he has five years under his belt. francois hollande has never been a minister. there is another factor in france, which is this really strong antithesis of toward nicolas sarkozy. much more directed to him personally than in some ways to his policies. i guess you are a well known blogger and political columnist in france. how do you see the next two weeks? >> it will be tough. the gap is shorter than expected. nicolas sarkozy has failed [inaudible] is not far from francois hollande. it has no reserve of voters. hollande can count on the far right, the environment, at least. nicolas sarkozy has to depend on the far right -- marine le pen's voters, and the center. these are very different. >> held the you appeal both to the center and the far right? >> it is almost impossible. he would have to radicalize his speech on islam, the fear of borders, to convince the far right, and then you have to be reasonable for the center. i think that's probably where he will have to lose. >> francois hollande -- the national front is now 20% in france. presumably francois holland

it has to work if it has a chance of flying.ause of the high pressures involved in the revolutionary jet engine, everyone has to wear protection. it is designed to go five times the speed of sound. billing that quickly, the flow of air becomes so intense it reaches 1000 degrees celsius which would normally not everything inside. this unique device cools the air to well below zero. it should make space travel easier. the tests are now under way. this is one of a series of experiments to check if the idea is viable. this small band of engineers have worked with very little funding. so far, so good. the designers are thinking big. >> it is like going to new york. you go down to an airport and get on an airplane. it is invisible. getting into space would be like that with this technology. >> it is a long way from launching. the european space station check it over and found nothing wrong. >> it may be something in the future. where we stand today looking at the technology, this should work. it could fly. >> billions of pounds are ne

ethiopia has an interest and britain has an interest. what is happening here is a concerted and uniform effort by the international community to prevent the war. in the past, that has worked. surly in july, everyone was expecting a conflagration in sudan, but really the international diplomacy and commitment prevented that from happening. i am hopeful that in this case that will happen again. >> thank you very much for coming to join me. in the pakistani city of lahore , a bomb exploded at the main railway station. the attack happened just after a busy train had pulled in. pakistan struggle against islamic militants is that is most intense right now on the border with afghanistan. militia groups there recently sparked a flood of representative disease -- of refugees. >> it started to take on more of a look of a small town. you can see this long fence toward the horizon. row after row you can see along beside me. there are some college facilities. this camp has been taking an influx after influx -- some toilet facilities. the army has reg

nothing like that has happened. and that may be simply that the north korean regime is acting as normal and waiting to release information carefully, when it feels ready to. >> damien, thank you. the latest from john non-, saying that have had no information -- from p'yongyang, saying there had no information yet. more on this story as we go along. >> joining me now from the south korean capital of seoul is our correspondent lucie williamson. we have just heard from damien in p'yongyang in the north. and what is the reaction where you are in sold? >> the south korean government is saying that they believe this launch has failed. they failed to track it be on the first minute or two of the flight, and they believed it fell into the sea, broke up, and fell back to earth. there have been some suggestions upper stage of the rocket failed to separate and that may be what caused it to fail. but in these very early days, people here and around the world in washington and japan are assessing all the information they have an

obama has his eye on brazil and china to increase u.s. exports. last year alone, foreign companies pumped 50 billion euros into the country, more than two times 2006. >> but that success can come at a cost. as we hear in this report. >> when the reasons for brazil's strong economy is as well of natural resources. more and more offshore oil fields are being discovered and exploited in its coastal waters. the ore deposits are in excess as well. brazil boasts the second largest reserves of iron ore after australia. because of raw material prices are on the rise, brazil's economy has grown faster than more established, industrialized countries. in recent years, brazil's gdp has been expanding at an average rate of 4%. that outpaced germany and the u.s. the german economy has grown at 1.5%, the u.s. economy only at 0.5%. but there is a downside. get numb -- economic crises in industrialized countries are prompting more and more investors to put more money into brazil. now brazilian products are comparatively expensive on world markets. the country is n

he was like, every candidate who has ever run for whatever office has made that connection with voters and family members and said yeah, i listen to what my wife tells me or newt talks about his grand kids, or president obama talks about his children. there is, of course, the infamous carter telling him how to decide nuclear policy, but everyone makes that connection in their own way, and i think it's a little overblown to sit and say this is foot and mouth disease for romney. >> it got all the way to the president, president obama weighed in this afternoon, he was asked about the controversial in an interview with the nbc affiliate in ohio, and here is what he said. >> first of all, there is no tougher job than being a mom. i watched michelle, who were for most of her career, had to juggle work and family. there are times she was on ma terntive leave, and i promise you that's work. i think this was an ill advised statement by somebody on television. it's not something that i subscribe to, and more over, my general rule is you don't talk about the spouses of elected officials. because

has called framing speeches. he just did a lot -- he just delivered one in new york. he delivered one about manufacturing. in florida, retirement savings, new hampshire, about taxation, and he has won more that escapes me right now. at the same point, these speeches have been important because it shows how the president has relied on the vice president in a way other presidents and did not. if you remember, the vice president for franklin delano roosevelt had called the vice president of both -- and the and aresident's seat a bucket of warm spit. this vice president has been important in the decision to withdraw from iraq. >> it was the other vice president who was important in the decision to get into iraq. >> the vice presidency, for the last three vice presidents, it has been an increasingly important position. this vice president, joe biden, has been important in the decision to withdraw from iraq, to have the 2014 timeline to get out of afghanistan, has been thwarted in economic decisions, including persuadi

what he has done so far has been coming to me, completely and surprising -- has been, to me, completely unsurprising. what the diplomacy is trying to do is to hold this non- compliance out to the world as clear evidence that the real problem lies in damascus, lies in the assad regime. >> that put pressure on russia? -- does that put pressure on russia? will things change in moscow? >> that is a deadline that the russians themselves endorsed. it does put them in a very difficult position. it is very difficult to shame moscow into doing anything. the more that they see that the ties art -- tied are turning against assad -- that they see tides are turning against assad, harder it is for russia to stand by assad. china's interests are not the same as russia's. >> thank you for coming in. from syria to egypt, where more than one year after hosni mubarak was removed from power, the bid to succeed him is still creating tension. muslim brotherhood has warned of renewed turmoil in the country if the country's former spy chief manages to win the top post. >> light applause -- polie applause for t

his son has denied he has ever driven a ferrari. the scandal is brewing deeply uncomfortable for this -- the scandal is proving deeply uncomfortable for the communist party. it has shown a spotlight on the vast riches being enjoyed by these party -- by the communist party. the communist party does not want these things aired today a-- aired. working with arms like aston martin and the london taxi company, -- firms like aston martin and the london taxi company is what neil heywood was offering before his death. >> the way he handled his business with us was immaculate and very professional. he went about his business in a thoroughly professional, but very english way. >> claims that neil heywood may have been as i have been officially dismissed -- been a spy have been officially dismissed. mr. heywood had never been employed by the british government in any capacity. with every passing day, china's communist leaders are entangled deeper in the claims of corruption, spying, and infighting. damian grammaticas, abc news, beijing. -- bbc

he has the strongest advisor he has is his own wife.nd i have read that she is very conscious of not engaging in campaign strategy with the staff, but that she holds back and saves her voice for private conversations. maybe she needs to speak up a little bit more -- >> on the other hand you have president obama, mrs. obama who had a fund raiser here in san francisco the other night. she has done 43 fundraisers in the last month -- >> yeah she is just terrific. but let me ask you quickly about this uas today poll. the top issue for men were gas prices the top issue for women were health care and gas prices. but for women, it's health care. what does this tell us in terms of romney's failure inside of his own war room to be able to get the right advice? >> women control the pocketbook issues in the family so he needs to make a better appeal to women to do that. the thing is he doesn't have a consistent position on health care. he's not on solid ground there. >> it's another weak -- somebody who looks weak. >> stay right here you guys. we'

has not played out that way.f you look at the statistics in the country, unemployment is at a record high and still rising. energy is twice as expensive as next door in germany. this vote is as much a referendum on his character and style as it is on his record. a lot of people i have spoken to up and down the country in the last year or so have said he cannot be -- it cannot be any worse under a socialist candidate. the fear he has been trying to play on, warning that the socialist presidency might lead to run on the market, has not really played on the street because people do not think it can get any worse. >> christian frazier in paris, thank you very much indeed. now to pakistan, where passengers at -- passenger jet has crashed. the airliner, which had taken off from karachi, came down in a residential area just minutes before it was meant to land at the islamabad international airport. >> at karachi airport, an agonizing wait. relatives desperate to know if their loved ones were on the passenger list. and i

annan has got the russians on board. the >> [speaking foreign langua] >> this plan is that syrians have to take the first step. we support this initiative. if those who fight against the syrian government do not follow this example, i don't think we will achieve any results. >> hoping for better times, the international red cross president, jakob kellenberger was in syria. he wanted two-hour daily truce. he also wants access to detainees. activists say that in the meantime, the authorities are punishing known opponents by demolishing or setting fire to their houses in many areas, including this one. there are fears that there may be more of this sort of thing as next week's deadline approaches. jim muir, bbc news. >> in the last few minutes, a spokesman for the u.n., kofi annan, has said an advanced team is due in damascus in the next 48 hours to discuss the deployment of international monitors. james robins has joined me here. you kind of get the feeling you have been here before. nevertheless, what do we know about thi

he has a jury out waiting. you may get called away but we're hope you're able to stay for the panel. finally, we have sheldon siegel. and sheldon siegel is a corporate lawyer who has written a series -- i think seven books now, a fictional criminal defense attorney named mike daley who actually lives here in san francisco. and he's written a series of books and these becomes have been shown and transcribed and read throughout the world. so we're going to start now with a clip, a video clip and then we're going to go to the panel. >> i think it is our national novel. if there was a national novel of week, this would be it for the united states. i think it's the favorite book of almost everybody you meet. >> the first time in my life that the book had sort of captured me. that was exciting. i didn't realize that literature could do that. >> i remember reading a copy of my aunt's in jamaica queens. it was the first book ever written by a white writer that discussed racism in ways that was complicate and sophistica

>> he has already done it.won the nomination in 2010. >> he is already partway there, and he keeps going on message. >> mitt romney didn't win a single state in the primary season where the majority of voters were evangelicals. and that indicates how little enthusiasm there is -- >> he lost all of those states got the nomination and that base does seem to be moving towards him. >> without a choice. >> it was more like he was stitching on both sides. and that's what romney has done in issue after issue. >> let me switch gears for a minute. because i think one of the more interesting fassetts is one has presumed that there is a general consensus that the conservative leadership has been with mitt romney. there is now a growing sense of bishops pushing back against what the paul ryan stands for, and i want to quote from the u.s. conference of catholic bishops, a very powerful group, saying: >> are we beginning to see a more fractured catholic leadership that might say that mitt romney and the paul ryan view of gov

there has to be a lot of work. the cannot try someone in the military commission for violating this. some of these are similar us hostility. some of them look like crimes in the criminal code. some of them duct. hiding behind the protection, they get on the battlefield. that is an act of treachery. using your enemies reverence. this is a perfidious crime under the law of armed conflict. you have this body of 32. you have to have jurisdiction. you can only charge of those. he had to do that over someone who's the right person. someone who's not comply with the laws of war. you cannot try an enemy prisoner of war in a military commission. congress as said there limited to an underprivileged belligerence. it has to be in the context of an associated with hostilities. this is a narrowed jurisdiction. there is protracted armed violence of its scope and intensity that justified the use of armed forces. this is a narrow jurisdiction. if a look at some of these, these other things that happen in the context, if you look at

, everyone has to wear protection.t is designed to go five times the speed of sound. when it is going but quickly, the flow of air reaches 1000 degrees celsius. this unique device cools the air to well below zero. that should make space travel easier. the tests are now under way. >> pre, too, want. -- 3, 2, 1. >> this is one of the series of experiments to check if the idea is viable. engineers have worked with during the funding. -- very little funding. so far, so good. the designers are thinking big. >> it is like going to new york. you go to an airport, you get on an airplane. getting into space will be like that with this type of technology. >> it is a long way from launching. the european space agency checked over and found nothing wrong. >> looking at the technology, this should work. it could fly. >> billions of pounds are needed, clever engineering is not enough to make this british space dream and reality. >> that is it from us. have a good weekend. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> fundi

kofi annan has said that they are not implementing what he has set out. they have not withdrawn their forces from populated areas. they have not taken their heavy artillery back to the barracks. there is the announcement of the cease-fire but now we need to have a monitoring mission in there as fast as possible. >> you also met with the russian foreign minister. do you know what it will take to put pressure on the russians to put pressure on president assad? 9000 people dying does not seem to have done it. >> they have twice vetoed the resolutions we have put forward. on the kofi annan plan, russia is in agreement with us and they want a cease-fire. they want political process. it is undoubtedly true, as the russian foreign minister has been telling me, that they have put pressure on syria to implement a cease-fire. >> part of the plan is a political process which would bring about democracy in syria. it is hard to see how the president will sign up to full democracy knowing that would be the end of his regime. >> that is absolutely right. that is the beg

also, there is the question that sergei lavrov has been acknowledging, that the situation in syria has been getting worse. he said it bluntly. hillary clinton, the secretary of state in the united states, saw this as a good sign of moving forward. >> talk to me about the frustration in syria. there is a cease-fire, but the violence has not stopped. >> there is frustration. no diplomatic measure seems to have worked. so far, hillary clinton pushed for a u.n. sanctions resolution solution. at the same time, both sides seem to be deadlocked, and all hopes lie with the u.n. plan. western partners are now saying they have to get more people on the ground. of course, you have to ensure their safety first. >> all rights. thank you very much. staying in brussels, european countries -- european union countries have agreed to suspend sanctions on burma. an easing of sanctions and was expected. the 12-month suspension of sanctions will not apply to the arms embargo, however. diplomats say they will continue to monitor the military's equipment -- commitment to reforms in burma. >> is a controversi

i think he has reason to be cautious. >> he has a real political problem here. because you look at the abc poll that you cited in interviewing him, the people who think we're in a recession, only 35% of them are backing the president. people who think we're coming out of a recession, 66% of them back the president. so, he's got -- he's got to convince people that this economy is getting better if he's going to win in november. >> and i was struck that in that same poll, many americans are worried about fairness and the head of karl rove crossroads, conceded that the administration is winning the fairness argument. they have to put people back to work and how do you invest in the middle class? so that they become the job creators, not the 1% and then expose the republicans as roadblocks in putting people back to work. millions of people to keep one man out of work? >> how would you respond to that? >> the reason the president has a problem right now, they're trying to make the case that 2%, 2.5% growth is the new normal. that 8% unemployment isn't that bad. $4 a

it has beijing on the defensive. i will talk to the "new yorker's" beijing correspondent about what it all means. then pakistan which had its own mini-scandal a year ago leading to the ouster of its famous ambassador to washington. we have the first exclusive interview with ambassador haqqani since then. he will tell us what happened to him and what's happening in pakistan. >>> also, why in the world has immigration from mexico to the united states stopped in its tracks? we'll take a look. >>> next up, the american elder statesman brent scowcroft on syria, iran, the middle east, and how he feels today about the republican party which he served for decades. >>> finally, do you procrastinate, waste money, over indulge. what to do with your bad hakts -- habits and how transforming them could help you, your company, your country. >>> first, here's my take. after months of meandering, it seems that president barack obama's re-election campaign has settled on a theme. the problem is it's the wrong one. the buffett rule tax

every player that has won this year on the p.g.a. tour has finished top 10 in putting. he finished fourth last week. >> rose: diaz was involved in this, too. >> yes, he was. >> rose: what did he do? >> he was my ghost writer, and he's a brilliant, brilliant writer. >> rose: he understands golf and can write well. >> yeah, he's written for many, many years. >> rose: what has been the efilization? because he knows this and he's talked about here at this table and you know this, of tiger's swing? because you've got some golfers say, why did he ever change it? now, it seems to me that tiger is inevitably going to change it. that's the nature of him, he's constantly seek perfection. >> correct. >> rose: he will be messing with his swing until the day heidize. >> i think that's the whole really crux of it, to be honest with you. i also think that that's something that's positive for him. people say why would you change? but he's always done well. he's always changed and gotten better. he's always changed and improved his winning percentage. and it's the times when he's changi

he has said we would cut the deficit in half. he has doubled it. he talked about a comprehensive energy policy. he put his eggs in all of these companies and is gone wasted. when it comes to summon that understands business, the economy, where works, and does not, i can tell you we're not going in the right direction now. host: we see competing headlines in terms of gas prices. some say we are seen the end, and some sable get worse. guest: most americans did not -- no that presents to not set gasoline prices. they are set as a result of the price of crude oil, which is set on the world market. if you listen to republicans argue about gasoline prices, the record high happened in july, 2008. they never go to that benchmark. they talk about what the price of gasoline was one president obama took office. to get back to that level, we would have to get to another global recession president -- recession. president bush led us into a global recession, where the demand for oil and gas fell, and gasoline prices fell. that is not a solution, but that would b

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afghanistan has been pakistan. afpac, i've been joking enough of afpak. there is other country. either that narrow or extremely broad. the heart of the process where you get everybody sitting around the table. in a region where there's so many dynamics, security problems between countries to put them all around the table is basically to make sure nobody say nonspoiler but we don't really get much ahead. so the large problem. the large solution has been either too long narrow or too solution. now, what kind of precondition would be necessary in order to actually have a viable regional solution or to actually start going towards a

has agreed to send 300 u.n. activists say the assad regime has resumed shelling the city of homs. the presence of u.n. monitors is meant to hold the government accountable and to push troops to uphold a cease-fire. susan rice had this warning. >> in the united states our patience is exhausted. >> so far today at least seven people were killed according to a human rights group. >>> in france voters are heading to the polls today in the country's presidential elections. president nicolas sarkozy cast his ballot with his wife, carla bruni, in paris. it's shaping up to be a challenging fight with nine other candidates. the economy and jobs are key issues. >>> urban outfitters has this t-shirt for sale. critics say it resembles the star of david patch worn during the holocaust. >>> you are looking at a design of a church that will temporarily replace the christ church cathedral 14 months after an earth nearly destroyed it. believe it or not, this transitional church will be made of cardboard. you heard me right. it w

there has been a long legal battle each. confirm that allowing even a few cargo flights overnight is illegal. it is a victory for local residents who complained about the noise. but lufthansa says it is a serious blow to germany as a location for business. city planners say infrastructure in some of the world's mega cities could collapse and cause gridlock for traffic. it is reason why the bicycle is getting some serious consideration. >> some cyclists have decided to test the possibility of commuting by bike in one of the world's most interested in polluted nations, jakarta in indonesia. but in a city with more than 10 million people, that is easier said than done. >> 3 million cars. 9 million motorbikes. and all of them competing for space on the streets of indonesia's capital jakarta. the commute is a daily nightmare for drivers. with colombia long backups and stop and go traffic. now, small but growing number of commuters is catching on to an alternative, riding a bicycle. one of those opting for the bicycle is the accou

the obama administration has indeed deported 1.2 million people while he has been there. way more than president bush started out reporting. we need to enforce the verify laws. i used to do this. you call social security, give a social security number of the person applying. they tell you whether it is a legitimate number for somebody that age to be applying for a job. employers are fine, then these people would not be working. there would be no reason for them to be here. host: daniel stein? guest: we agree with you on everything you say. we have been trying to convince congress for 30 years that this is a system that is to be in place. states are mandating that employers use the everify system. i am not here to draw comparisons between what the president has done and what president bush has done. my point was that president bush and accelerated enforcement. many aliens went into deportation proceedings but they were not deported until president obama took over, so he is getting credit for that. the reality, the department of homeland security issued a memo, the morton m

the fighting has been in the northwest which has seen unrest since gaddafi was ousted and killed last october. john donaldson is in tripoli with this report. >> zawara, the latest point of friction between libya's rival militias. it's not clear why or how it started but it's believed to involve one group of ethnic berbers from inside zawarra against arabs from neighboring towns. local hospitals were kept busy. >> this man from zawarra accused gangs still loyal to muammar qaddafi of provoking the violence. >> we came under fire from all directions and with all kinds of weapons. if they're not gaddafi loyalists, where did they get all this power from? from where? >> security forces sent by the libyan government to try to restore calm were warmly welcomed. but those government forces were more than likely just another militia in all but name. this vast country has no real central authority, no army to dispatch. since the revolution, which toppled the 42-year-long rowel of muammar qaddafi, libya has been policed by dozens of separate, heavily armed militias, often with long-standing rival

dionne has suggested?>> santorum appealeded to voters who like his ideology -- did not care if he was going to win or not, but like him talki about social issues one at the party structure wanted a candididate who would talk about economic issues, who was mitt romney. he forced mitt romney in little farther to the right than mitt romney wanted to go, and now in the general which is sort of begun already, mitt romney is having a harder time going back towards the middle, trying to pick up independent and moderate voters. that was santorum's lasting contribution to the race. >> we know that college-educatedd white males like him. who else, mark? >> pbably conservaves like him, evangelicals, high-income voters. his profile is that of most republan nominees. about rick santorum, l let it be said that he indicated at validated what i think is the nominating process. he was david taking on the goliath. he wt into iowa and went into all 99 counties. but for the screw up by the iowa republican party, , he would ha

it has thrown this picturesque place into the spotlight. volos is suffering from industries collapsing and unemployment soaring. the alternative currency has reenergize the community searching for a glimmer of hope. the mayor has backed the project, but things both currencies can coexist. >> we think this is a good way out. there is a deep economic and social crisis. this is an initiative works alongside the euro. it does not replace the euro. >> this is a local business using the network, a cooperative which sells plants, giving fresh opportunities to workers. >> we can buy bread and meat in exchange for our product, and the girls can go to the hair dresser. i grew up in a village. this is how it used to work in the old days, before money was involved. >> the next generation is benefiting. parents who can no longer avoid workshops for their children can now pay. the euro may not be forced out, but there is an alternative on which many are depending, a simple idea of giving this community fresh optimism, a rare hint of power amid the darkne

as he has not respected his employees. [speaking spanish] it is not fair he can continue a business when he has not shown he can pay us what he was supposed to. i am here representing my co- workers as well to say that we would like to see some kind of a justice in this case. that is all i would like to ask for. she was also saying that she would like to receive your assistance in this case. >> is she aware that it is likely she will not see a penny of where she is owed it? -- what she is owed? >> if i may speak as well. my name is tiffany crane and and a co-director of young workers united. we are a nonprofit in san francisco. we have worked for 10 years to work against situations like this of wage theft. we have seen a number of cases like this where workers are paid under the minimum wage, it is rampant in this city. we have laws to protect workers. however, if this continues to happen, in many situations, our organization is able to talk to workers,, negotiate with employers, and receive the pay that is due and to chan

justice department has filed. first criminal charges in the b.p. oil disaster in the gulf of mexico using a former company engineer of destroying evidence the man is accused of deleting around two hundred text messages from a show about how efforts to cap the well were failing grade which exploded two years ago killed eleven workers and spewed more than two hundred million gallons of crude oil into the sea it was the worst offshore oil disaster in u.s. history. employing low wage workers abroad has long been a staple of the american business model however india a popular destination of outsourcing is reversing its fortunes taking advantage of a struggling u.s. economy and doing big business in the west indies preassure their expense. infosys is india's second largest i.t. company and has been a pioneer of outsourcing using highly skilled indian staff on low wages working for western clients but with recession in the west the boots on the other foot infosys is now one of several top indian firms recruiting in the u.s. with over twelve million jobles

responsible for monitoring its right breast has already said it should be much effort.in terms of what i was trying to achieve i'm quite happy with that i think it's important to you it does protect its intellectual property but i don't number of unintended side consequences one was it would have put a duty on internet service providers to effect if we act as the european police force of the internet and i don't think that's right i think that's probably a formal judicial authorities secondly i didn't like the idea that i could possibly have criminalized young people who were quite innocently dying or doing films and music and so on in the privacy of their own homes. like this as this should all be for commercial purposes but commercial purposes are very weakly defying the other concern that people have about like to that it was negotiated through a five six year period behind closed doors the rights holders seem to be involved in that discussion but the civil society did not seem to be the part about discussion and most of the members of the partly didn't really unders

that has a c. o. l. a. in it. >> any time the city put something out to bid and we often do, seeking a bid for a multi-year term, bidders have the potential to bit different prices for different years. to take an example from my own office, each year we conduct -- enter into a contract to conduct the city's external financial audit. we often receive multi-year bids that have escalating costs in future years. the same would ostensibly be true in a where the city is putting out a multi-year bid to be provided by nonprofit service contractors. i do not think it has been the practice to do so. nothing is any different about the two. putting out something to enter into a multi-year contract, and fighting bidders to bid on it and allowing builders to include their expected costs and entering into the contract at the end is -- could be a practice on all sides. >> a competitive bid in vernon, -- and vernon, -- environment. c. o. l. a.'s could be done. >> their of the two largest contracting departments and they're

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he has authored numerous publications and has over 50 u.s. patents. >> thank you for organizing this panel discussion, and thank you, everybody, for graciously being here today. it is my great honor to introduce an incredibly distinguished panel of industrial luminaries. let me start with timothy, simon, and jeanette. tim is a professor at the stanford business school where he teaches a very popular class on this service via in fact, i have taken your class, and you bring in some incredible speakers and make it very entertaining. jim also has a distinguished career in the private sector. he was the president of oracle's on demand service, which by some records was the first online on demand service. cloud computing has a lot of fathers, but tim is often called the grandfather of cloud computing because of that endeavor. but tim is also an investor in a cloud computing companies, and author of some very exciting cloud computing books. thank you for being here. next, we have simon crosby. he is an entrepreneur, who has just launched his latest

the holy fire has also arrived here in moscow this easter as it has done since the eleventh century when it first made that journey from the church of the holy separate in jerusalem the story surrounding the fire is that a light shines through the church roof of the church of the holy circle per every easter in jerusalem and somehow manages to light two candles water which is brought to moscow and is then taken around to many orthodox churches a very special symbolic moment for the russian orthodox church easter the russian orthodox church also comes at the end of a great lead that's seven weeks of fasting no meat and no dairy products but at the end it is time to bring out some special foods with a special connection to easter what is cool it's a cake of a sweet and filled with raisins another is named after easter in the russian language. it's a sweet dessert. also designed to be a celebration after the long weeks of fasting and also that universal symbol of easter eggs many are painted there often shared with family members and all are taken to priests at easter for. with holy water a

the primaries may not be over but the general election has begun. we examine the battle lines tonight on "washington week." >> the republicans running congress right now have doubled down. and proposed a budget so far to the right it makes the contract with america look like the new deal. >> what exactly does president obama intend to do differently once he's no longer accountable to the voters? gwen: fighting words as the leading candidates for president visibly shift tactics. mitt romney is no longer running against republicans. >> mitt romney has already pivoted to the general election campaign. that whether rick santorum stays in or not is now basically irrelevant. gwen: and president obama, like all incumbents, is defending his own policies. >> under president obama, domestic oil production is at an eight-year high. so why is big oil attacking him? because he's fighting to end their tax breaks. gwen: the economy, the voter, the supreme court, the candidates, all caught up in one big political stew. covering the week, jackie calmes of "the new y

turkish officials say they don't believe the plan has any life and. kofi annan is here and will try to persuade otherwise. saying, look, we have a deadline for the troop withdrawal, supposing -- supposedly to start today. he will get a lot of angst, back from the turkish coast about the failure of the international community, and the amount of killing has increased from ever since the kofi annan plan has been officially accepted. he is coming to one of the oldest refugee camps, a longstanding one. it will be interesting to see what sort of reception he get. there will be quite rowdy protest because most of the refugees feel the international diplomacy has let them down. >> that is the view from jonathan head at the border. that is the view of what looks like from moscow. andrej stepanov we have seen sergei lavrov in the last couple of hours walking a diplomatic tightrope. visia's position vis a syria -- what do you make a rush of's position at the moment with syria? >> what is most important is not what was said during the press conference but what wa

anbar rao has -- are rao has broken out among the iraqi -- a row has broken out among the iraqi government about an oil pipeline. >> the crumbling bricks were part of the once-magnificent territory of a kaine. more is buried underground. they are worried undiscovered treasures are at risk. according to the antiquities department, behind me there is the wall of the ancient city of babylon. it goes down this way, where the oil pipeline goes into the city. the newly-constructed pipeline will carry oil products from the self to baghdad. -- from the south to baghdad. >> that have nothing in that area. when they lay the oil pipe, they find nothing. than find nothing. >> the antiquities officials consider the pipelines a threat to what they say are fragile ruins underneath. they want them diverted. >> there is another problem. the board of antiquities worked hard on that side. the pipelines could prevent that from happening. >> the lion of babylon has survived almost intact. is symbolizes the babylonian warriors protecting their city. today, it is the floor of oil that could prove impossible -- t

[inaudible] as has been said, the sporadic has been in the making for the last 20 years -- this project has been in the making for the last 20 years. it was a collaboration between iraq and park and the arboretum society -- rec and park and the arboretum society. in 2008, we were hired to begin the schematics and develop the drawings for the project. it is currently being reviewed -- >> could you introduce yourself for the record? >> my name is laura hartigman. the purpose of this building, as has been said, is to replace the existing near street. it is a working building for the city. it is the base of operations for the plant collections and decoration of the collection that the society does. it primarily supports the arboretum, which is an outdoor classroom for the whole city. the secondary benefits is the educational potential, both as a building and as a base of operations for other educational activities. it also is intended to be environmental responsible building, as green as possible. you can probably gather that it has many functions and many people see it as benefiting their

number one, the court looks at at has the law been applied and has procedure been properly followed. i don't think that's something that is alarming. in fact it's reassuring. the rights they can always have and -- >> i know that, you each jumping onto the next stage. what i'm asking you is while they're waiting, if there is a worry about the initial military court decision, why aren't these men free? just answer that for me? >> i am answering that question. what i'm telling you is that a, courts of national safety, but not military courts. secondly the decision for them to remain in custody or leigh custody, being released. these are questions for the court. in the decision today one of those 21 accused. one of them had his sentenced reduced from two years to six months. he will be released shortly because he has done that time. now, regarding other things that miss al-khawaja has alleged, i think it's very inaccurate and it's wrong frankly. the integrity in the court has never been doubted. only a few hard liners kind of carry that belief. it's important to note that it no allegatio

santorum has said that mr.rst republican in the country to nominate to run against mr. obama because of the centrality of the health care issue. he thinks that mr. romney is essentially disarmed on that issue. >> he is very concerned. rick santorum said one of the reasons he did get into this race is because of obama care. it's deeply offensive to a lot of republicans and a lot of democrats, quite frankly, and independents as well. the problem is, as the president has said himself, that mitt romney was basically the architect of obama care. if that is the most potent issue that we have against the president, i think it is concerning that are we taking it off the table with mitt romney? >> but that wouldn't be enough to keep mr. santorum from not just endorsing, but working on behalf of mr. romney, if he does not beat him in the primaries? >> i think -- i would look at it this way. to republican tws, the great unifier in this race is barack obama. we look at obama care not just because we think it's bad medicine

now the world bank has pledged full financial support too, but none of this has come quick enough, say experts. >> not enough money has been put. more money does need to go and there have been results. we don't have results. we have added a lot of capacity to the boats. we have created the national highways. but it is not up to the level that is required for it to add to india's competitive dynamics. >> poor infrachuck shur is one of the biggest irritations in india. improvement is key to the country's growth and many say they need to come much faster. >> now, let's go back to that report by the bbc's diplomatic editor johnsome son reporting from the capitol of argentina on the mood there 30 years since the conflict between britain and argentina none as the falkan eye lands in the u.k. >> early morning the elegant understated memorial to more than 600 dead in the war is about to open. and miguel angel is waiting to pay respects to comrades. so many lives loss for no reason. it wasn't worth a single life. this captain was one of the pilots who sank h.m.s. sheffield. i'm sorry that 22 br

that has a wittering effect.sident's leadership but also in the ability for him to get the job done. i mean, one of the things that you have to remember when he makes the arguments about the economy is that the president wasn't the only person at the steering wheel. have you congress that helped damage the recovery with the debt ceiling debate that was formed in a large part by republicans espousing the same plans that mitt romney wants to reinstall and place. that being said you do have to recognize if you're on the democratic side a weak economy is not going to help and the campaign is only now starting in earnest where the president can start making the arguments, rebutting the claims that mitt romney has that he's done more to damage the economy than fix it. >> and, michelle, to joe's point, the congress hardly helped the recovery and yet today speaker boehner fresh from his hot endorsement or what seemed to be a very half hearted endorsement of mitt romney goes out attacking the president saying that he has

everybody has gone through it. everybody has done fine.th his father looking on, it's time for cadet williams to experience the debilitating effects of pepper spray. >> cover one eye. close your eyes. hold your breath. open your eyes. >> go. go. good job. good job. good job. >> yeah, i found with a little bit of your eye, wet the paper towel, it works wonders. >> one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. >> yea! >> one, two, three, four, five. >> don't kill the person with the bag. >> one, two, three, four, five. >> go, go, go! >> right there. knees. >> one, two, three, four, five. one, two, three, four, five. >> one more. go, go! >> one, two, three, four, five. >> face in the water right here. >> uh-huh. >> you got it. >> wipe that on your face. >> too much pep near your system. too much pep near your system. >> now i guess i know how bad i will feel if i have to gas an inmate. they're not going to have the water in there either. they're going to just sit in the cell. that's pretty bad. >> oh, that hurts. >> were you able

he has been in the taxi commission before and he has done nothing about the industry. you saw the illegal limos and the public crying poor enough transportation. then he moved to sfmta. it is the same old same old. is all empty promises and breaking the law after law. there should be some regulatory body looking at all these abuses and see if it is [unintelligible] or not. if you approve him for the election, all these crimes would go on red, and notice. please make an educated guess. read and confirm if these are valued or not. supervisor kim: thank you. thank you for submitting this letter. i have one more card. dave schneider. please line of if you have public comment on this item. >> good afternoon. for purposes of identification, i am the co-founder of utw but i am not an active member. i have to pay the dues. i am a lawyer by background and a journalist. i have had the chance to observe the sfmta both in person and quite frequently, by watching the proceedings on sftv. i have to say, i may be wrong. i would not support the confirmation of the appointment of mr. h

has either been. selling weapons is quickly becoming what britain does best prime minister david cameron unashamedly townson the u.k.'s military hardware and he calls it flying the flag for britain seeking to become only the second country other than america to trade arms with japan not only big business but the chance for a crucial foothold in what's clearly the place to be. one of the perfectly predictable result of the english shifting of the focus of american attention in the attention of much of the world to be asia pacific region as china obviously continues to be an economic powerhouse and even india and other countries in the region for him to actually become more economically dominant i think with that comes the attended tension from the militaries of the u.s. and the u.k. and other countries america's recently announced plans to station two thousand and remains in australia hoping to exert influence in a region china says isn't theirs to meddle in and britain could soon join them part of its