i think it dates back to what's that bird from australia? that pre-historic bird. >> larry: the next guest can outjump kobe bryant, now if only he can shoot a basketball, who knows? maybe he can. that's in 60 seconds. stay with us. >> larry: we're trying to do that, we got one on the set with jack hanna. >> have you ever had a kangaroo on your set? >> larry: i don't think so. this is a gray one. >> it's a marsupial, like a baby is born like a worm, as big as your fingernail. comes out of the birth canal. outside of the fur. it lives six months in the pouch for six months and attaches to the breast there. it's a marsupial like the koala and mammals like that. they have speeds up to 40 miles an hour. they live in groups called a mob. see how he stands up? when they're full-grown, larry, it can stand higher than you can. one guy, two years ago was killed in australia. how was that? kangaroos are afraid of people basically. you see the claw, the foot on the camera right there, see that right there? that thing becomes about eight inches long, lar

she went to australia to hook up with tiger. we followed her half-way around the world to australia. we saw her get off on the 35th floor of the hotel where tiger was staying. rachel is denying this. we feel comfortable with our report. we have multiple sours. >> let me ask you this. >> sure. >> has anybody threatened to sue you over the story? >> no. we have not received any threats of a lawsuit. tiger's people denied the story. we went to them for comment. rachel denied the story. i'm told she has an attorney, a great attorney, gloria allred in california. we have not received communication. >> that's one of the last things i would want is gloria allred chewing my behind, i can tell you that. let me ask you this, the alleged other woman gave her side of the story. let bego to our chief editorial director. she's denying the affair. >> rachel uchitel gave a very long interview -- >> rambling. she kept saying the same thing over and over. >> it happened last week, before she was using the services of gloria allred. she tells the

plus, larry, these animals are quite prevalent in australia. they're still raised for meat in certain parts like cattle are. their speeds -- they can go 30 feet in one hop, by the way. >> larry: 30 feet in a hop. >> thank you, david jackson. beautiful animal. >> larry: the next is a spider monkey. >> this is anita jackson. this lady here is tremendous. what they rescue. this was found in los angeles in a dumpster. someone had this in a dumpster, larry. >> larry: in a dumpster. >> yeah. tried to have it as a pet. what happens, you can see how the legs are all crumpled up. and anita now, they took this little animal and raised it. no one wanted it, obviously. it was almost dying. because no one took care of it. people say oh, the monkey's a pet. that's the worst thing you could possibly do. they carry disease-a nita will tell you they bite, and it's against the law in some places. >> larry: why the term spider? >> because look at these hands and legs here. this is deformed okay? but a real spider monkey his arms are like a big spider. and he goes

much worse than australia's.them out free to high emissions industries would have a material effect on budget prospects. so it's how we handle this issue is not only important for managing the big effort that's required on climate change but going to have a significant effect on our ka passionty to bring bud -- capacity to bring budgets back into shape in the aftermath of the great crash. the u.s. and china announcements last week, i talk as being very helpful in the approach to copenhagen. we would like both to have been stronger but both do represent big shifts in position from a couple of years ago. the whole world needs china and the u.s. to be taking strong positions if we're going to get a strong global agreement and i don't think that we should use disappointment that the u.s. or for that matter china is doing enough as an excuse for the rest of us becoming less ambitious because there's too much at stake. thank you. [applause] >>. >> good morning. my thanks to brookings and anu for the opportunity to shar

much worse than australia's. being able to auction permits rather than giving them out free to high emissions industries would have a material effect on budget prospects. so it's how we handle this issue is not only important for managing the big effort that's required on climate change but going to have a significant effect on our ka passionty to bring bud -- capacity to bring budgets back into shape in the aftermath of the great crash. the u.s. and china announcements last week, i talk as being very helpful in the approach to copenhagen. we would like both to have been stronger but both do represent big shifts in position from a couple of years ago. the whole world needs china and the u.s. to be taking strong positions if we're going to get a strong global agreement and i don't think that we should use disappointment that the u.s. or for that matter china is doing enough as an excuse for the rest of us becoming less ambitious because there's too much at stake. thank you. [applause] >>. >> good morning. my thank

so some of the island birds from australia and new zealand, for example, the early biologists didn't have access to that kind of tool. so it was a hit and miss, let's try and hatch the eggs in incubators, and they were trying to increase the number of eggs laid by what's now commonly called double clutching. you put the eggs in an incubator, and make another nest, and take the second eggs and let them hatch, and leave them with their third nest. >> host: the esoteric abilities that biologyis have, the ability to sit for days on end in the blazing sun and watch a bird in a cave, to count as one early -- i believe one early -- they count the number of lice it picked off its wing in the course of a day. and were there any particular skillsets that you were impressed by in your travels? >> guest: i was absolutely impressed by some of the rock-climbing ability. the stories i love is the rediscovery of the house eye lend stick insect, which is a stick insect that what thought to be extinction for 18 years, and we discovered it was surviving on a pinnacle of rock miles offshore with only on

state, and it's right across mainland china for example and growing fast in india and australia. slowly in europe but is growing. >> host: i'm afraid it is not just children who don't know what is out there. we live in the world now where wild places are isolated from the places where we all live most of us. >> guest: except we are urban sprawl nurse deeper and deeper into the lost places which is a total nightmare. >> host: i think as a result it is just not the same thing if you see it on tv or even in an imax theater so let me ask this question: if you could take the world that lives in the suburbs to a place where they could have the kind of epiphany that turn someone into a field biologist -- [laughter] -- where would you take him? how do you show them? >> guest: i've done that and i think to start with it is really important that they don't go anywhere to exotic. but to go somewhere that this lovely, safe, not filled with danger but where they can hear the birds singing, where there are streams and they can see the fish and maybe frogs and perhaps there is some deer that ki

australia, canada, turkey, brazil, they all went into recession after britain but they came out before britain. france and germany went into recession at the same time as britain. and yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this. given that all those countries are now in growth and we are not in growth -- can he tell us what on earth he meant when he said and i quote we were leading the rest of the world out of recession? >> mr. speaker, not one policy from the leader of the opposition -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize northern iraq opposed by the party adversary. we have taken action for a fiscal stimulus and kept poverty down for jobs opposed by the opposition. they have been wrong on the recession. they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the voice may be that of a modern public relations man. the mindset -- the mindset is that of the 1930s. >> i think that one must have sounded great in the bunker. the fact is, the one policy this country needs above all is a credible program for getting the biggest budget deficit in the g20 un

there are three or four countries, the u.k., australia, can live up -- canada, and italy, with syria's troops. the rest of there for political, not military support. it is embarrassing to call it an international coalition when it is nothing of the sort -- there rest of them there are political, not military. caller: thank you very much for your astute research. i want to ask you, do you see any correlation with this military expansion, the movement from a draft service to an all- volunteer service in the sense that americans do not have any skin in the game anymore? people volunteer for military services for their own agendas and motives. guest: i think there's a big correlation. i do not agree with robert about the motives for entering the military. i work with a lot of veterans, and they joined because they need a job. that is more prevalent than ever. 2008 was the first year since 9/11 and that the military has been able to make their quotas without reducing standards, and it is because people cannot find a job. i was on tour in the midwest, in milwaukee, and i spoke at technical c

australia has had the opposition conservative party just allis its leader for supporting climate change. we have one in italy and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh. it seems like there is a clear and turmoil on the right -- there is a clear turmoil. >> there are a lot of voices in both parties and there is a different motive in terms of those in the media than those of us who owe it to our constituents to live up to promises made. i think you are right in that people are castoff in this country -- people are pissed off in this country. as people are out of work they become more enraged with government. >> if you want to talk employment -- if you want to talk about unemployment you do not want to talk about obama being a racist. >> people are looking for leadership and they don't care about that issue. >> when you have that put on the agenda that is a problem. >> i want to make this a less partisan and talk about history. my history does not kopach. law but i remember the 1990 costs where we made a budget deficit and made a surplus. we gave that to the republicans and lost the su

the burned areas to see if there are more injuries or possibilities of death to the residents in australia. those affected are being holed up in emergency shelters. >>> the first automated toll plazas are open in leavenworth, kansas. >>> the parade of entertainment award shows is just getting started. a preview of when you will be able to see it coming up. >>> plus, a violent incident raises question about safety at area hospitals. kim has the forecast. >> i'm checking high clouds across the area. they are whispering a telltale of the next weather maker. all the weather scoop is up next. you are watching 9 news now. good morning. have you gotten your seasonal flu vaccination? great - but your work's not done yet. we still need to get the h1n1 flu vaccination. you, me -- we should all get one. the vaccine is safe and proven effective against this highly contagious new strain of flu virus. we can help prevent the spread of this virus if we all just roll up our sleeves. to learn more about the h1n1 flu vaccination visit h1n1get1.com or call your local health department it's up to you to fight

leaderin western australia declared a natural disaste today as a pr of massive wildfires raged. the fires bre out tuesday in a wheat ansheep farming district, rth of the coastal city of perth. since then, flames have orched more than 33,000 acres of rest d farmland, and destroyed roughly 40 homes. the u.s. goverent has injected more aid into thauto financing giant, g.m.a.c. the new assistance will tota around nearly $4 billion the companalready received more than $12 billion. it w a slow day on wall street. the dow jones dustrial average gained three points to close at 10,548. the nasdaq rose more tn two points to close at 2,291. those are me of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end ofhe program with a preew of what you'll find tonighon the "nshour's" web site. bufor now, back to gwen. ifill: and now, to the potics of national security, especially theole congress plays. for that, we are joid by new jersey democrat bi pascrell, jr.-- a member of the hoe homend security committee. and utah republin jason chaffetz, who rves on the house coittee on oversight and government

harper at the commonwealth conference, and we had a discussion with other countries, including australiawho are involved in afghanistan, and new zealand to are also it is my view, that in kandahar and then helmand there will be a greater number of troops next year than there are this year. while some countries that make difficult decisions that they themselves have responsibility to take, overall, the numbers of troops in those provinces will rise. . . it is the biggest threat to our general mcchrystal and taken to the provinces there? >> i am grateful to my honorable friend to for what he says. it is essential that we corrupt administration in afghanistan. we need to make sure where money administration for spending within afghan administration, there is an afghan reconstruction fund and we try to make sure that moneys are going for the purposes that they are intended for it is more general point about the coordination of military and civilian work is an important one. we need to look at that as a part of the agenda of the london conference. we try to bring together the military and civ

a story alleged that woods and a new york nightclub hostess had been having an arrangement in australia. the woman met in los angeles sunday and met with her attorney, gloria allred and denied having an affair with woods. woods says there are many false, unfounded and malicious rumors currently circulating about my family and me and that they are irresponsible. to discuss this, here in los angeles, mark geragos, the famed defense attorney. in new york, howard bragman, the celebrity publicist and crisis communications expert. what's your overall read on this story, mark? >> i think you've got a situation where, number one, there is some criminal exposure, which is why the police want to talk to them. >> larry: exposure for whom? >> for both. you've got a situation where the police are investigating number one whether they believe domestic violence took place. so that would target tiger's wife and number two, you have the parallel investigation, was he driving under the influence. so when you hear reports today by the sheriff saying or the police department saying that they want to get a

they have roughly 400 hard-core followers, and include people from france, germany, australia, i've been told, as well as foreign fighters from egypt and pakistan. >> can you how much popular support it has there? i mean, you're on the ground. what do you see in terms of any support for it or feeling for it on the streets? >> well, you don't see any graffiti or outright, you know, support for al-qaeda, but you're also talking about a country that has sent owe over the years has sent thousands of fighters to fight in afghanistan and iraq, basically fighting to liberate muslims from nonmuslims. in this sense there's this great sympathy for al-qaeda, because of their core message of protecting muslims and fighting for muslims, but at the same time most yemenis don't want to see suicide bombers in the streets every day. >> what about yemen as a failed state, whether it's the kind of place where terror groups can fill a power vacuum? what do you see, again, just around the country, or looking at how government works or doesn't work? what do you see? >> yeah. i wouldn't called it a failed stat

penn australiaed ... central failed. dominos fell. >> reporter: did they thk they might have be bailed ouby the government? >> i'm sure they did. >> reporter: so we have th long shoreman's strike, penn central. plenty of examples. bring us to the presen why did everyone then prume that financial institution were going to bailed out whenhis current crisis started to happen? >> wl, you have to ask the people whoere participants questions like that. r me sitting back it didn't seem tme that any sense of a strategy of what they we doing. thereby letting peoplenow in finaial markets how they were going tbe behave and how they were ing to react to tngs. >>eporter: but once they're confronted with the terror of a froz, locked market where nobody willend to anybody else and my credit card mit not work going down the store, well, they're afrai that thawill happen throhout the economy. they felt they had to something, n >> i think if you lookt the kinds of iicators that people try to judge panic by, it spreads a things like thatwh

as ray and i discuss earlier: six nations: t u.s., australia, france, japan, rway and itain pledged $3.5illion today for a program call "redd": "reducing emissionfrom deforestation d forest degradation." the money will fance a u.n.- backed plan to reward develong nationfor saving carbon-rictropical forests. can "redd" maka difference? jonathon milr of independent television news nt to the heart the world's largest rainforest recentlto find out. >> reporter: the are many in reporter: we traveled 2,000 miles ross the amazon basin, which contains more thanalf the wods remaining rainforest, to ask brazil'amazon pioneers what they make of this plan. could they be enticed toreat this forest as thelobal resource we all like to thk it is? and, who amo the amazons 30 million people, stands to ga? thplans known as rd and a couple of weeks from n, it its success will hinge on wealthcountries convincing amazonians that money rely can grow on trees and that ty'd literally be better off aving their forest intac the past, logging has simpl been too profitae. and now the idea bind redd is that, left unt

australia used it for their own purposes. and with respect to the possibility of bioterrorism, theories a long list of problems, anthrax, botulism, smallpox. and we seem to be bogged down in bureaucratic infighting between a couple of federal agencies with the rumor department at the fence in the border not -- or darpo not going ahead with the briefings at the very highest level with the vice president, secretary sebelius and director orszag and my question to you is, isn't this a problem of such magnitude and with our experience with h1n1 that we ought to be moving ahead properly to try to find some way to deal with vaccines should we have a bioterrorist attack? >> senator, i think that the -- first of all, on the vaccine question, we are now catching up in terms of projections and availability of vaccine. and we still to need to encourage the american public to get that h1n1 vaccine. >> but our attempts haven't been too good so far. >> it is now a very robust production schedule. and it is, like a -- we will at some point i

but i believe it's when the men got taken, gayrecord and peter bunch from australia got taken from the vice and virtue prison which is basically a holding cell, and they were put in the same prison as the women were held in, that's when things started to click, and they eventually were able to start passing notes back and forth. so communication started pretty early in the first prison. burr, yeah, it was kind of an unfolding thing. it took everybody about two months or two weeks to realize who was in and who was out. >> one of the guards before, at risk of his own life, one of the guards slipped a package that gaylord's wife had left with one of the justice ministers in the taliban, had gotten to the prison. and gaylord within 48 hours realized that his wife and two sons had been able to escape. and so you can imagine how emotional that was for him to know that at least his family and other members of the shelter now organization were able to escape. but at the risk of their own lives, these members of the taliban got this information to gaylord and let him know that. it was one of a

in sydney, australia more than a million people turned up to watch fireworks over the city's landmark harbor bridge. fireworks also lit up the skies over red square in moscow. back in the u.s., crowds began gathering in new york's times square under a light snow for the ball drop at midnight. security is stepped up there, with police and other officials planning a sweep of the area for biological contaminants. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's website. but for now back to jeff. >> brown: and still to come on the newshour tonight. conversations with economists about their failure to warn of the recession. a review of the past decade in politics. and the poetry of vera pavlova. but first president obama received a preliminary report today about last week's attempt to blow up a u.s. airliner. in a written statement issued in hawaii, where he's on vacation, the president said he plans to hold white house meetings next tuesday to discuss improved intelligence-sharing between governme

penn australiaed ... central failed. no dominos fell. >> reporter: did they think they might have been bailed out by the government? >> i'm sure they did. >> reporter: so we have the long shoreman's strike, penn central. plenty of examples. bring us to the present. why did everyone then presume that financial institutions were going to be bailed out when this current crisis started to happen? >> well, you have to ask the people who were participants questions like that. for me sitting back it didn't seem to me that any sense of a strategy of what they were doing. thereby letting people know in financial markets how they were going to be behave and how they were going to react to things. >> reporter: but once they're confronted with the terror of a frozen, locked market where nobody will lend to anybody else and my credit card might not work going down to the store, well, they're afraid that that will happen throughout the economy. they felt they had to do something, no? >> i think if you look at the kinds of indicators t

two species of what are called gastric brooding frogs were discovered in northeastern australia.the female swallow the fertilized eggs. the eggs hatch in her stomach, back tadpoles. and when they reach a certain level of development they vomits them out to continue their development into adulthood. >> a rather quirky version of the maternal instinct that raises a question for the curious. how did the kitty keep from being digested from mom's stomach acid. >> these tadpoles secreted substances that prevent ed their being digested. so scientists were very interested in finding out what these substances were because they may have provided treatment and maybe even prevention for peptic you will crer disease which affects -- ulcer disease which affect -- million americans. >> just a few exhibits away, however, what fate soon befell these unfortunate amphibians. >> this is the exploring extinctions exhibit. the dodo bird extinct. the gray hawk extinct, and here is the gastric brooding frog, in that jar. the only frogs anywhere in the world that raise their young in their stomach are no

. >> courier well-known in france and australia, runner up at the open in '91, a finalist at all four slams. >> all the tried a of great americans all did something a little different to distinguish themselves. courier won the french, something sampras never did. agassi won a career slam. sampras gets the greatest of all-time, but other guys have done things even he was unable to do. one thing about all the guys is they all had a hand in davis cup achievements for the u.s. '92 might have been the best davis cup team ever assembled. jim courier, andre agassi, pete sampras, john mcenroe. >> there are your slam wirns. . >> where have all the left handers gone? jimmie conners and john mcenroe. not too many lefties out there anymore except for the spaniard. andre. >> sampras part of that team in '92 but then in '95 when the u.s. won it against russia, did he win all three points? >> yes he did. doubles with todd martin. the '92 team, sampras and mcenroe played doubles. that was mcenroe's last davis cup match. >> set points here. >> and pete sampras with relative ease and a couple of breaks

independence party, they've got a bigger chunk than they've had before, australia, which i have's had the opposition conservative party there, just ousted their leader there for supporting climate change. we've not northern leagues in italy, and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh about what is the true republican party. it seems to me that there is a very clear term out on the right, which also will be a problem. >> adam, i've always said this -- there are a lot of voices in both parties, and there are those in public office and those not, and there is a different notive often in terms of those in the media than perhaps those of us who owe it to our constituents to live up to the promises made. and i think you're right in that people are pissed off, you know, in this country, because there's a lack of demonstrable result. and as people are out of work, they become even more enraged at a lack of deliverables on the part of government. >> you don't want to talk about, as i understand it, whether barack obama is deeply racist, right? >> you want to talk about -- i mean, listen, pe

well over 13,000 soldiers from the united kingdom and across the commonwealth, canada, australia and are currently serving in afghanistan, the debt of gratitude owed to these young men and women and their predecessors is profound. it is 60 years since the commonwealth was created, and with more than 1 billion of its members under the age of 25, the organization remains a strong and practical force for good. recently i attended the commonwealth heads of government meeting in trinidad and tobago and heard how important the commonwealth is too young people. >> i think the commonwealth means unity to us in terms of the fact that we are over 50 countries coming together. >> it is a model of friendship very important in today's world. >> it is a group of countries that practices human rights and equality torus all. that is what attracts me. >> my feeling of what the commonwealth means is unity among different countries and appreciating diversity, and creating a family feeling across the world. >> [unintelligible] >> new communication technologies allow them to reach out to the world and sh

they've seen a huge increase in their volumes of experts to australia. why can't we do the same thing here? when it comes to contractors, contractors all around the country know that this is work they can do. they can do effectively, they can do well. and it's reliable business. it's not going to be subject to as much of the vacillations as home sales are in the current environment where you have a soft housing market. this can help fill the void in a major industry that's taken a big hit. the workers, we have somebody who just got trained, already on the job crawling through attics and putting this stuff together. other the course of six month or a year, somebody can get trained effectively, leo is doing terrific work. this means people who are unemployed, they can get a marketable skill that they can take anywhere. so this is a smart thing to do. and we've got to get beyond this point where we think that somehow being smart on energy is a job destroyer, it is a job creator. but it's going to require some imagination and foresight. it requires us to wor

australia's parliament defeat add cap and tax bill.her nations will follow suit, and particularly as the climate e-mail scandal continues to unfold. " kenneth, independents line in roseland, virginia. good morning. caller: this copenhagen conference is the most important item. be sure to start your series this morning with it. now, associated press brought out the fact that the developing nations who face huge climate change burdens are demanding that wealthy nations shoulder more than their share. there is a split there. ing another news program reported that james sensenbrenner reported that he is going to copenhagen and despite any promises obama made, no new laws will be passed in the u.s. until the scientific questions are solved by the fault fiction of data, which is startling. now, in addition, lord monkton, he was interviewed last night on the alex jones program and he says he is going to the chief of police in the united kingdom and report on violation of the law by the university of east anglia where the climate unit is heade

woke up the news -- if you could fit it in between the tiger woods story -- the news would say, australia is gone. this is an ecosystem that effects the entire planet and effects the weather in the entire planet, on the entire planet. so when this goes -- it's not even a question of if, but when it goes, things will change. they will not change for the better, they will change for the worse. so what does that mean for human beings? it means we may not be able to stop this, we may go to copenhagen, and we say say let's vote for this or let's vote to vote for this at some other time, let's cap emissions, see if we can slow this down, but the chances are we won't. the chances are they won't be coming out of copenhagen a massive intention to stop global warming. there'll be a lot of talking about it, but it's not going to happen easily, it's not going to happen quickly. so what we're looking at here is not necessarily the the elimination of the human race immediately, but we're sure looking at the elimination of the polar bear. this is the cover of "newsweek". the polar bear got itself, with

would say to the senator from alaska, these prescription drugs would be able to be reimported from australia, new zealand and european countries that have an identical chain of custody to our chain of custody so there is safety. we're in politics so on the floor of the united states senate is the place of a lot of tall tales. i understand that. mr. begich: i'm learning that as a new member. mr. dorgan: early on, one of my colleagues said this is about untested, unregulated drugs coming from parts of the soviet union. that is so unbelievable. it's not describing an amendment that i offered. nothing on the floor that i'm aware of. we're talking about a chain of custody identical to the u.s. when that's the case, if it's the case, why would the american people not have the freedom to acquire that same drug when it's sold at 1-teth or 1 half the price? mr. begich: i have one last question. even though we didn't ask for a colloquy, this is kind of a colloquy. i appreciate the back and forth. this is one reason why i support this bill is for all the reasons that you laid out, the control is ther

australia, canada, turkey, brazil, they all went into recession after britain but they came out beforebritain. france and germany went into recession at the same time as britain. and yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this. given that all those countries are now in growth and we are not in growth -- can he tell us what on earth he meant when he said and i quote we were leading the rest of the world out of recession? >> mr. speaker, not one policy from the leader of the opposition -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize northern iraq opposed by the party adversary. we have taken action for a fiscal stimulus and kept poverty down for jobs opposed by the opposition. they have been wrong on the recession. they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the voice may be that of a modern public relations man. the mindset -- the mindset is that of the 1930s. >> i think that one must have sounded great in the bunker. the fact is, the one policy this country needs above all is a credible program for getting the biggest budget deficit in the g20 und

australia, we had the opposition conservative party this and just ousted leader to supporting climate change. and we got northern leaps before italy and here we have, you know glenn beck and rush limbaugh and an argument about what is the true republican party. it seems to me there is a very clear turmoil on the right, which is also, will be a problem. >> and adam i always said this. there radio a lot of voices in both parties and those are those in public office and those not. there's a different motive often in terms of those in the media, than perhaps those of us who owe it to our constituents to live up to the promises made. and -- i think you're right in that -- people are angry in this country. because there's a lack of demonstrable results. and as people are out of work, they become more enraged at a hack of deliverable party government. >> if you wrant to talk about unemployment, you don't want to talk about barack obama and if he is racist? >> you want to talk about, people are looking for leadership now and they don't care about that issue. they care about getting back to wo

well over 13,000 soldiers from the united kingdom and across the commonwealth, canada, australia and are currently serving in afghanistan, the debt of gratitude owed to these young men and women and their predecessors is profound. it is 60 years since the commonwealth was created, and with more than 1 billion of its members under the age of 25, the organization remains a strong and practical force for good. recently i attended the commonwealth heads of government meeting in trinidad and tobago and heard how important the commonwealth is too young people. >> i think the commonwealth means unity to us in terms of the fact that we are over 50 countries coming together. >> it is a model of friendship very important in today's world. >> it is a group of countries that practices human rights and equality torus all. that is what attracts me. >> my feeling of what the commonwealth means is unity among different countries and appreciating diversity, and creating a family feeling across the world. >> [unintelligible] >> new communication technologies allow them to reach out to the world and sh

there are three or four countries, the u.k., australia, can live up -- canada, and italy, with syria's troops. the rest of there for political, not military support. it is embarrassing to call it an international coalition when it is nothing of the sort -- there rest of them there are political, not military. caller: thank you very much for your astute research. i want to ask you, do you see any correlation with this military expansion, the movement from a draft service to an all- volunteer service in the sense that americans do not have any skin in the game anymore? people volunteer for military services for their own agendas and motives. guest: i think there's a big correlation. i do not agree with robert about the motives for entering the military. i work with a lot of veterans, and they joined because they need a job. that is more prevalent than ever. 2008 was the first year since 9/11 and that the military has been able to make their quotas without reducing standards, and it is because people cannot find a job. i was on tour in the midwest, in milwaukee, and i spoke at technical c

countries operating under united nations authority, the united kingdom, canada, germany, france, poland, australia and others, have over 30,000 troops in afghanistan and have suffered casualties as 2010, therefor example there will be more than 140,000 u.s. and allied military personnel inñr afghanistan. as of september 2009, there were 104 contractor employees working for the department of defense in afghanistan. the congressional research service estimated just this week that the troops surge in afghanistan could raise the number of d.o.d. contractors working there to between 130,000 and 160,000. we would note that those numbers, striking as they are, do not include the thousands of department of state and u.s. a.i.d. contractors in afghanistan. considerably speaking, then, the total war fighter and contractor work force in that country will likely exceed 300,000 by the end of 2010. the u.n. sanction military presence in afghanistan is large and growing. but we must note the challenge there is also large and becoming more acute. afghanistan is nearly the size of texas, but unlike texas it's most

australia has had the opposition conservative party just allis its leader for supporting climate change. we have one in italy and here we have glenn beck and rush limbaugh. it seems like there is a clear and turmoil on the right -- there is a clear turmoil. >> there are a lot of voices in both parties and there is a different motive in terms of those in the media than those of us who owe it to our constituents to live up to promises made. i think you are right in that people are castoff in this country -- people are pissed off in this country. as people are out of work they become more enraged with government. >> if you want to talk employment -- if you want to talk about unemployment you do not want to talk about obama being a racist. >> people are looking for leadership and they don't care about that issue. >> when you have that put on the agenda that is a problem. >> i want to make this a less partisan and talk about history. my history does not kopach. law but i remember the 1990 costs where we made a budget deficit and made a surplus. we gave that to the republicans and lost the su

-approved medications from canada, europe, australia, new zealand and japan and then pass on savings to consumers. real health care reform requires real changes from business as usual, and this amendment would start to bring some real changes. opening up new choices to american consumers and injecting new competition into the pharmaceutical marketplace. thank you, mr. president. and i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina is recognized. i'm sorry, louisiana. okay, senator vitter, i'm sorry. mr. vitter: thank you, mr. president. [inaudible] mr. president, i rise also in strong support of the dorgan reimportation amendment of which i'm a coauthor, and i'm glad to support this important amendment and it's a bipartisan effort. unfortunately most of this debate and most of this effort about the underlying bill is anything but bipartisan. this is a welcome contrast to that, a bipartisan effort around a very important reform propos proposal: reimportation of prescription drugs. now, mr. president, we face an interesting situation.

the united states again trails japan, australia, france, sweden, and many other countries. these statistics show that we're not spending our health care resources wisely. the system is failing to identify and treat people with conditions early on that can be controlled. part of the answer without question is expanding coverage. too many americans cannot afford basic health care because they lack basic health insurance. but another piece of the puzzle is ensuring this coverage provides affordable access to preventive care. the ability to be screened ear early, and that's what the mikulski amendment will accomplish. women need preventive care, screenings and tests that potentially -- that potentially serious or fatal illnesses can be found early and treated effectively. we all know individuals who have benefited from this type of ca care. a mammogram that suddenly identifies an early cancer, before did has spread, before it has metastasized. a pap smear that finds precancerous cells that can be removed before they progress to cancer and cause serious health problems. choleste

guest: brazil, argentina, australia. spain. a wide variety.st: what is not happening in trade that you think would change and make it more profit frbl you? guest: from a small business perspective a deeper committee comment from the government to help small business overcome barriers that exist. such as financing that's key to us. export, import bank of the united states has done a good job but a lot of people don't know about the export, import bank and what they do and how they can help. also, the u.s. trade representative represents all businesses in this country as far as negotiating and opening markets. i think it would be a statement well received by the small business community to see an assistant u.s. trade representative for small business. there's not such a position at this point in time. host: many people don't understand how the import and export bank can help. guest: provides our end use customers. say our customers in brazil. they provide the credit guarantee. we bring the packages and it's under written and fits accepted they p

harper at the commonwealth conference, and we had a discussion with other countries, including australia who are involved in afghanistan, and new zealand to are also it is my view, that in kandahar and then helmand there will be a greater number of troops next year than there are this year. while some countries that make difficult decisions that they themselves have responsibility to take, overall, the numbers of troops in those provinces will rise. . . it is the biggest threat to our general mcchrystal and taken to the provinces there? >> i am grateful to my honorable friend to for what he says. it is essential that we corrupt administration in afghanistan. we need to make sure where money administration for spending within afghan administration, there is an afghan reconstruction fund and we try to make sure that moneys are going for the purposes that they are intended for it is more general point about the coordination of military and civilian work is an important one. we need to look at that as a part of the agenda of the london conference. we try to bring together the military and ci

harper at the commonwealth conference, and we had a discussion with other countries, including australia who are involved in afghanistan, and new zealand who were also present at the conference. it is my view, that in kandahar and then helmand there will be a greater number of troops next year than there are this year. while some countries that make difficult decisions that they themselves have responsibility to take, overall, the numbers of troops in those provinces will rise. the numbers of troops in those provinces will rise. . . >> the prime minister has made reference to the 43 nations in the coalition, but he must accept the best majority of our allies have not contributed troops on the ground in afghanistan. can i ask him one specific question which i believe will be a great help for our service men and women and that is the deployment of more unmanned aerial vehicles to help detect terrorist activities? that. that the numbers would rise as an essential part of our strategy. that this surveillance take place so that we can discover and dismantle the ied's that 8% of the debts cros

united states ranks 37 in terms of health system performance, compared with five other countries australia, canada germany, they rank next-door last to ask on efficiency at quincy. sometimes these groups pull even. take all of the world paul country and say how do you feel about your own health care system? and we end up way, way down below behind other countries. you know, recently while the canadian health care system is being attacked every single day, they did a poll in canada. and they said every what do you think about your health care system? able in america say you have a poor do you want to trump your system and adopt the american system? by overwhelming numbers, overwhelming numbers, the people of canada said thank you i'm in no thank you we know the american system, we will stay with our sistan. i was in the united kingdom and had an interesting experience. and i met with a number of people in the conservative party, not the labour party, not the liberal democratic party, the conservative party. the party which likely will become the government of their country. and the conserva

the united kingdom, canada, and australia have commissions that do this. it is more nonpartisan, and you will get more competition. the objective is not only equal population, contiguous competition -- contiguous population. you add the fourth variable of maximizing competition. maximizing competition, the theory goes -- if you have competition in a general election, candidates move geologically more in the middle. they have more stability and less partisanship going on. this has changed from 30% -- actually, 33% moderates when i was on the hill in 1973. it is down to about 2% right now. it is really very difficult to get 60 votes or get people from another party to be bipartisan. that means that somebody is at the table at the beginning, negotiating things and contributing to a bill, not just announcing what the bill is after the majority party presented. there was more bipartisanship with moderates in 1973. i worked with hubert humphrey in 1973. he reached out to goldwater and the minority leader, the republican quite often on much of the legislation. in

to go to 30% if we can get an ambitious settlement where other countries join them, if japan and australia and brazil can go further and if we can see the movement that we want to see from the other partners, then our wishes to go to 30%. we will have to get not only intermediary targets, but plans for developing countries and we will have to get a financial agreement can verification that issues will be raised as well. there is a lot of work still to be done. i know that he wants to get the most ambitious agreement possible and i am grateful for the support you give us. >> mr. speaker,

australia, we had the opposition conservative party this and just ousted leader to supporting climate change. and we got northern leaps before italy and here we have, you know glenn beck and rush limbaugh and an argument about what is the true republican party. it seems to me there is a very clear turmoil on the right, which is also, will be a problem. >> and adam i always said this. there radio a lot of voices in both parties and those are those in public office and those not. there's a different motive often in terms of those in the media, than perhaps those of us who owe it to our constituents to live up to the promises made. and -- i think you're right in that -- people are angry in this country. because there's a lack of demonstrable results. and as people are out of work, they become more enraged at a hack of deliverable party government. >> if you wrant to talk about unemployment, you don't want to talk about barack obama and if he is racist? >> you want to talk about, people are looking for leadership now and they don't care about that issue. they care about getting back to wo