from norman, oklaha, joshua landis from the university of oklahoma. with me in new york, anne-marie slaughter of princeton university and fouad ajami from stanford university. i'm pleased to have each of them here so i begin with anne-marie slaughter. where are we after the united nations failed to come to an agreement, a recommendation? >> we're in a b place. today was terrible. yesterday was terrible. the shelling in homs is really ticked up a notch. they're using mortars. they're essentially just blowing up people in them. the activists there basically say thatussia and china gave the regime a green light to do whatever it takes to shut the opposition down. >>ose: tom, you just saw... you were just in russia. what are the russians saying about this? we've got the ambassador to the united nations, vitaly churkin, coming on later. >> well, you know, the story they tell is that president medvedev basically cooperated with the u.n. resolution no-fly zone on libya which they... the russians say was meant simply to protect civilians and it turned into a

>> we have josh landis evything i kw i read about on his blog. (laughte >> re: b i hear a very distinct difference between his opinion and your opinion. >> absolutely. but we already eablished sya is not libya. that's already... we've already gained. i think there's a very interesting difference between... tom is right. when we go back and revisit 1982 and friday was... they've been giving names to these friday. they named friday "forgive us hama." so they are talking about hama in 1982 and now it's homsin 2012, 30ears apart. i think there is a big difference. i think one t one noticeable difference... in ha hama the regime battled the muslim brotherhood and most of the society stood aside. they didn't like the muslim brotherhood, they were queasy about the regime. hafez assad wasn't so bad. people saw him as the best of a bad lot. this is very different. this is a population that has risen against a despot. it's an ethnic issue, as josh has said, it's an alawi government battling... it's a sunni opposition to an allawi government. but what we no

joshua landis, the white house has all but ruled out military intervention. what does the world community have left after the u.n. vote turning down the resolution? >> well, it's clear that nobody... we're in a you-first situation where everybody is expecting somebody else to intervene militarily. the problem is that syria is a big country. 24 million people. it's divided by religious community. the government is the stronghold against an opposition that's largely sunni. we have shades of iraq and lebanon here. this is a complicated battle. and nobody wants to get their military involved. so what's likely to happen is that increasingly they'll begin to fund and arm the syrian opposition and that this will be fought out over a long period of time on the streets of syria and in places like mommes. >> suarez: steven hiderman, do you agree with that analysis that now the attention shifts to inside the country. >> i think it does. it's important to remember that all the diplomatic and political activity that was happening outside the u.n. security council is going

she came right at a transition when the director landis was leaving to another agency. she has been a trooper moving this forward, and we would not be here having the information that we have today had it not been for her herculean efforts. i want to acknowledge her and thank her for her work. >> thank you. these matters were on the calendar last week for wednesday, we were told that the department heads were meeting with the mayor the following day on thursday. we had seen reports that there was some unexpected additional revenue with the hotel tax and property transfers. what is different in this budget that has been presented to us before? >> we were hopeful that the mayor's office would -- at the mayor's office has asked for a hiring plan. we were hopeful that we would have a plan that they would sign off and give us a plan before we presented the budget to the commission. that has not happened. the chief continues to make those arguments of the mayor's office for the need for hiring and funding classes. the direction from the mayor's office is that they were not go

landis to present the budget presentation, and after that we're both here to answer any questions. thank you. i>> good evening. i have a power point if you would like to take a look. briefly going over the budget right now, we can either look by divisions? but we have lafco, clerk's office, budget and appeals, the supervisors' offices, and the sunshine ordinance task force. one thing you'll notice is that lafco is not using any general fund money. this is true of the proposed budget as well. they have a balance that can carry forward. you can also defied the budget looking at the expense types. salaries and benefits, as with all departments to the city, are by far the largest amount of money that we spend. we have professional services, the bulk of which is the budget and legislative analyst contracts, and the comprehensive annual financial report contract, which is about 3 $314,000. services of other departments, the work orders, just over $200,000. we have money in there to replace a server at the end of its life. we are not having any capital requests for 2012-2013, but will hav

rights issues with the primetime attention that such leaders as president reagan and the late tom landis give it. michael was arrested in front of the white house this morning. for engaging in a quiet and respectful demonstration. as i saw the police place handcuffs on him and drive him away in a squad car, i realized how great america's heart can be. i also realized the great things that america's friends of freedom can do for oppressed people in china andelsewhere. before his arrest, michael prepared a statement which i hope can be entered into the hearing record. as you know, michae important role in working with you, and with congressman wolf and others on such legislation as the international religious freedom act and the north act. his statement reflects a great understanding of what determined america can do through peaceful means. to make china and the world a better and a safer place. let me conclude with the words of martin luther king jr. himself. quote and if america is to be a great nation, this must become true. thank you very much. >> pastor fu thank you very much and your

recent record in tackling doping contador says second ride to be straight to the forefront in floyd landis in two thousand and six after he also failed a drugs test but evans says cycling is setting a good example. i think of the sport of sparkling star more than enough to prove itself it's doing the right thing and now it's now it's time for other sports to look at cycling in and replicate the preparatory barsaat going to so the fight against drugs in sport can be can maybe be beaten one day across a sport. to speaking there are on the eve of the laureus sports awards ceremony and that sort tennis world number one novak djokovic named world sportsman of the year while kenyan distance trying to fifteen chariot was named sports woman of the year . while djokovic picking up the award at the ceremony in london the serb won three grand slams in twenty eleven and won forty one matches in a row and last month clinched the strain open to become the fifth man to win three majors in a row. thank you thank you thank me to last year's world championships in south korea. barcelona when wayne detainmen

when police tracked down joshua landis, they saw a pellet gun that looked real on the passenger seat of his car. he is charged with assault. >>> a mall had to be shut down when a crowd got too rowdy waiting for a shoe star to open. the shoppers wanted the nike foam sneaker. they called the washington county sheriff. about 100 people were outside the store. there were no arrests and the patrons were escorted into the store a few at a time when the doors opened. >>> i don't know what she is shoes 0 look like but they better be hot for that kind of disturbance. >> better have been a good sale. >> not what you expect to hear members of the u.s. navy punching, choking and beating down one of their own. >> sounds bad and it was. just ahead here on the news at 6:00, the navy enforced zero tolerance about hazing.  -dad, why are you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur? [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] inside every box of heart healthy cheerios are those great tasting littl

i want to thank delegate steve landis in his leadership to gettingny funds to grow agricultural exports and create new jobs. working together, we've eliminated $6 billion in budget shortfalls. not by raising taxes but by reforming government and reducing spending. we turned two massive budget deficits into nearly $1 billion in surpluses during these last two years. and i would say these are all collective, bipartisan accomplishments. virginians charting a fiscally responsible course to a brighter future. but ladies and gentlemen, it's no time for victory laps. our global economy is still very uncertain. the actions of the federal government are still very unpredictable. the unemployment rate is still unacceptable. this is not a status quo period in the life of americans and virginians. and so i suggest to you this should not be a status quo session for the virginia general assembly. now listen, i can't ask you to fix every problem in the short time that we have together this session. but i can ask you to fix some big ones. we must do more to spur private sector job creation. we must ref

security has a few people convinced artie's paula slit reports this is the document that's ruining landis life it makes no mention of a university degree husband or two children it simply states she's palestinian and therefore illegal and wanted in israel i have up and we should stay here now but i don't have any rights just to breathe. eat and drink and for me it's not the long. but a lot of chooses the nonlife because it's where her husband and children live by law very israeli where is the rest of her family live across the border in janine palestine each time we travel during the week. and i and the kids go through. what does remind us i have to walk. until now known as move between the two worlds with temporary visas issued by television but she's afraid they could stop at the government tightens its grip on a law denying permanent citizenship to palestinians married to israelis it's trying to limit the graphic in growth of the arab citizens encourage. citizens who marry palestinians from the west bank in gaza or from jordan to actually immigrate to actually leave israel israel says

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this committee will hold its first meeting on march 27th on nih campus with doctor story landis, director of nhis, will act as the interim chair. nih is working with other member agencies to gather and ally the agency's pain related scientific advances, their scientific portfolios to get an overview of the public-private partnerships and their efforts so their may be reviewed and discussed at the committee's first meeting in march. >> okay. second, i'm interested in initiatives to promote prevention wellness. you talked about the prevention to pain. as you know, we have a large segment of part of the american care act that is prevention and wellness. what about the role of prevention? i mean seems like we have chronic pain, but how do you prevent it? are there prevention strategies? >> obviously, this is a multifaceted problem, and first solution, of course, is to delineate those people who are most at risk to develop chronic pain, and there a number of ongoing studies which seek to identify so-called risk factors that individuals may have which make them particularly susceptible. this ca

earliest and strongest defenders and the public arena and someone i will always be very grateful for, and landy, i was grateful to become a friend and confidante, and someone i could not for my heart out soup. he brought one of the most significant cases, a multibillion-dollar accounting fraud at his office would the prosecution, so i am grateful. i am grateful to save our panelists have agreed to waive the opening statement. i will take questions until 1:30, and then we will take questions from the audience. let me start with this proposition. first of president and the attorney general in a press council less than two weeks ago in announcing a new task force, he offered as part of the explanation as to why we have not seen as many big ticket criminal prosecution some would like to see is because a lot of potential activity in the run up to the crisis may have been immoral or unethical, but it did not cross the line to be a criminal behavior that warranted criminal prosecution. elliott, you have not been shy about this. what is your assessment of that statement and that analysis? >> it is true

today he's going to meet with the same people he met 27 years ago including sarah landy.for talking with us. i know you're going to be hosting a dinner. the pressure is on, of course, because the world will be watching and it's now 27 years later from the first time that you met him. tell me a little bit about that 27 years ago. what was that meeting like? >> well, it was a wonderful meeting. iowa had just signed a sister state relationship with habay province, one of the first engine changes was an agricultural exchange to eyeiow. so this dell gais investigatiegy mr. xi. and we invited him to our community of muscatine to have him see the august ral businesses that he wanted to fulfill his goals? >> he was 32 years old. what was he like then? at the time, he was kind of a relatively speaking, a low-level official. was he friendly, was he excited about being in the united states? >> you know, i think you just hit it right there. one, i think at that time in particular, not many people from china or delegations had come to our state and sort of from our side, our side had