anastasis, which in the western tradition is called the harrowing of hell or the descent into limbo. what is very effective is that stylistically these images are connected. for example, christ wearing the blue robe with his fluttering drapery visually connects you with the movement of the two figures in the central panel, the lower figures who represent-- the woman in red is eve and the figure of adam, dressed in the orange. and then if you noticed the movement of their legs and arms, they point and take you visually up and towards the uppermost figure of christ who stands on what appears to be doors where, in fact, they are lids of sarcophagi or lids of coffins, comparable to present-day concept of coffins. and then the images which you find on the screen flanking the centrally placed images of christ and the virgin and john the baptist, are local saints. but traditionally, there will always be an image of the feast or a particular event which celebrated by the church. for exple, this church is called the holy trinity church and therefore you will have an icon addressing this parti

over a year, together evidence from satellite imagery, and .eard often harrowing testimony >> once you get to the prison camp, women go through a blood test to check for pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. after a positive pregnancy test, they would force an abortion on you. would get senten to labor camps to carry loads up and down the hills, often cause miscarriages. -- which often caused miscarriages. >> in conclusion, the report said perpetrators of crimes against humanity should he referred to the international criminal court in the hague. includepotentially hundreds of government officials and supreme leader kim jong-un. any attempt will likely be blocked by china, a un security council member and staunch ally of pyongyang. reporter is in the south korean capital, seoul. while the findings are shocking, they come as no big surprise. nothing new in this report that people who have been watching north korean human rights abuses for the past 10 or 20 years would not know already. gulags. are sent to the there are firing squads. a very messy form of execution. starvation, fo

it was harrowing if you got one. let's watch. >> we are feeling nausea and feverish. we went back to our cabin and we were sick. without going into detail. we were sick. >> they were constantly sanitizing and spraying everything. the elevators and inside the elevators and everywhere you went. you were not allowed to touch everything. you couldn't take a napkin. you could take nothing. everything had to be handed to you. >> the big question of the day is how do you protect yourself? >> this is a new kid around the block to some extent. it has been around since 1970. they called it norwalk virus. it's very contagious and a stubborn bug that can be everywhere. it can be on this table and on the doorknob. food, water, everywhere. the reason why we are having a problem with this even though they call it stomach flu, it's not a flu. flu you need about 1,000 particles to get it. how do you prevent it? it will go on its own. you have diria, nausea and vo t vomiting. the hand sanitizers may not work very well. washing your hands is a way to go and cook your foot to 140 degrees

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it must have been incredibly harrowing to film that kind of thing. >> yes. i mean, it was very emotionally taxing. but for me, my challenge was to try and find patsy's agency in a situation that seems like she has none. and that gave me a very concrete task to do. and still play to win. she's not -- she is a victim of a lot of things, but she's not victimizing herself. >> because an interesting fact about that you triggered a process about me. you were raised in kenya, born in mexico. but you were raised in kenya primarily, and you didn't know much about american slavery and you had to sort of research all of that, and so much of this was new to you in terms of understanding it all? >> yeah. but i think this is a part in history that many of us take for granted. i studied slavery in school, but i never considered it on an emotional level. and i know many people have expressed that, that 12 years a slave kind of offers an opportunity to understand this time in history from an emotional level in a way that reading it intellectually doesn't really register. and

thanks to a french au un brokered truce indeed carrying a harrowing memories of daily bombings and the trauma of near starvation. what if you live with that khamenei things pre teens to recruits. are we eating plants to surviving in the most basic way. it's not a well known. the women children the elderly the ordeal of homes might now be under threat. many evacuees deemed to be open in a tree a huge part the regime being held for questioning the sounds of thirty sikkim to out what they see as potential terrorists and the spirits of men who led the rebel controlled areas the cease fire in the town is the annual gratitude success of the ongoing peace talks between the regime and opposition groups in geneva talks that creates a humanitarian cordial allowing locals to the un needs to get in. think what we have learned is when we look at one small. besieged area tom. what the condition is of the people must be like for the court traps. in part all parts of syria. according to the un for seven million people remain this each nation war each one a further three million need assistance in hard

. >>> passengers on a flight from san francisco to hong kong describe a harrowing two minutes when their plane hit turbulence. two crew members and six passengers were injured. one passenger said he knew something was wrong when he felt the plaintiff violent violently. he said passengers were thrown from their seats. with pictures posted on facebook and twitter that shows what it looked like inside the plane. no one hurt suffered serious injuries. >>> to bay area boys are among a large group of families accusing award-winning teacher of molesting students on campus. >> he started getting way too friendly and i thought he was creepy and weird. >> tonight, 10:00 p.m. news, something rarely seen on television. the boys speak out in the candid conversation to investigate uncovers what school officials knew about the teacher years ago and didn't tellpolice. the documents, handwritten notes and the teacher side of the story. it's a ktvu exclusive tonight on the 10:00 p.m. news. >>> you may have seen the video. the student manager of the basketball team at oakland bishop of delhi school is inse

we found a father who has paid harrowing price.e still has pictures on his mobile phone of the son he watched die from a brain tumor. the cancer took away his aye site, his ability to walk, and then it took his life. he was just eight years old. he was brought out of hospital to die at home with his family. his father's last words to him, tristan it's time to go. >> translator: i would never have tolerated a doctorment coming to ask if we wanted euthanasia for a child. if parents come and ask if you want to live or die, what kind of question crosses the child's mind? will it please my parents if i die? would it be for their good or mine? >> reporter: there's no doubt the lower house of parliament will pass the legislation. polls reveal nearly 80% of the population here support it. a child's request for euthanasia will have to be approved by a medical team and the child's parents. a child must first understand what it is means, and describe it as the ultimate gesture of humanity. those opposed say it is insanity. the university hosp

people who live nearby say leaving this left-hand turn can be a harrowing experience. >> you have to be careful leaving here making sure you have time to make a left because people do speed here. >> reporter: we witnessed a close call at this intersection with two cars nearly colliding. neighbors say last night's cash is a reminder. along with the man killed, the driver of the car that hit him was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. the search is on for the second driver involved in this deadly street case. that person was behind the wheel of a black toyota tundra pickup and took off after this violent crash. alex savidge, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we have some breaking news right now in san francisco. as you can see from these live pictures, there is smoke. we understand it is coming from the intersection near upton and mckinnon in san francisco and that is the only location we have at this time. the newschopper2, ktvu newschopper2, is on the way to this. but right now, as you can see, a lot of black smoke. that usually means there is an active fire underway in san

. >> after, at times, harrowing sunday games. kevin tibbles, thanks, as always. and we want to take a quick check at the medal count after this second weekend of competition now. the netherlands is in the lead with 17 medals. russia and the u.s. are next with 16. the germans have the most gold medals of any nation in these winter olympic games. >>> now back in the u.s. today, it was all about digging out again from the latest storm that left over a foot of snow in parts of new england. not only have most of the people in the affected area, as they like to say, simply had enough, but think about the toll all this is taking, from budgets, to pipes, to roads, to power. nbc's ron mott is on the cape tonight in massachusetts with more for us. hey, ron, good evening. >> reporter: hey, brian, good evening to you. another 15 inches of new snow on the ground here tonight. you can see, they've just taken to piling this stuff up wherever they can find room for it. it is getting time consuming, frustrating and, most of all, costly. the relentless pounding many parts of the c

. >> a haunting message, a harrowing journey. i'm lester holt, and this is "dateline." >>> we begin tonight with andrea canning, a story "against all odds." >>> the sierra nevada mountains. california. november 2012. >> i was so cold. i couldn't feel my feet anymore and i couldn't get warm. >> reporter: a ferocious winter storm had had trapped 46-year-old paula lane. no one knew where she was and she thought she was going to die. >> i begged to be taken. >> reporter: but she was desperate to see her children so she set out on a dangerous journey. >> if i'm going to die, i'm going to die trying. >> reporter: and in case she didn't make it, she left a good-bye message. >> i'm so sorry this has happened. >> reporter: the story began days earlier on thursday, november 29th. paula and her boyfriend were doing chores at his mom's place in a sacramento suburb called citrus heights. >> that morning, thursday morning, he got up on the roof and started repairing. >> reporter: she was in the garden pulling up green tomato plants. >> i was e

a few seconds of fire and smoke and a harrowing quarter of a mile at a time. but when tragedy struck doug herbert's family on the road he decided to turn that experience into something positive and developed a new passion for helping young drivers. nbc's janet shamlian has more from bristol, tennessee. >> it's called situational awareness. >> reporter: the last time doug herbert was at the bristol motor speedway, he was on the track in a hot rod that can scream past 300 miles an hour. the professional drag racer has won six times here. >> this, to me, is a lot of therapy. >> reporter: but on this day he is on a different type of win just off track, as teen drivers navigate a hazard-filled course. >> it teaches them to be better drivers and maybe the consequences of making poor decisions. >> reporter: doug herbert knows those decisions can end in tragedy because he is also a dad. and this horrific scene is where his sons were killed in a 2008 head-on collision. james was 12. john was 17, and police say driving recklessly. >> they were my world, these guys. jame

we begin with those harrowing moments on board a commercial airplane in this country. extreme turbulence, sending passengers hurtling through the air. a flight attendant still hospitalized tonight after hitting the cabin ceiling. what is the investigation showing? right now, here is abc's david kerley. >> reporter: just as the united airlines 737 was starting its decent into billings, montana -- a jolt. >> it felt like something came up from the bottom and hit the bottom of the plane. >> and then stuff and people were flying all over the place. >> reporter: it was severe turbulence and those not buckled in were tossed about. >> he flew up and out of his seat and actually hit the ceiling of the aircraft and came down -- landed on the lady next to him. >> reporter: the plane seemed to fall for nearly five seconds, its right wing dipping. as this simulation shows, there was a mother who started screaming when she lost control of her child, a baby who ended up in the air, landing in another seat, lucky not hurt. it is impossible to hold a child during severe turbulence, or

countries including pakistan and yemen one of our correspondents traveled to both countries to hear the harrowing accounts of drone strike victims and their relatives and as you've been hearing already one of these families went all the way to capitol hill to get out says from u.s. politicians you can find their stories in our reports at r.t. dot com also online the unmanned killing campaign moves on the ground as the u.s. military makes a breakthrough in driverless vehicle technology it is all there for you on our web site. the teacher and the police officer have been killed in a hostage crisis at a moscow school over twenty students who were in the classroom at the time we're really stunned hurt the gun man is who is now in custody is reportedly a model high school student who harbored a grudge against his teacher artie's margaret how reports from the city. i'm standing just outside the school in northeast moscow where a tenth grade boy walked inside and opened fire know he taken two rifles out of his father's home and killed one security officer killed one teacher and entered a third person a

governor of vermont featuring a state of the state speech focused entirely on vermont excluding harrowing to be a problem. we have to realize it either when there is a possibility that every tear will become more available across united states. meles has spent billions of dollars in battling drugs in afghanistan but had there been any real results. i was kind earlier night anthony court this man be our early in her chair and strategy at the center for strategic and international studies. i can't stand that he can elaborate on how drugs are a few lake and unrest in afghanistan. olivia made an arrest in afghanistan a certain clear that this is a pro recall what you have it's as if by reason of the two forces that are the allied forces pulled back you have said in an ops taken off on a tuesday against the afghan forces when she gets a cameo and survey is better spent. a fifteen per cent increase in production in opium. this year. the new links added the area under cultivation by a narrow for. an extent that there is always tension between the afghan tribal arts and power brokers. not a viole

meanwhile, an alabama couple describing a harrowing few days as they try to finalize adoptions for four children during the worst of that violence in kiev. >>> arizona is once again the battleground over a controversial law which would have an impact far beyond the state's borders. at issue is whether business owners with strong religious beliefs can refuse service to gays and lesbians. critics say the pending law is clearly discriminatory and embarrassing to the state. even three conservative republican lawmakers who voted for the bill are urging the governor to veto it, so is senator john mccain. >>> the kerry kennedy drug driving trial under way with motorists describing how kennedy served her lexus into a truck damaging the car and blowing a tire, but she kept on driving. her lawyer said she was sleep driving because she had accidentally taken a sleeping pill. several kennedy relatives including kerry's mother ethel were there to show support. >>> a michigan democrat who's been a fixture on capitol hill for nearly 60 years has had enough. 87-year-old john dingell says he will not ru

countries including pakistan and yemen one of our correspondents traveled to both come back and hear the harrowing accounts of drone strike victims and their relatives one of these families went all the way to capitol hill to get answers from u.s. politicians and you can read their stories in our reports available at r.t. dot com also online the unmanned killing campaign puts boots on the ground as the u.s. military makes a breakthrough in driverless vehicle technology it's all there for you on our web site. another spat seems to be brewing between the u.s. secretary of state and the israeli government it all started after john kerry expressed his concern over the lack of progress in peace negotiations with the palestinians mr kerry who has been holding back and forth talks with both sides says the status quo being maintained by israel is not sustainable he also warned that many countries could seek to boycott tel of eve if peace negotiations fail miss triggered an angry response with prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that any efforts to boycott israel would be unjustified and counterproduc

did you see this harrowing photo everywhere today? the desperate woman on the side of the expressway performing cpr and breathing life back into her 5-month-old nephew. abc's chief medical editor dr. richard besser now takes us behind those photos, to show us what to do when every second counts. >>> reporter: pamela rauseo panicked. driving in a traffic jam on a miami highway, she had glanced over at her 5-month-old nephew, sebastian, he was blue, not breathing. >> it really was the scariest moment of my life. >> reporter: she pulled to the side, tried to dial 911, then jumped out on the highway. >> i had the baby in my arms, and he was completely limp, and i kept screaming for help and pointing to the baby. >> reporter: traffic stopped, people poured out of their cars to help, but pamela wasn't waiting. acting on instinct, she started cpr. she had taken a cpr course seven years ago. within moments, she got baby sebastian to breathe again. but, would you know what to do? most babies, like sebastian, aren't having a heart attack. they'

every morning of risking his own life he supplied those in hiding for fear it the discovery of the harrowing actions and hungarian kinds years comes a time of pretension of this year marks the seventieth anniversary of the nineteen forty four anasta for teaching hungarian to german run concentration camps. your country has also been criticized for postponing the unveiling of the world were two monuments that is meant to mark the occupation in the country that many jewish groups accusing kerry of trying to whitewash its involvement in saying that thousands of to baghdad to carry authorities in collaboration with germany in nineteen forty four deported. somehow from the ingenious to death camps we are supposedly personally responsible for the deputy secretary in jeans because her feet is another sensitive issue in the country also facing rides and ultra nationalist movement being blamed for stoking anti semitic sentiments the us department of homeland security is a sheet and advisory to airlines are warning of a heightened threat of shoe box during a press conference held at the los angeles in

week the world health organization released its annual world cancer report and its findings are harrowing to say the least according the report over the next twenty years cancer cases worldwide are predicted to rise by fifty seven percent from fourteen million diagnoses in two thousand and twelve to an estimated twenty two million by two thousand and thirty two with this kind of dramatic increase it would be nearly impossible to treat our way out of the problem and the only hope is to prevent future cases from occurring although the report notes that developing countries have been and will continue to be disproportionately affected by increased cancer rates the rise in the deadly disease is by no means confined to the third world affluent lifestyles in their connection to tobacco and alcohol use as well as the consumption of processed foods are normal contributors to the problem in fact the report notes that nearly half of all new cancer cases are preventable lung cancer for example which is largely associated with smoking is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and is responsible for about

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protests to date correspondent alexei you're a chef he joined us earlier and shared with us his harrowing experience in ukraine including being shot at. well right now we're pretty much ok it's been a very turbulent day for us first of all getting here to a hotel ok you know where i am right now which is pretty much a fortress of the opposition right in groups at the moment was a nightmare because all the adjoining streets were blocked off by the police and the first thing i saw on my way here was a policeman beaten to a bloody mass carried on the stretcher and i was really surprised to see that because last night supposedly the opposition and the government and the president have managed to agree on a truce on a ceasefire so it looked nothing like a like a ceasefire from the first minutes i got here then i had a live broadcast at nine o'clock in the morning and while i was doing that broadcast i saw literally hell coming alive behind me with the protesters throwing molotov cocktails and firing live weapons at the police the police retreating and right in the middle of my live broadcast t

the rise in prescription drug abuse has been linked to an increase in the use of harrowing in the us. the problem transcends america's urban centers and has hit affluent suburbs like here in orange county california. in the cb ten in new port beach. we see that half of the narcotics arrests this year ball pair when they give is a close up look of so the black tar. it took from the suspect a seller and has an awesome all income levels and all racial lines within eyesight of authority and the generation and millions of tea and then hop on and because of that addiction level because of the availability. and if you really cut into every community nationwide. there were more dishes to the state address was devoted to the plague of drug addiction in every corner of our stay carolyn an opiate addiction friendships. the judges remain cheap as production of opium has skyrocketed in places like afghanistan in mexico has a fifty percent increase in in opium supply which is the jurong ingredient in . in afghanistan last july. so it looks to me like what happened. a glut of on the market which is

reacting to the document read in peace it said it was harrowing for the families and homes. kitty musicians his career. isn't it. in. the and yet the number of babies is so insensitive. for those families i would like to reassure the general and to kick those women who are pregnant inerrant at the moment that the irish tenors services are safe as any maternity service and the worry. patient representatives however calling for an independent inquiry to examine forty maternity care of pork these hospitals. she made housing fourteen years. the cliche that have been calls for help crack the help and information policy of farsi to carry out a new investigation into her circumstances surrounding the death of the babies families and friends of expectant mothers attending the hospital have also called on the health service executive to reassure the safety standards in the hospital. the maternity unit at forty two hospitals provide service to mother's front row count each and significant portions of often eat today or hands north tipperary. more than two thousand infants are delivere

. >> a harrowing west you -- rescue yesterday. e, in the cano water for an hour.ved 10 minutes after his mother called 911 for help. they broke through an electronic dance, chasing geese onto the icy lake. the dogs fell through, and a lifelong good newer and a structural engineer meddled to paddle his a canoe on the ice 150 feet out to the dogs. as he picked up one of the poodles, the boat capsized. >> he knows canoeing, and i eyes is alesson is, very scary thing. >> and ice rescue team from the volunteer house was making every effort to get to blackwell, but the ice cap pretty -- cap to breaking. he had the dog on his chest, helping each other keep each other alive. >> he was in bad shape. >> >he lowered the sergeant down to the water. >> the coldest thing i have ever experienced >> the dog was so stiff, that when they wrapped him and pulled him up, the canoe went with them. chopper took a pass to look for survivors, and they found the dogs. they pulled them out. one of the poodles did not survive, but blackwell walked out of the icu today of and went home. >> he

protests to date or to correspond and alexei your chest he joined us earlier and shared with us his harrowing experience in ukraine including been shot at. well right now we're pretty much okay with the debate over the date for us the first of all. getting into a hotel trading away on right now which is pretty much a porch rest of the up with this and writing groups at the moment i was a nightmare because all the adjoining streets were blocked off by the police and the first thing i saw on my way here was a policeman beat into a bloody mass carried on a stretcher and i was a surprise to see that because last night supposedly the opposition and the government of the president managed to agree on that show was on a ceasefire so that look nothing like it like a ceasefire from the first minutes i got here that i had a live broadcast at nine o'clock in the morning and while i was doing that broke out. i saw literally help out cutting a life behind me with that the protesters throwing molotov cocktails and firing line weapons at the police the police reached reading and writing the middle of my liv

is number called "the iron closet", he details it, goes to the club and talks to kids and it is harrowing. the idea that the ioc is blessing russia with the games and giving vladimir putin an international platform is disturbing. >> final word. >> i agree what is happening in russia is hore ied and demands a moment of courage. i hope an athlete will stand up and show that courage. >> let's hope they have a positive effect on what is going on, and help those that suffer as a result of those laws. good to see you both. >> coming up, if you think hillary clinton's president hopes are the best, you are behind the times. social media producer harmeli stories. >> we talked about silk road. police got worse for the man authorities believe created the site. what do you think. join the conversation on twitter or on our facebook and google+ pages. to the continuation of the abuse >> the list of armed conflicts troubling the world is growing, so are the numbers of refugees. among the millions who managed to flee their country for safety and millions who are displaced and trapped inside the borders.

very uncertain and harrowing signs. all at a time when the diplomat is talking. geneva due to start on monday. for most people it will not make difference to them. it's crucial why it gets decided. if something is decided many will tell you that it's challenging. will it filter to the ground to lay down their arms. it's a difficult situation to resolve. >> thank you. turkey's prime minister is denying accusations of internet censorship. protesters were confronted by riot police after parliament passed a bill to tighten government control and block websites. the turkish government is under pressure not to sign the rule into law. president recep tayyip erdogan told us the net will be freer and safer and condemned the violence. . translation: i'm not saying two wrongs make a wrixght i'm presenting examples. are they going to defend this by using petrol bombs. why are they burning shops. how could had this be the way to fight for freedom. our job is to take measures to establish peace and order. >> we have the latest from istanbul. >> the square in the center of ista

in more than two years in gaol, it's a harrowing story. she's regarded by many as a point whereby the divide in opinion, and she is regarded as an oligarch with mistakes behind her. don't read that she'll ride the wave of popularity. she is a popular figure and win over. it remains to be seen how it will play out. this is what she said to the crowds in the square. >> translation: if anyone tells you you have completed your task and go home, don't trust a word, until you have completed this to the end. no one has the right to leave. >> looking at the square behind you, it's a lot calmer in kiev. do we know what is happening in the rest of the country? >> protests are likely to take place. there's a vote to confirm that in parliament. we are hearing official figures for the number of dead is put at 82. the fear is that the figure go go beyond 100. the interior ministry announced an inquiry into officials, and how they ordered various things to happen here in the square. that's a major inquiry going on. right now an extraordinary feeling of e

>> it's harrowing. everyone is in shock. we didn't see this coming. bill has been pending for years. so we are all in shock, waiting to see what will happen next, if they'll enforce it. >> you spent six months with gay leaders in uganda to prepare for the role. and what have you heard for the people and what are they doing about the bill? >> they've been working against the bill, to try to get it from being passed. >> i was in uganda when the bill was passed by the senate. we didn't think the president would sign it. but he has gone ahead and they are now trying to find a legal route to respond to this. the l.g.b.t. community when under attack went to the courts and won each case. when their rights have been violeted. >> you play a number of characters, including a transagenda woman. these are people you did research with. what sort of hardships do they face every day. ? >> it's a hardship walking out one's door. especially for the transgender community. they are folks that feel they identify with a gender different to what they are born with. those p

. >> trisha, you really tell harrowing stories. how bad is it under vladimir putin? >> he is turning the screws on journalists. it's not getting better as the olympics are approaching. there's not a lot of critical reporting being done that isn't having a backlash of some sort. and dpaiiv investigative jowmpl, the population needs to make informed decisions. >> the sochi issue because of the threats jen against journal. what is it like for a journalist to operate in situations like this? >> to be frank, there are soldiers that are in much greater risk and you want to bring out the truth. it's a noble profession, i love it and will do it as long as i can. so you hope this doesn't happen to you but it's become so constantly that it's almost a numbers game. and if you're going to go to these countries eventually something is going to go wrong. and it's the impunity. governments have to stop this from happening and from letting it go unpunished. >> it's very scary, this documentary is very powerful, certainly worth a look. eric nafies, patricia, david, the deadly cost of

it was called harrow. >> and then oxford.ack in those distant years, what did it take to get into oxford? >> you had to achieve certain levels of examination success, the exams you took at approximately 16 and again at 18. you also had to pass an entrance exam for the college that you applied to join. >> which college? >> it was called -- college. >> how big was it? >> about 500. >> what did you major in? >> law. >> what does that mean? what did that compare to? >> it was about the same. it was the first degree. i am not sure you have first degrees in law in the united states. it is different when you reach the age of 18 and pass these exams, that is the end of your general education. you probably read a single subject and broader courses. >> when did you go to work for the bbc and what did you do? >> i went to work for the bbc in 1964. before that, i spent 2.5 years at a newspaper. the art of journalism on the job. i had always hankered after broadcasting. i tried to get a job with the bbc directly, but i was not successful

hint that taper is off, i think you could see the stock maet move higher, i t indication that the harrow agree, watch economic data, you look at fomc minutes, at the housing starts, you look at ppi for any hint that soft patch we're seeing in the economic data is weather related, and growth continues, you need to watch tesla earnings tomorrow night, the are grand-daddy of all momentum stos, if they do well, that should keep some valuations lofty, if hey don't you get a halo effect. charle i disagree with jonathan athis ., i think if fed goes back to their decisn they pump the prime to pump it more, i think that street will be disappointed, at this ., i am seeing good news senses market up, bad news send its down, there has to be a . where market trades on good news. >>t is -- not ocean fashion, as long as fed continues to taper, thi market and investors, want the fed to continue to taper, i think they wil only taper if the economy isound and on good footing if that happens, if the economy is good they keep on tapering, overall that a good thing for stocks. charles: you are both fantastic

that taper is off, i think you could see the stock market move higher, in the indication that the harrowroin is back on. >> i agree, watch economic data, you look at fomc minutes, at the housing starts, you look at ppi for any hint that soft patch we're seeing in the economic data is weather related, and growth continues, you need to watch tesla earnings tomorrow night, they are grand-daddy of all momentum stocks, if they do well, that should keep some valuations lofty, if they don't you get a halo effect. charles: i disagree with jonathan at this ., i think if fed goes back to their decision they pump the prime to pump it more, i think that street will be disappointed, at this ., i am seeing good news senses market up, bad news send its down, there has to be a . where market trades on good news. >> it is -- not ocean fashion, as long as fed continues to taper, thing market and investors, want the fed to continue to taper, i think they will only taper if the economy is sound and on good footing if that happens, if the economy is good they keep on tapering, overall that a good thing for s

the father who paid a harrowing price is a contestant. he has pictures on his mobile phone of the sun he watched dying from a brain tumor. tristan loved to play the piano and the sound of waves on the sea shore. the cancer took away his eyesight, his ability to walk and then his life. he was eight years old. he was brought out of hospital to die at home with his family. his father's last words, "tristan, it's time to go." . >> translation: i would never have tolerated a doctor coming to ask if we wanted euthanasia for our child, i would never have accepted. if parents ask do you want to live or die, what questions crosses the child's mind "would it pleas my parents if i died, would it be for their good or mine?" >> there's no doubt the lower house of parliament will pass the legislation. polls reveal 80% of the population support it. >> a chance request for youth will have to be approved by a medical team. the child must also understand what euthanasia means. and supporting legislation describes it as a gesture of humanity. those opposed

were there any kind of harrowing moments during the expedition? >> there were, yeah. we had a few.very big, very isolated, very harsh place to be spending a quarter of a year. one e traveled up and down of the largest glaziers in the world. it's very difficult to reach by aircraft. so if we were injured, we would have been -- it would have been very challenging to orchestrate some kind of evacuation. so there were some points where we were still, you know, a long way from being rescued if anything went wrong and that were very challenging indeed. >> had to be. listen. you caught the world's attention. richard branson of virgin, he tweeted about what you did. how does it feel to have that kind of recognition? >> it's extraordinary. one of the things we wanted to do was to share this story in realtime. so we had some incredible technology help from intel, one of our partners. we had cutting edge, 211st century technology. we had a small ultrabook, a very light laptop in the event, so we were blogging every day. so we had a big online following. that was a huge part of what i wanted t

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detail of what he said he went through when he was in captivity in ukraine, it added up to a very harrowing account. >> arriving to tell his story and answer the doubters, the activist said he'd been abducted, questioned and tortured for eight days. >> they cut my ear off. it was very painful. i couldn't feel how much they'd cut, but then they placed the cut piece of ear on my fred. it was very scary. >> he told his captors the activism was funded by the american ambassador because he couldn't bear the pain. >> they pinned me to the wood with nails. they took sticks and beat me on the back of my legs. it was very painful. i couldn't move. at that time, i was in so much pain, i was asking them to kill me, because i couldn't stand it anymore. >> when asked who they were, he hinted at foreign involvement. >> these people were speaking only russian with an accent. they were speaking about us in the third person. i had an impression they were from the russian special service, because they were speaking russian with an accent. also, by the way they were beating and torturing me, they were profess

they're telling absolutely harrowing stories. one of the elderly men said his wife passed away last week. he thinks she was so malnourished. he has only five spoonfuls of wheat in the last week alone. people are totally malnourished. you can look at their images. we gave them ready-to-eat meals. they're making sure that they get food and medical care. those are the two things that they most wanted. >> we've described the scene and the situation in the city of homs. i'm wondering is the situation as bad as advertised or is it even worse? >> to me some of the images look like, you know, pictures that we saw at the end of world war ii in europe. >> yes, i saw that report. >> and it's just heartbreaking to see how skinny people are, an how desperate they are. the issue is this: this is--the old city of homs is just a small part. there are a quarter million people in other parts of syria that are totally under siege and haven't gotten anything. there was this agreement that we were able to get people out, that you know hopefully on sa