arial sharon has shaped the political landscape. he comes from the generation of the founders of israel and there is a sense among israelis that one of the last of his generation is gone now. >> thank you for that. leaders around the world had been paying tribute to ariel sharon. barack obama described him as a leader who dedicated his life to the state of israel, and angela merkel praised him for making concessions to the palestinians. merkel said his courageous decision to withdraw israeli settlers from the gaza strip are represented a historical step towards reaching an agreement with the palestinians and a two state solution. and a british law firm are asking the international criminal court in the hague to investigate possible war crimes committed by british soldiers during the iraq war. their complaint calls for investigation into the actions of senior british officials who they say did nothing to stop the alleged abuse. iraqis filedf complaints of grave mistreatment between 2003 and 2000 eight. they accuse soldiers of subject

israelis head a candle ite vigil for former prime minister arial shar owen. he died after a spoke put him in a coma eight years ago. he lied in state. a memorial celebration is followed tomorrow. nick schifrin brings us more from jerusalem. >> draped in the flag for which he fought so ruthlessly, arial share rohn made one more trip to the heart of israeli power. outside parliament they said good buy. military officers he led and inspired calling them israeli protect occur and the israeli public who more often than not trusted him with their security. >> he was the one who really fight for our safety. >> fathers brought their children and some came all the way from new york. the image of him as a gruff, tough person was matched by a very soft interior. i saw it. i saw it when i brought my children to him. >> sharon was the pillar of israeli strength. for many others, he was a symbol of israeli cruelty. no where was that more apparent than the small palestinian town of kibia. memorial signs. in the memory of 73 mohammed hal ill they remember october 14th, 1953.

what they would have wanted to see is arial sharon be taken to an international court, tried for what they see are the crimes committed against them. but that never happened. there were numerous attempts, but amount of survivors have also said sharon's death is not going to change much for us because he was just an israel official. it's a possible. it's a state policy which they believe the israeli government will never allow these people to going back home. hundreds of thousands want to go back home in compliance with u.n. resolution giving them the right to return. >> gill hoffman, a chief political correspondent of "jerusalem post." he joins us from jerusalem. thank you for being with us today? >> pleasure. good evening. >> i know you have interviewed sharon. i am curious to know what that was like and what he was like on a personal level? >> a very charging person. in a way, he is the opposite of netanya netanyahu. ♪net on television comes across very well but in person is not quite as endearing, whereas sharon, somewhat never liked giving large speeches to big crowds and never li

>> one of the companies that we are involved with right now is eopostale.l -- arial pos it is doing terribled is down. we think that the company should be sold, they are going to return around just going through a turnaround -- they are going through a turnaround. equitynow that private often looks to real estate targets as part of the education with the hope and a private equity firm will approach you and say that i realize this company could be run better, let's make a deal. >> we think the company should be sold, and the likely buyers would be pe firms or another retailer. sayingwent to activists sell yourself, or be taken private. does that public it thinks that obligate things -- complicate things? >> what we said was that we intend to nominate directors, and unless the company sold before that week intend to -- and unless the company sold before that, we intend ball through. -- to follow through. >> this is indicative of what we see as a new rise in the act activism -- andy activism machine --anti-activism machine. like a shareholder did not where it was going in the company, they woul

. >> this is an arial view of pier 96 and the reason that i am showing you this is because of the trees and if you look down and you can count at least a dozen trees and it is part of the forest of the city and part of the forest of the port when i mentioned clean energy and conservation, those are the twin pillars of trying to manage the greenhouse gases but there is a third, and the trees and the vegetation and absorbs the carbon and even though we are admitting the carbon, maintaining the forest is a fantastic way to take advantage of sequestration. the port gardeners are responsible for a lot of this. a couple of years ago, they have documented over 1600 trees, by species and by block. and they are coordinating when they can with the city's urban forester and it was a fantastic effort, again not required by any ordinance or outside agency, but the initiative of port staff, the gardeners did a great job there. calling on the staff report as well, the city of san francisco has made a significant commitment to addressing the climate change through the climate adaptation but also throug

white house has sent vice president joe biden to jerusalem for the funeral of the late israeli leader arial sharon. and the president's team is closely watching the supreme court to watch the argument over recess appointments and whether they are constitutional. want to get your thoughts on whether the president can make recess appointments, under what conditions are the , if the court gears up to hear arguments today. here are the numbers to call. host: if not by phone you can @cspanwj, on twitter, facebook, and e-mail. " covershow "the hill the story. "nothing less than the boundaries of executive power are at stake monday as the supreme court considers whether president obama violated the constitution during his first term. oral arguments slated for monday will center on a trio of recess appointments to the national labor relations board. if they uphold the decision, experts say that the justices could endanger hundreds of nlrb decisions. even more significant other ramifications for feature presidents, the court poised to bolster or blended the chief executives appointment powers. 'ruli