thank you, elise abbott in washington. is also independence day for tens of thousands of people who fled sudan for their lives. in this exclusive interview with cnn, i spoke to two sudan born people who watch history being made in their home land, a great distance away. >> this must be a very exciting time, especially to hear that southern sudan becomes the united nations 193rd member and africa's 54th country. what does it mean to hear that? >> very, very exciting. half of me is empty. half of me is excited. the emptiness is the people i have lost, you know, for this war. i have lost a lot of relatives. lost a lot of friends. and so the emptiness is there. but the excitement to be able to see that we are free and to be able to see that our people work so hard, you know, to get our generation this freedom, it is very good. >> so it seems like it is very difficult to look forward without looking back. 2 million people killed over 50 year span of civil wars. you and i spoke a few months ago how meaningful it was to be able t

if you're a client like astrazeneca or abbott labs, then being sick is probably a fairly bad thing, but if you're a games company like electronic arts then 'this gameis sick' is a very positive thing. >>reporter: just as you get market leaders amongst companies, in the online world there individuals who carry more influence, for example people with many followers on twitter or friends on facebook. companies like peerindex help firms find them.... >>cast: you kind of know who the top people are, but there is that magic middle of people who are easier to reach and in some ways are much more engaged with your product because they have built up their audience around an interest and that audience really trusts them. >>reporter: the number of online users is growing exponentially which could give serious opportunities for growth, especially as the emerging markets of the east go online. but is it really any more than a overhyped and trendy form of market research? >>barwise: social media is the latest thing for which the marketers are hyperventilating; mobile, mobile advertising is the other.

and some basketball news russian international john abbott holden will be with the team about september's european championships in lithuania thirty four all the american born russian announced his retirement last month but said he is not quitting the national school the however head coach david blocks made clear on south as a that the playmaker well and joined the team for the upcoming euro unlike holder. kirilenko will travel to only three and a half from the u.s. to help the russians. and finally the temperatures here in moscow have been reaching and passing thirty degrees celsius regularly over the past few weeks just perfect for swimming then and no better time for the moscow open war the championships to take place because that's about the above reports. perfect weather and the venue that's what the most. ship is known for. drinks more and more participants every year this time another record was set with more than one hundred swimmers in different races. i'm really glad the number of participants increases dramatically every year we try to make it more popular and attract people ma

abbott's attorney joins us with more on this. good to have you here. >> good afternoon. thank you.l in anything we might have left out in the intro about what your client says happened here. >> i think you hit the high points. i think it's interesting. i took a look at the arrest affidavit earlier today, and essentially the officer in fact and i'm quoaghts stated that miss abbott was loud in her speech and very -- belligerent. therefore, she was arrested. so you are kidding me. first this woman has to put up with her daughter being groped. then when she simply expressed her outrage. she is arrested. and i know that we live in a country that still has free speech last time i checked. so our take on it is she was essentially arrested for daring simply to speak out against this outrageous practice. martha: what do you hope to get in this case? >> not guilty. the best case scenario we hope the district attorney's office certainly looks at it and decides, look, we just need to dismiss this case. if that doesn't happen we are going to jury trial and we'll press for a not guilty verdict.

guilt claims he is not alone in a mission to turn back the tide of immigration in europe as laura abbott's has been finding out many warn of a new wave of brevik style terror. and ethnic hatred that led to the slaughter of scores of innocent young people. braving the massacre to which he freely admits was a justified strike against the political left for supporting open borders and multiculturalism and even though the staunchest of hardliners condemned brave fix horrific actions anti immigration sentiment is growing across europe other groups all express their condolences and then are quick and separate themselves from are also quick to lay blame left wing politicians which they. are responsible because they allowed immigration happen and effectively pushed the sky to the edge it's a cry that many feel is not being heard by european governments as people show their discontent voting increasingly for previously marginal anti immigration parties and joining street movements like the anti islamic english defense league. of course it will have groups who are satisfied and we will have other gr

it's only if they hate scandal now reveals that the police have known about it for you know abbott's . haring a culture of control by the moat media got out of hand drawn to who runs a t.v. network social activist says there are parallels with some nations white. christians who can make an analogy i think on an international scale between what happens in takeovers so the united states and britain took over iraq and what do they bring the power who they employ they employ to slow slow and i think that same thing has happened in the tabloids where we have them immense power in the against murdoch and a few of the other barons and who they hire what type of boat they hire not painting every journalist with that brush but certainly if you look at the murdoch world whether it's on television where you've got paid verbal assassins like o'reilly and hannity and the united states i don't know about britain. it's a whole culture of power and control and deception for an agenda and that engendered i think it was the gender. both in britain and the united states. we are asking what you think of

all styles abbott sold out red bull arena a new jersey one of their last friendlies before the new english premier league campaign kicks off and made oldest and david back in materiality will be starring for the hosts and the former man united midfielder feels that they could compete against one of europe's top clubs. i think we have a chance on. wednesday you know it's going to be tough it's never easy coming up against manchester united not no matter where you play in in the world so it's going to be a difficult game but you know it's going to be a game to enjoy you have to enjoy these occasions you know you don't get many opportunities to play against the likes of wayne rooney. and so many other players that. as much as we want to win the game it's important we enjoy it and in more football news mohamed bin hammam has launched a war of words against people president blotter that is graced qatar executive speaking out after picking up a life ban for allegedly attempting to bribe voters in order to gain the backing in last month's presidential elections something he insists never took pla

nor abbott r.t. london. communications director of the american energy zero free press told me we've only seen the tip of the iceberg of the crisis. there's been a very cozy relationship between media and government throughout western democracies it's no less true in the united states than it is in the u.k. . and what we've what we've seen is is sort of a laying bare of that relationship in a way that that everybody suspected but now we now we can see that it's the. that our suspicions are proven true the only surprise would be if there weren't more surprises and there is suspicion that something similar or to a lesser or greater extent has been happening in the united states if in fact it is found that the allegations that news corp properties were looking for looking to hack the telephones of nine eleven family victims or victims' families that is going to be a storm the likes of which you've never seen in the u.s. you're watching r t international with me kevin owen ahead for this hour of grave concern. a

his influence in europe or abbott's r.t. menwith hill yorkshire. now the prospect of a u.s. led missile defense shield in europe has also set alarm bells ringing right here in moscow nato is failing to provide legal guarantees that the system won't be aimed at russia and is also rejected proposals for a joint shield next we hear from a leading american scientist who says that obama's administration is continuing bush era policies. when the bush plan was first discarded by president obama when he came into power there is no longer a whole new system would be more agreeable to the russians but not of the actual numbers instead of being less of a concern going from the bush administration to the obama. this has raised all sorts of red flags in russia. now of five minutes past the hour here in moscow strict border controls are to be implemented in denmark as the country's parliament has voted in favor of permanent new legislation it will mean more security checkpoints at the country's ports and at its border with germany some e.u. officials have already condemned the move saying

thousand people took part in a one day strike to protest those planned pension cuts artie's laura abbott has more from london. down. with industrial action and also my discontent starts here as the u.k. braces for a wave of strikes not seen for decades this time it's three quarters of a million public sector workers walking out on happy but the prime drift of their pensions which they say will see them paying a lot more and getting a lot less we don't think the ship it lights the boats what functions we think in deserves to have security what's on them it's people talk about withdrawing from the pension scheme because they can't afford to pay the mortgage at the same time as playing for the country and people are really angry the time when bankers are making record bonuses you have a guy. we're being asked to take a punch in our patients to pay more for our pensions the reality is we've got to fire who else we're just using these people do a huge variety of key work from teachers and lecturers to air traffic controllers and coast guards unisons the u.k.'s biggest public sector trade unio

bank corp and blackrock topped expectations, abbott labs and united technologies posting impressive profiter the closing bell, intel, ebay, america express and qualcomm earnings all coming in better than expected. ebay jumping. small-cap stock, nalco surged on the world that eco lab will buy the company. and zillos scoring 78% in its first day of trading. now back to chris and chris matthews of "hardball." chris? >>> welcome back to "hardball." they're trying to change their laws on voting. are these doing this to prevent voting fraud? or could they be trying to prevent mine order horace cooper is here, and judith brown deanis is here. i want to get perch feeling about a person who would cheat in a voting booth. or engage in planning that kind of thing. what is your visceral reaction, horace? >> that's outrageous behavior. what it does is disenfranchises voters. >> what do you think of those people who do that, the people who do that, just focus on that? >> those people are awful cheaters. >> and they don't exist. >> wait a minute, no, no, judith, first of all, that displeases me, of cours

> all right, next, we have the adrenaline by jeff abbott.. >> the title speaks for it.t of different plot twists. a guy who's wrongly accused of killing his wife. >>> here, we have the latest on agent oo 7. the next chapter in 00 12k3w4r7 it's set in the modern day. he's come back from the afghanistan war, interpreted in a modern way. >> this one is robpocalypse. >> all modern technology shuts down all at once. steven spielberg has optioned this. he's set to direct this. >> peoplpl obviously have reall high hopes for this. >>> all right, finally, our sizzling true stories. the first, the man in the rockefeller suit. we have sex on the moon and stories my father told me, stories that leonard lyons told him. jane thank you so much. great summer reads. find out more about them at abcnews.com/gma. >>> on this fourth of july, you may want to declare your independence from the summer heat. slip into a cool movie theater near you. to discuss what you might be seeing, chris connelly is here with a look at the best and the rest playing near you. >> independence is the hinge of t

other big drugmakers like abbott lans, $4.3 billion. these are with b's, not with m's, these are billions, not millions. federal government is just forking over all the time. and federal government is the pharmaceutical industry's biggest customer in the industry and the industry knows it. why doesn't the federal government wruse its purchasing power to get better bids on these drugs and have competitive bidding in order to purchase? we did that back in the 1990's. we haven't done it since. there's plenty of ways to get the funds to try to balance the budget but the most important way to balance the budget is to help americans get back to work. mr. speaker, i yield back my remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota, mr. paulson, for five minutes. mr. paulsen: mr. speaker, i come to the floor of the house to honor and remember an american hero, lance corporal robert greeninger, who died last week after an i.e.d. attack in afghanistan. as we grieve the lots

i just got off the phone with a constituent of mine, tom abbott, small business business man. cares about his family, his business, people he works with. mr. tipton: he asked a simple question. i have to live within my budget. why doesn't washington? the plan that we have put forward would take over a 10-year period, capping the spending at 18%. as americans, i think we need to ask the question, have we had an 18% increase in our family budgets year over year? i think the answer is no. i'd like to quote for you some of the president's plan to deal with the economic challenges that we face. there is not one. the silence is deafening. my friends, the american people expect more. the american people deserve better. washington does not have an income problem, it has a spending problem. and the time for us to speak on behalf of the american people is now. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from hawaii seek recognition? without objection, the gentlelady from hawaii is recognized for one minute. ms. hanabusa: thank you, mr.

. >> "adrenaline" jeff abbott. >> i think he's the next robert ludlum. the office. he's a spy. the wife calls him, come down for a second, honey, he comes down, the building blows up, the wife is kidnapped. it gets faster from there. great read. >> going to be a movie at some point. >> number three by ann packerings. >> jennifer loved this story. 100 pagenaud svehla. very poignant, very searing short stories. another novell la at the end which is a coming of age person that is three days later. beautifully written and heart breaking. i loved it. >> the last one on the list was "misery bay" by steve hamilton. >> people asked me, what's the next series, i read all of the robert parker, the sue grafton. what's the next story. steve hamilton-alex mcknight series. it takes place in the upper peninsula of michigan so it's nice and cold, which really is great. he's a wonderful writer. >> it's so terrific to have the two of you weigh in on what you should be reading because when you talk about people's books, you're talking about the story line and surprise but