in scandinavia you don't have the same gap that you have in the united states. you don't have the notion that the system is stacked against the worker and in parts of this country that feeling runs very deep and you can see it. the other point is the security issue. this goes to another element of what david was saying. the best illustration of that is franklin roosevelt in his monumental book, america at war and in depression. stanford historian david kennedy wrote about the early part of the roosevelt administration. what did roosevelt do? he did not say he was going to cure the depression. he never said that. he never said he would restore america to rapid growth. what did he say? if you look at his programs they were about giving people a sense of security about the future. social security. security of your bank account. security and exchange commission. he was -- and are a and other things to give you a minimal job where you can have a sense of dignity when you went to work every day. .. >> what response do you believe is required? >> what you do see is you

heavy rain across the british isles and across scandinavia here. some rain in southern norway. it will be accompanied by strong winds up to 80 miles an hour. some rain is moving away in turkey. you will see coastal rain and snow today before it starts to move away. temperatures will improve. back up to double digits by sunday. up to 13 degrees on monday. minus 2 in moscow. a little bit cooler. temperatures should start to improve. you can see the warmth through europe. 19 in vienna. 11 degrees in london. i'll leave you now to your extended forecast. >>> our lead story this hour, rival politicical factions are power play at the top of the china leadership. bo xilai's removal as the party's secretary in the city of chongqing. senior members of the parties are assigned to posts in such cities. bo led efforts to develop chongqing by attracting foreign investment. he was destined for a position within the senior leadership. they say he was dismissed with a struggle between two groups. groups are fighting over which leadership they should take this autumn. bo is said to be part of a

the two questions with are none of you mentioned aniry dars or potential radars in norway or scandinavia. i wonder if you have any information about that. second, if anybody wants to comment ob what they think is the significance of the fact that rasmussen, the secretary general of nato recently announced that it's likely he will cancel the joint plan nato russia summit. on the margins. on the question of missile defense. the comment is, and this is not sarcastic question, why on earth would iran launch a nuclear weapon if it had one? knowing that it would be -- that it would be completely suicidal mission? and second of all, i think it's wrong to call it missile defense. when he unveiled the new thread, it clearly linked our defenses as shields. and that new strategic plan was not called by the same name. but all the pieces are still there. and it's operating with the same way. >> do i have any volunteers? dean, you look like you're ready to say something. zblf let me pick up on the last point you made. it's true the likelihood of iran launching a test is very low. iran can gain by thre

scandinavia, it will be gusty here. you will see precipitation most of it snow continuing for western norway. out to the east, widespread snow for western russia. down into the southeast, you can see turkey really getting hammered by an active low pressure at the moment. the black sea region seeing coastal rain and inland snow which will be moderate to heavy in some places. temperatures will continue to dive down in the southeast. it will be down to about the freezing point by friday. out to the west, spring-like temperatures. 17 in paris. above in madrid and lisbon at 25. i'll leave you now with your extended forecast. >>> the united states, japan and the european union are all in a dispute over rare earth metals. the three parties announced the action on tuesday. the united states has asked china to review the restrictions. little has changed. china produces more than 90% of the world's rare earth metals. they are used in high tech products. the u.s. is prepared to resume its own production. if they cannot solve their

heavier rain across the british isles and towards scandinavia. it's going to be accompanied by strong gusts. and it it will turn to snow further towards the north. out to the east, a lingering system over the black sea and turkey is starting to move away and dissipate. you'll e see another round of coastal rain and snow though today before it starts to move away. then temperatures are going to improve. back up to double digits by your sunday. up to 13 degrees on monday. minus 2 in moscow. a little cooler, but the temperatures should start to improve. you can see the warmth rebuilding in the central parts of europe. 19 in berlin. 21 in paris. back down to your seasonal average in london. that's your extended forecast. >>> our lead stories this hour. the president has called on nato troops to leave afghan villages and happened over security for the country one year ahead of schedule. karzai met with leon panetta in kabul on thursday. they discussed sunday's shooting spree. karzai told panetta that afghan forces have the ability to maintain security

in scandinavia, it will continue to be fairly gusty.ou'll see precipitation, most snow, continuing for western norway. out towards the east, widespread snow for western russia. then down into the southeast, turkey is getting hammered by an active low pressure at the moment. black sea region going to be seeing rain, coastal rain that is, and inland snow, which will be moderate to heavy in some places. temperatures will continue to dive down in the southeast. ankara, down to 4 wednesday. just around freezing point, 1 or 2 degrees friday. out to the west, spring like temperatures. 17 in paris, above average in madrid. i'll leave you now with the extended forecast. >>> japanese engineers have tested prototypes of robots designed to explore the moon's surface. seven robots went on a test run on tuesday on a sand dune in central japan. the beaches and the sand and the rocks closely resemble the surface of the moon. a water scouting robot developed by the tokyo institute of technology navigated a steep slope smoothly. another robot developed b

scandinavia is very high here because they invest in the common good, subsidized housing that's goodng, guaranteed health care, access to home care, public transportation, safe streets. when you invest in the common good, you give people the capacity to live the way they want to. it's interdependence that makes independence possible. >> that's interesting because it means it's sort of, does that also mean that the richer we become as nations and the more we make a reciprocal commitment to each other the more we say the hell with the rest of us and be on our own? >> people are actually social. it means you don't have to be trapped in a relationship that's not working and one of its most powerful things people told me again and again is that there's nothing lonelier than living with the wrong person. the majority of the people who live alone in the united states once married, once lived with someone and discovered they're better living on their own than being in a bad marriage. >> what happens when you have two people used to being alone and you put them together, though? >> that's a g

it is going to start to change as we see a cold front sagging down from scandinavia coming down intoentral locations for example. we've got about 19 degrees in berlin today. very nice summer-like warmth here. in the next couple of days, that high is going to come down to the single digits. vienna will be impacted by that as well. conversely, the jet stream is going to move to allow some warmth to come up from the south across the southeast. ankara, 7 degrees. that temperature will steadily improve. and look at this. 20 degrees in london. 21 in paris. sometimes you don't even get that in your summer months. so do enjoy that while it lasts. i'll leave you with your extended forecast. >>> the top story once again -- technicians have done something they haven't done since the accident last march at fukushima daiichi. they measured radiation inside the number two reactor. they found the levels were extremely high. technicians with tokyo electric power company placed a dosimeter inside the reactor's containment vessel. they say radiation levels increased as they lowered the instrument. thi

the jet stream is arcing right up here towards scandinavia and then dipping down towards the east. so all the precipitation is going to be relegated towards the north and the east. warm and dry here to the west. summer-like temperatures for many of you. and then cool and wet out towards the east. here are your temperatures then. hanging around the freezing point in moscow. so a little bit chilly here. in fact, temperatures are going to be falling as a system heads down towards turkey. so 10 degrees in ankara today. almost 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. but then central locations, 18 in berlin. 19 in vienna. summer-like temperatures. we're even getting into the 20s in paris and madrid. 18 degrees in london. and i know some places in scotland have been enjoying sunny weather in the low 20s as well. so do enjoy it, if it's you, and i'll leave you with your extended forecast. >>> now the top news once again. representatives of 53 countries are meeting on their second day of the nuclear security summit in seoul. they are calling for international cooperation to prevent nuclear materi

. >> i'm originally from scandinavia from denmark where the most popular mode of transportation is actually bicycling to work in the big cities. so that's something i've taken with me to the states. >> reporter: these students from china find it convenient, too [ inaudible ] >> it really has the potential to make d.c. a bicycling destination and make it easier for us who live here to get around every day. >> reporter: with gas prices skyrocketing, there's a real push to continue funding for pedestrians and bicycle programs like capital bike share. for this advocate and avid bicyclist, it's what he lives and breathes. >> never had a car, never had a driver's license. really can't imagine having to own a car for a normal function. >> on -- on friday ddot added two more bike stations for the cherry blossom festival. the national bike summit is march 20 through the 22 at the grand hyatt. for more information and a link to the website, log on to wusa9.com. back to you. >> thank you, monika. >>> synthetic versions of marijuana are sending some teenagers to the emergency room. a report in the new

some crazy person goes and kills children goes on to university we have them here we have them in scandinavia now the question is do we pull out perhaps we should pull out i'm not are you alone or the other but this is not because one crazy person on a scale as it is variable tragedy i don't think we should have been there in the first place but this is the longest war in the history of the united states even george washington where president obama has a lot of political capital at stake here in this war i mean he ran on let's escalate the amount of troops there we happened to see if we took our eye off the ball so to speak in iraq we need to focus on afghanistan and now the afghan president is saying it's time to get out we can secure our selves when the literacy rate for example among the troops the afghan army is really low still but they say they can secure themselves so the issue is does president obama and congress say ok you know we're going to get a year earlier that it's actually there's a pay raises an interesting political issue and that is that if you know gerry ford isn't general

of course is a worldwide phenomenon and that the works and in france and scandinavia and spain and italy and japan ops. it's happening elsewhere. what that think this particular to the american greetings is that i have very few interpreters who are reading a prolific as a thinker. politics with a capitol p. they're reading, a critic of democracy, a cultural critic of democracy, that is to say, a critic of the kinds of human types of democracy foster's. does that make sense? so reading about as a great visionary of a new kind of politics was we, of course, see in russia and italy. we see that in. there may be conservatives, liberals command receive both of those, but they're reading him more as a cultural critic of the human types that democracy foster's command at think that's very different. i think that is very particular. it is, again, about american culture or american individuality, a commentator on american soles, but not necessarily on our political system as such. the other thing i would just signal, and denny was kind enough to reference it in his intro. as i mentioned also, he

for is a worldwide phenomena and there there has been work on nietzsche in germany and france, in scandinaviaand in italy, japan, and so what i can see are some of the things we are seeing in america are help -- happening elsewhere. what i think is particular to the american reading is that i have very few nietzsche interpreters who are reading this nietzsche as they lyrical thinker and politics with the p. they are reading nietzsche if he is a critic of democracy, he is a cultural critic of democracy. that is to say he is a critic of the kinds of human types of democracy fostered. does that make sense? they are reading nietzsche not as some a some great visionary of a new kind of politics which we of course see in russia, in italy with fascism and mussolini and of course with the nazis. we don't see that in america. that is to say there may be conservative to read nietzsche or liberals who read nietzsche and we see both of those but they are reading him more as a cultural critic of the human types of democracy offered and i think that is very different. and i think that is very particular. i

nietzsche is a worldwide phenomenon and there's been works on nietzsche in germany, and france, in scandinavia, in spain come in italy, in japan. and to what i can say to some of the things that we're seeing in america are happening elsewhere. what i think is particular to the american reading is that i have very few nietzsche interpreters who are reading nietzsche as a political thinker. and by that, politics with a capital p. they are reading nietzsche, if he's a critic of democracy, he is a cultural critic of democracy. that is to say, he's a critic of the kinds of human types of democracy fosters. does that make sense? so they are reading nietzsche not a some great visionary as a new kind of politics, which we, of course, see in russia, in italy, with fascism and mussolini, and, of course, with the nazis. we don't see that in america. that is to say, there may be conservatives every nietzsche, or liberals every nietzsche, and we see both of those, but they are reading and more as a cultural critic of the human types of democracy fosters. i think that's very different. and i think that is v

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and now they're going to make the cars over in scandinavia or something because they say our workers are not qualified to make the cars here. and now they want more money. these guys are like golfing buddies of the president. i think they're asking for more. the fact that we give them money and they're supposed to make the cars here, now they're going to make them overseas. is is an electric car. it looks cool, off but it costs $100,000. $0.50 billion. that kind of money, we could use that money here. today have to give that money back? do you know about that? guest: we do an audit of the program you're speaking of. that is the advanced technology vehicle manufacturing program. but that program spent half of what it was authorized to spend and made loans to a number of companies including tesla, nissan, ford, and i probably leaving office a couple. host: what is the process for companies who want to seek more money in loans? are they allowed to do so? guest: well, that would require a separate negotiation and a separate application. initially, you apply for a loan, you work out the t