- arkansas dentally as any retired colonel. love of england is nearly the strongest emotion i possess, and in appearing to set it aside at such a moment, i was making a very difficult renunciation. but as a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. as a lover of civilization, the re

or d luxembourg. ali? >> easy, easy. give me something harder than that. go, richard. >> yes, it is sweden. >> wrong yet again. the correct answer is canada. it's the lowest on the list, per capi capita. >> you are so toast when you go home. >> that's ep bearsing. >> i'm not going home after that. all right. >> let's go to the gold standard. between 1870 and 1900, every major country, except one got on the board. which was the lone holdouts. a, china. b, russia. c, japan. or d, germany? >> richard. >> russia. >> incorrect. >> ali? >> japan. >> incorrect yet again. it's a rough start, guys. the correct answer is china. china nearly bought 600 tons of gold last year. some by the government and some by private investors. >> i nearly said china. let's see if you guys can redeem yourselves on question three, shall we? >> okay. >> according to xe only currency converter, there is no currency that exchanges at an even rate with the euro, but there are two that trade evenly with the u.s. dollar. which one of these is it? is it a, australian dollars? b, bermuda dol

i was expecting to see luxembourg pock before pop up, everyone but us.mphed and now we are leaving it and hitching rides. >>guest: we left deep space back, really, in 1968. we started to leave the nearer space playing field when we did not fund the george w. bush initiative properly so that schedules could be maintained with the program to provide a replacement for the space shuttle which, indeed, has been aging. it had more flights left in it, in question, but it was aging and would have to be retired and that was the plan in 1964. unfortunately, the white house under bush and the congress at that time, did not provide the funds necessary to ensure it met schedule and that gave probe the opportunity he would have taken anyway, but give him the opportunity to cancel the entire program. >>neil: you did not join in sinning on the moon, but added a word but you refused to sing on the moon and i wonder, why? >>guest: well, i hate to ever correct anybody but i was the one singing on the moon and he added a word or two. >>neil: and he got the credit. he said d

twit ser land and luxembourg. our mountain of debt for the u.s. economy from the business section today. bert from spring borrow ohio. grand bargain. everything back on the table is now back on the front page of the "washington post" this morning? caller: i don't agree with them, with any of the way they're coming up with those ideas. either tax the wealthy or cut government programs. why do they need to do either or? you have a lot of government employees. we're the ones why can't you cut their hours like a regular business would do. these people get sick paid days and all kind of benefits. just cut some of their hours and let's get some of that revenue back going. what's wrong with working half day fridays and just start you know, saving some taxpayers some money? i don't understand it. i didn't vote for any of these people to make tough decisions. i voted for them to make smart decisions. host: thanks for the call. twitter page. the president put anything on the table. republicans are pushing american poor to the brink. crystal on the democrat

[laughter] did this really wonderful speech of the luxembourg income study.elieve it was last summer looking at this intersection of inequality and why should we care about, why should a, scare, and so he -- he highlighted all this very interesting research from political scientists that focused on how well as we become more unequal in the united states in terms of income that has also led to the polarization in terms of politics. now, i'm not the political scientist, but i do think that there is certainly appears to be something to that, and i feel we should be thinking more about how that is playing into what's going on in washington and who's getting elected and how they are getting elected >> in the last few minutes, i completely agree on the inequality thing. societies that are more equal to better and in a range of areas in the societies that are more unequal. the united states is among the most unequal with the advanced nations out here. but in our last few minutes i'm going to go back to politics and turn to you. first i'm curious as president obama a

in terms of the politics, there was an interesting -- he did it is wonderful speech in luxembourg lastmer looking at this question, the intersection between inequality and wages. he highlighted interesting research from political scientists. as we become more equal, it has led to this polarization in terms of our politics. i am not a political scientist. i think it appears to be something to that. we should be thinking more about how that is playing into what is go on in washington in terms of who is being elected and how they are being elected. >> in our last few minutes -- i agree on the inequality thing. societies that are more equal do better in a range of areas. the united states is among the most but equal of the advanced nations. -- most unequal of the advanced nations. i will go back to you, rich. is president obama a friend or an acquaintance? [laughter] >> he is a second cousin. [laughter] we put him in the category of a friend who gets delusional once in a while. >> i wanted to ask you to talk a little bit about the obama administration's approach to the employment crisis in