now, heading over to europe, a stubborn low-pressure system has been impacting the balkan peninsula and much of turkey with very heavy precipitation as well as gusty winds. many thunderstorms have been reported in greece, while the rest of the balkan peninsula and turkey have been severely affected by heavy snow. we have some video coming out of turkey. snow started falling here on tuesday night, blanketing many areas. daily life has been heavily affected. residents and officials are struggling to clear roads and dig out cars and homes, but the children seem to be enjoying the winter weather. again, it's a very slow moving system. so the heavy snow will likely persist here into friday. over the weekend, things will be clearing up, but temperatures will dip way below average in turkey. meanwhile, a large low-pressure system is moving into the british isles bringing very heavy snow to ireland and very strong winds to much of the region, as well as norway as the system pushes on to the east. southern norway will start to see heavy snow, and the line of showers will move over western europe

in fact, the balkan peninsula has already seen wintry weather this week and it's still dealing with a lot of problems. this is some video coming out of you serbia. snow has piled up as much as three meters. residents are struggling to dig out from all the snow, and cars are getting stuck as well. in addition to the traffic problems, water and power supplies have been affected as well. so in the next 24 hours, the balkan peninsula will see another round of snowy weather, and snow could intensify over the weekend. so that could worsen the situation. but it's a different story for much of the british isles, the iberian peninsula and france. a high pressure system is bringing lots of sunny weather. we're expecting 15 degrees in lisbon and 10 in madrid and across the east still warmer than average, moscow will be coming in at 2 degrees and the same goes for war saw and getting up to 13 degrees in athens. all right. that's it for me now. here is your extended forecast. . that's it for me now. here is your extended forecast. >>> our lead story this hour, u.s. leaders are asking for japan's h

if i step out of the way, you can see this big storm here over the balkan peninsula. this one will be bringing gusts exceeding 100 kilometers per hour. stacks of snow in the upper elevations and thunderstorms towards the south. and that's all going to be heading in towards turkey saturday through sunday. so starting to see things recovering for the western balkans, as we head through the weekend. but it has to go somewhere. and it is going to be pushing east. temperatures then, we have 9 in london, 11 in paris, 12 in madrid, we're not doing too badly out here to the west. you can see the figures start to drop away into the single digits and the lower single digits by the time we hit central and eastern locations. up in stockholm, minus 2 is your high. here is your extended forecast. >>> once again, the top stories at this hour. the unemployment rate in eurozone nations remained at a record high of 10.3% in november. it shows that the region's spreading credit worries are still having a negative impact. the eu statistics office, euro stat, released the data friday. the

if i step out of the way, you can see this big storm here over the balkan peninsula. this one will be bringing gusts exceeding 100 kilometers per hour. stacks of snow in the upper elevations and thunderstorms towards the south. and that's all going to be heading in towards turkey saturday through sunday. so starting to see things recovering for the western balkans, as we head through the weekend. but it has to go somewhere. and it is going to be pushing east. temperatures then, we have 9 in london, 11 in paris, 12 in madrid, we're not doing too badly out here to the west. you can see figures start to drop away into the single digits and the lower single digits by the time we hit central and eastern locations. up in stockholm, minus 2 is your high. here is your extended forecast. >>> once again, the top stories at this hour. the unemployment rate in eurozone nations remained at a record high of 10.3% in november. it shows that the region's spreading credit worries are still having a negative impact. the eu statistics office, euro stat, released the data friday. the fig

european union in the coming years so creation is in except for integration of the balkans yes let's turn to the euro zone now we're seeing fresh and higher staring protests in portugal grow portugal greece cannot control come to terms with its international creditors and is on a break of bankruptcy there where do you think all this is heading for the eurozone . we're going to talk about the eurozone we're talking about those countries have the euro because which is not all around the european union but for the eurozone it does not look good in the in the i mean when it's a bit it all started in two thousand and three things look to quite different so will it last or will not last i mean people who claim that they know what the future of the eurozone is going to be i mean there we don't we don't let's not forget economics is not the science it's mainly a lot of it is just a. guess. and my guess for the moment is that it might fail but although i have always been a tepid support of the euro i hope not because the alternative is even worse or i will have to redo their former belgian i'

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the southern balkans. we'll get snow. if you are going to be watching richard quest again today, i know you will, quest means business, he'll be getting snowed on once again. we're going to accumulate in significant fashion as this low to the north is going to bring even more snow to the picturesque and gorgeous davos area. try to bundle up here. overnight temperatures, this is celsius, but we'll go 10 to 12 below through the overnight hours. it will be chilly. the average high temperature for this time of year is 1 below. that's cold enough. but we're going to be doing much worse than that. look at the overnight lows. frigid stuff through the rest of the week. again, we'll do that as well with more snow. stay with us. "world business today" continues after the break. you're watching cnn. >>> stocks are 100 point swing on monday before eventually closing. bill changed. investors were cautious of the debt talks in greece continued and eurozone finance ministers -- the dow dipped to 12,708. the nasdaq and s&p closed flat. r

membership but a poor turnout for the referendum and violent protests exposed deep divisions within the balkan nation. thanks for being with us six o'clock broadcasting from the heart of moscow karen tara syria has called an arab league proposals to resolve the crisis in the country a conspiracy the league calls on president assad to hand power to his deputy and form a national unity government pending elections damascus slammed the plan as interference in its attorney internal affairs and an attack on its sovereignty r.t. sarah firth is in the syrian capital. cooled president bashar al assad to step down and. his deputy they also called for the formation of a national unity government and that would be released early parliamentary and presidential elections now those schools have been viewed.

membership but a poor turnout for the referendum and violent protests exposed deep divisions within the balkan nation the country is now set to become the union's twenty state by july next year but only after all the other members ratify the move. next max and stacey discussed the upcoming economic forum in davos and whether the world's rich and powerful are actually up to anything useful kaiser report is next .

membership but a poor turn out for the referendum and violent protests exposed deep divisions within the balkan nation the country is now set to become the union's twentieth state by july of next year but only after all the other members ratify the move. coming up peter lavelle when his guests discuss political posturing and million dollar lobbyist handouts in the own going u.s. presidential campaigns crosstalk is next. and.

the situation will impact the northern balkan peninsula by friday afternoon, but it's a different story for the british isles, france and the eye beerian peninsula. a high pressure system is bringing dry and sunny conditions. we are expecting 10 degrees in madrid, 8 in paris, still warmer than average in moscow, with 2 degrees and the same goes for kiev. that's it for me now. here's your extent the forecast. >>> our lead story this hour, u.s. leaders are asking for japan's help trying to stop exports of iranian oil. the boycott penalizes foreign institutions that deal with iran's central bank. the japanese government will look into how to work with allies. they want to avoid any adverse impact to the economy. they say international cooperation is necessary to stop tehran's nuclear program. today, we get 10% of oil from iran. authorities believe it is possible to secure oil from other exporters. still, government leaders say the ban could cause oil prices to surge in the short term and place a heavy burden on japanese corporations and households. they plan to study ways to reduce oil imp

we stopped the war in the balkans, bought peace to the balkans. a number of other positive things. of course there are things that that might have been better. i think might have been better off. it was a marvelous four years to me and i will always be grateful to president clinton for letting him try to do that job. >> rose: dow find common themes in most of the characters you have created. because people who write about you look for this noti of the lost soul seeking -- >> and trying to find a family and all that. i didn't know it but peoe have told me. i don't see it. and but people have told me. >> rose: and you're not driven by that idea. >> i'm not driven by it at all. >> rose: it is not something you have at all. >> i get into the play and say oh my god there it is again. and i didn't even knowt was there. >> re: now that you know about it. >> looking for a family. >> rose: where do you think it comes from. >> probably being -- probably being abandoned when i was five years old and my mother remarrying something, we didn't get along and i went back to california to be with m

it is going to be stormy in the balkan peninsula friday.s of heavy rain, snow, strong winds expected. things are calmer in europe. alpine region will be wet and windy friday. gusts about 100 kilometers an hour are possible until friday afternoon. across the british isles, it is dry, but another round of wet weather is expected to impact the northern uk starting friday afternoon. we expect 9 degrees in london, the same for paris. warmer than average in miscowith 2, and 4 in kiev. i leave you now with the extended forecast. >>> u.s. president barack obama outlined a new defense strategy that will refocus on the asia pacific. the president cut the military budget as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's finances. the u.s. will strengthen its presence in asia in the face of cuts to other regions. military leaders say they want to counter the increasing strength of china. obama made the announcement in the first news conference at the pentagon by a u.s. president. the strategy took into account the end of the war in iraq and the windi

we were interested in the balkans. that was not what they were interested in. and the middle east peace which they were not interested in, and on the contrary, there was no follow-up on it. and so i think that four years were lost. and i have my own views about whether it was smart to isolate arafat. i happen to think that he regained stature of being a victim and a martyr rather than being somebody that even my own sense was the palestinian negotiators were feeling was not doing anything, that they were concerned about the fact that he wasn't proactive. so i think time has been lost, and a lot of people have died. and i hope very, very much that this is a time that the administration will get more involved, that the gaza withdrawal is a big opportunity, but it can't be the last. and it will require a very active american presence, and i do think that i believe in a bipartisan foreign policy. i said to myself over and over again when i was secretary, and i said it publicly, that i had all my partisan instincts surgically removed. they have clearly grown back. b

it is easing off into the balkans. minus 2 in moscow. 8 in berlin. 9 in vienna. 12 in london, 13 in paris. not too cold here, but it will be raining most of the week. here is your extended forecast. thanchts wraps it up for this edition of "newsline." join us at the top of the next join us at the top of the next hour. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

coming up a little later for you,ably zards in the balkans, snow caps brings trance fort a halt. what makes a great olympic ceremony? we'll talk to the people who know. >> hello again. the united nations security council has been discussing a draft resolution designed to end months of violence in syria. ackvists estimate more than 100 people have died in the past two days alone. the resolution backs an arab peace plan that calls for a national government. jeremy bowen reports from the damascus area. >> to find out the strength of the opposition, drive into the suburbs of damascus. we had no idea what we discovered. we found the free syria army deserted from the local men and government in a poor district on the edge of the city. they said they were protecting the people who were about to hold a funeral. they live well established here with sandbag firing positions. everyone was on edge for 10 months, the regime'ser forces have been cracking down hard on protestors. this commander said he had been a general in the syrian government forces. >> then something no one wanted to see. >

down towards the south, thunderstorms are gradually easing in southern italy and the southern balkan peninsula. the only drive spot is the aiberian peninsula. we expect 17 degrees in lisbon with plenty of sunshine. very warm in the east, zero degrees in moscow, and 5 degrees in warsaw. all right. i will leave you now with your extended forecast. impl implts. >>> a recap of the top story. toe sleeb ba is produced technology to give people hope. engineers have developed a mobile system to decontaminate areas affected by the nuclear accident at the fukushima daiichi power plant. government rules take effect later this month. then communities will begin full-scale decontamination work. toshiba spokespersons say their equipment can decontaminate 1.7 tons of soil and sludge per day and remove up to 97% of the radioactive substances. toshiba and japanese machinery maker ihi collaborated to develop a suspect to extract materials from water in reservoirs and sewage systems. the devices are based on technologies used to decontaminate the fukushima daiichi plant. >> translator: we'd like to dec

it is easing off into the balkans. minus 2 in moscow. 8 in berlin. 9 in vienna. 12 in london, 13 in paris. not too cold here, but it will be raining most of the week. here is your extended forecast. thanchts wraps it up for this edition of "newsline." join us at the top of the next join us at the top of the next hour. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

pressure system has been bringing thunderstorms, heavy precipitation, as well as gusty winds in the balkan peninsula as well as much of turkey. that will continue for the next couple days. a high pressure system is pushing on central europe, bringing dry weather, so rain in front, heavy snow in austria will ease on wednesday. we're expecting 11 degrees london on wednesday, and the same goes for paris. across the east still on the cold sigh with moscow with minus 11 degrees. i will leave you now with your extended forecast. ♪ >>> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine catherine kobayashi in tokyo. kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

last week, there are many in the balkans and other areas stranded, with airplanes grounded and main roadscked. more snow has also been forecast. bbc news. >> not just a nightclub, but increasingly in gymnasiums. in china, becoming ever more popular, not just among women. he used to be a soldier in the chinese military, and now he spends five days a week on his new-found passion, and one day, he plans to become a professional coach, and he says to us that he is having to fight harder than ever. >> i am the only male student here. i've always loved the dancing, but i chose pole dancing because of its elegance and beauty. i believe man can dance as well as women. while it is true that women are more flexible, men are stronger. paul banting needs both qualities. most people cannot watch pole dancing without seeing it as a form of pornography. i have not told my friends what i do. i used to work on the police force, managing terrorism and hostage situations. you cannot imagine how surprised my friends would be if they knew my current passion. pole dancing is good for your physique. it shakes y

as the system pushes on to the east southern italy and the balkan peninsula should get drier. this is bringing in thunderstorms and strong winds in most of turkey. precipitation will be snow rather than rain in inland areas. up towards the north, a series of low pressure systems has been bringing very wet and gusty conditions across the northern british isles and the west coast of norway, and it looks like snow showers will also spread to fin land, the baltic states and western russia in the next 24 hours. temperaturewise, we're expecting 11 degrees in london, and 10 degrees in paris, and 5 degrees expected in stockholm, dipping to minus 3 degrees in moscow, and 0 degrees in kiev. that's it for me now. here is your extended forecast. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. tokyo. thanks for joining us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

pressure system that will keep things cold and dry and next in line with this condition is turkey and balkans. well, the temperature's already dipping down no mos kous minus 12. in lisbon pretty nice at 14. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's our broadcast for this hour on "newsline." we'll be back with more news in half an hour. thank you for watching. bye-bye.

membership but a poor turnout for the referendum and violent protests exposed deep divisions within the balkan nation the country is now set to become the union's twentieth stayed alive next year but only after all the other members ratify the movie. coming out peter lavelle and his guest discuss political posturing and million dollar lobbyist handouts in the own going u.s. presidential campaigns crosstalk is next. you. know we welcome to cross our computer all about the biggest and most expensive elections money can buy this is how many americans see what are called political action committees or super pacs are the super pacs good for democracy do they really inform and voters and are elections now only about money. and you can. start. to cross talk political action committees i'm joined by seton motley in washington he is the president and editor in chief of the less government also in washington we have greg coleman he is a government affairs lobbyist for public citizen and in los angeles we crossed a room he is the founding editor of the independent newspaper i'd gentleman cross-talk rules

membership but before turnout for the referendum and violent protests exposed deep divisions within the balkan nation the country is now set to become the bunions twenty eight states by july of next year but only after all the other members ratify the move. next thirty takes you to see the stunning scenery of the caucuses nature reserve in southern russia that's in our special report don't go away. southern russia. this faraway place can be reached by helicopter. first special permission to travel around here. mitri says he and his son kim have such a climate. to film the landscapes. that oh this close read it's all set up i can't tell you how beautiful. the weather was right back up. this mountain crossland. this place has declared a world heritage site. of the coastal area of the caucuses nature of. a long time ago the people of the caucuses used to shepherd droves of sheep across the a bug of lambs were often targeted by hawks even today. back to this past. july. but. this is a bearded vulture i need is the bugs and. birds of this kind bigger nests on low lying logs of thirty or forty kilom

for the southeast corner of europe, the balkan peninsula, southern italy and turkey, too, it is deepening ast heads eastward and that's bringing a round of upper elevation snow as well as rainfall. for the british isles, new system is coming on this, that will spread rain and that heads right in towards france as well as the low countries. highs on tuesday, not too bad. 9 in london, and the same in paris. colder to the east. minus 2 in kiev and remains at minus 11 in moscow. so that's a look at the weather conditions for now. here is your three-day outlook. >>> our lead story this hour, the european union is trying to starve iran of its main source of revenue. the eu has slapped an embargo on iranian oil. members want to cut off funding of two tehran's nuclear program. eu foreign ministers want to pressure iran to comply with u.n. resolutions. >> i want to stress, however, that sanctions are not an end in themselves. i've often talked about this being part of a twin track approach. that the purpose of sanctions is to put pressure on iran to come back to the negotiating table. >> eu countr

then into the balkans we have a big system coming in. it is going to be very wet. and that rain and thunderstorms, that's turning over to snow over the weekend. temperatures drop. saturday you will definitely be seeing plenty of snow in the upper elevations of the southeast. here are your temperatures. 9 in paris. 9 in london. not too bad in madrid. double figures. 17 in lisbon. out to the east, few degrees warmer for moscow as well as warsaw. here is your extended forecast. >>> that's our broadcast for this hour on "newsline." we will be back with more news in half an hour. i'm michio kijima in tokyo. thank you for watching. bye-bye.

staying cold many the balkans and this system here in turkey is going to be weakening off into the next couple of days. here's your temperatures fairly cool out towards the east. getting cooler in moscow minus 3 for your high and a few degrees above average out to the west. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's our broadcast for this hour kwchl "newsline" will be back with more news in half an hour. thank you for watching. bye-bye. . . .

membership but the poor turnout for the referendum and violent protests exposed deep divisions within the balkan nation the country is now set to become the union's twentieth state by july next year but only after all the other members ratify the move. coming out party talks to one of europe's most prominent economists former advisor to the russian government in the one nine hundred ninety s. on theirs and about what we can expect from the upcoming world economic forum in davos spotlight is the next. hello again the welcome to spotlight the interview show on our team i'll bring up and play my guest on the show unders. the world economic forum is kicking off and dr during the next few days leading businessmen economists and politicians will be discussing the world economy is the most pressing issue and the issues are quite a few especially after nine years those countries had their credit rating cuts this month so what should we expect to happen to the world economy and the new people maybe the forum in davos will be helpful so we're asking one of europe's most prominent economists former advisor

they want more balkan, which will block the iconic views of telegraph hill. now, we certainly agree that seawall lot 351 should be more than a parking lot, and we believe that this blog can support attractive development that conforms with the existing height limits. about one year ago, there was a project by the neighborhood, and others came together with asian neighborhood design to develop the northeast embarcadero vision plan. this plan looks at all of the lots that are being -- all of the seawall lots that could be developed along the north waterfront area and looks for what would be a logical development associated with these particular lots, and that is the development would conform with the existing height limits. the development consists of facilities such as hotels, parks, a bicycle center, moderate priced housing, restaurants, cafes, so we believe that these types of development would clearly provide the port with potential revenue. they would also be advantageous for both the city and the residence as a whole, so, again, let me emphasize that the

it was involved in in the balkan wars and a lot of the more conservative elements of society here feel very passionately that they do not want to join another union they see brussels as essential in another belgrade as far as they're concerned that could rule from a fun now that's not the view of the majority of the population but a lot of the population have a disconnect with their political class here the political class have said this is a good thing that nearly all unanimously europhiles where is the population of morse said that the debate has featured quite a lot of misinformation and ignorance here in croatia a lot of people who if things. don't have all of groves torn up the fleets of the tallinn trawlers will come and steal all the fish things like this that simply aren't borne out by the evidence but nevertheless that has meant that the that the debate around it has been very rocky essentially the pro camp says this is very good economically for croatia croatia in in a very weak economic position at the moment and one. the. credit rating is nearly jumped and it's because of t

russia right now however i'm also pro serb because i think that the serbians are great people of the balkans and because there is a traditional link between france and serbia today the dominant ideology is so delusional that it's almost as strange to say i am french who cares first and foremost for the interests of the french in france this is almost regarded as fascist because national preference is for britain and france which is unheard of. pressure actions are coming up soon what do you think will be the results especially at the final round who do you think a to catechize that will be running for it at the end. with the french elections we can clearly see today that the french system that was developed by do goal and the fifth republic is being destroyed to make way for an american system so you have the incumbent nicolas sarkozy on the right. and then you have the primary election in the left wing political parties it's like the republicans and democrats in the us there is actually no difference between the two sides left and right are both liberals economically speaking maybe one want

membership but a poor turnout for the referendum and violent protests exposed deep divisions within the balkan nation the country is now set to become the union's twenty state by july next year but only after all the other members ratify the move. next max and stacey discuss the upcoming economic forum in davos and whether the world's rich and powerful are actually up to anything useful kaiser report is next. max kaiser this is the kaiser report oh that most of the starting i think tomorrow this is the major global swap meet for dealers of weapons of mass financial destruction and they compare notes on how to destroy each other's economies for fun and profit stacy herbert max if you do a google search for davros two thousand and twelve you will find out why the banks tours are behind so why they want so but because as you see the first two results are world economic forum that's actually the group that puts on number three result is from max keiser dot com that's before say and then before the telegraph before the guardian before all the international news media where first and what does it li

for russians and other nationalities moscow based specialists is in the credit cards assessing the balkans. stroll the streets in style and gazing at the remarkable sights shopping a side road is a sensational city overloaded with everything any tourist would want known to many as the eternal city the russian cultural union with rome with all this musical to six glory shows no sign of abating and that's a cultural influence on moscow and st petersburg who so appears to be its home. was an amazing city well unfortunately about this time we have left on this week's program i'll see you again at the same time next week until then for me and the rest the crew from the spanish steps here in the sense of right now. wealthy british style. that's not on the title of the times. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report. he. took to the. it's. a mission free accreditation free transport charges free. range month free risk free stereotype free. download free broa

meanwhile, the blizzard conditions have much eased in the balkans peninsula. lots of heavy mountain snow as well as coastal rain is impacting this area. but the conditions will finally ease as we head into friday night. so that's good news. temperatures are looking like this. still way below average in moscow with minus 12 degrees and minus 13 in kiev on friday. and across the west 7 expected in london and 9 degrees in paris. here's your extended forecast. >>> our lead story this hour, iran's president has lashed out at western leaders over new sanctions. he dismissed the effectiveness of an oil embargo by the european union. he said the eu, not iran, will lose out. he made his first public remarks about the sanctions in a speech in southern iran. he said iran won't suffer because only about 10% of its oil goes to the eu. other than iranian leaders have said the share is closer to 18%. he said tehran is ready to revive talks with six nations over its nuclear program. he made no mention of threats from iranian leaders to close the strait of hormuz. millions of

things to do, and the fields that he embraced and achieved remarkable things in, asia, vietnam, the balkans, making peace in the bloodiest war since the second world war. in the field of culture, starting the american academy in berlin in the field of medicine, even, hiv aids, which he forced the united nations security council to grapple with. the first time ever that a health issue had been so treated, gave it a whole new perspective. so his last mission was incomplete because he died very suddenly and unexpectedly, but i think these gentlemen will tell you more than i can, especially david road that in afghanistan and pakistan he was making remarkable headway and the things i have had admiral mullen, the admiral in the joint chiefs the this things that are working in afghanistan, not so much is working in pakistan now, but i think as richard holbrook were alive, things would not be in quite the dire shape between the united states and pakistan, but but what is working in pakistan is on the civian side was planted b richard, so it is an astonishing career. >> rose: tell me about vietnam,