in the u.k., spain, and belgium. clear and convincing evidence of fraud in dozens of polling stations. we have a special report of the growing influence of rabbis in the once proudly secular israeli army. welcome to "bbc world news" broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america and on the globe. coming up later for you -- >> in washington, i will have reaction to president obama's big speech on health care reform. how much did he do to win over the skeptics? >> and a sound from more than 500 years ago. the world's oldest church bells rang again. hello to you. it is a deal the german chancellor stakes her political fortunes on two weeks before election. looks like good news for 25,000 opel car workers in germany, but leaves employees in spain and belgium worrying about their jobs. gm has agreed to sell opel to canadian car parts manufacturer magna. >> she staked her reputation on clinching this deal, and angela merkel could not wait to announce it. this was the chancellor's chance to take all the glory. >> good day, ladi

american beer made its return here at the new yk stock exchange, st 10 months after ing bought by belgium's inbev in a $52illion deal. erican depository receipts of ab inbev began tradi today under the ticker symbol "b." the world's largest ewer by revenuestressed today's move is a seconda listing. and paul, while itecently annoced plans for an office in new york cy, the company says itheadquarters will remain in belgium. >>aul: susie, bud shares rose 70 cents to $46.95 let's see what else was bring on wall street as we take look at our stocks in the news tonight. >>aul: tonight's "street critique" est thinks the markets ve priced in a "v" shaped rovery. he's paularson, equities rategist at morningstar and editorf "morningstar stock investor." paul, welcome back tn.b.r. >> thanks for havi me again. >> pau if the markets are looking for v recovery, at happens if that lette changes? >> well, if the letter cnges to something like a w, ande get an economy that doesn't recover immediately an sort of recovers in fits and starts i think tt stocks lo like they're mildly overvalued today. itoes inde

recently anunced plans for an office in new yorkity, the company says s headquarters will remain i belgium. paul: susie, bud shares ros 70 cents to $46.. let's see what else was ewing on wall street as we taka look at our stocks in the news tonight. >> pau tonight's "street critique" guesthinks the markets havericed in a "v" shaped recovy. he's paul laon, equities stragist at morningstar and editor of orningstar stock vestor." paul, welcome back to n.r. >> thanks for hang me again. >> pl: if the markets are looking for a v recoverywhat happens if that letr changes? >> well, if the letterhanges to something like w, and we get an econo th doesn't recover immediately d sort of recovers in fits and start, thinkhat stocks ok like they're mildly overvalued today. does indeed lkike the rket is expecting t v-shaped recover given the priceshat are out there at thmoment. >> paul: well, t market ha come long way in short time. what do you think of the current fundamenls? well, right nowe are indeed recovering, but wheth or note are going to get a v or not, i think is really the 64,000 dollar question

death to 100 times as many german civilians as the belgian civilians killed by the kaiser's army in belgium. churchill's purpose was, he said himself, "start the whole population, men, women, and children, old and young, wounded and sound, into submission." four months after germany laid down its arms in 1919, the starvation blockade remains in force, and churchill rose in parliament to exalt "we are enforcing the blockade with rigor, and germany is near starvation." that led to hitler. in 1920, as secretary for war, churchill, enraged by iraqi resistance, proclaimed "i am strongly in favor of using poison gas against and civilized tribes to spread a lively terra." 80 years later, saddam hussein and chemical ali were hanged for doing what churchill urged and what britain did. the day he became prime minister in 1940, as the german army was breaking through, churchill directed his bombers not against rommel's panzers, but against rhineland city. coventry and the blitz were not see for crimes -- workednazi war crimes. the climax came in 1945 with thunderclap, the firebombing of dresden, a def

drug maker back bott labs bought a belgium pharmaceutical company for 7 boil i don't know dollars. >>> -- billion dollars. >>> nationwide average fell dropping the 7th week in a row. prices are 31% lower than a year ago thanks to growing supply and slumping demand. >>> the wait for starbucks is shorter. they begin rolling out instant coffee nationwide. available in two flavours cost just under $1 a cut. it will be sold at storevarious retailers includes costco, target and office depo. it reaches supermarket shelves next year. >>> they will offer cheep alcoholic drinks, high end restaurants hope to lure customers back with discounted cocktails, extended happy hour but the wall street journal reports some chains are using cheaper booze to protect profits. >> coming up on good morning america. things you can do now to afford your gifts later on gma. that is your money scope report. i am jeremy hub beg your pardon -- hubbard. >>> good morning we start off clear and cold. at least cool. a chilly day as clouds build back in with the wind high of only 69 we drop to 40s overnight. tomorrow 67

. >>> get your orioles, your crackers, whatever you like to dip in your milk, we're heading to belgiumre dumped almost 800,000 gallons of fresh milk on to fields. in protest. they claim the low milk prices are pushing them towards financial ruin. >>> i bet this carpet smells just as pretty as it looks. you won't believe it when you look at it at first. but it's made of 500,000 flowers. this flower carpet is made in commemoration,, and now being laid in an elaborate pattern. more than 100 volunteers, took more than seven hours to assemble it. >>> one british singer proves hands down it's never too late to make a name for yourself. today 92-year-old dara lynn has good reason to raise a glass. you may remember her, she had a hit single and it was during world war ii. recently the record label re-released recordings of her songs on the 70th anniversary of the war. her single shot to number one in the u.k. charts, went like a bullet. even surpassed the re-release of the beatles. way to go. >>> let's go to justin. ok. >> that guy always cuts you off. >> hello, it's like hdtv. i can see every

. >> euthanasia is currently legal only in thailand, switzerland, luxembourg and belgium and holland as well as washington state and oregon. in most of those places you must be terminally ill to qualify. not so to join exit international. >> doesn't have to be a serious disease or have to be pain. i think we should respect the right of rational adult toss make this choice. >> are you ill? >> no, not really. i don't think of old age very well. >> his support of rational adults like lisette nigot has angered more moderate elements. nigot was a healthy woman who decided when she turned 80 enough was enough and she'd kill herself. >> don't feel like waiting around for christmas? >> christmas, i loathe christmas. >> right. >> i was saying things like why don't you go on a world cruise or write a book? she said why don't you mind your own business. i want from you technical information and she got it and died. >> the public was outraged. nitschke admits his information could fall into the wrong hands. >> you're not only helping the people who are terminally ill, but those who are psycholog

the player from belgium returning to the game after a two-year absence. >> i just saw how well she moved. she is faster than what she was before. i was thinking that maybe i should have a baby and i would come back faster. that was my observation. i am thinking about it. >> hundred agassi and john mcenroe -- andre agassi and john mcenroe were among those -- the world number two has been a finalist as well. he lost in the top 22 tillage. 35 winners, the croatian has. murray was simply out of touch. he wasted seven break points, had 41 unforced errors. the last to the bill sets, very straightforward to the no. 16 seed. mary says it was the worst defeat of his career so far. marurray says it was the worst defeat of his career so far. no change with the new york and he's jerry jeter. derek jeter. he has 2718 hits, but in terms of the home game against tampa of the home game against tampa bay raise

news breaking here from brussels in belgium, and we are hearing thieves have stolen a valuable painting by the belgian artist, a surrealist, from a museum, migrate -- we will get details as to the picture itself, what has gone and how. as soon as we do, we will bring it to you here on bbc world news. the deposed honduran president has accused the country's interim authorities of killing 10 of his supporters in clashes tuesday. the skirmishes embassy outside the capital where men wells ally took refuge there. where man well -- >> as you can see behind me there are rows of policemen and soldiers dressed in riot gear. in an effort to keep pro-is a lizalaya supporters away from here. we are told that some of the services have been resumed, and there is something of a ray of hope here. the organization of american states is trying to get tmr. zalaya in a face-to-face meeting. andy geller, bbc news, honduras. >> it is not clear exactly how he got into honduras, and indeed in the brazilian and is -- embassy. hugo chavez was in new york. he said people are getting there by train, a tractor, and

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but it left unions in the u.k., spain and belgium worrying about jobs at their plants. the american carmaker, general motors, agreed to sell a majority stake in its european subsidiary magna. this report from berlin. >> she staked her reputation on clinching the steel and couldn't wait to announce it this was the chancellor's chance to take all the glory. >> good day, ladies and gentlemen. can i inform you that a short time ago the chancellor's office was informed that g.m.'s governing board has decided to sell opal to magna. >> the chancellor believes it's the best option to safeguard german jobs. in germany, opal employs 25,000 workers at four plants. magna has pledged to keep all four factories open. the news was greeted with relief at the opal car plots. "it will be fantastic if this plant is kept open. maybe they will even expand it." "this is the best 1-2-3 inning that could happen to us," says this worker. it's a very different story, though, in the u.k. many of these workers were hoping that general motors would decide not to sell. they're worried when the ax fa

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abbott laboratories is buying the prescription drug unit of belgium company salva.al is worth nearly $7 billion. it gives abbott control of two cholesterol pills the company sells together and several other drugs. >>> well, a surge in early retirements caused by the recession is putting a strain on social security's finances. social security will pay out more in benefits than it will collect in taxes in the next two years. that's the first time it's happened since the '80s. its finances are being hurt by an increase in disability claims and a loss of millions of jobs. >>> don fisher, co-founder of the gap empire, has died after a battle with cancer. frustrated they couldn't find jeans that fit, fisher and his wife opened their first gap store in san francisco 30 years ago. that grew to 3100 retail outlets in more than 25 countries with sales of nearly $15 billion last year. don fisher was also a philanthropist and avid collector of modern art. he was 81 years old. >>> meatballs were in the forecast at the weekend box office. the animated movie "cloudy with a chance

he wanted to put up a bedouin tent like he'd done in belgium, moscow, and italy but new york city officials denied his request to pitch his tent in central park. he next tried new jersey and property owned by donald trump in westchester county, new york, but both with no goes as well. venn usually qaddafi ended up staying here last night: the libyan mission. for all his nice words about president obama today, qaddafi won't be attending the reception the president is throwing tonight. he wasn't invited. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> couric: and neither was iran's president. before his address to the u.n., he told me why iran won't be pressureed into giving up its nuclear program. we have that exclusive interview later in the broadcast. but right now we turn the war in yafz. more top military officers are coming out in favor of sending in additional u.s. troops the head of central command, general petraeus, said today he supports the idea. but he and admiral mike mullen, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, agree with general stanley mcchrystal that the war could be lost unless more t

also news coming in europe from belgium, the chemical and pharmaceutical company. you mentioned this a couple minutes ago is confirming that they are selling their drug-making activities to the u.s. rival abbott laboratories for 4.5 billion euros. solvay investors in belgium were not happy with this news today, the share's trading almost 2% down at the moment. of course, abbott laboratories is very interested in solvay's vaccine activities. now we are going to singapore with adam. >> thank you very much, carolina. >>> japan led the markets down today as we saw, the eight-month highs versus the u.s. dollar. the finance minister's comments saying he didn't think the movements were normal, but they continued to watch what happens with the japanese yen versus the u.s. dollar. and rose to about 88 plus versus the u.s. dollar. particularly the autos and the consumer electronics. many of these companies have budgets between 90 and 95, and for every one yen movement versus the u.s. dollar against them. of course, this is a negative for their overall operating profits. mean

reporter: with her husband and 18-month-old daughter, she says she is looking forward to getting back to belgiumnd her most important job being a mom. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >>> today, seven world war ii veterans took what may be their last flight in some of the very same aircraft that helped the u.s. win the war. they flew from waterbury to graten, connecticut, part of a 20-year-old program called wings of freedom designed to keep these planes flying. they cover 120 cities a year offering veterans rides along the way. >>> when we come back, what happens when good dogs need good homes? and some good people step up to make a difference. ery to me. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia muscle pain and then he recommended lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of over-active nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is fda-approved to help relieve the unique pain of fibromyalgia. and with less pain, i can do more during my day. how sweet is that? lyrica is not for everyone. tell you doctor about any serious allergic reaction that causes swelling or affects breathing o

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aid to opel's factors here in belgium. and uk prime minister gordon brown is going to have some half an hour to give a briefing on the latest developments of the european economy since he's the chairman of the g-20 at the moment. so a lot to talk about on a very short meeting. it's only a dinner meeting. there's only going to be a small letter at the end of this meeting. everybody is expecting to see what is going to be on the bonuses side if the europeans are going to be asking for a cap on the bonuses or not and we are going to be covering that. >> carolin, thanks very much, indeed, for that. we'll get a view of where we are on the global stock markets continuing today. currencies are very much a part of that dollar index. and the euro is at a one year high at 1.4738. richard, suspicion is that central banks are pumping liquidity into the system. >> yes. >> and now it's easier for investors to borrow in many other assets. >> yeah. it's taken time for that to come through. for whatever the catalyst has been, i think that

from paris to rome, and belgium, the tent follows gadhafi everywhere, and that brings us back to bedford and the tent on donald trump's property. the trump people said the property was leased on the short term basis on middle eastern partners who may or may not have a relationship with mr. gadhafi. we are look into the matter. >> the city of bedford, new york, put a stop to this. the libyan leader did not have the proper permits to put up the tent there. right now gadhafi is staying at the libyan mission which is near the u.n. buildings. >>> former alaska governor has given a speech that could help her foreign policy credentials for a possible 2012 presidential bid. palin was in hong kong addressing a group of global investors in her vision of america. and this is palin's first trip to asia, and her first major appearance since she resigned as governor back in july. >>> we are following breaking news out of chicago, where a standoff at a hospital emergency room ended peacefully. officials say the man fired a shot at around 1:30 this morning in the lobby of the administration medical cent

. >> that's where he had again, nine shelves that would accommodate the 40 plus pairs of handmade belgiumes he would wear down here in south florida. >> in total, the government is hoping to collect a total of $21 million from the sale of these two properties. of course, the proceeds from the sales is going to go to a fund for victims of the ponzi scheme. back to you. >> thanks, mary. let me ask you something. furniture. furniture art. is that going to be included? >> all those shoes of mr. madoff's, the artwork, the proceeds are going to go to his victims. >> i know for a fact that becky is very jealous of his closet space. she may wish to comment on that. >> no. but if i had closets like that, i would be more organized. >>> we'll get a list of stocks to watch this afternoon.vi you are watching cbnc. first in business worldwide. [ engine powers down ] gentlemen, you booked your hotels on orbitz. well, the price went down, so you're all getting a check thanks. for the difference. except for you -- you didn't book with orbitz, so you're not getting a check. well, i think we've all learned

in the past, gadhafi has taken his bedouin tent wherever he traveled, from paris to rome for belgium.t is his preferred form of overnight stay outside of tripoli. this week presented a unique problem for the libyan leader. new york's skyscraper hotels are not an option, because gadhafi who has no fear of palling around with terrorists is actually afraid of elevators. joining me now is congresswoman nita lowey, she represents new york's 18th district which includes the town of bedford. congresswoman, welcome, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you, larry for asking me. >> can you confirm for us now that moammar gadhafi is not sleeping in your district tonight? >> well, frankly, i've been in touch with the local officials all day, the state department. donald trump didn't return my call, although i have known him since he was a kid when we all lived in queens. and it's clear that the tent was taken down and we're following it very carefully. westchester county police were asked to provide security. this is really extraordinary when you think that he was about to camp out in the

now if you're a sma country like monaco -- just take a country le belgium or luxembourg, who areurrounding byeighbors who t ly call for -- destructn but throw 12,000 rockets into that tiny country, you think we have real problems. now these rkets, 1000, 12,000 rocketsalling on the united stat that is compreed to the si of new jerse at would make yo think. >> charlie: no leader wod want that to happen. no leader willtand by while that's happening, none on the other hand -- >> what would happen. >> charlie: well that's an interesting qution. how doou de fineour curity and how you get to the pce where you are more secure in your strength than you are even today. and at is helping to see a strong palestinian eity. andou agree wh that. >> yes, i do. >> crlie: you agree wh at and you're tryingo do something about that. >> not only ar we doing it, i thk that involves a thirdeg. i mean, peace stands on three legs. one i recognition, whi is rely another word for letimacy. >> charl: the arab nations are l prepared when you talk about the palestinians, all arab nations are prepared recognize. >> pred

many of them came from belgium and france. the locals, some of them any how, got tired up putting up with the pot-smoking outsiders. many of the cafe regulars are just finding out they can't get their caffeine fix and whatever else at their favorite place. they are not happy about this. >>> officials from the u.s. and canada today tried to re-establish direct mail service between the two kucountries. the first time since 2002, state department officials went to cuba for the meeting. direct mail service between the two nations stopp in 1963, four years after fidel castro took power. mail between the u.s. and cuba currently has to go through a third country. >>> snap, crackle and pop make all kinds of health claims. do the cereal promises hold water? >> liz crenshaw tonight at 11:00, goes to turn a critical eye on what is inside that box. >> they used to have prizes. >> now it's going to solve every problem we've got. cereals can be good food. some are loaded with whole grains and lots of fiber and just a few calories. some are

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in germany, in japan, in switzerland, in france, in belgium, all of them contain costs, have universaloverage, have very high quality care, and yet are not government-run systems. >> not government run systems? senator conrad, this is one of those times where it's like you sort of regret that americans don't speak more foreign languages. three more credits of french might have cleared this whole thing right up. in fact the indisall of the country's rattled off by senator conrad that he listed as the gold standard, all have a level of government intrusion that their systems that would make the average tea partier wretch. in france, every legal resident of france gets their health insurance from the government. so kent conrad is citing the huge success and low cost and quality care of government-run health insurance in another country as a way to prove that he wouldn't have government run health care here. it's like arguing that your neighbor looks superhealthy after going to the gym all year, and what that means for you is that you should definitely eat more tv dinners. so we have got s

onthing we d know is tt during thissessment process, general mhrystal was summoned to nato air base in belgium fo a secret meeting with fense secretary bert gates andike mullen, the chairman of the int chiefs of staff and general praeus. and the among the things general mcchrystal was dodd do is to do more analysis on what thempact of the afghan elections uld be on all of this. now, this wa done before the ections and before theeports of fraud. i can imagine that thers some people in the white hoe who look at the assessmen anday there ar only a uple of pages in there about the afghan government, out the elections, and maybe we need ask some addition harder questions about howolitics in afghanistan fundamenlly affects the couerinsurgency campaign that general mcrystal envisions and has drawn up in this assessment. >> rose: aree going over there fighting f a cuplt government? is that what thedea is? is that the fear? >> yes. the fear is how do you promote good governance? how do you fix these problems at a local level because i afghanistan most solutionsre local. but how do you do that when the

will tell you if you should refill on anheuser-busch now you that don't have to go all the way to belgiumo buy those shares. and the dotcom ceos who made more than a half billion dollars today alone. not bad. plus one of "fast money's" fastest use cat-like trading reflexes in options to make money while in a market meltdown. how he did it coming up. but first oracle down about 3%. moving lower in the after-hours session. in-line etf sales wray bit light, licensing revenues on software a bit light turning a little bit higher but still lower overall. keep in mind we saw some put activity yesterday. so there are some inklings in the market that perhaps oracle would miss or trade lower today. take a check on the impact of the futures because right now so far so good. we're not seeing too much of an impact on the nasdaq. that's a positive sign for the tech trade in tomorrow's session. >> and oracle didn't have much effect all day. oracle was struggling all day long. it's out of the gate it was struggling and the rest of the technology just kept on powering higher. >> okay. let's move on here.

i know in, i think, belgium, for example, they tend to -- there are refugee apartment buildings and everyone is struggling with how best to service this community. and what's best for the refugees? is it best to scatter them around so far from each other but they have no choice but to assimilate? or do you want to put them all together so that you can provide social services to them, you know, they need to be able to get to the rosettlement office and get job help and educational help. that's the way we tend to do it in america. we tend to concentrate people so that they're within walking distance of the local offices for the agencies. but the agencies actually take over for them in america from the moment they land. they greet them at the airport so the government's assistance is financial but the government really hands off the job to the agencies and the agencies have just absurdly few resources to handle what's been given to them in terms of responsibility. coworkers i spoke to dealing with, you know, dozens of families at the same time, some of whom have just gotten here, some of whom m

belgium presented them with a gigantic carpet of flowers made only of dahlias.t took seven hours to assemble the intricate pattern. look at that. >> that is so beautiful. from the sky it does look like a carpet. but israelis better enjoy this as they can. it's only expected to stay fresh for about two days. >> all that work for only two days. sounds to me like a new guinness record, though. >> probably. ♪ why don't you come with me little girl on a magic carpet ride ♪ magic carpet ride ♪ >> a u.n. investigation into israel's offensive against hamas militants in gaza last winter is sparking outrage. >> the report accuses both sides of war crimes and possible crimes against humanity. as simon mcgregor wood reports, it lays the bulk of the blame on the jewish state. >> reporter: israel claims last winter's war was against hamas and its military, not civilians. but during the three weeks of fighting, gaza's hospital bore witness to mounting civilian casualties. now a 575-page u.n. human rights investigation into the fighting accuses both israel and the palestinians

but the striking thing, many other countries, germany, france, belgium, japan, they're more private, less socialized than america. in germany, the doctors are private, the drug companies are private, the insurance plans are private. and everybody stays with private insurance cradle to grave. they don't have medicare for old people. that's less socialized than the u.s. >> how much of all this in this kuhn country is the profit. whether to it's the drug companies or -- kaiser is nonprofit. >> yeah. >> but hospital corporation of america, the biggest of all. >> it's for-profit. >> you know, here's the -- when you're talking about the cost and profits, in my book, i divide health care into the providers, docs, hospitals, drug companies, and the payers, the insurance system. most countries have decided that it's ok for the providers to be for-profit. there's some competition there. but all the other countries decided that the payment system, whether it's government or private, has to be nonprofit. that's a fundamental distinction with the united states. how much does that contribute? the

these shipping containers being scanned for illicit nuclear and radioactive material in antwerp, belgiumee quarters of them will end up on american soil. the threat is truly global. >> we've seized 50 containers yet with all kinds of nuclear, radioactive sources. and that in all kinds of traffic coming from all kinds of countries. >> reporter: that was last year alone. none turned out to pose a terror threat. but antwerp and some 20 other ports worldwide are now part of the u.s.-led megaports initiative, a frontline defense to screen ship, rail, and truck traffic. >> an image is transmitted back to the central arms station. >> reporter: those images give detailed x-ray information backed up by manual inspections. the program is seven years old, the aim, to equip 100 sea ports by 2015. >> before, we didn't know it. now we can do the screening and we are indeed surprised by the number of seizures and the importance. >> reporter: since 2001, databas databases kept recorded roughly a double of illicit trafficking in materials that could be used in dirty bombs, using radioactive material or i

czechoslovakia crumbled, we are getting together with the french and telling hitler, if you cross into belgium, holland, or france, you are at war with great britain. hitler never wanted war with the british empire or the british nation, and he was always willing to pay a price for it. churchill was the one going chamberlain to give that guarantee. >> moving on, i want some more questions. to tell the people in the upstairs that you must move to the microphone to ask your questions. there is one microphone there and one microphone there. the slight problem is that the lights are so blazingly strong that i cannot see whether you are there are not. i can see that there is some money there. -- there is somebody there. >> it is said that various civil servant gave him a casket with all the treaties that germany had signed under the nazi. s what is it that the proposition believes that anybody could do to deal with hitler? surely that is naivete beyond belief, and if they break every treaty showing there was no alternative but to go to war. >> is there a question over here? >> who started the war?