secretary duncan came down, charter schools system, and waiting to get in. we are funding problems even though the state statute says we honda and operated charter schools will get equal funding. school board members are elective. we don't have that recalcitrants of cities and schools you want to start and secretary duncan led some great leadership, on the previous committee the commitment of this administration to give grants, $25.2 million for work-force training to community college so what a great job you are doing, that is what we have to encourage. >> thank you, marilyn strickland. >> regardless of the governance structure, i really believe the mayor of many city will be the most high-profile strong advocate for education and should be the one hole in our schools responsible and accountable. the question is why are we here. i and here for a simple reason. there is an education to present pipeline that affects communities of color disproportionately. it hurts communities and herds cities. we have an opportunity to fix that at this level and that is why

and kirstie duncan is a very passionate, very emotional person. she dresses in a way that doesn't look like a scientist, waring high heels and spandex and stuff which i think also -- i hate to say it, but i think that made people think she wasn't a serious person. i think to her she was serious about trying to find this virus. i think she was genuinely moved by the stories, and i think she really hoped that she would be able to find the virus. c-span: so the doctor's on that committee with her. >> guest: he was. c-span: meantime, johan holten finds the body, gets the sample, sends it back -- >> guest: and he already had that sample when he was on the committee with her. holten had told -- he was saying we have another sample, we have another sample. but holten had told the eskimos that they were going to be the ones who determined when he made the announcement. he said he wasn't going to sort of spring the media and all the world on them, that they could decide how to release this information. and so he was waiting for them to give him the go ahea

beatrice duncan. people don't to have come up in this order, the presses of the san francisco board of education rachel norton. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is beatrice did -- duncan and a senior citizen and advocate for healthy living and wellness. as a member of two communities of color. i find this report timely, important and essential. scientific research data. which i hope will be able to contradict the current misinformation that has been printed in the written media. as the report indicates, the connection that sugar sweetened beverages has to chronic disease such as obesity and diabetes, seeing this increase amongst adults, children and youth, as a grandmother and great grandmother, i find this quite frightening. it is therefore that the current discussions that are taking place and i am thankful to be part of a stake holders such as shape up san francisco. the medical entities present here, the community activist that have worked so unselfishly on this issue. regardless on the crit

duncan golestani joins us live from london with more. duncan, good morning. how credible are the threats? >> reporter: good morning, veronica. well, we haven't been able to verify the video, but it does appear on to be credible. posted on a website known to be used by islamic militants. the video shows the two men strapping on their suicide vests filled with explosives. wirz running down their arm to a trigger button. they claim responsibility for two bombings in volgograd last month, on a railway station and on a bus. they promise there is more to come during the olympics. they talk about tourists receiving a present. they say it will be revenge for all the muslim blood being spilled around the world. over the weekend, president putin was once again trying to reassure visitors the games in sochi will be safe. security is incredibly tight around the city, with airport style checks and more than 30,000 police and military push nell. but the fear is militant groups will try to hit targets elsewhere in russia, soft targets like transportation hubs, just like the

secretary duncan, we appreciate your time.ormer governor of indiana, mitch daniels, governor daniels, which title should i call you? >> yeah, my name is will done, chuck, thanks. >> you and i have discussed this issue, you have been somebody that, i believe, second year in a row, you're actually freezing tuition rates. you're freezing it, trying to make it more affordable. you have been looking at this. but you saw those statistics. you're sitting sheer, and this idea that some states are essentially passing on this cost, you know, if the high cost of education issues and helping state universities, by raising tuition rates, and that, of course, then just increases this debt issue. and it's a vicious cycle. >> yeah, and i think you analyzed it exactly correct, chuck. here at purdue, we have announced a two-year freeze, and i announced yesterday there will be a third year, if the trustees will approve it, and i no he they will. we'll go as far as we can with that. we said we're going to change the typical approach in higher ed.

secretary duncan -- i keep wanting to call you mayor. the idea that we are fostering here goes to the heart of what secretary duncan just talked about. as we keep having conversations about education, there are a lot of cities doing some good things that we can follow. mary johnson created a framework for us that we all have -- mary johnson created a framework for us that we all have the handbook that was tremendous. to begin to codify the best practices, policies, so that we can access it from our offices, our staff can access it, is to create an online play book. we would seek a committee from , hopefully led by mayor mike rawlings, that would create the framework for setting and evaluating those best policies and practices and programs that would go online and we would have them codify based on the four pillars we have created. and then they would be measured based on their effectiveness. we would have a tool in which to see how the city is performing with regards to certain metrics. the idea is to create this online playbook. >> [ina

joining me now is the education secretary, arne duncan. secretary duncan, thanks for joining us. speaker boehner spoke at a breakfast this morning and i want to read you what he said about the president being willing to bypass congress. quote, this idea that he's going to go it alone, i have to remind him we do have a constitution and congress writes the law and the president's job is to execute the laws faithfully. we're not going to sit here and let the president trample all over us. your response? >> well, we've worked very closely with members of the house, the senate, republican governors and mayors across the country and we're all in this together. at the same time, we just have to do the right thing. whether it's more children having access to early childhood education, whether it's continuing to increase high school graduation rates, reduce dropout rates, more young people going to college, i feel a real sense of urgency and i'm afraid that it runs straight through american classrooms and we have to work together to have young people to have the great education opportunit

>> arnie duncan has no education experience. >> that's not true.very rich background in education. >> he has a degree in social work from harvard. he's never taught and he doesn't have a background in education. so, that's what dr. wright is talking about, looking at the bigger picture, not taking just the sound bites and looking into the truth. >> if you go through any of the sound bites, any of them, reverend wright makes the most racist marks about the people. he's not there to unite ever. if i wanted to draw people together, literally he's the last person i would choose. he is the antithesis of people like martin luther king or mandela. why do you want to divide and raise vitriol and associate with martin luther king. >> he is embodying martin luther king and during his speech which we have on our website, you can watch the whole thing and watch it in context and not the sound bites. look at the readings he references. dr. king was a lot more controversial than people want to know. you have to read his writings beyond the i have a dream speech.

summit on duncan. over on the side and it's rainy and all the talk haseen about how the french have been trying to list there were a lot to european neighbors to contribute to peace keepingne tou wee. what's driving the conversation where you are the moment the icky old and it is the african union's peace and security council that let's say yes today with the central african republic topping the agenda at that meeting was addressed b chad's president. it is that pinochet is a key contributor to the african that's intervention in the central african republic them up to just end it was i went on as absolutes was that said he and other african leaders expect the international community to crank up assistance for the topic and that intervention into the stands. they will be a dynasty see him and that is on saturday. cherub with ur without the united nations blue helmets that's alswhy the supposed in the big talking point. that's right yes that has been sent so that the sun time at the outset absorbing the

our secretary of education, arne duncan, calls it educational stagnation. consider this. tests that measure critical thinking in science, math, and reading among high school students in different countries show that our students aren't doing so well. in math, students in 33 other countries, including ireland, perfo poland did better than american students. in science, students in 24 other countries were ahead of ours. and in reading, our best subject, kids in 21 countries outdid the americans. the hard truth, says secretary duncan, is that the united states is not among the top-performing co top-performing comparable countries. neil degrasse tyson is the director at new york's director of museum of history and also a narrator of a new show at the planetarium called "dark universe" and this spring he will be a host of a remake of the classic pbs series "cosmos." you can see it on the national geographic channel and fox tv. welcome. >> thank you. >> let's talk politics for a moment. >> go for it. >> all right. according to the pew research center, back in 2009, a majority o

. >> duncan, why are these bit of -- building so critical to the demonstrators?use the demonstrations have spread, and as far as they are concerned, this is about a revolution. speaking to some of the men taking control of the buildings, they are not trying to change the government anymore. they want president yanukovych to step down. a month or so ago, they offered peopleions, but because have died, because so many hundreds of protesters have been injured, riot police, as well, people's passions have been inflamed, and they say they are not going anywhere unless president yanukovych resigns. if the deal is not reached soon, the country is on the verge of civil war. >> duncan there in kiev, thank you very much for those latest developments coming in from ukraine. government today said they will take in several hundred syrian refugees with priority being given to women and children who have been victims of violence. hundreds of syrian's are leaving the country every day, and millions are living in neighboring countries. our correspondent reports from jordan for us

the latest now from duncan golestani. >> reporter: for nearly a week there have been clashes in iraq's anbar province. the iraqi military struggling to regain control, fighting street by street. trying to recapture large areas that fell to al qaeda links. iraqi forces using their air power to attack the infamous radicals. but those same al qaeda linked militants boast they're also overrunning the city of fallujah. armed men claimed to have destroyed government vehicles. the two cities are mainly sunni muslim. and the shiite dominated government in baghdad. they say they'll punish those who are linked to the sectarian government. after the 2003 u.s.-led invasion of iraq, fallujah was the center of the insurgency. american troops fought hard to root out extremists. now the u.s. has pulled out of iraq so it is up to the iraqi government. >> the iraqis can retake fallujah but they'll have to commit a lot of resources to do it and even more resources to hold on to it. >> reporter: the iraqi prime minister says there will be no retreat until they have eliminated the militants. >> this is a f

here is nbc's duncan golestani. >> reporter: it is one of the presidential decisions that france has been waiting for. francois hollande has announced the end of his relationship with the first lady trierweiler two weeks after a tabloid reported he was having an affair with an actress. he called a french news agency to say i'm making it known that i put an end to my shared life with valerie trierweiler. two weeks ago, the magazine published photos of hollande apparently visiting his girlfriend on a motorcycle and staying the night. shortly there after, the first lady checked into a hospital for exhaustion, while hollande refused to confirm that trierweiler was still first lady. promising to clear up confusion before the state visit next month. >> she doesn't want to leave behind the role of first lady, in which she really has invested. >> reporter: the couple had been together for several years but never married. in relaxed france, that was okay. so too, it seems is even an affair. the big public debate is whether or not the public had a right to know. this woman says he can do what

duncan, good morning. what more can you tell us? >> good morning, veronica. well, while we haven't been able to verify the video, it does appear to be credible. it was posted on a web side noechb to be used by islamic militants. it shows them strapping on their suicide vests, wires running down their arms to a trigger button. they claim responsibility for two suicide bombings in the city last month. they promise there is more to come during the olympics. they talk about tourists receiving a present. they say it will be revenge for all the muslim blood being spilled around the world. over the weekend president putin was once again trying to reassure the visitors the games in sochi will be safe. security is incredibly tight with airport style checks and more than 30,000 police and military personnel. the fear is militant groups will try to hit targets elsewhere in russia, so called soft targets like transportation hubs just like the ones attacked last month. >> duncan, thanks. >>> and there are new questions about the most famous american already in russia, edw

emergency services say the fire has been extinguished the taste of willful killing of mark duncan who was shot by police in twenty eleven has sparked anger in london as a metropolitan police spokesman expressed sympathy with the twenty nine year old's family outside the mountain course. supporters of the depth and family drowned him out counting that as the inquest jury said it came as the show to many. ma. they want to tell you the abbot of the oman. while the day lawyers for the family of question that that instance the jury concluded up and was on home when he would show up to ten self doubt then he was a suspected gangland figure sparked a wave of rioting across england. some expats claim his confrontation with police tapped into an undercurrent of rage as unemployment and delays in the city says while others say it was just an excuse to mayhem and his team. a woman has died in canada for the aged five and one staying in the canoe off to becoming ill a week ago following a visit today she is the fanciful to think ok signals america. age five and one is not the same as seasonal flu

. >> the killing of mark duncan in 2011 was the spark for a complex and compossible tinderbox of socialnd economic tensions there was rioting that started in the aftermath in north london which spread throughout the country. so clearly, issues of race and policing are very sensitive. that's why london's police chief sat down with community leaders and local politicians here at scotland yard earlier today. one notable absence was the family of mark duncan himself, they are still too angry at wednesday's verdict to be able to talk face to face with police. but we did hear from mark who is the assistant commissioner for london's metropolitan police service. >> ten ordinary men and women that's what a jury is. spent three months they looked at all the evidence, and they concluded that mark was lawfully killed. he had picked up a weapon, he had it in the car with him, and the split seconds he threw it. and the us aers fired. >> in april police are to start trailing video cameras on armed response units which may help with evidence in controversial cases like the mark duncan one. but what it

they now have a long list of to duncan wanted to sing. on the court they think these concessions will be enough for the people who would i think he spent most of the sport the resignation of ian cave it's a special ride in the cbd felt that those members of the police who were killed and tortured people to face justice. what began as anchor of the mek the cheese and it was muscat has become far more fundamental. the opposition now it's true that the spirit of the current revenues and calling for a tad to the constitution which it uses the powers of the christensen it. soon the un security council has approved the deployment and european troops to the central african republic violence was between christians and muslims the council fears the conflict in the former french colony risks spiraling into genocide i really do need to be right more often do you even forces because our contingent for the moment as being not only committed to the protection of the wonderful and i was one of eight thousand itt. you are with the west left a confusion o

i'm going to ask duncan hunter about it now, he's with me too. great to see you. >> thank you. >> as we mentioned a moment ago, these charges from secretary gates come at the same time that al qaeda flags are flying over the city of fallujah. in the an bar province, thousands of troops sacrificed their lives. many thought it was in vein to begin with, many others did not believe that, and went over to fight honestly and heroically. 4489 of our young men and women were killed. 32,000 more were wounded and they and their families have to watch in frustration, as al qaeda takes these cities. representative duncan hunter fought in the battle of fallujah in '04, he's outraged by the al qaeda takeover that threatens to undo what he and his fellow marines accomplished in 2011. let me start with you representative hunter on where i left off with brit on the gates -- mr. gates matter, and i will get to iraq. as i understand, brit's point about the president saying, he doesn't necessarily believe in the strategy, but sort of committed to, this is the war h

the inspiration of iain duncan smith.hen the rollout of universal credit began to fall behind schedule, nearly all the criticism came his way. he admitted uc wouldn't be ready by 2017. 40 million pounds of spending on i.t. software for the project had been wasted. the minister attempted an explanation. >> when you are dealing with software for issues and policy problems, it is not an exact science. you try and resolve something through a series of code changes. you go down the road and then it doesn't completely resolve the issue. what you were trying to do becomes a dead end. we have to look at another way to do that. sometimes it just doesn't simply come to the conclusion. that has gone on long before i.t. was around in building all sorts of things. people reach a point where it doesn't work. >> the next day and commons, labor stepped up the pressure. >> the secretary of state is in denial. he would deny that he is in denial. [laughter] we all know that until he fesses up, no one will have any confidence in his manageme

bob pisani is on the floor with duncan niederaurer and invesco's ceo.at have been around for a century in the making. >> general electric and some companies on the nasdaq are on it. we'll talk with duncan niederaurer about it and marty flanagan who is the head of invesco one of the top mutual fund companies in the united states. what's this all about? i love etfs, we talk about it all the time here, but companies around 100 years it seems unusual. what's the rationale >> the rationale is look back and say it's great that we celebrate what's new. there are a lot of great companies listed that much to our surprise were founded more than 100 years ago. we found there were more than 300 companies encorporated over 100 years ago and have market caps at least a billion dollars today and listed in the u.s. capital markets either on the nyse or the nasdaq and we worked with marty and his team to put together an index of those companies that we thought gave investors and particularly retail investors a chance to participate in what is really a who's who of what'

so i think arne duncan's words are exactly right. that i think that the effect of his and the attorney general's actions is going to be precisely the opposite. >> what about this idea that we've heard from teachers saying you know what, sometimes getting a student out of the class is the only way that i can try and retain any semblance of order in the class that it really would prefer to outsource this i'm not a security professional. i can't deal with all of this. >> you know, in cases of violence, no one is suggesting that you don't need school police number fact, we're not suggesting that you shouldn't have them. there is a difference between a student who is violent and a student who uses profanity or a student who can't sit in their seat or a student without doesn't show up for class. and, in fact, actually, the very opposite happened of what mr. fin said. in fact, arne duncan and the administration based a lot of their ideas for the guidelines today on the experience of what happened in baltimore city. where organizations like

duncan golestani with the heads-up from london.istoric frigid temperatures sweeping the nation. a new winter storm is set to drop inches of snow from the rockies to portions of the midwest, great lakes and mid south this weekend. nbc's leanne gregg is in denver for the very latest on this new storm. >> hi, alex. 2 to 4 inches of snow expected here in denver before the system moves on. it is affecting air travel at denver international airport with some delays. possibly up to about an hour or more for desizing. and the roads, highways, bridges overpasses are slick in many areas. there are whiteout conditions because of the blowing snow in parts of the state. up in the mountains, up to 10 inches are expected. in various areas including the eisenhower tunnel along i-70. so this system is part of a massive air mass moving to the east to the south and the upper midwest bringing dangerously cold temperatures. and lots of snow. this snow will stick around in the denver area throughout the weekend and then move onto the east. back to you,

joining me is duncan. thank you for taking some time to talk to us on today's inside look. with the central african republic. the crisis is high on the agenda. what is the diplomatic response from the au to that crisis? >> very much dominating the agenda. it was a meeting yesterday of the peace and security council oneh was addressed by president. he said the situation continues to spiral out of control. he has requested that the international community do more to assist that effort. >> tell us more about the donor meeting. what does it hope to achieve? saturdayng convened on to draw support and funding from multiple sources. importantly, from the european union's, the united states, and other major world powers. that is in the context of where there are limited financial resources available from african nations. we saw that here. a similar accident -- a similar tract is for molly. mawli.tice from >> it does seem that there is a limit to what exactly africa can do to help african problems, especially in respect to the central african republic. >> there are these massive fun

great guy, duncan.verwhelming approval of the citizens of my state. they have elected me seven times. i'm confident that if i run again they will as well and then of course i regret this kind of thing happening from my own party. but, you know, it is what it is. >> are you seeing this division or whatever you want to call it in the republican party up close and personal in your own state and is it going to hurt republicans? >> well, we've heard it before and it does hurt republicans. we lost the majority of our congressional delegation but i'm confident that we'll come back and we'll get back into the center and i still believe that our party can be strong, viable, and frankly i'm more motivated to run for re-election than i was before it happened. you know me, neal. >> well, after you made that threatening comment to me. you're lucky i'm not there senator because boy, oh, boy, i would sick someone on you, right? i would do it. all right senator, thank you very much. good seeing you. >> great to be with

duncan goll stan any has the details. >> reporter: the french president and his first lady beginning their lives apart. two weeks after a tabloid reported he was having an affair with an actress, judy guy yeah. hollande called a french news agency saying i am making it known that i have put achb end to the relationship. >> his international agenda is very full including an upcoming visit to dwrunt states. he can't afford it to be polluted with negative focus on his private life. >> two weeks ago a tabloid magazine posted photos of him visiting his mistress. shortly after she checked into for exhaustion while he failed to confirm if she was still first lady, promising to clear up confusion before a state visit next month. the couple had been together for seven years and never married. in relaxed france, that was okay. so, too, was the affair. the biggest debate is whether the public had a right to know. this woman says he can do what he wants, it's his life. trier whiler treated a message about her emotional departure with staff at the presidential palace. some in france now wondering

at public comment i just want to acknowledge beatrice cardenas duncan who is a community leader and active with groups like shape up sf and the labor movement as well is here. breks board of education board of education president is here. and corner store coalition and an organizer with t ndc and todd davis who has been a great leader in our neighborhood as well. they will be speaking at public comment. we also have a number of other folks from different communities that will speak a little bit later. before i introduce the first speaker, i want to know if my colleagues have any opening remarks. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you supervisor mar for your work and your partnership on this important issue. the coalition that has been forming in san francisco around the proposed sugary beverage tax is broad and deep. i will be honest that it is even broader and deeper than i thought it would be when we started this work. there are a lot of people in groups that i wasn't so sure if they would necessarily be supportive and i found that when you called them, there is no

it's called "poetry of witness," co-edited by carolyn forche and duncan wu. ms. forche joins me now. a professor of english at georgetown university, she is herself an acclaimed poet who's written of strife in central america and elsewhere. welcome to you. >> thank you very much. >> brown: first what, do you mean by "poetry of witness?" what does that mean? >> poetry of witness is written by poets who endured conditions of extremity, who passed through the suffering of warfare, imprisonment, forced exile, censorship, banning orders. they pass through these experiences, their language also pass through it. and they write in the aftermath. and their language articulates that suffering. it becomes legible in the poems. >> brown: as i go through it here, it's almost like an alternative history, or the news, and i was thinking about what we do on this program. >> we felt that we were reading back through 500 years of english language poetry, to find out what happened in the aftermath of all of the wars and everything that-- all of the upheaval in england and her forme

i will say since arnie duncan issued regulations back in 2011 calling on the college campuses to improve and having placed these plans, we've seen a lot more activism on college campuses. people who have been assaulted are coming to the justice department and coming to the department of education and filing charges in their civil rights division because they know that we have a president who is responsive. so that increased activism we believe can be very helpful on college campuses as well because they know that they are finding someone who is going to be responsive to them. so law enforcement has made progress over the years. you're seeing a lot more sensitivity than you saw historically. but we also recognize we have a long way to go so. the task force that the president put in place is to come back in 90 days with concrete recommendations for what more we can do, and a part of that is lifting up what works. i mean, there are many colleges and universities that really have taken this on head-on and have worked with local law enforcement and have seen -- they've seen the incidents go d

and i met earlier today with secretary sebelius, duncan, attorney general holder and as well as vice president biden and my senior staff to discuss how to implement going forward. because i want to make sure we are going to spare another american the trauma of sexual assault. today we're taking another important step with a focus on our college campuses. it is estimated that one in five women on college campuses had been sexually assaulted during their time there. one in five. these young women worked so hard just to get into college. often their parents are doing everything they can to help them pay for it, so when they finally make it there, only to be assaulted, that is not just a nightmare for them and their families, it's in a front to everything they have worked so hard to achieve. it's totally unacceptable. three years ago we sent every school district, college and university that receives federal funding new instructions clarifying their legal obligations to prevent and respond to sexual assault. and we have seen progress. including an inspiring wave of student-led activism a

. >> and i'm sure that education secretary arnie duncan is good at math, as well, and he joins us now from the white house. secretary, thank you so much for being with us. >> good afternoon. thank you so much for the opportunity. >> of course. so let's talk about the state of the union tonight to start with. are we likely to hear the same goal in terms of universal pre-k? there was also a goal from last year on revamping the high school curriculum to refocus it for the tech economy. do you think we'll hear more on those proposals, or new things laid out, and do you have hope that we'll see progress on the initiatives? >> first of all, across the country, we've seen real progress. we have high school graduation rates at 30-year highs, dropout rates are down, the number of young people going to college is up. we've made real progress. we have a long way to go. and we always talk about a cradle-to-career agenda. so the focus on early childhood is hugely, hugely important. what's so interesting to me this has become the ultimate bipartisan issue in the real world. in fact, you have more r

nbc's duncan golestani has more for us. >> hey, thomas.engers were in very high spirits after being taken over to their rescue ship. there were doubts the rescue would take place because of the bad weather that's blocked attempts. blinding snow, strong winds, and fog. but finally, around midday local time, the chinese helicopter began taking groups of around a dozen from the ice next to the academic ship. they then made the ten-minute flight over the ice to a smaller boat, which then took them on to the aurora, an australian ice breaker. that journey was repeated five times until all the passengers were off. now begins the two-week journey home. they're not expected to reach australia until mid-january. that's because the aurora has to first go to resupply an arctic base. so for these scientists, their adventure is far from over. spare a thought, though, for the crew of that russian research ship. they are staying until the ice flows allow them to maneuver out. they do have enough food on board. everyone has been incredibly upbeat. we've s

. >> duncan crawford in kiev, thank you. in other news, japan's prime minister, visanthe shiancoe has called for expansion. he said japan as relations with china were isaac redman nissan end of those between britain and germany on the eve of the first world war. he said their economies were interdidn't. police have made 90 arrests. assets were seized in rome, new england patriotsles and floridians of the mafia. it is part of the crime network based in naples. bars and pizza e.r.a.s in rome were select. >> they were ordered to return a brobs rabbit. they said it should be taken away as soon as possible. the sculptor said they had added the creature because they weren't allowed to engrave their signatures. everyone knew it wasn't going to be easy, and today a major international conference aimed at bringing peace to syria was marked by strong language and bitter accusations. for the first time, the syrian regime and the syrian opposition were brought to the same team -- to the same table. immediately the issue of president ass

duncan, one thing we are hearing is u.s. security officials will be accompanying american athletes to all the events. that doesn't seem so out of the ordinary. but we're also hearing, particularly with the nordic skiing and with the snowboard teams, they're going to have private security companies accompanying them. can you confirm that? >> reporter: i can't confirm that specifically. according to white house abbreviation, diplomatic security will accompany american athletes to events. but as you say, that's not really out of the ordinary for big international events like olympic games. the u.s. is only really able to play as much of a security role as the russians will allow. but russia has so far not requested any help and seems reluctant to share intelligence. that's in contrast, for example, to the very close cooperation between washington and london, when the summer games came here in 2012. the u.s. olympic committee has advised athletes going to sochi to avoid wearing their uniforms or team usa logos outside of the oly

if i was talking to the president and arnie duncan, and i go, "you are not going to win, you are not going to win unless you take care of the gap." >> in a moment my conversation continues. this is "talk to al jazeera". >> welcome back to "talk to al jazeera". i'm ali velshi, joined by director and author m. night shyamalan. we talked about your book "i got schooled," but your history as a film maker, you had your first maimer success while you were in your 20s. you had a string of movies. you had a love-hate relationship with critics, they love you, hate you, love you. reviews. >> i should write nonfiction books from now on. >> that may be the solution. you are who you are, you are young and people want to know life? >> it's been - i feel like i've been making movies forever. it's 20 years, which is a long time. even before, you know, "the sixth sense," i was 27, when i directed "the sixth sense." before that there was six years of making movies that failed. those six years did not go away. you came on the scene out of nowhere. not really, it was six years of failure. i made two mov

is one of the secretaries who has created, in a town of partisan split, arnie duncan, the secretary of education, has done actually a fabulous job creating bipartisan agreement on education policy. it can be done. i think immigration is the one we're most likely-- if we're going to see legislation this year, it will be the immigration bill. there is softening on the republican side. there is some desire to pass some comprehensive reform, something like what the senate did. but i really don't see much beyond that. >> i think the immigration is the ball game, i really do. and i think the war within the republican party on the subject is real. i mean, there are republicans who want the party to be competitive at the presidential level, and believe that without the republican party moving forcefully in support of an immigration bill, that they will write off the latino vote, in large part, and make the republican candidate noncom pettative in 2016. there are other republicans who say, no, that doesn't matter. we're to hold on to the house. this is a war that has gone on in washington fo

the walls of the houses of parliament behind me take for example work and pensions secretary ian duncan smith his portrait cost ten thousand pounds a painting of foreign secretary william hague that cost four thousand pounds and a relatively small portrays have left wing m.p. diane abbott well that set back the taxpayer eleven thousand and seven hundred and fifty pounds the same amount that it cost to commission a life size bronze statue of byron s. that chair it turns out i think people would expect the parliament jewels or to use to have portrayed of prime ministers or former speaker of the house of commons but looking at the list of people who have been immortalized on canvas or in broad so over the last decade or two that cost them a very wide and i think questions need to be asked as to exactly who is getting this privilege and whether it's worth taxpayers' money being spent on much as you go knowledge obviously painters of politicians however talk of austerity possibly don't the best idea there are some things that cultural an artistic things that are worth paying the money for th

the only person who seems confident it will be delivered on time is iain duncan smith.ou have to say the track record of success is governments with these massive computer schemes is pretty catastrophic. you think of the child support agency, patient passport and if all ended in tears. universal credit is the mother of all i key schemes but it will involve around 19 million different claims bringing them down to 8 million claims, and it's a live system. the potential for it to go wrong is colossal. i think that day of reckoning though will not finally come until after the election. >> thanks a lot. when history comes to be written, 2014 just could come to be viewed as a land work year, the year when one part of the united kingdom voted to make its way to the exit door. the scots are having a referendum in september, and i guess that will undoubtedly mean a shrunken uk. it was on the 26 november the leaders of the scottish national party, the party in charge of the scottish parliament unveiled their blueprint for white paper for independence. the 670 page document was de