we have nicholas with us to take a look at the papers. in the u.s., there is a lot of focus on the midterm elections tomorrow. >> there is indeed. the question is, is he going to suffer losses and how heavy they will be? that is president obama of course. let's start with this cartoon for monday. it shows the democrat donkey sparring with the republican elephant. what is drooping is the sword for the donkey. that has the words on it "approval rating for obama," which is the idea the democrat candidates are suffering because of him personally. let's switch from beijing and go to moscow. "moscow times" had a story prominent on its website. you see the headline. this is all about the fear that u.s. businesses have in russia about whether they will be able to trade over the long-term. we have sanctions in place now over ukraine. the paper is worrying for these u.s. businesses because if the senate does go to the republicans, there's a strong possibility, a strong possibility, likelihood, there will be decade-long sanctions, a way of introduci

we have got nicholas rushworth with us on the set to see how the press and how the internet has beenesponding to the midterm elections. >> hi. of course those midterms dominating the u.s. press, but i want to go to a tweet that caught my eye. actually, re-tweeting a cartoon some of the storytelling for us, what we can see is actually the republican standing on the back of that donkey, ouch, and the headline "the day obama became a lame duck or." bad news for obama and the democrats. if you're a democrat, you are feeling the pain. republicans really doing as expected really with the forecast before hand very much in their favor. i want to go to another cartoon it is in one of those websites the nitty-gritty detail websites about politics in the states some real clear politics p or there are other ones out there like politico and the hill that you can go to. i love this cartoon. take a look. you can see the assistant to barack obama as she walks in his says oh, i noticed that you have seen what is in your inbox. of course it is a very fat elephant again, so that republican dominating,

with the latest on walmart and black friday. and talk about foreign policy. ismentioned chuck hagel stepping down. all of the sudden. nicholas burns is with us.e department officials who served in both bush administrations as well as the clinton administration. he is a professor at harvard and and aer of secretary -- member of secretary john kerry's policy board. let's talk about hagel. iran is important, you have been involved in negotiations with the iranians. chuck hagel stepping down, what does that say to you about his relationship with the white house and the challenges he in anas defense secretary administration that hasn't yet to strike the right tone on foreign policy in so many ways. >> i have enormous respect for secretary hagel. he has been a very distinguished public servant. he's also a combat veteran of the vietnam war. the first enlisted person to be secretary of defense. it was tough of the last couple years. not only do we have to make decisions about how long we stay in afghanistan and how many troops we keep their. the taliban is coming back. we had to go back to iraq for the third time in 24 years because isis emerged as

with us. ♪ >> nicholas kristof and sheryl wudunn are here.me the first married couple to win a pulitzer prize in journalism for their coverage of the tiananmen square protests in 1990. their 2009 book "half the sky" argued that the oppression of women worldwide is the paramount moral challenge today. bill clinton says there is no one who better clarifies the social challenges of our times or the moral imperative to help meet them. their latest book looks at the art and science of giving. it is called "a path appears." i am pleased to have nicholas kristof and sheryl wudunn back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> good to be back. >> tell me how this came about because we were talking beforehand and we both acknowledged that a lot of people want to do good. a lot of people have resources to make a contribution, but they don't really know how. >> that's right and it's appearing. our last book was "half the sky" about empowering women. sheryl and i spoke a lot about that and there were just so many people who then say, "what can i do?" i th

used must have fell the gunshot sounds. >> reporter: state troopers say 14-year-old nicholas seen here in an instagram photo was shot to death along with his eight-year-old sister nadia. nicholas was a freshman at seneca high school where he was a member of the school's robotics team. nadia went to classes at this element will he school. 11-year-old alexander who was seriously wounded went to this local middle school. >> our hearts go out to the family that remains. >> i have three kids and, you know, when it involves kids at all it's always tragic. >> reporter: nadia and nicholas were found shot to death in the same bedroom. alexander and his mother were airlifted to cooper hospital where they remain in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the head. police recovered the gun used in the shooting at the home. >> we may never know with certainty depending on the condition of le page what that motive was. >> reporter: sources say le page was an unemployed registered nurse and suffered from depression in the past. her husband sources say is in maryland and does not live at the home. >> my prayers go out to them that they would, you kn

coined by people like nicholas kristof, but it is widely used now for people like me who direct nonprofits and do different things in the nonprofit sector. >> how did you get involved with appalachian girls in middle school? >> that is a long story i write about in "the road out". i grew up as a working-class girl. the first in my family to go to college which was a big step for me and ended up, through a scholarship, going to college and doing super wrong in college and ended up going on and getting a graduate degree from harvard in education. that long journey i experienced came back to my native soul, north carolina, and founded this nonprofit. >> when you say you work with appalachian girls, what do you do? >> i teach. i teach. i, we, the people who work with me have created this out of school opportunity for girls in the most rural and remote parts. they come to an intensive summer program, have meetings with volunteers, and we offer these girls who otherwise don't have opportunity for summer learning and enrichment and intensive and wonderful educational program. they come into our program from all over the mountains of north carolina and do digital literacy learn

us. we are going to talk about trains. euro star marked their anniversary. anna edwards spoke with nicholashe company's future outlook. >> we are very confident about the future. us.ears in total for it is all about the future. we are going to go down to the south of france next year. then we go to amsterdam the year after. we see growth in passenger demand. we had 10 years of consecutive growth. we are very confident about ordering new trains. >> you are buying these new trains from siemens. and you tell me how much you are paying? overall, the new trains that existingfurbishing trains, it will be a billion pounds of investment. it willo three years, be completely upgraded. we will have new trains, reservists trains, and we will also invest in our stations, our website. .t is an exciting time >> you mentioned some of the new destinations. case.e about the business some voices in the travel industry have been skeptical as to whether you can make those routes make sense for a business traveler. how are you going to persuade business travelers that this is going to work for them? for the rout

janine lapage unemployed nurse with financial problems used a pillow to muffle the shot that killed her daughter nadia harman and son nicholas herman. alexander is still fighting to live at cooper. he's on the mind of this community which prides itself on being close knit. >> we're sometimes not able to recognize when in the community are hurting to the point they may do something like this. that has people shook up. how can somebody get to this point. >> they listened to words of comfort as they grappled with the violent tragedy which impacted the children that went to school with the young victimsch the pta president who was in contact with the family had words on their behalf. >> words cannot express our grief and we hank the communities for understanding our needs of privacy during this excruciatingly difficult time. >> reporter: the family has set up a pnc bank found pay for funeral and medical costs of this remaining survivor of the shootings and the new jersey state police say their investigation continues. reporting live outside cooper university hospital, in camden tonight, ken, "action news" at 10 on phl17, sarah.

us authentic, female experience. >> this is dangerous. you have gotten better looking. you couldn't have gotten bald or for the or something, jesus. >> james you have about the benefit of working with nicholas sparks before. so almost in educating our audience, what is it like? what does having a novel add when you are doing a movie and remaking a movie from a book? >> obviously the i didn' scriptr guide and this is the move that i we are make. but to have a book to back you up is always, you know, for actors who want to look at what was behind his writing and where these characters came from, it's just more resources for an actor. >> it's beautiful. >> nicholas' books are so loved. and, i mean, and to be put in this situation where these characters are people's favorite characters in their favorite book, it's something that we didn't take lightly the fact this is a really popular story and these are very popular characters and people love them for a reason. we wanted to make sure that that came across. >> i blame you for thinking that you knew what was best for me, when it was you that was best for me. >> why would you say this is like the ultimate love store any. >> it really deals with a

nicholas is standing by. i had a conversation with the cfo, this was a man at pains to tell us that everything is fine at pimcoand everything is grand and we cannot sign up enough new fund managers. what did you make of it? >> i listen to your interview and they are backed up by the ambers, 50 billion euros is big number from their 225 billion euros from the total return fund that their numbers tell the story that they are a profitable company. allianz as a whole are good but it still came in at 694 million euros and the numbers were so good that they are in a position to raise their dividends. it will be 60% of net income. in largea good number part because they have these other divisions. take a look division by division what allianz did for the quarter. at 690profit management four and property and insurance that is at 1.24 billion euros. life and health insurance another 790 billion euros. cost forn euros is the the number of outflows that they have had and you put it into dollar terms it would be 60 billion u.s. dollars. here is the quote about gross leaving. net output development after the resignation i

used to muscle the gunshot sounds. >> reporter: state police say 14-year-old nicholas haremin seen in an instagram photo shot to death along with his eight-year-old sister nadia, nicholas was a freshman at seneca high school, a member of the school's robotic team. nadia went to an elementary. 11-year-old alexander was seriously wounded. he went to the local middle school. >> very sad about the whole incident. our hearts go out to the family that remains. >> i have three kids and, you know, when it involves kids at all it's always tragic. >> nadia is my best friend and she was always nice to me. >> reporter: nadia and nicholas were found shot to death in the same bedroom. alexander and his mother were airlifted to cooper hospital in camden where they remain in extremely critical condition with gunshot wounds to the head. police recovered the gun used in the shootings at the home. >> this investigation is far from over. and motive is not one of those things we'll be able to talk about today. >> reporter: sources say le page was an unemployed registered nurse and suffered from depression in the past. her husband sources say is in

with us. we prefer they be add nowers and how we're going to interact with the future nehrus in the middle east, asia and hopefully across the eurasian space. >> thanks very much nicholas. >> i'm going to be very brief and they on the democracy assistance hasn't been successful. i think tom or others will probably make a strong case for it. i i agree. i think it has been successful and i'll leave it at that and focus on some of the challenges i should say that i'm coming from the world bank and these are my own view, not of the bank, but not one at the bank tried to stop me so there is a democratization movement going on within the bank, too. i think ideas matter and i think how we frame problems in the world matter. and i think if we look, if you just watch five or ten minutes of news you get this sense of security crises out of control that we've got. border crisis and we've got terrorism and the long war and we've got drug wars and there's all of these problems we have the ebola panic and we just see that the way we frame the challenges that we have today, there's a very heavy emphasis on the world is a dangerous place and we have to do everything we can to keep our

us more. >> reporter: tracy, that's right. that need is sparked by the closures of four of these casinos with a possible fifth in the coming weeks. the pastor of st. nicholastolentine roman catholic church said that donations are down. the amount of people coming in for food has tripled. the results has left many of its food bank shelves sparse or completely bare. still, monsignor william hodge says he has hope others will answer their call for help. >> seeing ups and downs in atlantic city before. and we shall survive. >> reporter: both the roman catholic church and the rescue mission say donations, both in supplies and monetary donations, will go a long way in helping them help the people here in the city that need it most. if you need more information, we'll put some up on our website, nbc10.com. live in atlantic city this morning, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >>> there is a last-ditch effort under way to keep the trump taj mahal open. over the weekend, trump entertainment resorts offered to restore health insurance to its workers for at least two years in return, though, for the union dropping its appeal of a court order that canceled the health insurance

. >> tell us as the man known as the real indiana jones, nicholas clap he had a lot to do with it. >>and had he came into a q and a session and we screened his documentary, and he is regarded as the real indiana jones. >> doesn't carry a bull whip around. >> nor a fedora. >> what can children take away from this exhibit quickly? >> oh, yes, we do offer a children's adventure tour of the exhibition, so each child gets a backpack, a travel backpack with a gallery guide, and the main mission is to discover all the human form of ancient arabia, because prior to islam, there was actually a lot of human figures that were made and that is one of the surprising stories in saudi arabian archaeology. >> it looks like a fascinating exhibit, and congratulations and thank you for bringing it to the asian art museum in san francisco. >> thanks for having me. >> we'll be right back. hey john,whoa!k it out. yeah, i was testing to see if we really can turn any device in your house into a tv. and the tablet worked just fine. but i wanted to see if the phone would work as well. so i shrunk sharon. every

us. appreciate that. nicholas spiro at spiro sovereign strategy. >>> moving on, nato's chief says russian soldiers are again moving closer to the border with ewe creperussia has denied claims of -- in eastern ukraine. he says the kremlin has a key role in the process. >> he with call on russia to make genuine efforts towards a peaceful solution and to use all their influence on the separatists who make them respectfully minsk -- and to republicfully cease-fire which is preconditioned for a political solution. >> ukrainian president poroshenko is mobilizing military units to send to the east of the country in reaction to the weekend vote in separatists areas. this as swearing in ceremonies were held in donetsk and kiev has warned the balance yosts invaded the peace process. >>> heads of states, business villages and even criminals. russian president vladimir putin took the crown in 2013. so we want to know from you, who do you think deserves the top spot this year? if you want to join the conversation here on "worldwide exchange," get in touch with us by e-mail, world would it@cnbc.com, via twitter, @cnbcwex, our handle, of course, you can see them o