close his party's annual conference in manchester he also took swipes at coalition partners the liberal democrats but was very complimentary about the performance of his own conservative salahi's laura smith tells a small. i just want to start by referring back to ed miliband speech last week the leader of the opposition everyone trumpeted that as this as some people said it was the best speech of all time but it's kind of easy to make a speech if you're the leader of the opposition because all you have to do is talk about what you would do if you got into power if you will david cameron if you're going to talk as prime minister about what you're going to do unfortunately you've also got to refer to what you've failed to do so far what you just haven't got round to your shortcomings if you like so what do you do well david cameron started by trumpeting his considerable in some cases economic achievements so on employment in the u.k. is down construction manufacturing there are there are good figures in inward investment good figures in retail sales buildings on the increase business and consumer

democratic vote and made al d'amato a u.s. senator. still a sizable contingent of liberal republicans in congress back in those days and like conservative democrats they also self-identified with an insect, the gypsy moth. a liberal republican from kentucky said he chose the term because the leaf eating gypsy moth is as much of a nuisance in the north as the bull weevil is in the south. well, these metaphorical tests, political factions tormented their parties through the '70s and '80s and even the 1990s. they're now mostly extinct. by and large liberal republicans switched parties or lost elections. the same is true for the bull weevils. democratic and republican parties were once big tents that incorporated extensive geographic cultural, even ideological diversity. that era looks more and more like a historical fluke, a blip. it played out in the decades after civil rights legislation. when lyndon johnson championed legislation, he was bucked by conservative southern democrats. for a while, these progressive republicans and conservative democrats stuck with their party h

then in august he sent an offering as leader of the liberal democratic party to commemorate the end of the war. abe says he intends to continue paying his respects to people who sacrificed their lives for their country. a spokesperson for the chinese government is urging japanese leaders to properly deal with the issues the yasukuni shrine visits raise. >> translator: japan should regret what they did to asia and respect how people in neighboring countries feel. >> a south korean government spokesperson criticized abe's actions. >> translator: we express concern and regret over his repeated offerings. >> he called on japanese politicians to humbly reflect on history and try to build trust among neighboring nations. >>> 20 residents have disappeared after a powerful storm. the typhoon killed at least 22 people on the island as it churned up the pacific coast. nhk world's shiyaki ishikawa reports. >> reporter: emergency teams are looking for the missing wherever they can. more than 1,000 people have joined the search, including firefighters, police, and self-defense force personnel. they

. >> there are people that would think that maybe bernie sanders is just a very, very liberal democrat. >> i caucus with the democrats sure i do. a growing increasingly right wing republican party, there isn't much of an option. but if you ask me what i believe in, issue by issue, i don't think it's that radical. issue by issue i did get reelected in vermont with 71% of the vote. it's not like this is such crazy stuff. you ask american people should every american think health care is a right of citizenship? you think they should. you could parring about the nature of the system. >> who's going opay to pay for it. >> that's the nature of the system. what every other major country of the world has general health care. we do not. i think every kid in this country who has the ability to go to college regardless of his or her income? what do you think we would say? yes that makes sense. in the midst of the crisis we're in if we should invest heavily in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, what do you think people would say, yeah. i don't consider myself very radical. i think most of th

. >> aso said the government should discuss financial support with the governing liberal democratic party. >>> government officials are looking to outer reaches of their territory to launch a new strategy against global warming. they want islands to one day rely on energy for power instead of diesel. >> we want to establish a low carbon society from remote islands. a society that can produce energy locally and then store it. >> officials with the environment ministry say residents on about 100 islands rely on diesel to feed energy to their homes and businesses. natural disasters could lead to blackouts. they want to use renewable energy sources to reduce dependence on diesel. they plan to install devices to store electricity to be used in case of disasters. they're testing floating wind turbines off you the goto islands. they plan to carry out similar experiences in other local places. they're seeking $80 million for the project in fiscal 2014 starting in april. >>> japan's financial regulators plan to inspect three major banking groups next week. they include mizuhol bank that loans to o

sotomayor and kagan are moderate to liberal democrats as advertised. >> george h. bush appointing souter -- >> he replaced william brannen, but he was -- the only choice for that slot. >> george herbert walker bush didn't care that much about the supreme court. that was not his issue. the souter seat came up when the berlin wall was coming down. the following year he nominated thomas. >> he didn't say i will nominate someone that was a moderate swing vote. the conservatives thought they were getting one of their own. >> souter's decision was clear. if you go to ginsburg, sotomayor, kagan, they're as promised. >> who would obama appoint. >> i think did you val patrick is a -- duval patrick. janet napolitano, former governor of arizona. >> the last would be probably last controversial of the three, janet napolitano because republicans have had it in for her -- >> after the speech at the convention. >> clear partisan. that would be pretty controversial. if obama goes the judge route. i think goodwin lou. >> he was filibustered. it is different to filibuster someone fo

. >> translator: if the government and the ruling liberal democratic party decide that japan should end nuclear power generation and use renewable increase sources instead, most of the japanese people would endorse the policy. >> some say koizumi's position is incompatible with the company's policy of restarting nuclear plants. others worry his criticisms could convey the impression that party members are divided. many opposition members welcome what he has to say. but some doubt his sincerity. he promoted nuclear power when he was in office. >>> japanese government officials say a ban on seafood from parts of japan is unfair. the south korean counterparts are worried about leaks of water from the plant so last month they stopped imports of marine products of fukushima and neighboring prefectures. delegates made the argument at a world trade organization meeting in geneva. they said there's no scientific basis for the embargo. they said maritime products undergo radiation checks to meet government standards before being shipped overseas. >> i believe many countries now understand japan'

liberal democrats wanted a public option. it was a gift to them to basically apease them, and this was what they gave instead of the public option. this is not from republicans. >> go ahead, john. >> you cannot create competition with a gun. competition can only come from freedom. i guess to juan's point, the so-called market the government created, it is a market in trying to appeal for the subsidee and saw peel for the tax break. it is not freedom at all. it is the opposite jie.. >> i read about this, and it is profit. when you remove the profit motive itbacks down. they removed the profit motive from these insurers. >> i think as capitalists we should all say that's a good thing. >> capitalism -- >> too many of these health companies were not responding -- >> government does not create competition. >> you said it was working. eric just said a moment ago, lots of people, 40 million had no insurance and they were going on people with preexisting conditions. >> it wasn't working, juan, because it was not a freedom market. as

democrat. he governed as a new politics liberal, and they voted him out. [laughter] and so what he learned after 1994 is to go back to his dlc roots to, you know, to intentionally, you know, govern as a moderate democrat. and it's just no accident that, you know, clinton governing at what he called the vital center which has a different meaning according to arthur schlessinger, and it does, you know, but clinton meant it, you know, because most americans support a modicum of liberal activism. social security, medicare, pell grants, i mean, most americans, i mean, you see this in electoral results, right? most americans, today want these program -- they want these programs. even when republicans start to, you know, go after them, even republican voters, you know, sort of rise up in protest. and so, you know, once clinton gets through those first two years, he governs as a moderate, and it's, you know, especially in the domestic sphere it's a largely successful presidency and one that, i mean, heck, it promised to end the national debt. he is and newt beginni

then in august he sent an offering as leader of the liberal democratic party to commemorate the end of the war. abe says he intends to continue paying his respects to people who sacrificed their lives for their country. a spokesperson for the chinese government is urging japanese leaders to properly deal with the issues the shrine visits raise. >> translator: japan should regret what they did to asia and respect how people in neighboring countries feel. >> a south korean government spokesperson criticized abe's actions. >> translator: we express concern and regret over his repeated offerings. >> he called on japanese politicians to humbly reflect on history and try to build trust among neighboring nations. >>> a u.s. electric power company has taken a step to demand damages in connection with the affected steam generators made by the mitsubishi heavy industries. southern california edison, or sce, filed a request for arbitration with the paris-based international court of arbitration on wednesday. the u.s. utility is asking for about $4 billion as compensation. executives at sce say br

lawmakers with his ruling liberal democratic party, and coalition partner have endorsed his plan. it includes a proposal to scrap a corporate tax imposed after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami to help fund the rebuilding effort. the levy was scheduled to expire in march of 2015 but prime minister shinzo abe wants to end it a year earlier. they are forced to look at other sources of revenue. they'll also start discussions on setting new corporate tax rates. in addition, they were all proposing a two-year extension of a tax break for companies that increase their employee's salaries. >>> people in the united states are bracing for what could be the first government shutdown in almost 18 years. members of congress have just hours to agree on a budget bill before the next fiscal year begins. the democrat-led senate voted down a version of the bill that would have delayed implementing president barack obama's health care policies. the bill was amended by members of the republican-led house of representatives. both houses of congress need to agree on the spending plan. if they can't comp

members of the tpp task force of the liberal democratic party and other officials agreed to explore the possibility at a meeting on thursday. the decision came after leaders of countries negotiating the tpp agreed earlier this week that high-level political decisions are needed. that's to break a deadlock in the talks so as to reach a conclusion by the end of the year, ldp task force leader said they're looking into the five key categories of farm products including rice and wheat to see if tariffs can be lifted on some items. some voiced opposition saying some items were treated as exceptions in trade talks, should be protected this time around. after the meeting, mish a ka wa said a decision on which items to eliminate tariffs on should be decided over the next month, before the next tpp talks possibly in december. >>> the operator of the casual clothing chain has posted a record high sales and profit due to aggressive store openings in asia. fast retailing opened their sales up in august. up to more than $11 billion. operating profit reached $1.3 billion, up 5% from the same period a

some liberal democrats drawing a line in the sand, saying don't touch entitlements ever.id asman. welcome to "forbes on fox." steve forbes, rick unger, mike, bill baldwin, sabrina schaefer, hn tandy. $2 trillion out of a $3.5 trillion budget. more than the majority. how do you avoid dealing with it? >>ventually you will have deal with it.

some liberal democrats drawing a line in the sand, saying don't touch entitlements ever.who is right? hi, everybody. i'm david asman. welcome to "forbes on fox." steve forbes, rick unger, mike, bill baldwin, sabrina schaefer, hn tandy. $2 trillion out of a $3.5 trillion budget. more than the majority. how do you avoid dealing with it? >>ventually you will have deal with it. won't be done now, simply because there is not a mandate to do it. you set the stage for it; such as, having accounts for younger people in social security, change the delivery of healthcare, do it in a positive way. you set the ground work. you won't make headway with the congress. shoot for 2014 and 2016. >> rick, should entitlements be off the table entirely? >> i don't think they should i'm not one of those liberals. i would love to see the focus shift to where they are look at entitlements in terms of cleaning it up. it should be a constant reform all the time. weed out the people who may take advantage, so we havehe money for the people who legitimately need the help. >> let's talk about people t

a liberal democrat mp says they will be dull in color and will not taste as good or last as long. ministers say the regulations will help increase exports. ministeralk to the uk of food on gmt in over one hour. you can follow me on twitter. and the fed or india or whatever you want. >> do you have a 60% sugary context in your tweets? >> i will make sure. >> you through catch up at me earlier in the week. >> there we go. there is a jam. >> thank you. stay with us here on bbc world news. still to come -- could drug rooms or attic scanjet cocaine and heroin without supervision help clean up the streets of europe? we have a special report from denmark. valuablee world's most and sumptuous collections of jewels has gone on show in rome. the treasure of saint gennaro is said to rival the british crown jewels. strong -- it has left the strong room where it is kept in the 70 pieces have been transported under armed guard to a museum in rome. gennaro, naples patron saint who lived 700 years ago has been venerated down the centuries as the cities protection against war, the plate, earthquak

lawmakers with the ruling liberal democratic party and coalition partner nu kometo have agreed to consider another proposal. they want to scrap a corporate tax designed to raise money for the reconstruction effort in the northeast. the levee was scheduled to expire at the end of march 2015, but prime minister abe wants to end it a year early. ldp lawmakers say they'll look for other sources of revenue to support the reconstruction. they're also proposing a two-year extension of a tax break for companies that increase their employees' salaries and they plan to start discussions on setting new corporate tax rates. >>> now, japan's job market showed a mixed picture in august. the unemployment rate unexpectedly worsened while the availability of jobs rose. internal affairs officials said the jobless rate rose 0.3 percentage point from the previous month to 4.1 pk. it worsened for the first time in six months. about 2.7 million people are without work. more than 63 million had jobs. meanwhile, labor ministry officials say the availability of jobs rose for a sixth straight month in august. it sa

for the viewers that are watching this, i'm going to suggest to you that james hoffa, a liberal democratection of president obama and harry reid and nancy pelosi, who said in writing that obama care is destroying the 40-hour work weeks. >> elements of it. >> i'm quoting from another portion, that it is destroying the foundation that is the backappoint of the american middle class -- >> actually i googled it myself, and actually it was talking here's the thing that i think we have to be clear about. yes, a brand new program, a brand new website that got more hits than twitter got in its first 24 months in a week have had some problems. if you look at california, i think 30,000 people have been able to enroll. new york, 40,000 people have been able to enroll. medicare d, that rollout was bumpy. nobody is complaining about that. romneycare, everybody loves it. my question, yeah, you're demagoguing the problems. when this is a standard part of our country. insurance company can no longer dump people or deny people, are you requesting to acknowledge. what are you going to tell people when ins

. >>> lawmakers with the ruling liberal democratic party and coalition partner new comato have agreed on another proposal. they want to scrap a corporate tax imposed after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami to help fund the rebuilding effort. the levy was scheduled to expire in march of 2015 but prime minister shinzo abe wants to end it a year early. they agreed to look for alternative sources of revenue to support reconstruction in the northeast. that's the latest in business for this hour. i'll leave with a check on markets. >>> syria's foreign minister is blaming western powers for supporting terrorism in his country. he told the u.n. general assembly that by backing rebel forces, the u.s. and other nations are backing al qaeda-linked militants. at the same time, he vowed syrian leaders are cooperating with an international effort to eliminate their chemical weapons. >> translator: i assure you syria is committed to the full implementation of the provisions of the chemical weapons convention and to cooperating with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons as a state pa

farmers are calling on members of the ruling liberal democratic party to stick to their promises and some lawmakers support them. the leaders of opposition parties are criticizing ldpd members for breaking promises they made earlier this year during campaigning for the upper house election. >>> officials in the white house say president obama has made his choice for the next chairman of the federal reserve. janet yellen will succeed ben bernanke in the most powerful job in the world economy and would become the first woman to lead the central bank if she is confirmed by the senate. yellen has been at the fed's second in command since 2010. she's also served as president of the federal reserve bank of san francisco. she headed the council of economic advisers under former president bill clion and she's played a crucial role in establishing the fed's monetary easing policies. a white house official says president barack obama will formally nominate yellen later on wednesday. if confirmed, she would take over for bernanke when his second term expires in january. >>> white house official

whether they be democrats or republicans, liberals or conservatives, i don't care. we're all in this together. and when our living standard goes down, we all go down toct. -- we all go down together. so the mess we're in today -- so how do you solve that problem? the first thing -- any addiction, which we have an addiction to spending, is to recognize you have an addiction. we have an addiction to spending. we have an addiction to not living within our means. we just passed $600 billion in january of increased taxes on the american economy, most of that going for the people that are doing much better during this tepid recovery. welwill that solve our problems? can we tax our way out of this? can we have confiscatory tax policies that will not hurt our economy and get us out of that? and the answer is "no." and everybody recognizes it. so what else does everybody recognize? they recognize that a big portion of the problem is entitlement spending, and no political party wants to be blamed for being the person that -- quote -- "fixed entitlement spending" unless they d

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a pew poll found today if you talk to moderates and liberals in the democratic party, if you can find any liberals, their favorability rating for ted cruz, senator cruz is 27%. republican party. republican moderates and liberals, 27% favorability toward ted cruz. among tea party types it's 75%. there is that gigantic gap. and there's no question i think that the tea party folks feel people didn't fight hard enough on the republican side. moderates didn't fight hard enough. >> the tea partiers are saying we were abandoned by other members of the republican party. that's the reason this didn't go forward. had we stood together -- >> had they stuck together they would have sunk the economy. that's the alternative here. i mean, the truth is thank god there's some republicans that have some common sense that came to the table so we could get this done. look. what they were fighting for would have destroyed this country. would have put up into a bigger depression than by far than what happened with lehmam four years ago. >> where does the obama care issue come into this? democrats are conti

speech at his conference they're so desperate over there in the coalition camp the tory in the liberal democrat camp that they're moving forward this ponzi scheme by three months it shows you that this is not an economic policy it's a it's a help to buy votes policy help to buy votes. shameless pandering to the casino who led to the worst elements of british society and i think cameron ago today i think or this week i should say is the anniversary of neville chamberlain who famously appeased the nazis during the one nine hundred thirty s. i think here you have david cameron appeasing the house price builders and the banks in the city who are effectively the equivalent in today's screwed up global economy well in fact ok you mention a few things there but the housing bubble all economists will agree housing bubbles and collapses are the worst for economies more than just the normal cyclical boom bust recessions in the business cycle so we've just gone through five years we're now five six years into a global economic collapse and what do they do they want to spur it again well an estimated two h

he is the liberal democratic member for parliament.ere. >> thank you. >> you came from a family that was nod fundamentalist. your mum was born and grew up in britain. you were, by all accounts, as normal a british child. you loved hip hop, but then something happened. >> as a teenager i experienced violent racisement. i mean hammer attacks, screwdriver attacks, machete attacks by a group known as 18. i had white friends growing up in essex, a county next door to london. they'd hold me back and force me to watch as they stubbed my white friends. they deemed them blood traitors for associating or befriending me. at the same time i have to emphasis u.k. is no longer as racist as it used to be. the troubles have significantly progressed since then. there was the bosnia genocide. that was the first time we saw white blond haired blue-eyed muslims slaughtered because of their faith. until that point i associated my problems with racism and we considered the boss nian situation. british muslims decided across the board to say, "well, if you a

filibuster over this issue it wasn't just republicans at the board and it was a whole lot of you know liberal democrats as well americans obviously understand that there are there are consequences are actually in that that this is pretty murky territory i think so i'm guy that we get some resolution on this now the shutdown is over the republican party is trying to pick up the pieces or depending who you talk to i guess korean culture everything is wonderful it isn't just the way it was supposed to be but these this schism between the billionaire funded side the freedom works club for growth you know funded by the koch brothers tea party side. which seems not to want any government at all just like the billionaires run everything and the old fashioned republicans who typically historically have been in bed with the chamber of commerce and big business and proud of it and you know there's a certain nobility to that i suppose. our are just in open trench warfare i mean you've got john mccain and ted cruz calling each other names we're where is this go and he what's going on in your party already i'm not

speech at his conference they're so desperate over there in the coalition camp the tory in the liberal democrat camp that they're moving forward this ponzi scheme by three months it shows you that this is not an economic policy it's a it's a help to buy votes policy help to buy votes. shameless pandering to the casino who led to the worst elements of british society and i think cameron ago today i think you are this week i should say is the anniversary of neville chamberlain who famously appeased the nazis during the one nine hundred thirty s. i think here you have david cameron appeasing the house price builders and the banks in the city who are effectively the equivalent in today's screwed up global economy in fact ok you mention a few things there but the housing bubble all economists will agree housing bubbles and collapses are the worst for economies more than just the normal cyclical boom bust recessions in the business cycle so we've just gone through five years we're now five six years into a global economic collapse and what do they do they want to spur it again well an estimated two h

a traditional liberal democrat, great society liberal. i was hard line on the soviets. eople to believe but the democratic party had a powerful wing that was anti-soviet. >> reporter: those democrats were a dying breed. krauthammer found himself agreeing more with president reagan than with his liberal readers. >> i supported just about every element of the reagan foreign policy and, boy, did we get reaction from our liberal readership? i wrote an article about the nuclear freeze that caused the largest number of cancelled subscriptions in the history of the magazine which i was proud of. >> reporter: what was his writing like? >> it's very step by step logical. if you can read a column by charles and disagree with him after you're through you must have a pretty good argument. >> reporter: those arguments had conservative columnists like william f. buckley wondering why krauthammer and the new republic weren't supporting reagan's re-election in 1984. >> what buckley was writing was give up on the democrats. i wanted to save the soul of the democratic party and maintain t