britain. >> the fact is that it is his policies that have given us the longest and deepest recession in our history. only this prime minister thinks that we should all be pathetically grateful for this recession when he led the world when he left britain behind. he's normally reading out lists of countries. australia, canada, turkey, brazil, they all went into recession after britain but they came out before britain. france and germany went into recession at the same time as britain. and yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this. given that all those countries are now in growth and we are not in growth -- can he tell us what on earth he meant when he said and i quote we were leading the rest of the world out of recession? >> mr. speaker, not one policy from the leader of the opposition -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize northern iraq opposed by the party adversary. we have taken action for a fiscal stimulus and kept poverty down for jobs opposed

it could not have happened anywhere else in britain. it is a long and i repeat myself, winding path which leads from james sizemore in jane archer to stella rimington but it begin here. that is one of the covers we used. he was a bbc naturalist but we don't use it in a more nowadays. this is ambassador agents, the name at the bottom says puddler but his name was wolf gain. fresen the mi5 understood nazi germany better than anywhere else in britain was that it had penetrated the german embassy. he has been interestingly bizarre career after the second world war but it was before the second world war, so we explain to mi5 that if he would attempt to appease the furer you would make if you are more likely to start the second world war then calmed him down. and then as i discovered when talking on some radio or television program after the last couple of days, i can't tell you the words he passed on to kill, who passed on to the intellectually challenged british prime minister whose name was of course neville chamberlain. neville chamberlai

. >> woodruff: meantime, britain marked its 100th combat death in afghanistan this year. the newshour's margaret warner is in london. >> warner: prime minister gordon brown has pledged to send an additional 500 troops to afghanistan. but the war is increasingly unpopular here. i'll have a special report from britain. >> lehrer: president obama outlined new stimulus and jobs proposals and he called on americans to spend their way out of recession. we'll have a debate about his proposals. >> woodruff: and ray suarez continues our series on the nation's economy. tonight, how ann arbor, michigan, is being helped by a cockroach. >> sort of a geiger counter sound. >> exactly. >> it's coming from this here? >> exactly. >> lehrer: that's all coming up on tonight's pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the american heartland to haran's best selling whole wheat, while keeping 60 billion pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> what makes us an engine fo

recession at same time as britain yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this, given that those countries are in growth and we are not in growth, can he tell us what he meant, and i quote, that we are leading the rest of the world from recession. >> mr. speaker, not one policy -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize and we have taken action for the fiscal stimulus, opposed by the party. we have taken action to keep unemployment down. they have been wrong on the recession, they will be wrong on the recovery. mr. speaker, the voice may be that of a modern public relations man, the mind-set is that of the 1930's. >> the fact is when you look at the prime minister's claims, the claim that we were to be better, that was worse. the claim that we are out of recession, we are still in recession. and the claim of boom andbust, is that the claim sdm>> -- the more he talks, the more he saves. >> mr. brown continued at a dig of the conservative candidate, richard park that would benefit from an inheritance tax. >>

tony blair is a viciously unpopular in britain. there is no section of society where you mention his name and people don't -- people almost spit at the mention of his name. it is not surprising he spent so much time abroad. >> there are other reasons for that. >> what most people want for christmas is they would love the -- they would love tony blair to be convicted. it is expressing itself in [inaudible] >> in this blessed world we live and you are describing a situation where it is probably news that tony blair is so unpopular in britain. [unintelligible] >> obama was certainly more popular abroad. >> president obama is still much more popular abroad and his popularity has not rubbed off abroad to the extent it has in this country. the reputations don't travel as quickly as you might think others travel. cracks it is because of democracy. if you have rival party is going -- international politics, there is a bunch of leaders in office. it does not matter where they come from ideologically. the other factor is that we are at the e

attorney blair, for example, is viciously unpopular in britain. i can't think of any section of society where you mention the name tony blair, and even though he was thrice re-elected, people don't almost necessarily spit at the mention of the name. it's not surprising he spent so much time abroad. >> there are other reasons for that, too. >> there are other reasons. he's making money. but what do most people want for christmas? they'd love the iraqi inquirey to convict tony blair. that is how the national mood is expressing themselves and in going for a character like cameron, although -- >> it's curious, isn't it in, this globalized world, supposedly, that we live in, you're describing a situation that is probably news to some people here, that tony blair is so deeply unpopular as you suggest in britain. >> gordon brown is not someone they spend too much time thinking about. president obama, as you mentioned, is still very much more popular, i think, abroad. his popularity hasn't rubbed off abroad to the extent that it has in this country. why i

, a fortress britain. and some ask why british troops qaeda can somalia, in yemen and even in internet chat rooms in every part of the world. afghan border areas are the location of choice for al qaeda and the epicenter of global terrorism, it is the government's judgment terrorist threat at its source. areas, we would be failing in our duty if we did not work with our allies to deal with the problem where it starts. afghanistan and pakistan will help ensure a safer britain. the mountains of waziristan. 2001 thousands of pakistan and with president obama, i have been urging pakistan's telephone conversation with president zardari on saturday, just against the pakistan against al qaeda. community we must intensify our -- development program, on the border areas and on encouraging the development of propaganda of madrassahs. it is essential that progress in driving al qaeda from afghanistan must be matched by actions not simply to isolate pakistan. into waziristan have led some to propose that it is al qaeda

recently an example of this problem in the u.k., over the past few years the government of britain removed most of its supervisory authority and invested them in the supervisory authority. but when the crisis hit, the bank of england was completely in the dark and unable to address affectively what turned into a problem for the british economy. currently that trend in the u.k. is quite the opposite. it is to give the central bank the information it needs to know what is going on in the banking system. senator shelby asked me about the role of monetary policy. i say the role is there, is more unusual, but for financial stability of maintenance it is important the fed have that insight into the banking system. >> on both of those points i say respectfully. at the g-20 more than half of our colleagues separated supervisory and monetary policy. the companies that have weathered the storm well have been countries that have separated both. the british system was a light touch regulation. they did not have deposit insurance very well and they did not have the information. when they set up the sys

am satisfied that there will be thousands of additional troops provided, not just by america and britain but also adding to that number will be troops from other countries. i said to the nato secretary general, eight countries have already indicated that they have numbers of troops that are prepared to deploy. i think it is also true to say that he has indications from announcements soon. >> why has the president of pakistan just announced that he has given up his personal control of that countries's nuclear weapons and transfer them to his prime minister, when for years we have been assured that their nuclear weapons were under the control of the army and not the politicians? >> mr. speaker, in a democracy, it seems right politicians make the final decisions. >> thank you, mr. speaker. my right hon. friend rightly focused on the equipment. in a recent opening -- the secretary of state saw the with how much pride that our workers are producing first- class equipment for our troops. could he assure us that this information could get out to our constituents without putting our troops at ri

, a fortress britain. and some ask why british troops qaeda can somalia, in yemen and even in internet chat rooms in every part of the world. afghan border areas are the location of choice for al qaeda and the epicenter of global terrorism, it is the government's judgment terrorist threat at its source. areas, we would be failing in our duty if we did not work with our allies to deal with the problem where it starts. afghanistan and pakistan will help ensure a safer britain. the mountains of waziristan. 2001 thousands of pakistan and with president obama, i have been urging pakistan's telephone conversation with president zardari on saturday, just against the pakistan against al qaeda. community we must intensify our -- development program, on the border areas and on encouraging the development of propaganda of madrassahs. it is essential that progress in driving al qaeda from afghanistan must be matched by actions not simply to isolate pakistan. into waziristan have led some to propose that it is al qaeda

we mourn heroes whose acts of bravery recognize that a more stable afghanistan means a safer britain, and the scale of their sacrifice does not diminish but strengthens our resolve. this morning, i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. in addition to my duties in the house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> robert neill. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i am sure that the whole house would endorse the prime minister's tribute to the lance corporal, and endorse his sentiments as well. last week the prime minister told the house that spain was in the g-20 and that it had been in recession for longer than this country -- neither of which, upon checking, turns out to be correct. do we conclude from that that the pain in spain is mainly in his brain? >> [laughter] >> i am very glad that we are starting this week's question time exactly as we ended last week's question time. >> [unintelligible] >> by talking about the economy. >> mr. speaker -- >> [unintelligible] >> order. we want to hear the prime minister's reply, and certainly people listening elsewhere -- orde

and tony blair for example viciously unpopular in britain. i can't think of any section where you mention his name and even though -- he was twice reelected people don't necessarily. they almost spit at the mention of the name. he spent so much timed abroad, -- >> there are other reasons for that. >> and i mean, there's sort of, what do most people want for christmas? they love the iraqi inquiry to conflict tony blair. that's how the national mood is expressing itself and it is expressing itself as you were saying in going for a character like cameron, although -- >> it is curious in this globalized world, the world we live in describing a situation where i expect it is probably news to many people here that tony blair is so unpopular as you suggest in britain and gordon brown -- gordon brown they probably don't spend too much time. >> and obama was more popular aprod. president obama as you mentioned is still very -- very, much more popular i think abroad, he hasn't -- his popularity hasn't rubbed off aprod to the extent that it has in this

britain cannot be saved from terrorism unless we do with problems that exist that just in britain but on the borders of afghanistan and pakistan. we do not take on al-qaeda and prevent them from having space in afghanistan with the freedom of movement to plan operations in britain we jeopardize the security of people that he represents in london and people who have had to suffer from terrorist plots being organized from that border. yes, it is right that in afghanistan it is an infant democracy where problems existed in a very big way during the election campaign. it is better for us to build afghan forces that are under an afghan democracy and to build security services that are under an afghan president that is elected by the people, and it is better for us to build up local government in afghanistan and to give up and to allow those people, to allow those people who didn't wanted us to take the action that is necessary to win this argument. this is about security. >> people, the prime minister, he said, he would provide more equipment in support of the armed forces. can the prime m

in britain, they control health care costs by denying or delaying access to expensive therapies. and that's why we -- one of the reasons this country has a third-better survival for every cancer that you can imagine over great britain is because we don't do that. and as a two-time cancer survivor, i'm acutely aware as a patient -- not as a doctor -- in that i want to make sure for my family and my patients to have the best alternatives, not the cheapest. because the cheapest alternatives are the ones that take years away from your life. the cheapest. i'm going to go through some examples. and nobody -- nobody -- can dispute this is what is happening now and what will happen under our program. tor senator baucus' credit, he had a bill that wasn't cost-comparative effectiveness. he had one based on clinical comparative-effectiveness. that's not in here. what's in hereish clinical comparativeness-clinical. senator baucus knew you want to use clinical outcomes, not costs. if you only look at costs, nobody in this country would get a mammogram between 40 and 50. but this bill is diffe

britain.>> the fact is that it is his policies that have given us the longest and deepest recession in our history. only this prime minister thinks that we should all be pathetically grateful for this recession when he led the world when he left britain behind. he's normally reading out lists of countries. australia, canada, turkey, brazil, they all went into recession after britain but they came out before britain. france and germany went into recession at the same time as britain. and yet they came out before. can the prime minister answer this. given that all those countries are now in growth and we are not in growth -- can he tell us what on earth he meant when he said and i quote we were leading the rest of the world out of recession? >> mr. speaker, not one policy from the leader of the opposition -- we have taken action to restructure the banks and nationalize northern iraq opposed by the party adversary. we have taken action for a fiscal stimulus and kept poverty down for jobs opposed

britain cannot be saved from terrorism unless we deal with problems that exist not just in britain butthe borders of afghanistan and pakistan. if we do not take on all k-fed and prevent them from having space in afghanistan with the freedom of movement to plan operations in britain, we are not securing the people he represents in london and people in the rest of the country that have had to suffer from terrorist spots that have been organized from that afghan- pakistan border. yes, it is right that in afghanistan it is an offense -- infant democracy were problems existed during the election campaign. it is better for us to build afghan forces better under an afghan democracy and build security service is better under an afghan president that was elected by the people. it is better for us to build a local government in afghanistan and to allow those people that never wanted us to take the action that was necessary to win this argument. this is about the security of the people of britain. >> speaker, the prime minister is right to praise the brave troops in afghanistan. he said "he would

but cannot be for britain. france and germany went into recession at the same time but cannot before. can the prime minister answer this? given that all those countries are in growth and we are not in growth, can he tell us what he meant when he said, quote, we were leading the rest of the world out of recession? >> not one policy from the opposition. we have taken action to restructure the banks -- we have taken action for a fiscal stimulus opposed by the party opposite. we have taken action to keep unemployment down as a result of creating jobs opposed by the opposition and taken action for international cooperation opposed by the opposition. they have been wrong on the recession and they will be wrong on the recovery. the voice may be that of a public relations man. the mind set is that of the 1930s. >> when you look at the prime minister's three central claims, that we were better prepared than other countries was wrong, our deficit was worse than other countries. the credit that britain was leading the wor

look at britain which arguably the most advanced, we had tony blair arguing for 10 years that britain should get behind climate change policies. and when they came into power in 1997, the labour party labour party, and he affirmed that britain was going to cut their emissions by another 50%. and they have, we have seen an increase of about 3%. it is a very, very hard thing to do. the second part, the cherry-picking, i would definitely say these are not the only four problems. [inaudible] >> i didn't get to my second part. the one question i'll frame it into one. it seems it is not the fact that climate change has caused a greater destruction of the food cycle, and the water cycle, both of which are much more dire concern for humanity and animal survival then before that you chose. are those not being disrupted on a grander scale? >> well, i'm very happy i get the chance for those two things. the food cycle actually, no, it is true, and i'm sorry, i'm just going to point to the slight. there's a lot of things i don't show in this particular talk, but if you take a look at the food prod

the claim that britain was leading the world out of recession, we're still in recession. isn't it the case his three biggest claims are his three biggest failures? >> the more he talk the less he actually says. >> mr. brown continued as a conservative candidate richmond park who would benefit from the conservative policy to raise the limit before people paid inheritance tax. zhr >> the only person who -- the only person who made a specific pledge to reduce inheritance tax in the coming budget is the prime minister he legislated to raise the threshold from 350,000 to -- from 325,000 to 350,000. perhaps he can tell us now, is he still planning to do that? we'd like an answer. >> mr. speaker, it's interesting that -- it's interesting that that the great ideas of economic policy, he's ended up having to defend his own policy on inheritance tax. the question he has to answer, the issue, mr. speaker, the issue that concerns the whole country is that inheritance tax costs to millionaires will cost us nearly two billion pounds we should be spending on the public damages. now the

meant to play a leading role in the middle east peace process if israeli politicians can't visit britain without fear of arrest. >> i thank him for the support for the words of the foreign secretary. we should be in no doubt that it's important for israel's leaders to be able to talk to government ministers in this country. they are important strategic partners. and we need to make sure the situation is as the foreign secretary said it should be. >> well, can the lady of the house shed a better light on this. when the international contract was, it was never the intention to obstruct normal business like the vital work like the middle east peace process. senior-serving politicians whom we all need to talk to everybody were not meant to be affected in this way, as we understand it. can she say magistrates are applying the law correctly? and if they're not interpreting the law correctly, will the government give fresh advice on that? and if they are -- if they are interpreting the law correctly, what are the government going to do about it. and when is the minister going to come to the hou

president by next year, britain's net contribution will have doubled from what it was in 2008. in 2020, bell will be four to seven new member states at least three on the current economic performance, each one of the new member states will be receiving cohesion funds, subsidies by another name. from the date that they become members right the way through until 2020. can there for the british taxpayer anticipate a further doubling and britain's net contribution to the european union by 220? and if not, why not? >> thank you very much. a discussion of financial perspectives, i cannot anticipate what will be the contribution of britain. i understand the concern that you are expressing, because just now the british taxpayers are paying most important contributions because of what happened in the financial sector in britain. there was no other case of so important state aid but the ones of the we have seen in the european countries. we believe it is important to set the priorities for the future, to see what we have to spend it national levels, and what we have to spend at european

and britain. under restrictions imposed by the german parliament, they were sent as peacekeepers in charge of the relatively tranquil north. after 8 years, they've lost 34 soldiers. the british, who are seeing fierce combat, have just twice as many troops, yet seven times more casualties than the germans. but the german public's feelings about their mission are as chilly as december in berlin. a recent poll showed nearly 70% want their forces to leave. i think its a senseless war. i think it's good to feel responsible even for other countries and other cultures, but i think it's not right to do it this way, to send troops and >> ( translated ): when soldiers kill, it's murder. there is no good reason to fight wars, for germans or anybody else. of course for germans to do it it's even worse. >> warner: constanze steizenmueller, a senior fellow at the german marshall fund, says the reason for these feelings is clear. >> it's the legacy of a profoundly pacifist culture created by the guilt and the kn

britain cannot be saved from terrorism unless we do with problems that exist that just in britain butthe borders of afghanistan and pakistan. we do not take on al-qaeda and prevent them from having space in afghanistan with the freedom of movement to plan operations in britain we jeopardize the security of people that he represents in london and people who have had to suffer from terrorist plots being organized from that border. yes, it is right that in afghanistan it is an infant democracy where problems existed in a very big way during the election campaign. it is better for us to build afghan forces that are under an afghan democracy and to build security services that are under an afghan president that is elected by the people, and it is better for us to build up local government in afghanistan and to give up and to allow those people, to allow those people who didn't wanted us to take the action that is necessary to win this argument. this is about security. >> people, the prime minister, he said, he would provide more equipment in support of the armed forces. can the prime minis

-- in britain? >> there has been a modest increase in the troops. prime minister gordon is talking about bringing down next year. but i think the reality of the situation is that it is obama possible strategy but is supported by all of mainstream. next year is going to be an intense time of pressure. we're the main driver for reform for pakistan and afghanistan. if you do not establish ourselves known as a potential government, we are going to withdraw and you will be get -- and you will get killed. the problem is that that will be borne and paid for by the troops on the ground. that is a sober moment. that is before you get into the issue on how stable in iraq is. >> next question. >> my question is for the panel at large. given the opening of copenhagen today, what is the panel's view on president obama's strategy going to copenhagen, and emissions target that has not been drafted by domestic legislation? i am interestininterested to hee republican view is what the american responsibility will be if there is a definitive agreement at copenhagen wh

tony blair is a viciously unpopular in britain. there is no section of society where you mention his name and people don't -- people almost spit at the mention of his name. it is not surprising he spent so much time abroad. >> there are other reasons for that. >> what most people want for christmas is they would love the -- they would love tony blair to be convicted. it is expressing itself in [inaudible] >> in this blessed world we live and you are describing a situation where it is probably news that tony blair is so unpopular in britain. [unintelligible] >> obama was certainly more popular abroad. >> president obama is still much more popular abroad and his popularity has not rubbed off abroad to the extent it has in this country. the reputations don't travel as quickly as you might think others travel. cracks it is because of democracy. if you have rival party is going -- international politics, there is a bunch of leaders in office. it does not matter where they come from ideologically. the other factor is that we are at the e

attorney blair, for example, is viciously unpopular in britain. i can't think of any section of society where you mention the name tony blair, and even though he was thrice re-elected, people don't almost necessarily spit at the mention of the name. it's not surprising he spent so much time abroad. >> there are other reasons for that, too. >> there are other reasons. he's making money. but what do most people want for christmas? they'd love the iraqi inquirey to convict tony blair. that is how the national mood is expressing themselves and in going for a character like cameron, although -- >> it's curious, isn't it in, this globalized world, supposedly, that we live in, you're describing a situation that is probably news to some people here, that tony blair is so deeply unpopular as you suggest in britain. >> gordon brown is not someone they spend too much time thinking about. president obama, as you mentioned, is still very much more popular, i think, abroad. his popularity hasn't rubbed off abroad to the extent that it has in this country. why i

home office here, reporting that say abdulmutallab applied for another student visa to come ba to britain in the past year and was turned down. the british home office won't confirm or deny this report. they won't knock it dunown. his teachers had concerns about his, his family had concerns about him, and now british officials had concerns about him. while police are still investigating the apartment that he lived in here for three years, we understand that security services in britain are making sure he doesn't have any colleagues or former friends who might be about to perpetrate similar terror attacks. the search of this apartment goes on, but the picture of a man getting moorad callized is emerging here, larry. >> larry: i understand the government wants a dna sample the suspect. why? >> we're not clear on that, larry. the government wants to go forward. in fact, they'll be in court tomorrow making that specific request asking to get a dna sample from the 23-year-old. why they want it, we don't know. we anticipate in the court documents we'll get an answer to that tomorrow. >> larry:

in each case, the similar answer was basically, it is a good thing for the world that britain and america are good. that is not a problem for us. as for the future, it is by your work shell ye -- shall ye be known. we're starting with a blank sheet of paper. i recall it asçó such an emblematic moment, sitting face- to-face at the lunch table at camp david, very informal, and there was a minimum of ceremony. a minimum. the president said, hello, tony. may i call you tony? he says, hello, george, may i call you george? what are we going to talk about? he sort of sensed as the time developed that would ever happened in policy, whatever substantial issues to challenge them, that these men were going to get on. that is exactly what happened. they had a very good weekend together. the best conference was probably when they had the colgate moment, which you may remember, the press conference that did not do justice to the nature of the relationship, which was promising. as we look at what happened from that moment until june of that year, they met at various international meetings from time to t

we mourn heroes whose acts of bravery recognized a more stable afghanistan needs a safer britain. and the scale of that sacrifice does not diminish but strengthens our resolve. this morning i had meetings with colleagues and others with addition to my duties and house today. >> robert neil? >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm sure the whole house would endorse his sentiments as well. last week the prime minister told a house that that spain was in the g-20 and has been in recession for longer than this country. neither of which upon checking turns out is to be correct. do we conclude from that that the rain in spain is mainly in his brain? [laughter] >> mr. speaker i'm very glad that we're starting this week's session exactly as we ended last week session time. by talking about the economy. by talking about the economy. mr. speaker, i -- >> order. we want to hear the prime minister's reply. certainly people listening elsewhere. order. wish to do so. will have no further interruptions. mr. prime minister? >> there are people who get in the white house on false pretenses and get their ph

. >> faced with a terrorist threlt, some of our most effective strategy is to defend britain within our own borders. some asked why british troops are in afghanistan at all if terrorists are in yemen and so maul lee and even internet chat rooms. but as long as afghanistan is the epicenter of global terrorism, it is the government's judgment we must address the terrorist threat at its source. as long as 3/4 of the most serious terrorist plots against britain have ties to the pakistan-afghanistan border areas, we should be failing our duty if we did not to address the problem where it starts. a more stable after begun stan and pakistan bill help ensure a safer britain. >> he promised a political surge alongside a military one. lady -- he was asked about an end. >> does the prime minister agree with me we must never do or say anything that gives the impression to the taliban we will not see this through. nor should we raise false hope or inspect exations -- expectations that may be dashed, so can you assure the country and our forces as we approach the general election that any suggestion

acquire california from mexico, acquired organ from britain, reduced tariff rates in create an independenture currency stability. >> during the jackson era there was a big issue at the bank of the united states, which was a bank that was created by the government to be the repository of federal money and attempt to ensure currency stability. jackson killed the bank. >> they would hate what is going on right now. >> in many ways. at the same time, everyone understood there had to be some sort of agency for currency stability. jackson basically put it into serious state banks ahvarious s. the independent treasury was an effort to create stoca governmet entity that would take care of those things. john notes in his book that lasted until the creation of the federal reserve. it was not a trivial accomplishment. tariff rates were a natural democratic position that was not surprising. getting oregon territory was a natural thing. for 26 years the united states and britain had been negotiating where to draw the line. >> how many states would have been involved? >> corrigan territory went up and t

attorney blair, for example, is viciously unpopular in britain. can't think of any section of society where you mention the name tony blair, and even though he was thrice re-elected, people don't almost necessarily spit at the mention of the name. it's not surprising he spent so much time abroad. >> there are other reasons for that, too. >> there are other reasons. he's making money. but what do most people want for christmas? they'd love the iraqi inquirey to convict tony blair. that is how the national mood is expressing themselves and in going for a character like cameron, although -- >> it's curious, isn't it in, this globalized world, supposedly, that we live in, you're describing a situation that is probably news to some people here, that tony blair is so deeply unpopular as you suggest in britain. >> gordon brown is not someone they spend too much time thinking about. president obama, as you mentioned, is still very much more popular, i think, abroad. his popularity hasn't rubbed off abroad to the extent that it has in this country. why is

when we've followed these terror plots in britain, and there have been a few attempted and obviouslynfortunately some successful. in following those plots through the court cases, some were fre freelancers. but there was a wealth of information and also physically in trying to experiment with these kinds of things. you can still find the information on the internet through intermediarintermediari. means they have access to figure out how to get a small amount of powder, to get some hydrogen peroxide and perhaps a small detonator on to an airplane. as i said, the key thing here for authorities has always been to try and contain the threat. that's what they have tried to do, even in the small quantities that are allowed on airplanes, there are some things you can still get on in certain airports that are dangerous. how dangerous? we'll figure out today exactly as they test these things that are apparently on the way to the lab, how much damage it can do. important to bring up, they cannot find everything. it is not that sophisticated. in britain they have been experimenting with differ

where everyone is being patted down i can tell you flights today from britain to the u.s., some of themour hours late. >> larry: you're familiar with watch lists. can you break down how they work or how they don't work? >> larry, with watch lists we are entering the twilight zone. the fact is 500,000 people on one list, tens of thousands on another, and a few thousand on the famous no-fly list. the crucial part is not how you get on them but how you get off them because remember, there are many americans who are on one or other of these lists who are desperate to try and get off them. this is all about a balancing act. and the real problem is the sheer size and scale of the problem. in several airports throughout the united states in a voluntary basis, uses what we call a millimeter wave system, which actually looks under the clothing of an individual. so you're looking at a nude body. >> larry: can i turn it down if i don't want it? >> you can turn it down presently. as i said, it's voluntary. you know, in the airports that have the system. >> larry: what do they do if you don't do it?

in east anglia, great britain. here's a public index of documents on one day, and then here's the public index on the next -- very quickly after they've gone through and purged all of this. it says, the next day, on july 28, phil jones deleted data from his public file, leaving online a variety of files from the 1990's. this morning, everything dr. phil's directory had been removed. it's not just the emails that have been deleted. in a widely reported event, steve mcintyre a canadian research eric who testified before -- reerger, who testified before congress several years ago, he's been trying to get, through freedom of information act, the public document, the documents some of these studies are purported to be based on. instead of releasing them they purged them. they took them away in what is reported to be an unprecedented data purge. they've deleted files relating to station data from the public directories. twhrer data now if they're still in existence? what is it they're trying to hide? if the temperature d

a choir of oregon from britain. reduced tariff rates. and create an independent treasury to ensure currency stability. >> let's talk about that one briefly. during jackson state, there was the bank of the united states -- the bank of the united states which was built to ensure currency stability. jackson, with all the populism, he hated that bank and he killed it. >> he would hate what is going on right now. >> in many ways. but everyone understood that there had to be some kind agency for stability, and for repository of federal money. jackson basically put it in the state banks, promptly labeled jackson's pet banks. this was an attempt to create government entity that would take care of those two things. john notes that that lasted until the creation of the fed. it was not a trivial accomplishment. tariff rates were read natural democratic position. that was not surprising. gaining the oregon territory as much as possible was a natural thing. for 26 years, the united states and britain had been trying to negotiate where to draw the lin

maintain the founding principles which lord gladstone, after he watched us get independence from britainaid some 30 years later, the united states has established the best form of government ever conceived by the minds of men. that government's not there anymore, it's not doing that. but about 80% of the public want us to do that. we don't want to kill 61 million babies before they're born, we don't want to have same-sex marriage, we don't want to have free sex and encourage our kids in school to go get an abortion and not tell their parents. that's all going on, and that means that all of us are affected by the sexual thing. it makes everybody come down somewhat, and people abandon themself to this, ahead of this stuff. and i don't like it. and i introduced bills in congress which passed, i introduced a bill by which instead of just doing planned parenthood which we were giving a million dollars to, let the parents take the child, go talk to a rabbi, a priest or an adviser and let's get a little bit of god's law into this. it lasted, it passed unanimously by the committee. orrin hatch w

in early 1989, the communist authorities reported and refused her permission to come to britain for a holiday. she was very active and a dissident movement at that time. she was being followed everywhere, even her home was bombed. that's just one small example of how dramatically and how quickly things changed in 1989, but before the year ended she was appointed the first post-commie's ambassador to czechoslovakia to united states by her friend who had become president. it was really a incidentally who interpreted put the word velvet revolution into the english-language. what reda told me was that the remorse she and her friends hope for a 1985 after gorbachev became soviet leader, was that czechoslovakia might be allowed to go as far as hungry and be allowed some modest economic reform followed by an economically liberalization that there was no expectation in eastern europe anymore than there was in washington, or in western european capitals that soviet domestic and foreign policy was going to be fundamentally transformed in the second half of the 1980s. so it's that phenomenon whi

and we haven't mentioned that britain has turned dramatically# against the post-9/11 conflict, for britainhey have the highest number of casualties, it's small compared to the united states. and that has poisoned politics for the government that took us to war. tony blair is unpopular, and even though twice reelected, people don't necessarily spit at the mention of the name. and not surprising that he spent as much time abroad. >> there are other reasons for that. >> other reasons, he's making money. and the hope for christmas is they want to commit tony blair. >> it's peculiar in this globalized world, and you described and that is used to many people that tony blair is so deeply unpopular as you suggest in britain. and gordon brown is not the magic. >> obama was more popular abroad. >> that's right, president obama as you mentioned is still much more popular abroad. his popularity has not rubbed abroad to the extent that it has in this country. why is it that the reputations don't travel as quickly as you might think other things travel. >> it's partly because of democracy, if you have a

it's often said america and britain are fighting a loan. but this is wrong.rom 16,000 to around 30,000 soon. and i believe that over the coming months, even more countrys will respond. our effort in hell monday will benefit. last year total international force levels were around 7,000 and now they will be above 20,000. three times what they were. now our third condition was that the military effort of the international coalition must be matched by afghan effort. president caresi ensured not only 5,000 members of the new afghan military will be deployed by 2010 but additional kre kruts will arrive in the next few weeks with. the three conditions met i will confirm we'll move to 9 and a half thousand. extra troops will deploy in early december to thicken the u.k. presence and from late january they'll make the transition to the partnering role we have for them. mr. speaker, for understandable reasons of operational security we'll hold information of the nature of activities of our special force bus at this time of increasing international effort, it's right to

they never had any designs over the united states or britain or france or germany.hese people, the al qaeda and the friends in the taliban, want to cause misery in the lives of the people in the united states. so to stop them and suppress them and keep them off balance is a very, very worthwhile goal. the main problem i have with "playboy'mr. obama trip right now, you can't travel all the time. you should do things via e-mail. he's traveling all over the world at great expense. >> you have to go get the nobel prize. you can't bust him for that. >> i think he should say it's legitimate to get the nobel prize. just as it is okay for you businessmen to have your convention, too. >> with all due respect, there's a lot difference about going to get a nobel peace prize. he's not going on a raid at paris hilton's house. >> the difference is the nobel peace prize will not get anyone a job where the businessmen's convention might get someone a job. >> is he supposed to accept it by twitter? i mean, come on. this is the president of the united states. getting the nobel peace

state legislator, congressman, ambassador to france, to britain, minister to spain, fourth term governor of his home state of virginia, u.s. secretary of state, secretary of war, and finally to term president of the united states, the fifth president. as governor of virginia he became the second most powerful figure in america. virginia than was america's largest, wealthiest and most heavily populated state with 20% of the american population. it stretched all the way to the mississippi river and all the way up north to the great lakes. it was enormous. and the prestige and importance of its governor was akin to the governors of california, illinois, new york and texas put together today. and monroe was not only the governor of america's most important state, he was a national hero in the revolutionary war. in other words, he was a giant in his day. and i don't understand why historians ignore him, which is why i wrote this book, to restore him to his rightful place in american history as the most important president in the early days of our nation. now some historians elevate john adams

it was officially chaired by the foreign ministers of france and britain, though behind the scenes the u.s. clearly played a dominating role. and the united states and its european allies put before both sides essentially a predetermined agreement that is quite complex, but in essence what it demanded was that these, the serbs would have to agree to full regional autonomy for kosovo, not ip dependence. independence at this point was ruled out. full regional acon themy for -- awe on theny for kosovo, an end, basically, to the repressive measures that had been instituted by milosevic in 1989, and an armed peace-keeping force would supervise the implementation of these measures for an extended period of time. again, the conference eventually broke down without an agreement, and u.s. and european officials claimed that the breakdown was caused by serb intransigents including, for example, samantha power and her book that milosevic never seriously considered an agreement and resisted all reasonable measures to bring them aboard and that nato only engaged in military action after the serb in

it was officially chaired by the foreign ministers of france and britain, though, behind the scenes the u.s. clearly played a dominating role. and the united states and its european allies put together a predetermined agreement that's quite complex but, in essence, what it demanded was that the serbs would have to agree to full regional autonomy for kosovo, not independence. independence at this point was ruled out. but full regional autonomy for kosovo as an autonomous province of serbia. an end to the basically the repressive measures that were started by milosevic in 1989 and an armed peacekeeping force would surprise the implement these measures for a period of time. again, the conference eventually broke down without an agreement. and u.s. and european officials claimed that the breakdown was caused by serb entrancents. -- trancents. and they resisted all reasonable measures and after it was on display at the convention. we have clear evidence that it was simply not the case from the best sources. we have an account from mark vailer, who's a cambridge university academic, a profess