and israel very unhappy with the idea of hamas and doing some sort of pact with mahmoud abbas. as rob's position is i did you talk to us or hamas, not both. i think mahmoud abbas decided to talk to hamas for the moment because from his point of view, othe talks that broke down overa year ago are not going anywhere. >> it is -- as if the economic crisis when a bad enough, many ski resorts in the alps had to cancel seasoning openings because of the lack of snow. some have experienced the driest november since the 1920's. stephanie delaware has this report. >> the ski runs are green instead of white. warm and sunny conditions in the mountains are beginning to worry the austrian ski industry. many regions are having to postpone their season openings. in parts of tyrol, snow canada operating around the clock. this ski resort has spent hundreds of thousands of euros to make artificial snow. >> we have about 1000 snow cannons. we cannot run them all at the same time get a 300 to 500 are operational but we tried to do our best. >> while there will be enough snow to open this weekend, i

full state recognition with a vote on the motion expected as early as next week palestinian president abbas is likely to forge ahead with the attempt which will force opponents to justify their decision the application to the un by abbas last september was greeted with joy in the territories despite washington promising to veto the. next we report on claims major pharmaceutical manufacturers who make cancer fighting drugs are also thought to be responsible for producing over decades pollution that causes cancer my mother was diagnosed with cancer at the age of forty nine she did not smoke she ate five fruits and vegetables a day exercised regularly and her parents never had cancer yet she was diagnosed with the disease what caused her cancer no one could say i kept wondering why. a. every day about three new synthetic chemicals enter the consumer market of the one hundred thousand synthetic chemicals in heavy commercial use only about two percent have talked to the logical profiles and in other words every day without our consent we're exposed to about ninety five thousand untested chemical

full state recognition with a vote on the motion expected as early as next week palestinian president abbas is likely to forge ahead with the attempt which will force opponents to justify their decision the application to the un by abbas last september was greeted with joy in the territories despite washington promising to be go. next we report on the claims major pharmaceutical manufacturers who make cancer fighting drugs are also thought to be responsible for producing over decades pollution that causes cancer. do you thousand and two the top ten drug companies in america made more profits than four hundred ninety of america's wealthiest companies combined helping raise profits are cancer drugs which in two thousand and five alone rose nearly sixteen percent compared to three percent for other prescriptions. today an average cancer drug prescription costs nearly one thousand six hundred dollars a month. the pharmaceutical industry spends about fourteen percent of their budget on research and development and about thirty one percent for marketing and administration. in fact there are more

i welcome all abba fans. >> rather like abba, you're a guilty pleasure.hey don't want to admit liking you, but every time you speak at the moment, they burst into applause and feel like dancing. >> well, if i can do as well as "mamma mia" did, i would feel very happy with the outcome. >> to be serious, you are very suddenly coming up the rail. it's been a long summer and we're heading into the long fall and into the winter. and people are beginning to talk about you now in a much more serious way than they were a few months ago. what do you put that down to? >> first of all, i tell people that the tortoise is the motto of our campaign. we're trying to go one foot at a time. well, then the fable story the bunny rabbit runs by and falls asleep and the tortoise just keeps coming. hopefully mitt romney will be the bunny rabbit and i'll be the tortoise and it will work out perfectly. >> there have been five front-runners so far in the gop race, most of whom have fallen by the wayside. mitt romney appears to have plateaued around the 24% mark as he has done bef

that would be something for president abbas. that would be declared a victory. they would only need a simple majority of the 193 member states. if he does not do that and comes back with nothing from the whole u.n. approach, he will look pretty weak. his rivals will make hay from that. >> still to come, militant attacks in nigeria. has the government got a coherent response? a member of the washington nationals baseball team in the u.s. has been kidnapped by gunmen in venezuela. he is a venezuelan catcher for the american league team and was home during the off-season. there have been no reports of a ransom demand. the government there is said to be vigorously pursuing the kidnappers. >> in baseball in venezuela, the site of a player making good in the american league's is a source of pride. that is certainly true for wilson ramos, a rookie catcher for the washington nationals. like many u.s.-based players, he returned home in the off-season and was due to play for as venezuelan team, the tigers. but on wednesday, a group of armed men seized him from outside his

he is a palestinian who grew up in a delay and is an advocacy worker for president of loss -- abbas'ership bid. >> palestine continued to be the last colony in the world. we want to do something. this something, i think has to deal with our choices. our choice is to claim independence through non- violence, through negotiations, through diplomacy. that is where i get my work from. i am very proud of it. >> today, he is meeting a group of swedish high school students at the presidential palace in ramallah to explain the u.n. membership in bid to them. usually his job involves getting a permission from journalists and diplomats. >> it is not a job like any other. i am thinking about the dignity of want to give to my children, once i have kids. maybe they had dignity i do not have been a to have every state, to go around the world and be proud. >> it is part of his job to be optimistic. just like the cartoonist. both hope their optimism will eventually prove to be justified. >> it is not limited to the palestinian territories. it is also alive and among the 100,000 palestinians who live

newt gingrich's cell phone ring tone is "dancing queen" by abba. jon huntsman, however, should be thought of less as swedish disco and more as pacific northwest genius grunge. >> to hear these two go at it oaf here it's almost incredible. you've got governor romney who called it a fraud in his book "no apology." i don't know if that was written by kurt cobain or not. >> there it is. kurt cobain, "all apologies." a nirvana reference. apparently totally lost on that republican debate audience in florida. judge your audience, sir. mr. huntsman may be wizard, but that was not a magic moment. mitt romney, in trying to humanize his rather stick figury persona, mitt romney has tried to drop some pop cultural knowledge on his peeps. last time around he blew it with a who let the dogs out thing. with a group of african-american youngsters -- do we have the who let the dogs out tape? do we still have that? >> who's got your camera, though? who let the dogs out? who, who? >> still awkward after all these years. mitt romney's cultural references. who, who. thi

palestinian president abbas is likely to forge ahead with the attempt which will force of colonists to justify their decision the application to the un by abbas last september was greeted with joy in the territories despite washington promising to be. china's enormous cash reserves may be just what the e.u. needs to claw itself out of economic turmoil peter lavelle's guests in cross talk discuss beijing's possible role as the euro savior here on our t.v. . hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter a little china's maneuvering our chinese fortunes faring during the global financial crisis the eurozone fiasco political uncertainty in the u.s. and the arab spring is china and then again or is the world undergoes massive economic and geopolitical shifts and as the world changes will china take on a greater leadership role. cross-talk china's growing influence i'm joined by greg audrey in irvine he's an entrepreneur and co-author of death by china in miami we have already shankar he used a ford motor company chair in global business management at ohio state university and in beijing we cros

full state recognition with a vote on the motion expected as early as next week palestinian president abbas is likely to forge ahead with the attempt which will force opponents to justify their decision the application to the un by abbas last september was greeted with joy in the territories despite washington promising to veto. now let's head back to our washington studio for part two of the show stay with us for that. guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight because of the new york post now since the occupy wall street protests began seven weeks ago the post has tried to smear the movement every single chance that it gets but their attacks of reach a whole new level to the headline today reads n.y.p.d. sends elite detectives to wall street protests while the headlines a bit much it's not totally absurd but it gets better if you dive into this story it says that the n.y.p.d. has moved three elite manhattan homicide detectives and a deputy chief to the ruckus occupy wall street protests in response to a rash of sex attacks thefts and vandalism including graffiti scrawled on

olmert was in political and legal trouble, so abbas did not take it up for a variety of reasons. but the reasons i actually wrote about it is i wanted to suggest it was not a hopeless cause. there is an answer here, but time is not on the side of either of them. >> i'd like to go back to the soviet union because given your expertise about the soviet union how do you see russia developing over the next few years? and do you think that their importance in the world will continue to increase, perhaps even surpassing china? >> yes. i think the russians are in trouble in terms of global standing, and i think they know it. um, you know, russia is a -- the russian economy is 80% dependent on exports of oil, gas and minerals. that's not a modern economy. um, and i'll tell you a little story about, that shows how much that oil, gas and minerals is ink -- linked up with power. of i was having a meeting about energy policy, and he was going around asking people about the energy policy. so the russian says, well, he says, we understand that our oil and gas fields are technologically behind,

in september, palestinian leader mahmoud abbas asked the united nations to formally recognize an independent palestinian state. the palestinians need nine members of the u.n. security council to approve their request, but new reports indicate they lack that many. as a back-up plan, the palestinians may take their cause to the general assembly, which can vote to call palestine a state but cannot grant the palestinians full u.n. membership. >>> the supreme court heard oral arguments this week in a case over whether an american born in jerusalem can list israel as his place of birth on his passport. the case was brought by a couple whose son was born in jerusalem. they cite a 2002 federal statute that allows americans born in that city to list israel as the country of their birth. but because the status of jerusalem remains unresolved, the u.s. does not recognize it as exclusively part of israel. >>> this veterans' day weekend, remembering especially the service of all those who have fought in iraq and afghanistan, we have a moving story from lucky severson about army chaplain burnout. some cha

top-level talks have been begun at a cairo hotel with khaled meshaal and mahmoud abbas. the first meeting since may when they signed a surprise reconciliation deal that was aimed at ending years of bitter rivalry which has cost dozens of lives. the bbc's jon donnison can join us now from ramallah. first of all, just how significant do you think this meeting is? oh, unfortunately for -- >> for six months now, and i think, you know, the fact is that many palestinians will not be holding their breath. more than five years and palestinians are pretty skeptical. most feel this division is really a distraction from their main grievance, which is, of course, israel's continuing occupation. so i don't think there's a great deal of anticipation. that said, the first time the two men have set down together in six months is very significant. >> what do you think might come out today? >> well, you're right. back in may, the two sides said they had done a unity deal and they were going to set about having some sort of interim government made up of independents that would work toward

billboard in tel aviv showing israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu kissing palestinian leader mahmoud abbas. it came after showing pope benedict kissing a muslim imam. it also showed president obama embracing world leaders. benetton called it part of its, quote, unhate campaign. >>> when nature calls, apparently you have to answer even if it means you're on a football field with 70,000 fans watching and millions on tv. with 1:34 left in the fourth quarter of a tied game on sunday, the chargers look to their kicker for the win. when the camera went to nick novak, he apparently was reli e relieving himself next to the gatorade bottles. he went on to miss two field goals, and the broncos won in overtime. oh, dear. novak played at the university of maryland. maybe he learned all that there. spent two yards with the redskins. >> my favorite part of the video is the assistant holding up the little towel like he's giving him some privacprivacy. >> that's what assistants do, i guess. >> didn't do much. >> we'll have to start having porta potties next to the benches, i guess. >> four minutes away fr

the motion expected as early as next week palestinian president abbas is likely to forge ahead with the attempt which will force opponents to justify their decision. and to the victors go the spoils with the fighting over in libya western companies are lining up to exploit the country's rich oil and gas reserves during the conflict lucrative contracts were allegedly promised to countries in exchange for assisting the rebels topple colonel gadhafi. and returning to our top story the repercussions of eurozone debt are causing global concern up next on our interview show spotlight gordon talks to the c.e.o. of russia's biggest bank to find out how safe the country's financial institutions are don't go away. oh yes welcome to the spotlight. today my guest on the show is. the european. banks. and. it's doing all right but economists say they will have to. moody's is downgrading the russian banking sector and the ruble is losing its value all this trouble russia's biggest bet there's a very bad celebrates its anniversary saying it's going to become a transnational company. how is. the u.s. .

abbas. the big. russia heads out to the arab league for expelling syria and for imposing sanctions sparking mass rallies in the troubled country. syrian opposition leaders are in moscow for talks with russian officials as they try to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in the country i'll have more enough for the few moments. as unelected bankers and economists take the reins in greece and italy explores how the euro zone descended into the troubleshooters have to keep their mouths bust. thousands of american anti corporate protesters found they won't be defeated by arrests and breaks so can demonstrators marched back to their camp the police dismantle their tents. they're broadcasting live from the heart of the russian capital this is. russia has lambasted the arab league's decision to.

the attempt which will force opponents to justify their decision the application to the un by abbas last september was greeted with joy in the territories despite washington promising to veto. and returning to our top story the repercussions of euro zone debt are causing global concern up next on our t.'s interview show spotlight all good enough talks to the c.e.o. of russia's biggest bank to find out how safe the country's financial institutions are don't go away. oh yes welcome to the spotlight. today my guest on the show is. the european. banks. and. it's doing all right but economists say they will have to. move. to the russian banking sector and the ruble is losing its value all this trouble russia's biggest bank there's a very bad celebrates its anniversary saying it's going to become a transnational company. how is. the us. are struggling to survive we're asking all the banks to. russia's banking burbank terms of how this month through the years has become the largest bank in eastern europe about half of all russian citizens retailed represents burbank's brand is worth twelve bill

full state recognition with a vote on the motion expected as early as next week palestinian president abbas is likely to forge ahead with the attempt which will force opponents to justify their decision. and to the victors go the spoils with the fighting over in libya western companies are lining up to exploit the country's rich oil and gas reserves during the conflict lou.

partnership as they agree to hold presidential elections next year the comments from president mahmoud abbas and hamas leader khaled mashal meeting in cairo they failed to resolve differences over an interim unity government which they had plans implement the signing a deal in may for its years a failed previous installation a tense. a series of three explosions in a market in southern iraq killed nineteen people and injured dozens more to motorbike bombs as well as a third went off when these arrived with insanity and some experts see it as an example of the future of iraq race all of us draws its troops from the country by the end of december. and the air strike targeting taliban militants has reportedly killed six children and injured two others in southern afghanistan afghan president hamid karzai has condemned the incident and ordered a thorough investigation almost fifteen hundred civilians have been killed my balance in the country during the first half of the year. now the small boat extent of the freeware face trial in the hague for torture made allegations it's been harboring a sec

to compete against each other for presidential elections next year comments from president mahmoud abbas and hamas leader khaled mashal came at a meeting in cairo but they failed to resolve differences over an interim unity problem and they have a plan to implement at the signing a deal with years of failed previous reconciliation attempts. a. series of three explosions and a lot of open air market in southern iraq have killed nineteen people and injured dozens more to motorbike bombs rocked the city of basra as a third went off when police arrived causing a fatalities some experts say it is an example of the future make haste and u.s. withdraws its troops from the country in december. a nato airstrike targeting taliban militants has reportedly killed seven people including six children in southern afghanistan president hamid karzai has condemned the incident and ordered an investigation almost fifteen hundred civilians out and kill right violence in the country in the first half of the year and the small baltic states of lithuania they face trial in the hague for torture allegations it'

later the military spokesman general sayed abbas tried to down play the role. "some of them may have been provoked" he says "with stones and molotov congress cocktails." that's no excuse to millions of egyptians who have lost faith and don't believe the general's commitment to the democratic election which was supposed to start in just a week. tonight the entire civilian cabinet that was helping the military run egypt has offered to resign which has thrown everything, including the election schedule, into doubt. >> pelley: the revolution continues, liz. thanks very much. the obama administration slapped new economic sanctions on iran today to try to pressure it to stop it development of nuclear weapons. nothing has worked so far but secretary of state hillary clinton and treasury secretary tight says the new measures target... tim geithner says the new measures target companies that support iran's oil and pet r.o. chemical companies. the victims in britain's phone hacking scandals have to say. and the debate over police and pepper spray when the "cbs evening ne

it seems to me that the virgil had a sort of been bumped into the background abbas had tom and friendrgil wanted to be a good lawyer man and i think that he was very pragmatic about the way that he enforce the law. he preferred to give people the chance to back away without embarrassing them or having their pride attacked. he did his best that day to let the cowboys settled down and cried out of town and finally when he did he called on the people he trusted most, his brothers and then of course he was never going to miss an occasion like this. it was a terrible tragedy that this happened, and i think if things had happened differently in the one or two instances if he hadn't been approached by a couple of

partnership after agreeing to compete in next year's presidential race the comments from president mahmoud abbas and hamas leader khaled mashal came at a meeting in cairo but they haven't resolved their differences over an interim unity government that they had planned after signing a deal in may this follows years of failed previous attempts at reconciliation. three explosions in a popular open air market in southern iraq have killed nineteen people and injured dozens more to motorbikes gone to iraq the city of basra then a third went off when police arrived that led to all of the fatalities some experts see it as an example of the future iraq may face after u.s. troops withdraw from the country by the end of december. a nato airstrike that targeted taliban militants has reportedly killed seven people including six children in southern afghanistan president karzai has condemned the incident and ordered an investigation almost fifteen hundred civilians have been killed by violence in the country in the first half of this year alone and coming across talk goes behind the reasons for egypt's renew

of all long journey for russia a commission in geneva is set to clear all the remaining hurdles for abbas goes a long awaited membership to the world trade organization it comes after russia and georgia finally reached an agreement on regulating customs on the borders with the breakaway republics of south the city and a posse laura smith has more from geneva. this could be the end of an eighteen year process the last big hurdle to russia joining the world trade organization has been successfully negotiated on wednesday russia accepted a trade deal with july the agreement signed here in geneva and allows the monitoring of old cross border trade between the two countries including the russian backed south ossetia and abkhazia by a private company without the last of georgia's objections to russia joining the w t o has been dealt with barring any last minute deal realm and sways analysts say are always possible but unlikely that package of documents on russia's that session could be approved by a working group on thursday or friday with membership formalized in december russia's accession wi

and it's the palestinian authority president abbas who has bedeviled the israelis i this successful entry the first of the un specialized agencies. you know what can we talk about this unesco decision it clearly came at a high price with washington cutting off funding and doesn't you know scope care about those financial consequences but you're talking about you and how it will end in our journey at will is that you're just a secretary and they've been terrified about the prospect of a washington funded car or supposedly mandated i had one nine hundred ninety four vision of law a member states however frankly are tired of being pushed around. oh washington on an issue in which washington's control of the peace process twenty years later is still not resulted in the peace agreement the spin promised and held on the horizon and this is seen by a large number of states although not all of the europeans or even most of them as a needed still are trying to get the palestinians what in their view is their fair just recognition on the world stage if we see this over you when it sees through the

earlier today, greece's prime minister abbas opposition leader agreed to form a new coalition government. tonight on prime minister questions, david cameron talks about the eurozone crisis. you also hear remarks from labor opposition leader ed miliband. this is about 35 minutes prepared. . >> mr. marcus jones. >> this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and, in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> with the average 60-year-old living 10 years longer than in the 1970's, public sector pension reform is essential. will the prime minister ensure that reform is fair for my constituents, both in terms of taxpayers and public sector workers? >> my honorable friend makes an important point, and the chief secretary to the treasury will be making a full statement to the house. it seems to me to be absolutely vital that we do something that is fair to both taxpayers and public sector workers. the cost of our public sector pensions system is up by a third in the last decade. it is not fair to go on as we are, but the new arr

that as we can hear there the russian national anthem played live you just from berlin and president abbas for that so many thanks we'll keep you updated as more information. business r.t. in twenty minutes you can discover journey from pipe dream to reality then later this hour former german chancellor gerhard schroeder who is now chairman of north stream tells us why this means everybody. oh this is a deal for you to grant the european union needs russia geopolitically flood but the reverse is also true of it's not a question got kind of the time has come to start cooperating and start looking back from a logical differences or no this isn't a situation where you can ship gas to china and all of a leader and you are you know i hope russia never has to make it or is a russian government is evidently cruel european or europe cannot keep pushing russia away it hurts motions pride with a few we have to keep in mind that all old russia has the alternative leadership to egypt or europe has no such alternative to europe's geopolitical position who will give you food what if it manages to enter

with the attempt which will force opponents to justify their decision the application to the un by abbas last september was green to join the territories despite washington promising to veto. it up next the atlanta show takes a look at exactly how much the u.s. is spending on its nuclear arsenal that much much more coming up in a few moments don't go away. welcome to the lower show where we get the real headlines with none of the mercy me live in washington d.c. now tonight we take a look at figures that show us that we're spending more on our nuclear arsenal today than we did at the height of the cold war also take a look at new arms sales in the works as part of the effort here to the effort to surround iran and weinstein is going to join us for that one then yesterday there were two deaths at different occupy camps one suicide one violence shooting which had nothing to do with occupiers but police in oakland are already using the tragedy to signal they'll be kicking the protesters out so will the occupy movement be lost under the shadow of violence and a federal judge ruled yesterday

pictures in the campaign include president obama and kissing venezuelan hugo chavez and netanyahu with abbas. those images remain on the website. what do you think about these ads? we posed the question on our facebook page. 84% said the kissing ads went too far. you can go to our facebook page and join the discussion to let us know what you think. >> we like to know what people have to say about that. >>> at least six dead after suspected tornadoes swept through six southern states. john gonzalez is in the satellite center now with a look at the damage. >> experts say it is not unusual for tornadoes in november, but this many in one date is jarring. from louisiana to north carolina, it caught them off- guard. thousands are still without power. the dangerous storm system ripped to the southeast killing at least six people and injuring dozens. from up above, you can see the magnitude of the devastation with neighborhoods leveled. >> we got in the bathtub and we prayed that god would protect us. >> 24 tornadoes in 24 hours across six states, the strongest ripping a 27-mile stretch through alab

>> no, when his phone rings, abba's "dancing queen" plays. >> why? >> he had the ring tone for six months because this happened to him again on the campaign trail earlier. >> meryl streep, they will play her movie in a couple weeks, the premiere here. >> beautiful. >> great to see you. >> i'm going home for thanksgiving. >> good for you. >>> barbara, good morning. coming up tonight on news4 at 4:00, wilson ramos will turn to the nat's park. we will say what he said about his kidnapping in venezuela. >>> plus, he can predict the weather, but can he walk like a man? our meteorologist gets dancing lessons from the jersey boys. and the food critic from the washington post shares the scoop on the new georgetown restaurant. those stories plus more coming up on news4 starting at 4:00. >> we know doug can dance. will they be able to dance as good as him? >> that's the question. >>> we have a gorgeous blue sky. live picture from the sky watcher camera looking towards the west. temperatures now are beginning to hit the mid-40s, and now 44 at reagan national. s

so the family was able to prevail upon president abbas, an old republican friend, and the czar of russia to put pressure on count gizycki to return the child. cc came home with her daughter. and after going through a lot of trouble and drink a lot of society, spending a lot of money to get the logo back, sissy in effect ignored her and she grew up sort of neglected and cared for by nannies, one of them actually abused her. and sissy by that point had become sort of notorious and she tried her hand at acting for a while in lake forest where they went to live. gave that right afford writing novels, one of them about an american girl who married a russian count -- a russian prince actually in the novel. but she ended up giving up writing of novels because she really wanted to be in the newspaper business. so, her family had given her much of a chance to do that but in the meantime, her brother, joe patterson, went on to found the daily news, and her cousin, mccormick and had come to the floor of the "chicago tribune." i don't imagine i could tell chicagoans anything they haven't heard about