the beijing agenda is an unfinished agenda. all around the world, women are blazing new trails and triumphing over long-entrenched obstacles as they work to create a better world for all of us. in evaluating our progress, i would like to begin by focusing on an element of concern for international law. one that is a prerequisite for so many of the other agenda items. security, inclusive security. because unless we include women in our discussions about security, and in our discussions about achieving security, there can neither be lasting peace nor stability. during the last few months, the united nations has taken an important step to strengthening the existing u.n. tools that we have had to address sexual violence as a tactic of war, and to reassert the place and role of women in conflict resolution. two months ago, the security council unanimously adopted a united states sponsored resolution, 1888, the second secretary clinton spoke on behalf of, because it is clear the united nations needed to improve its response to these

the beijing agenda is an unfinished agenda. all around the world, women are blazing new trails and triumphing over long-entrenched obstacles as they work to create a better world for all of us. in evaluating our progress, i would like to begin by focusing on an element of concern for international law. one that is a prerequisite for so many of the other agenda items. security, inclusive security. because unless we include women in our discussions about security, and in our discussions about achieving security, there can neither be lasting peace nor stability. during the last few months, the united nations has taken an important step to strengthening the existing u.n. tools that we have had to address sexual violence as a tactic of war, and to reassert the place and role of women in conflict resolution. two months ago, the security council unanimously adopted a united states sponsored resolution, 1888, the second secretary clinton spoke on behalf of, because it is clear the united nations needed to improve its response to these

beijing's airport is a mess and many highways have been shut down. and the forecast doesn't call for any breaks. temperatures are forecast to stay below zero for the next week. >>> a woman was browsing through photos in a thrift store when she came upon a very rare find. and now why she's calling the pictures her best christmas present of the year. >>> megachurch pastor rick warren got more than double what he asked for in plea donations. his church in southern california took in $2.4 million in just three days. on wednesday he made an urgent plea for $900,000 to fill a deficit. warren said the recession and a huge drop in offerings over the holiday caused that shortfall. warren is the author of the best seller "the purpose-driven life" and he also gave the invocation at president obama's inauguration. >>> we're taking a broader look at church donations as part of our "your views" topic for the day. here's the question. your confident that your house of faith spends your donations responsibly? and are you satisfied overall with the way religious orga

. >>> in beijing, a blanket of snow is making travel difficult. many of the highways inned a around beijing are closed because of the slick roads. most of the flights out of the beijing airport has been canceled. snow is expected to stop falling tomorrow. beijing which hasn't seen much snow during the past several winters has witnessed several snowstorms so far this season. >>> still ahead, what led an elephant to run amok at a festival. we'll tell you whether anybody was hurt when the story continues on msnbc. this is mine, blitz. i can't do this job without him, and he can't do it without me. to keep him at his best, i only feed him eukanuba with prebiotics to promote strong defenses. you know he means the world to me for a lot of different reasons. he's more than a partner, he's family. [ female announcer ] ask an expert at your pet store which formula is best for your dog. avoided getting trounced by a spooked elephant. only two minor injuries were reported in this solo stampede. it happened before a religious procession. the elephant was supp

i would offer that in the discussions with the secretary, on the way to beijing.we emphasize the need for constancy in that military dialogue. we were explaining the mutual benefits of maintaining it. whether or not differences erupt between our governments or not, we will be testing the majority of that military to military relationship in the future, not just over our legal operation. other issues with governments as well. >> my time is up. >> mr. kaufman? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to address a very serious national security threat as it relates to china. has to do with issues control by china. .. rn as to what that means for american innoefing as and domestic jobs growth. the fact that so many national security and defense systems require these materials to function and operate is a greater concern to us here at this hearing. 95% of worldwide rare earth reserves are being accessed today are located in china or controlled by chinese-led interests. today there no rare earth elements of or production sites of significance taking place or anywhere ou

during the mt recent olympic games in beijing many americans pressed outrage after learni many of theine city's restaunts serve entrees containing dog meat. the beijing tourism bure evenally decided to take dog off of menus during the mes, but thcontroversy spard a brant discussion abo me-eating in general. now a new bo further explores e issue by attemptinto answer the questio why do we love dogs, eat ps, and wear co? >> the easiest way for me to answer that question with an illustraon. so imagine that you are at a ncy dinner party. you're sitti at a beautiful table, you'renjoying the conversation, you're drinking the fine wine, you'reating a decious beef stew, andn fact, this stew is so decious at you ask youhost for the cipe. and flattered, she replies, "th secret ingdient is the meat. you usthree pounds of well-minated golden reriever." now, stop for a minute and think about ur thoughts and feelings upon hearing that. chances e, the meat on your plate iso longer food to you, b looks like a dead animal. your reaction an example of wh i call carnism. >> bonnie: psycholist melanie jo

special envoy holbrook has been to beijing twice to discuss the subject.hey have expressed an interesting cooperating, but we are at the early stages. >> we have not seen anything concrete? >> not yet, no. >> the terrorism is concerned and have we seen anything concrete there? >> we conducted exchanges with the chinese, particular low in the run up to the olympics. we are continuing those exchanges and i say we are at a basic level. what are we proposing that they are not willing to do? >> we think the chinese expressed an interesting and general interest in cooperation. we conducted a working level meeting with the chinese to discuss specific ways in which we can work on the ground before the president's visit in november. i think they are thinking this through. right now we@@@ we involve the network and we don't know of an opportunity for china to contribute. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. franks? >> thank you, mr. chairman and willard. i want to direct my first question and thank you for your lifetime commit to the cause of human freedom

that. -- was in beijing, and sylvania was the year before that. the natural question is if they can build pathogens? the answer that usually give is that, yes, you should be worried, but there is nothing you can do about it. we also have to be paying attention to who is using and how they are using it. as is naturally the response in this town in particular, they want to regulate that technology. they will derive that by 2020. the world has changed and innovation has changed. the sickbed of biology, playing with these genes has created an incentive to design dna sequences from scratch. that is the world that we leave it -- that we live them. -- that we leap -- that we live in. >> i want to say that i am a great fan. i read a piece that said that was the city was the mother of invention. actually, it is the opposite. i want to ask the panel if you agree with that. has that equation shifted? >> you first. >> no, i want to prevent a gasbag answer. is the question is should we be focusing on anything other than the critical technologies that relate to

passengers at the main airport in beijing are stranded. forecasters say temperatures have hit a record low. >>> here in this country a similar scene in parts of new england. a winter storm dumped nearly 3 feet of snow on burlington, vermont. to make things worse, temperatures dipped into the teen powerful winds created whiteout conditions. but kids made the best of it. broke out some sleds and snow tubes and took to the hills. >> i'm glad somebody enjoyed it because i didn't leave the house. it was terrible here. >>> here's monday weather. a cold snap from the plains to the new england states and along the gulf coast with most of florida under freeze warnings today. windy with lake-effect snow from the great lakes to the northeast. the heaviest between cleveland and buffalo. and rain and mountain snow in the northwest. >> 49 degrees in portland and 33 in boise. kansas city and minneapolis barely climb out of the single digits. chicago gets up to 19 degrees. 30s in dallas and much of the east coast. >> it's pretty much cold everywhere. >> y

"sat ♪ >>> we will now take you live to beijing for the joint press conference already under way between.s.

heavy snow has brought beijing to a standstill. stores have been close. residents have been ordered to clear icy roads. paralyzing traffic also forcing airports to cancel flights. billions of dollars of foreign aid have been sent to afghanistan since the war started in 2001. and despite that, life for many afghans is only getting harder. and afghan economist has warned that poorly managed aid is damaging support for the government. malnutrition among children is among the highest and tin the w. >> after eight years of foreign help, billions of dollars in aid and countless consultants, afghanistan has come to this. a hospital ward filled with severely malnourished children. >> the doctor knows this personally. he has been watching more and more cases of malnutrition arrive here every day. >> he is five-years old. he and his 14-year-old sister have been in a hospital for the past week. their parents simply cannot feed their family of seven. the malnutrition problem in afghanistan, and especially in this province, is very bad, he says. that is because of the

. >> bro: it was an unusual sit in beijing this morng as a haful of people created a makeshift memori outside google's offices, reonding to news that the intern giant might pull out of ina. response to attacks oits wesite, including breaches of email accounts belging to human rits activists. the was praise for google's move. >> ( tranated ): they are letting us know the uth. >> brown: anworries about the impact. >> ( anslated ): i feel it is a pity. even thougit doesn't affect all of my life, but it is a al hassle if we d't have google. >> brown: the world's ading search company annnced yesterday it had discored what it cald a "highly sophisticated and rgeted attack" on it and peaps 34 other companies,dding that the atcks clearly came from within cha. as a result, chief leg officer david drummond wrote google launched its gole.cn si in china in 2006, agreeing to abide by governnt strictures that filter out searches for certainanned topics, such ataiwan, tibet, or t tianamen square massacre, a stance that had brght criticm from rights groups. 2008, margaret warner asked the then-head o

. >> brown: it was an unusual sight in beijing this morning as a handful of people created a makeshift memorial outside google's offices, responding to news that the internet giant might pull out of china. in response to attacks on its web site, including breaches of email accounts belonging to human rights activists. there was praise for google's move. >> ( translated ): they are letting us know the truth. >> brown: and worries about the impact. >> ( translated ): i feel it is a pity. even though it doesn't affect all of my life, but it is a real hassle if we don't have google. >> brown: the world's leading search company announced yesterday it had discovered what it called a "highly sophisticated and targeted attack" on it and perhaps 34 other companies, adding that the attacks clearly came from within china. as a result, chief legal officer david drummond wrote: google launched its google.cn site in china in 2006, agreeing to abide by government strictures that filter out searches for certain banned topics, such as taiwan, tibet, or the tianamen square massacre, a stance that had br

but i was in beijing early this year a professor of economics told me how puzzled he had been to breedin a bbc poll karl marx emerged as the greatest philosopher of all times. he seemed to be much reassured when i told him this wasn't a scientific poll based on a representative sample. it was a kind of poll people had to fill and or e-mail to take the initiative to register your votes to and the marxists were more motivated and better organized than support of aristotle, hobbes or david hume. .. >> >> place elsewhere, specifically in moscow. there is absolutely no mystery about poland or czechoslovakia become independent and non-communist once the peoples of those countries realized that this was highly unlikely to lead to soviet military intervention. the same is even truer of the breaching of the berlin wall and the subsequent unification of germany. all these things would have happened now insists years earlier, but decades earlier but for the perfectly correct assumption in east central europe busted the might of the soviet union and the soviets' military ary superpower ready to in

his brother finished sixth in the '08 olympics in beijing. >> on the wing hampton gets inside. finds three defenders. took out johnson. up high. hampton 13 to shoot. >> hampton tried to pull sanders awe way from the basket. sanders won't bite. >> up top dukes getting past vincent . nearly tied. able to bring it in. gets a bucket and a foul. vincent will go to the line. >> that is a wide body and good, low base. he was not going to be on that block. quick leasing available right back up as he was late in out of position giving that foul. >> foul goes to burrges. five against the rams. two against the panthers. georgia state going to the line again. on the way and good. vincent a 64% shooter at the line brings it as close as it has been on the second half. >> here comes the pressure from georgia state. making it a 12-5 run for the panthers to begin the second stanza. >>> vcu has not scored since after the timeout. >> picked up by goldston. shake and bake and nixon. spins. kick out marcus johnson. calls for uptight up field. >> you have momentum. no reason for a silly force. you h

that. -- was in beijing, and sylvania was the year before that. the natural question is if they can build pathogens? the answer that usually give is that, yes, you should be worried, but there is nothing you can do about it. we also have to be paying attention to who is using and how they are using it. as is naturally the response in this town in particular, they want to regulate that technology. they will derive that by 2020. the world has changed and innovation has changed. the sickbed of biology, playing with these genes has created an incentive to design dna sequences from scratch. that is the world that we leave it -- that we live them. -- that we leap -- that we live in. >> i want to say that i am a great fan. i read a piece that said that was the city was the mother of invention. actually, it is the opposite. i want to ask the panel if you agree with that. has that equation shifted? >> you first. >> no, i want to prevent a gasbag answer. is the question is should we be focusing on anything other than the critical technologies that relate to

beijing gave a boost to auto sales with tax breaks and things for them to move to more fuel efficientars. >>> wall street journal reports a group of broadcasters plans to use this week's consumer electronic show to promote plans to deliver news, sports, weather and local content to users on the go. programming available not just on cell phones but laptops, portable dvd players and devices in cars. ten years before it is everywhere. >> i'll keep thinking. >> thank you. >>> some dedicated people, really dedicated to the game of golf. 78 of them braved the snow around the gulf in illinois. the 46th annual eskimo open. you get the option to play 9 holes or full 18. can't use white golf balls, need colored ones. forty-two-dollar greens fee includes a hot drink and hot bowl of chili. >>> in six minutes, we are on tech watch. kind he wills and e books are so 2009. hot gadgets for the new year. >>> wii let's check the traffic. >> virginia, a cold morning. spoke to charlie. 21 and biting wind. talk about the temperatures. other than that, a quiet morning. bundle up for sure. serious cold in pl

because of the interest in beijing, it was such a big event. >> reporter: on the eve of the olympics,g ceremonies, the vancouver winter games could fall flat state side. >> they need to have a superstar. that usually is a figure skater for the american audience. >> reporter: no dominant women's figure skater. no nancy kerrigan, no michelle kwan. they could figure out of the medals in figure skating for the first time in centuries. former stars such as miller and ohno give the u.s. team some hope. few fresh faces have emerged. to carry the torch. >> the american audience is more valuable thanny than any in the world. america has been the greatest single consumer market. americans are pulling back in a big way. >> reporter: in the u.s., the winter olympics attract less interest than the summer games. this year could be rough. both for u.s. athletes and advertisers. >> are there emerging stars? someone americans can relate to? advertisers are eager for that. i don't think you've heard that buzz coming into these olympics. >> reporter: nbc says it could lose hundreds of millions of dollar

pictures, nasty pictures coming in from beijing. the entire country.s you can see, just getting pounded with the nasty winter storm system. jacqui jeras joining us in the cnn weather center. we are not alone. onis dealing with a lot of what it stuff as well. >> yes. misery loves company. >> i goes so. >> lot of miserable folks out there. not necessarily with major snowstorm with the exception of new england. but with bitter cold conditions. and so we virginia lot of stuff going on impacting people this weekend and this is going to be carrying over into early next week. one of the biggest issues we are dealing with today is we have a lot of holiday travelers. with this system here impacting the northeast and along with very strong gusty winds, we are talking major delays here at the area airports. look at boston. jfk, la guardia, newark. you are all well over an hour here. teterboro, ground delays. over an hour delay. white plains, over two hours. tv, looking at about 40-minute delays. a lot of people not so happy watching in the airport today. snowfall

the most chilling things i've ever read and your father's memoirs were he and mao are walking in beijing and mao says i'm not worried about losing a half a million people, as long as we went. >> host: so it is many cases that we are talking that the u2 flight was not occasion, that somebody wanted to blow up all these speedy of camp david. >> guest: do you think now -- when your father was at camp david, before that u2 flight was shot down, there have been others as you mentioned. and of course, your father knew about them. he did not ask ike at camp david. he could have said, mr. president, will you stop flying over my country. why did he not do that? >> host: when i was hit by you i buy eye, and you know that time by time, brought in my apartment, and i will ask you, peter, why are you rubbing my apartment? maybe you will not rob it a second time. my father felt humiliating when they ask him to send protest to the united states. he told them, my presence, to the foreign minister, we cannot shot because it is too high, flying to hi. and i am just hearing, reading this state department,

is already -- if you look at trading east asia, i was acting so anti-chinese future when i was in beijing, what proportion of trading east asia is now conducting a rmb rather than the dollar? it's a significant development. and they are talking, for example, about now, they're talking suzi about a nation monetary fund in the region that if that happens that will be significant because that will seriously weaken the role of the dollar in that region. japan is in favor. originally it was a japanese idea. so i discuss this in the book. there are many, many aspects to this. so i do recommend this book that's just come out today. [laughter] >> you win. >> i do? >> i'm a former fellow and a resident of cambridge, massachusetts. i first would like to ask you if there is there is a lot of fear about china from a lot of different quarters, western, eastern and neighbors and so on. and i also would like to point out the fact that when vietnam collapsed, there was an article in the "new york times" in which it said the western powers had no patience, which the chinese were very, very -- he didn't na

want to keep raising awareness and this gives us chance because it's the first women's conference in beijing, so there will be a lot of activities around this. so we're just going to do everything we can think of. but you and others if you've got ideas specific to certain areas or countries or in general, please let us know. >> thank you. >> hello, my name is -- i'm intern at the state department and also an ethnic kurd and i heard today you're meeting with the kurdish president and i was wondering what our state department has to gain from not only speaking to him but specifically toward the elections are coming up. i heard they were pushed back again, so what is our ajenda? >> right. thank you. well, i will be meeting with the president. he met with president obama and vice president biden yesterday. really we have three messages. one is to encourage the kurdish leadership to work toward a peaceful resolution of some of the disputed boundaries, specifically around kirkuk. and to support the elections. and the election of a legitimate government that can be put into place as soon as possibl

welsh the protesters beijing's timetable for democracy was much too slow and the crowd stage add peacefuletting after failing to break through police lines. fox news is on the job hunt and if you're within of the 15.4 million currently unemployed americans out there trying to get a job, you know and this is no cakewalk. well, now, some are finding work helping others sharpen their speech in hopes of becoming a better candidate themselves. >> because we know the importance of massage part, right? >> for natalia, life may sometimes feel a big classroom. >> i have to work, for sure, it's what i do. >> you start here. >> and doren spends much of the week teaching her students at skin beauty school. the rest of her time. >> communicating skills are very important. >> is spent studying english. >> i didn't understand that to be substantially-- i have to improve my english. >> doren moved to the united states from russia eight years ago, but just recently started taking lessons to improve her accent. >> i mean, you speak and they see an accent and okay, okay, what's she going to teach us, how mu

leadership both in beijing and during our visits to washington, d.c. must be consistent, resolute and invoke the nation's principles an values. i offer my staff's support, direct support to you during travels to the region and invite to you stop in honolulu and visit u.s. pacific command on your way to or from this area of responsibility. finally, i would like to thank this committee for the strong support you provide to the men and women of our united states military. despite being involved in two wars, a retention in recruiting rates remain very strong, which is a direct reflection ever the quality of life initiative supported by you and by the american people. on behalf of more than 300,000 men and women of u.s. pacific command, please accept my sincere appreciation for the work that you do for us and for this great nation. thank you, and i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you admiral. secretary gregson. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, thank you very much for this opportunity to appear today to discuss recent military a

on the outskirts of beijing this town claims to be the violinmaking capital of china, the largest exporter of stringed instruments in the world. it's home to more than 100 factories and workshops that churn out hundreds of thousands of stringed instruments every year. "i bought books about violins and drawing sheets in italy," says factory owner chen zuhua. "then i started to make them." that was 15 years ago, when some say chinese-made violins were no better than firewood. >> they were terrible. i mean, being honest, they were just really, really bad instruments. and now, i mean, they're very good. i mean, the attention to detail is pretty amazing. >> reporter: all of the wood in this workshop comes from tibet. good wood is very dense. but with fine workmanship it feels quite light. every detail in this workshop, from the carving to the varnish, is finished by hand. >> i mean, the wood is decent. >> reporter: american aaron riley is hand-picking instruments to sell at his shop back in michigan. how does that look? >> yeah, i would -- i really like this. you can see all the flame. >> repor

temperatures in beijing have hit near zero.covered much of the chinese capital. >>> meanwhile, a much different picture in israel. the residents in tel aviv have been on the beach enjoying sunny weather and temperatures in the 70s. kind of feeling jealous right now. >>> meantime, in chicago, plenty of frustration with winter as amtrak's california zephyr train pulled into union station 19 hours late and passengers are calling it the train ride from hell. it took the zephyr three days to get from california to chicago, and along the way it ran into massive snow drifts near hastings, nebraska, and then clearing all that snow burned up time. but the nightmare was far from over. the train then hit a pickup truck in asum was, iowa. and by the time it arrived yesterday, passengers were fuming. amtrak suspended service through the area at least through today. >>> coming up, tv goes 3d, but do you need it, really? it's tough to reach that five servings a day if you don't always like the taste of vegetables. i'll be right back. ok. good

it was beijing's first response after google threatened to stop censoring search results inside chinathe company also threatened to pull out of the country altogether. google complained of sophisticated attacks on e-mail accounts for human rights activists. the foreign ministry said today said china bars all e-mail hacking. the u.s. economy has turned out disappointing new numbers. retail sales fell in december. and first-time claims for jobless benefits rose more than expected. but wall street paid more attention to a rise in business inventories, which could signal new confidence. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 29 points to close at 10,710. the nasdaq rose more than eight points to close at 2,316. 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" web site. but for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: now, the president's plan to tax big banks. he made the announcement at the white house earlier today surrounded by members of his economic team. mr. obama was sharply critical of le

one of the riders is joining us on the phone right now from beijing.ty bureau chief for "the wall street journal." çóhow did this all come to play? what else are they saying? what about the chinese government? caller: the chinese government has yet to comment. this came across as quite a surprise to the chinese government and everyone else, google issued this statement late on tuesday, u.s. time. saying that the country had moved not only against google, but many other foreign companies. they had decided not to center their chinese search results, as they have done since 2006, a condition of entering the market. they acknowledge that this may result in their meeting to shut down their chinese operations. host: how important is their work to china? how important are they to the chinese? >> quite important. they are a distant second in the search market here, a distant second to a chinese company. their market share has been growing quickly and it is well known and respected. particularly by people who have traveled abroad or work for other companies. ma

he was maybe three years older than i was, traveled all the way to beijing and to be reviewed by mao and when he came back began to tell the stories the big-- on the way there and how we should not criticize leaders. that is how it started. many people began to write big posters denigrated criticizing-- the remember my mom asked me to write down what he said on a big poster. the production team leader, where was the money he has my family to give to him, where it wins. i look back at the time it was very powerful but when i grew up, looking back i felt this was very empowering. for an ordinary woman, electorate, in a village beginning to question authority. most people started controversy, they don't start with these kinds of things. they never talk about older people like my mom, like myself, who were empowered, changed in this process. and it is a democratic revolution. it is a revolution to empower all people. that is why it is different from all other. many people said-- it is how it differs from other chinese history. it is really empowered older workers and farmers. and people

in the run-up to the beijing olympics, the chinese were worried about terrorist attacks to disrupt then. we worked very hard with them and disrupted a few attacks. one attack would have occurred on an airplane heading to china. those came out of western pakistan. they were tied to al qaeda and an islamic movement that we consider a terrorist organization. that said, china continues to see the threat of terrorism through their local landscape. they have yet to engage fully as a global partner on how these national threats affect global security. this also goes beyond the terrorist, -- terrorist context. their willingness to oppose sanctions to iran, to hurt their own commercial interests and to meet international security considerations. there is a full plate of international issues were chinese involvement would not only be helpful but would be beneficial to them. the question is when does that become national policy? >> thank you. >> i just wanted a bit of clarification. about the detaining of potential threat individuals. >> i think there are individuals and that are trained bout of

the american embassy in beijing and consulates in other cities hosted web-based discussions about the speech. for its part, google issued a statement praising clinton's speech, and c.e.o. eric schmidt said the company still hopes to find a way to remain active in china. for more on all of this we turn to michael posner, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor; and david lampton, director of the china studies program at johns hopkins university. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> mr. posner what exactly was secretary of state clinton accusing china of when it comes to internet freeh dom? what do you see? >> well, i see this broader than china. it's saying that a number of countries in the world are basically restricting the right of people to speak freehly through the internet, through their cell phones. and preventing them from really engaging within their own societies and the dialogue about issues that are important to them. this is really human rights and democracy issue. and this is one component of it. >> reporter: specifically in the case of goog

when i was in beijing, i admired the robes. they made up a rope and presented it to me as a gift. this is my chinese robe. in canada, but the lawyers and judges wear robes. this is the standard french scarf. the women jurists that they should enhance it with a lovely lace collar. >> tell us about the traditions around the robing room before an oral argument begins. >> as we enter the room, the first thing we do is go around the room, each justice shaking hands with every other. that is a symbol of the work that we do as police body. you may be temporarily miffed because you receive a dissenting opinion from colleague, but when we go to sit on the bench, we look at each other, shake hands, and it is a way of saying we are all in this together. we care about this institution more than our individual egos, and we are all devoted to keeping the supreme court in the place that it is as a coequal third branch of government and i think a model for the world in the collegiality and independence of the judges. . . >> one justice decided that we should have an annual [inaudible] when the he

. >> when i was in beijing, i admired path the robe that the judges for wearing. by the time i got to shanghai, they had made of a robe for me and presented it as a gift. both the war robes. this is the standard -- they both wore robes. this is the standard. the woman juror sitting back thought they -- in quebec thought they should enhance it with a lovely lace collar. the first thing we do is go around the room, each justice taking hands with every other. that is a symbol of the work that we do for the collegial body. you may be temporarily relieved because received an opinion from a colleague. when we get to sit on the bench, we look at each other, shake hands, and it is a way of saying we are all in this together. we care about this institution. they are keeping it in a place that it is, on a coequal third branch of government. i think it is a model for the world in the collegiality. >> when you are miffed about decisions, what do you tell yourself so you did not take it to dinner afterward or whatever? have you keep in on personal? >> you think first that ther

steve: played on their national team in the 2004 olympics in athens as well as 2008 in beijing. free throws let's see if the wizards can take advantage down by three and chris quinn called for a foul trying to guard boykins. wizards to the free-throw line. for boykins this will be his first free throws of the game. on the season he's made 49 of 54. phil: washington not really capitalizing like they would have liked to 57 at half and they were 8 or 9 minute to go. and that will be their fourth free throw tonight. steve: boykins can cut it to one. wizards have led in this game just before half they came from 12 down to take a one point lead. oh, my goodness. boykins misses the second and the lead remains 2 for new jersey trying to win their fifth game of the year. a record of four wins and 40 losses. williams knocked up into the air. humphreys and he's called for traveling. an offensive foul. it is an offensive foul. phil: he had the man up in the air but decided to put that left elbow. let's see if we can pick that up. a strong rebound there. twice. steve: twice. phil: yeah you'r

but we have country managers and a lot of government relations folks in beijing, tokyo, brussels, et cetera, et cetera. >> i should mention that microsoft has been supportive of the brussels program and they've always treated us very well and given great presentations. >> we ramped up -- look, a lot of this is not rocket science if you just read the papers, read "the wall street journal," the "new york times," the financial times. you'll read that, you know, particularly last several years the european commission has really been after -- you know, it's been nipping at our heels for a number of reasons. in light of that, we tend to ramp up sort of government affairs operations in these countries and now you're seeing -- you know, now they are doing the same thing on intel. and so where you have a lot of activity, you know, whether it's regulatory, whether it's potential legislation, and it may pop in brazil, it could pop in tokyo, you know, a lot of emphasis on china, you're going to naturally ramp up activities there. and assets. and this gets a little bit into the question that we h

i would anticipate we would have ongoing meetings in washington and in beijing on all these subjects. i know you are asking about this. we have a wide ranging and deep relationship with china. the number one and number two economies in the world are going to need to consult on a regular basis tand we have a number of shared interests. that does not mean that we look at situations, whether they are north korea, where there is a convergence of views on the current situation or iran where there's not convergence of views at the present time. >> you said yesterday you were unified on iran. >> there is a recognition that the implications of a nuclear power in the middle east will affect not only the immediate countries, but also the world more broadly. >> [inaudible] >> the idea that you could keep the situation at arm's length and have not affected is not correct. the middle east will have ramifications and ripple effects. as the secretary mentioned in a q&a with you yesterday, that can have significant impact on energy markets worldwide and that is going to have an impact on the people o

accommodations, the weakening of the alliances, the strengthening of centers of adversarial power in moscow, beijing, ca rack ast, tehran and elsewhere will continue at a pace until something brace us all. such of living in a virtual world. i pray we leave it soon. thank you very much. [applause] >> charles, thank you very much for that excellent speech. you managed to cover every issue i was hoping you would touch. you hit the right points. thank you very much for that. we have some time for some questions for charles. we have a microphone over here. if you would like to ask a question, raise your hand and it would be helpful if you could identify yourself. >> i'm from the young conservatives coalition and i teach a class on the history of the conservative moment. thank you for coming today. could you expand your thoughts a little bit more on u.s. foreign policy in the western hemisphere, particularly with hugo chavez and the consequences of obama's policies in the next seven years if that's the case. >> i think the honduras situation, the calling of a coup without considering what the conditions w

in the run-up to the beijing olympics the chinese were worried about terrorist attacks on the olympicsthat would disrupt the games and be a black mark on china's reputation. we worked very hard with the chinese to share as much information as we could. we actually disrupted a couple of attacks. one attack would have occurred on an airplane headed into china. bose came out of western pakistan. and were tied to al qaeda and the islamic movement which the u.s. government considers a terrorist organization. that said, china continues to see the threat of terrorism through their local lens and they have yet to engage fully as a global partner on the issue of how these transnational threats affect not just their security but global security. this also relates well be on the terrorism context to issues like the iran nuclear question, their willingness to impose sanctions, their willingness to hurt their own commercial interests to meet international security considerations in north korea. there is a full slate of international issues where chinese involvement as a productive international pla

beijing ron's high snapper going off the glass. six attackers in the front.ergeron sends it back to markov. outside for gianta. gionta rip its. laing doing a great job on the perimeter. 1 minute to go in this one now. pouliot keeping it alive on the board. shut is there for washington now. over the head of markov. >>> it's all about quintin laing. bergeron one of the top scoring defenseman. he laid down the body to prevent that wicked slap shoot through. >> joe: he had ideas of an empty cage. >> joe: i.t. >> craig: i'm not sure he did. >> joe: diving vetch didn't get t. 30 seconds to go in the 3rd period. cammalleri holds. green in front. the puck moving to the outside. gomez will take it off the wall. gomez his relay back to point position. 13 seconds away and washington for the victory in dc. it bounces down in front. poti playing outstanding hockey game. ovechkin had his hockey stick in half. washington gets by montreal by the final of 4-2. >> craig: a good way to get off the schneid for this caps team having lost three in a row. they come home and regain

. >> in beijing, the president said, they put a lot of emphasis on the fact that there was a risk in not having some sensible fiscal policy. on the other hand, the treasury secretary has focused on not repeating. >> that has been the focus. they're people that are getting confused, i think. in the middle of the deepest recession since 1929, you do not tighten the belt at that moment. that is incorrect. if you did that, it is extremely dangerous. the president was talking about medium run fiscal tightening that we will need to confront the fiscal issues facing the country, which are virtually zero connection to the current financial crisis. the downturn has effected the deficit, but that is not the long run fiscal problems facing the country. the long run problems facing the country is the aging of the population and the growth of health-care costs. those are by far the dominant things. >> in the very long run? there is a fiscal consequence to the financial crisis. >> there is. we're running a deficit for two- three years. if you look at the balance sheet of fed, that stuff is not eff

partnership of becoming a much bigger global company, still called partners of goldman sachs and staff in beijingrs ago we were clustered around some american societies -- cities and maybe london and tokyo. >> has the percentage of your total revenue distributed in compensation to your partners changed as the legal status of goldman sachs has changed? >> in the old regime, everything that was left over along to the partners. they were effectively the shareholders. but in the tenure saw was a public company, -- that 10 years or so as a public company, we said we would start looking like it would be about 50% and it has largely gone lower. for the good reason that our revenues have often gone higher. you did not need to pay as much. and the overall effort of what to do -- one of the problems we have is that what we do a lot for the economy is not like -- is not as invisible -- not as visible as an investment bank. we put companies together and launch new businesses but it does the really interface a lot -- it does not interface and up with the people who we will want to understand what our role is

as i said in beijing in 1995, human-rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights.h it could be so easily translated into action and changes. that ideal is far from being realized in some many places around our world. there's no place that so epitomizes the difficult and tragic circumstances confronting women than in eastern congo. i was in goma last august, the epicenter of one of the most violent and chaotic regions on earth. when i was there, i met with the victims of perfect gender and sexual violence. i met with refugees driven from their homes by the many military forces operating there. i met with those offering to negotiate the conflict. i saw the best and the worst of humanity in a single day, the unspeakable acts of violence who that have left women brutalized and the heroism of the zero men and women themselves and the doctors and nurses and volunteers working to repair bodies and spirits. they are on the frontlines of the struggle he for human rights. seen firsthand their courage and tenacity, of they and the congolese people and the internal jordan to t

accommodations, but weakening of alliances, the strengthening of centers of adversarial power in moscow, beijingre will continue apace until some cataclysm wakes us up. such are the wages of living in a virtual world. i pray we leave it soon. thank you very much. >> thank you very much a that excellent speech. you managed to cover every issue i was hoping that you attend. just when i thought we are running out of time, you hit the right points. we have some time for discussion and questions for charles. we have a microphone over hill. if you would like to ask a question, please raise your hand and ask for the microphone and wit -- and it would be helpful if you could identify yourself. >> chris from the all americans coalition. thank you very much for coming today and for all that you do. i was wondering if you could expand your thoughts a little bit more on u.s. foreign policy in the western hemisphere, particularly with hugo chavez, and the consequences of obama policies and the next three to seven years, if that's the case. >> i think the honduras escapade was quite damaging. the instinctive

china has blocked sites like facebook, a twitter, and youtube falling -- all in ethnic riots break beijingenies of the hacking accusation. those are some of the latest headlines on cspan radio. > was thost: more from the washington auto show where we read that electric is the big deal this year. we read that about 30 cars that make their debut at the recent detroit show will make an appearance here. in the first for the washington auto show, we hear that gm plans to let people drive people around the convention center in one of its dozen cars. public is invited into moral, $10 is the entry fee, today's policy day with members of the administration and the like. the next call is on the future of the total industry from hagerstown, maryland, republican, hello. caller: i took my old car in and the service was good. the salesman said not to buy electric cars. he was really nice. we always trade our cars in. the electric car cost so so much money for the battery. they will break down eventually. they will probably cost $1,000 because there are a lot of batteries and it. i guess i am old fashion

from beijing to moscow, and from riyadh and abu dhabi, to our european allies, countries which have their internal challenges, including all of the states in the gcc, all agree that stability in afghanistan, pakistan is critical in a strategic sense. so we conclude as well that what happens there is not just vital to our own homeland security, it's also vital to an extraordinary large range of countries come which include the two most populous countries in the world, it includes russia, includes the world's largest oil areas, and it includes a whole range of other issues and there are obviously implications for other problems we face to the east. in iran and in regard to the arab-israeli issues. so 30000 troops started to deploy. on the civilian side, we build up rapidly laster, and i want to underscorunderscore again on behalf of the department of state and the secretary of state, that when we came into office there were 300 civilians in afghanistan. not a lot considering the importance of the country. when i was in germany, there were 2500 people in the nation that i was responsible for