after the noise of athens, hydra's traffic-free tranquility is a delight. i'm glad i'm packing light as i hike up to my hotel. hydra is one of the prettiest towns in greece. its superb harbor is surrounded by an amphitheater of rocky hills. there's an easy blend of work-a-day commerce, fancy yachts, and lazy tourists on island time. donkeys rather than cars. the shady awnings of well-worn cafes. and memorable seaside views all combine to make it clear, you've found your greek isle. hydra was a greek naval power, famous for its shipbuilders. the harbor, with twin ports and plenty of cannon, housed and protected the fleet of 130 ships, as the greeks battled the turks in their early 19th-century war of independence. the town stretches away from the harbor, a maze of narrow, cobbled streets flanked by whitewashed homes. in the 1960s, the island became a favorite retreat for artists and writers, who still draw inspiration from its idyllic surroundings. one of the island's greatest attractions is its total absence of cars and motorbikes. instead, donkeys do the h

." >> reporter: in athens, georgia, in the bestseller section of this barnes and noble, kathy rackleyovel story of her own. >> i mean a chance encounter in a bookstore. how wonderful is that? >> reporter: did you have any idea at all who he was? >> none. >> reporter: and you didn't tell her? >> i didn't. but i knew they were going to find out. >> yeah. >> but i wasn't going to say it. >> reporter: the fact is, kathy may have been the only one in athens who didn't know the name malcolm mitchel. number 26 for the university of georgia bulldogs was one of the top recruits in the country a few years ago. he's georgia royalty, and presumably, if kathy had known, that she wouldn't have stood in that barnes & noble talking his ear off about the book club she'd just joined. >> i mean, he like stepped back and said "you did?" "can i join your book club?" i said i don't know if you want to join mine. we're all 40, 50, and 60-year-old women. >> reporter: but malcolm was undeterred. so now one of the top wide receivers in the country meets monthly with his book club lady friends. >> oh, yeah. and

this pastors at the helm of the small athens paris.uicide is a sin in the eyes of the church, and ordinarily, those who take their own lives cannot be buried in the cemetery, but these are desperate times. >> these days, we see those who claim their lives as people who have lost their minds, as psychologically damaged. although the old rules still apply, the church makes an exception, and we bury them with love. >> psychologists in athens are investigating the psychological effects of the financial crisis. depression and suicide used to be rare in greek society, but in recent years, the numbers have rocketed, and they continue to climb. >> because of the duration of the financial crisis in greece, we have reached the point where everyone is at high risk of developing depression, and every single day, we live with the fear that this is not the bottom, that it will actually get even worse, which i think makes everything -- which actually cultivates a general atmosphere of helplessness and hopelessness. >> every day, he drives two hours t

and beyond the black sea, and played a role in thely trojan war ask the chronicles of the city of athens in greek myth, every great champion all had to prove their courage by overcoming powerful warrior queens and their armies of ruthless million. they were recounted in oral tales and later written down in epic poems like hoe "homer's illad." the ain't vent greeks surrounded themselves with images of amazon, just as we do today, and every greek boy and girl, every man and woman, knew amazon adventures by heart. but audacious warrior women were not confined to the realm of myth and antiquity. we also hear that famous historical figures, such as cyrus the great of persia, hannibal, alexander the great, and the roman general, pompeii, also tangled with fierce amazons. the idea of war-like, barbarian females, and the greeks used the word were berrian for anyone who didn't speak greek -- they were the opposites of proper greek women, and they certainly served many symbolic and psychological functions for the greeks, but what i was entransed -- entransed by the discoveries that confirm that am

and here, just like the birches in athens. at the beginning order of you might learn the difference between herons and cranes. they are both great longnecked birds on trade and birds. until you pick up a guide and learn the difference, you don't notice what they are fundamentally different. aside from color and overall shape and size, their behavior, their food, their voice, their flocking, their flight, everything about them is fundamentally different. and then their attitude as well through the great blue heron for those of you who know them could easily take on those five cranes. so the other aspect to bird watching that i really enjoy is the way it connects me to history, to the bigger picture. and it is short-term and long-term history. we have her is constantly coming and going. the birds around a few weeks ago, some species like her, terry were a blur have 30 migrated to south america and they won't be back until next april. there is constant movement and species like the pileated woodpecker in this area 30, 40 years ag

. >> reporter: paralympic golds followed in athens and beijing. by now pistorius had become a brand. >> they told me that i'd never walk. and a man with no legs can't run. anything else you want to tell me? >> reporter: at london, he became the first amputee to run at the olympics. but by now, stories were also emerging of another side to his character. david o'sullivan has known pistorius since he was a boy. >> i knew a roommate of oscar pistorius told me that he had to move out of their room because oscar had gone hysterical on the phone, was shouting and screaming on the phone. it transpired. he was shouting and screaming at his then girlfriend and a man who had taken this girl out on an overseas trip. i had the story confirmed by so many other athletes who said it was terrible to witness, this incredible meltdown. >> reporter: he later insisted he had left his teammate's room on medical advice before a big race, but rumors about pistorius's private life persisted. >> he really seemed to be a different person to the public persona that he was p

but i wasn't going to say anything. >> kathy may have been the only one in athens who didn't know thelcolm mitchell. number 26 for university of georgia bulldogs was one of the top recruits in the country a few years ago. he's georgia royal. and presumably if kathy had known that she wouldn't have stood in that barnes & noble talking his ear off about the book club she just joined. >> he like stepped back, you said, you did? can i join your book club? i said, i don't know if you want to join mine we're all 40, 50-year-old women. >> malcolm was undeterred now one of the top wide receivers in the country meets with his book club lady friends. >> yeah. then went to the wedding? >> he's the only man and youngest by a generation. but mall come doesn't care nor does he care what anyone things. >> someone called me a nerd. not a word that i'm used to hearing. >> are you okay with the label? >> i was proud of it. like badge of honor to me. knowing where i came from. >> malcolm confessed to me that when he started college he could only read at about junior high level. and it bothered him he st

rain in athens with a high of 29. some showers into vienna. meanwhile, other areas of europe staying relatively dry. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here is your extended outlook. >>> soured relations between the governments of japan and south korea couldn't put a damper on a cultural exchange in seoul. 50,000 people took part in the annual festival and that set a positive tone for a later meeting between souk's foreign minister and japan's ambassador foreign minister and japan's ambassador the festival was first held in 2005 to celebrate diplomatic ties between the two countries. again this year, traditional and modern art performances were staged and unique local products were showcased. more than 800 south korean volunteers helped organize the event. afterwards, south koreaen foreign man officer and japan's ambassador held talks. it was their first meeting since south korean president, park geun-hye took office in february last year. such exchanges will improve bilateral relation and says the governments are discussing a number o

so look out for the possibility of rain in to rome, also to athens for wednesday.he rest of the continent seeing some very dry conditions. sunny skies from warsaw, vienna, stockholm even seeing some sunny skies and over in madrid a high of 34 degrees under sunny conditions for wednesday. let's take a look at the forecast for north america. now we have had some strong weather the past couple of days. the front is now pushing toward the east, and so because of that the focal point for storms has shifted. further down toward the south, where a lot of moisture, the very saturated air is causing the instability. and so when you have this cold air forcing in it triggers that. any time air moves rapidly we have these type of situations, in fact some severe thunderstorms rolling through the carolinas on tuesday. now to wednesday, again, a possibility of seeing some rain and storms, and meanwhile, just want to point out into montana we have a low moving in, and the north edges, into glacial national park, winter weather advisory a possibility of early season snow as we go t

embassy in athens. >> once you enter the public realm, you take a different responsibility. >> reporters. embassy in kingston, fape asked the artist to create a painter honoring colin powell. >> it is nighttime sky on the night that he was born in the bronx, but it's the nighttime sky over jamaica on april the 5th, 1937. >> these artists give their works to us. so we're not buying the work. they are giving of their time and inspiration and talent. >> reporter: nearly 30 years of promoting cross-cultural understanding between countries lives the goodwill of people that love art. >>> the world's most expensive video game has finally been released. destiny cost a record half a billion dollars to create and promote. fans in australia were the first to get their hands on the sensation. >> reporter: steven has a date with destiny. the destiny in question is a video game, the date, the 9th day of the 9th month, it's worldwide release. >> it's a really rewarding game. the call to action is the player is a guardian pushing back this darkness. it's something that everybody can relate to. >> repor

madrid with 26 for the high. 22 in lisbon for wednesday, and also rain and thunderstorms in athens, a high of 27. hope you have a good day wherever you are. here's your extended >>> that concludes this edition of "newsline." i'm miki yamamoto. thanks for joining us on nhk ggç >> you are watching "france 24." boosts u.s. aid for the ebola outbreak in west africa. plan is to deliver up to $1 billion to contain the disease that has killed 2500 so far. scotland votes on independence, the polls are showing a slight lead for the no campaign. both sides are out in force to try to sway undecided voters. the prime minister of ukraine says government forces are on full battle alert as new gunfire ck

john reports from athens. ♪ >> reporter: george is an electronic engineer who helps maintain greece'sated missile defense shield. his work is essential to national security. but the government has rewarded him and his wife, a high school teacher with a 40% drop in income during the crisis. even the modest subsidies have fallen. recently announced tax cuts will cheapen heating oil by $0.12 a liter, but it will still be almost triple the precrisis cost. >> we're going to spending the third winter without heating. we rely on gas stoves, you know, to heat our family, so we don't expect some relief from this. they say the numbers are changing or -- i don't know the numbers may prosper, but the people are miserable. that's the truth. >> reporter: emergency taxes have helped greek government revenues remain largely unscathed, but as unemployment rose to 27%, they placed a fewer burden of fewer people. they are on track to double to about $8 billion, but taxpayers are struggling to keep up that performance. they now the government $92 billion. much of this revenue pays the interest on greece'

i spent a long time in athens during the financial crisis covering the story.caught people by surprise. it has not gone away. the latest numbers point to it forming the next government. as a ceo in london trying to sell greece, our investors concerned? are you? he is talking about economic policies that could cause disruption. >> greece has been the original democracy. centuries living with multiple voices and opinions during that is our history. whatever the politics will evolve, i think people will vote. view, iusiness point of think the prices will go on without any end to government. >> doesn't make it an instability to investors? you like knowing what is coming down the pike at you. can i expect more instability from greece? it has been more stable of late. people have started to get a more positive view on what is happening. is that train coming off the rails? -- any changety has instability. the instability in greece comes from europe, it is not a local instability. well, greece will go better. >> let's talk about your company. the opportunity is what ov

i was unschooled in athens, georgia, and so unschooling is a kind of radical version of home schooling where the idea is that human beings are naturally curious, and if left to their own devices, they will find out what they're interested in and do their open thing. then when i was 13, i decided that i should try public school and see how everybody else, everybody else did it, and it was quite a cultural shock. >> host: are you glad you -- >> guest: i do think it sort of -- yeah? >> host: are you glad you did it? >> guest: oh, i'm glad i did it. i mean, it was a real education. maybe not of the kind that we think of as being a conventional school education, but certainly expanded my horizons. but i think the part of -- you can see the sort of after effects of being up schooled in even this project which for me as an unschooler, school was always a sort of institution that we would imagine could be different. it was not taken for granted and just something that we had to go to. and you can see that in this book and in my reflections op our entire media system. you know, why do things ha

now fromoins us athens. nice to see you.alk about how your bank is positioned. , the stressaqrs tests, coming up. you have anything to feear from those events? >> we're following the moment on the aqer. it is too early to pass judgment. piraeus bank and all the great banks are coming from a position of strength. we have one of the highest capital ratios in europe. according to our calculations, of 5ve capital in excess billion euros. we have gone through a recent round of recapitalization, as have other great banks -- greek banks. we feel comfortable with a high level of credit reserves of the of our book is covered by precisions. you have positive, recovering great financials will stop in the years to come i am more optimistic. mid-october announcements of the aqr exercise. >> you talk about the fact that you have sufficient b uffers. you are not performing loans. how do you square that with the recovering economy and the fact that you're comfortable with your reserves? high. levels of npl's is or 37%, we are5% at that leve

he thinks it is because he recently booked a one-way ticket to istanbul and returned from athens. >> gender treatment. lawyers say they want the pentagon to provide hormone therapy and other treatment. he wants to be allowed to follow female grooming standards that includes clothing and hair length. she is serving a 25 year sentence. >> she might have given the most regrettable answer in the history of. >> a 5th of americans can't locate the u.s. on a world map. why do you think this is? >> i personally believe that u.s. americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have them. >> that horrific answer not slowing down kate upton. the former miss teen south carolina headed toward a career in television. she is set to co host a new golf show called off par. >> good for her. >> fall is underway. we are happy about that. parts of the country are waking up to chilly temperatures. maria molina has that plus your travel forecast. maria? >> we are looking at the chilly temperatures in place across portions of the great lakes and northeast. those are areas wak

so this event that took place november 19736 months later in athens georgia there was the event university of georgia law school that is the tradition of the georgia law school that it invites dignitaries like supreme court cahan justices and senators and people to address them. of the keynote speaker was the senator from massachusetts, senator kennedy. of that time it was the governor of georgia jimmy carter. and had to do with the impeachment proceedings against nixon and carter addresses election and says there to influences on his life one watches ronald and hater and the it sad to the politics was established to the of a whole world. but the second formative influence was that great theologian bob dylan whose song eight can work on maggie's farm no more was day important song of farmers and goes on to narrow say that's a particularly lobbyist against ordinary folks. in those who very often themselves were the dignitary agencies and corporations. and the prison population but overwhelmingly those who cannot afford adequate representation with their way at of the justice system. and he

if you travel, as i have, to athens, to rome, to spain and findgal, you will societies under much morediate stress than they are here where the social institutions, the public-sector institutions are in a state of breakdown. i wrote an early review of his book in dissent. the title of the book was well chosen. my review was a skeptical one. i thought his approach had a level of abstraction which prevented him from actually dealing with the crisis that we are in because it stretch things .ut over a very long time i do not think that really gets to the experience that we are actually having. i ended up being one of the few dissidents. >> what is the futility of military power? >> the non-communist part of the world had a stable framework created by the allies and that default after a kind of unite-polar world in which we were the aaron tour -- g uarantor. the experience of iraq and afghanistan has shown that the actual use of military power has extremely limited possibilities. especially the balance of technologies that have shifted defenders ande has meant that you cannot replicate the

embassy in athens, and he was challenged to focus on more than beauty. >> once you enter the public remrealm, you have a different response. >> he was asked to honor the former secretary of state, colin powell. it illustrates powell's ties to jamaica. >> and it is the nighttime sky on the night that he was born in the bronx. but it's the nighttime sky over jamaica, on april 5th , 1937. >> these artists give their works to us, so we're not commissioning, or buying their work. they're giving of their time and giving their inspiration and talents. >> nearly 30 years standing between countries, the good will of artists and people who love them. aljazeera, washington. >> great in bringing people together. that is it for us on america tonight. if you would like to comment on any stories that you've seen on our program, log onto the website, aljazeera.com/americatonight. and join in the conversation with us on twitter. good night, and we'll have more "america tonight" tomorrow. >> an astonishing america tonight investigative report >> why are you wearing gloves? >> ocd... taking over this woma

also they sought to address these things but november 73 at is a leader in athens georgia there was any event at university of georgia law school. called what day. is a tradition where the law school invites dignitaries like supreme court justices and attorneys general and the senators and various people to address them at law day. the senator from its juices senator kennedy was the biggest was the governor georgia. jimmy carter. in the morning kennedy gives the keynote address against richard dixon and carter tresses put it in terms of sinkers to use theologians one he quotes period often since the time of governor a and georgette that since the of a but the second instance was a great and well known theologian bob dylan. tucson that i a.m. marian tories unknown. -- but though lobbyist, the deck was stacked against the ordinary folks. the corporations and particular could hire a lobbyist and mutually themselves appointed to regulatory agencies was businesses and corporations but how about was unfair. georgia's prison population that he had taken an interest in and overwhelming the thos

the first medal came when he was just 17 at the 2004 games in athens. >> [ inaudible ] in the periodnd 2012, since then the parra olympic movement has many more athletes. >> reporter: but the mannone as the blade runner wanted to run against able-bodied athletes in 2008 he got the court of sport to allow him to compete. >> they did not establish that the prosthetics used by pistorius give him advantage over other athletes. >> i think this day is going to go down in history for the quality of disabled people. i think it's such a significant day in sport. >> reporter: but later that year, south africa decided not to select him for the beijing olympics. he would compete two years later in south korea having competed in the heats after south africa came second in the 4 by 400 relay, he was given a silver rely. in 2012 he competed in the olympics in london. >> it's just about changing the perception, really, because the next time they could see somebody with a prosthetic leg, and it is not something to talk about. it's nothing to be ashamed of. >> reporter: whether people considered him a

he went on to win six paralympic gold medals, the first coming when he was just 17 in athens. >> we wastal in the movement between 2008 and 2012. since then the paralympic movement has many others that have been recognized globally and believe will continue growing. >> reporter: but the mannone as the blade runner wanted to run against able-bodied athletes. in 2008 he got the court of arbitration of sport to overturn a ruling to allow him to compete. >> they did not establish that the prosthetics used by oscar pistorius give him an advantage over other athletes who are not using the same device. >> i think this day is going to go down in history for the allty of disabled people, for -- i think it's such a significant day in sports. >> reporter: but later that year, south africa decided not to select him for the beijing olympics. he would complete two years later in south korea. having completed in the heat after south africa came in sect in the relay final, he was given a silver medal. in 2012 he became the first double amputee to compete in the olympics. >> the next time they could see

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he was rushed into the paralympic team to go to athens. >> reporter: david o'sullivan featured oscar pistorius on his radio show. >> we didn't know his name or disability. we knew nothing about him. he was shy, quiet, unassuming. >> reporter: it wasn't long before that unassuming young man graced the pages of magazine. >> he became an incredible role model. the status was massive. he had so much power from being a disabled athlete and what he was able to achieve, and took it to another level. >> with the carbon fire blades, his pace was on power with elitable-bodied athletes. he fought to compete against him, but the association of athletics association shut him down, saying the blades gave him an advantage. >> we went to mit and conducted three weeks of testing. our results from different. we looked at the prosthetics, deceleration, stratling, swing time. we -- straddling, swing time. we went to the court of arbitration for courts and all favour. >> reporter: he was making great strides and history by racing in the 2012 olympic games. he didn't medal. that didn't matter. >> it was a

this artist designed a sculpture garden in athens.s challenged to focus on more than beauty. >> once you enter the public realm you take on a different responsibility. >> reporter: they asked painter to create a work honoring colin powell. >> it is nighttime sky on the night that he was born in the bronx, but it's the nighttime over jamaica on april the 5th, 1937. >> these artists give their works to us. so we're not buying the work. they are giving of their time and inspiration and talent. >> reporter: nearly 30 years of promoting cross-cultural understanding between countries lay the goodwill between people and artists who love art. >>> now to our picture of the day, tonight's freeze frame is from an edge of an active volcano. well when normal selfies aren't enough, it's one taken next to a 1,000 degree lava pit. it's a volcano on an island in the pacific. more people have visited the moon than the inside of this volcano. i i'm john siegenthaler. we'll see you back here at 11 eastern time. in the islamic state >> ...a sniper around

we have a report from athens. >> reporter: on the streets of paris, more soldiers, more police, and more worry. >> yes. yeah. we are all scared. i mean, it's becoming really, really, really harder, even just traveling or anything or moving to go out or anything. >> reporter: it's been years since the threat level has been so high in paris. a price to pay, someone said, for leadership. not our fight, others would argue. >> i think we need to stay home and don't be the king of world and for america and be very, very careful. >> reporter: clearly french political leaders see it differently as they took an approach that has been applauded on both sides of the atlantic and both sides of the political aisle at home. for political and domestic reasons france can't ignore the fight. some of the people have joined the fight and they could return. the fear, they'll plot acts of terrorism in europe. internationally the french have felt compelled to act because it defines them. >> the french are convinced that their international identity is a key to their national identity. the way they are perceiv

like, when they know you have two bags when no one else normally will get two full bags of stuff, athens when you make your friends. it's fake here. you can't expect a good friend here. inmates. you know what i mean? just got to watch your back, that's all. >> do you think you belong here? >> i don't know. no. >> what are you guys playing? >> spades. >> do i look down on anyone here? i try not to judge anyone. i don't want to be judged myself. what if i was being judged? >> have you had a chance to give her any advice since she's new? >> you have to ask. >>> while monahan is considered the new girl on the cell block, brenda brewer says she's had well over 100 stays here. while her presence often brings smiles to others, she says her life has a dark and painful side that she dreams of sharing someday in a book. >> i do think there's something out here that god wants me to do and that's to publish that book. because there's some stuff in that book that will make the world cry that happened to me back in the day that i never said anything about. i was raped. and i was able to get up and wal

. >> we now have a foundation -- >> reporter: this artist designed a sculpture garden in athens. embassy in kingston, they asked the painter to create a work honoring the former secretary of state colin powell. her first instinct illustrates his ties to his parent's homeland of jamaica. >> it is nighttime sky on the night he was born in the bronx, by it's the nighttime sky over jamaica when he was born. >> his artists give their works to us. they are giving of their time, inspiration, and talent. >> reporter: nearly 30 years of promoting cross-cultural understanding between countries, lay this goodwill of people who love art. >>> time for sport now. here is joe. >> thank you. we'll start with breaking news that we just received in the last hour. michael schumaker has left hospital in switzerland to continue his rehabilitation at home. he suffered a serious head injury from a ski accident last december. he will now make the short journey to his swiss home around 35 kilometers away. his family released a short statement, in it they say: >>> well this time last year, tennis player w

of its composition on the young painter can be seen years later when raphael painted the school of athens a painting in which, incidentally, leonardo was supposed to have been the model for plato. raphael copied leonardo again when he drew leda and the swan after leonardo's painting. the leonardo painting has vanished, but we know what it must have looked like from the raphael drawing and from a copy of it made by bugiardini which is in the borghese gallery in rome. in leonardo's drawing of leda's head, we see immediately the twisting motion of the hair, that twisting motion he so loved to portray. even though leonardo was to return to florence, he never attempted to finish the adoration. at the age of 30, he set out for milan. we know that leonardo sent a letter to the duke of milan, ludovico sforza, also know as "il moro" because of his swarthy complexion. the duke presided over the liveliest court in europe. his province of lombardy was then, as it still is today, the wealthiest province in italy. to gain his new position at court, leonardo recommended himself primarily as a military e

also a chance of strong thunderstorms from friday into saturday into athens and istanbul. of the ordinary across the continent. we have a few equatorial showers and storms. anywhere between legas. in southern africa, a good forecast, 28 degrees and mostly sunny in johannesburg today. looks like you have more spring rains for your start of the weekend. 16 degrees for your afternoon high. >> i was excited about the good weather in europe. my family will be pleased. they're in london. >> there we go. >> wish i was there. >> i miss them. you're watching cnn's special coverage. >> stay with us. all new next hour. coalition air strikes targeting the oil refineries that help fund isis. how the terror group sells that oil on the black market. and who might be buying it. [ male announcer ] some come here to build something smarter. ♪ some come here to build something stronger. others come to build something faster... something safer... something greener. something the whole world can share. people come to boeing to do many different things. but it's always about the very thing we d

. >> guest: i was unschooled in athens, georgia. it is a radical version of home schooling where the idea is human beings are naturally curious and if left to their own devices they will find out what they are interested in. when i was 13, i decided i should try public school and see how everybody else did it. it was quite a cultural shock. >> host: are you glad you did it? >> guest: i am glad i did it. it was a real education. maybe not of the kind that we think of as being conventional school education. but certainly expanded by horizon. you can see the after effects of being unschooled in this project. school was an institution for me that we would imagine could be different and not taken for granted and not something we had to go to. you can see that in this book and in my reflections on the entire media system. why do things have to be organized this way? why do we have to accept things are going in one direction when these are manmade institutions and we can change them and make them into the something better. >> host: here is

then they built 10 more condominiums next to it in athens and said even the first loan became bad when all those extra loans were made. basel iii doesn't really allow folks or cause folks to go back in and say you assign this level to this risk category but you need to reevaluate that risk. so is like a rearview mirror rather than proactive. it just gives too much. it doesn't create enough in the capital system to give latitude to system participants. [inaudible] >> again it's a rearview mirror. what they do is they look at history. they look at the performance of those loans in the past performance of those loans. but what the system does not recognize and i think what in theory we don't recognize is the category that's good today can become bad if we land too much into that category. [inaudible] >> let me tell you. it missed by $2.5 trillion. no stress exercise i have ever participated in, you know people going into a stress scenario that 10% stress on the system. no actual crisis had anywhere dear that stress. so people in the it bans of the crisis never contemplate that. >> any oth

. >> this does not bode well for our friends in athens. >> no, no.nd i'm surprised it's not 100%. >> that would be all the percent. >> brian. the economy is very bad. they've lost 25% of gdp. youth unemployment is way beyond 50%. so things are still quite bad there. they've made improvements when it comes to their primary budget. in other words, the government is spending less. but they still haven't done a lot of things to their economy to make it better. those numbers that you showed us is exactly why a guy named alexis seeprist, remember when he rose to prominence and the international markets went crazy? he's growing more and more in popularity. i spoke with him most recently last weekend. he's basically an arch leftist. you'd almost call him a communist. he wants to redo the entire greek economy back to ways that modern economists say would actually be quite painful for that country. however, because he's promising so many things, he's really become increasingly popular. it's quite possible he could be the next prime minister. so he is emblemati

and if you travel as i have to athens or to rome or to spain and portugal you will find society's arender much more immediate stress than they are here where the social institutions, the public sector institutions are really in a state of breakdown opinions what did you think of the picket book. >> i wrote an early review of thomas piketty's book in descent. the title of the magazine was well chosen. my review was a less skeptical one. i thought that his approach had a level of abstraction which prevented him from actually dealing with the crisis that we're in. because to stretch things out over a very long period of time and talked in very general terms about savings and the rate of growth and the rate of interests. and i don't think those are, that really gets to the experience that we're actually having. so i ended up being one of the few piketty dissidents. >> and what is the futility military power? >> the postwar period was initially one in which the noncommunist part of the world had a stable framework that was created by the united states and its allies. and that he val of the

i would hope that things would move in athens the project and greece. it is huge. i hope it is going to move faster than it has moved in the last six months. i will tell you that it is a huge project and, along with us are too big combinations from china. shareholder put a lot of energy in this to greece. it is a big opportunity and we should not miss it. >> what do i see the first rumble over the hill for this project? when you start to break ground? >> i want to hope that this is happening at the beginning of 2006. we want to move faster. >> 2016. >> 2016. wishful thinking, maybe. us, it would be tomorrow. administration is acting in a way that puts greece on the map. >> doesn't this concern? this is what people worry about. it is an infinitely long span of time. it is a catalyst that gets lost. this is a poster child for what they can do and a sign of how much progress needs to be made. about thearguing things surrounding this project. it is a mixed message. >> it is. let's be frank about it. andproblem is executions the way they move. they do not move in the wa