maybe it was the expansion and whether you favored britain or france. it's not like you have today with the parties marching in lot step on almost everything. doesn't matter whether it's a stimulus or a supreme court nomination. all the democrats are on one side and the republicans on the other. if you could bottle this, it's an amazing thing. by some magic, you can have this group of people to be either party. you have white and black and hispanic and old and young and urban and rural. they all think alike. it's amazing how they are able to make that happen. you have the democrats over here and you have the republicans here. at war with each other all the time. because it's how can my party win the next election? one example of all of you, if you decide that because this university is so good and has such great facilities and you oh, a lot to it and wanted to do something, you might say we are going to get together as a big group and we have a lot of friend and we are going to build a building and you get together all of you in this room and say what di

year or whatever it is, if you take the next 14, 15 countries combined, friendly countries like britain or france or canada, rivals like china and russia, adversaries like iran and north korea and you add all of their defense expenditures together, it doesn't reach what the united states alone spends. so the question is this, isn't there room for significant defense department cuts? >> there is room. that's why when we agreed to the deficit reduction act last year and put caps on discretionary spending for the next ten years, about $487 billion of what would have been spent at the department of defense is going to be kept. >> over ten years. >> over ten years. now, what is unacceptable though is the sequester. another $1.2 trillion worth of cuts. >> over ten years. >> over ten years. half of which would come out of our military. that is going too far. listen, the president promised the american people the sequester would never happen. the reason we have the sequester is that the president didn't want to be inconvenienced by having a second debt limit vote before his re-election. and he and senato

playing bradley wiggins has taken a massive step towards winning the tour de france or britain one monday's time trial to increase his overall lead in the race to nearly two minutes the thirty two year old finished with forty one kilometer route forty five seconds ahead of the sky team mate crease froome and a commanding one minute forty three ahead of defending champion cadel evans this year the now trails wiggins by almost two minutes in the journal pacific nation rushes in its mission of its fifth overall then it's back today is the rest of that with action resuming on wednesday in the mountain. over to third it's now one of the all time great olympians carl lewis says there is no guarantee jamaican super spring to st paul two will win the one hundred meters in london lose one nine golds during his glittering career but says the chances of him. american sprinters tyson gay and justin gatlin should be dismissed they have not transpose fast as well to record holder bolt or his jamaican to make your own blake this year but luiz believes the other athletes could benefit from being out of the

commercial power and american ships were flying the seven seas or however many seats that are, caring goods around the world. both britain and france particularly britain though, felt able to seize u.s. flagships on high seas, or even as close to port in u.s. territorial waters. sees cargoes, the ships if they thought about for an emmy for. british particularly plucked the u.s. theaters off of u.s. ships and on commercial jets, commercial ships, but also u.s. warships and impressed them into a slave like existence in the royal navy fighting the king's enemies. to all of this was a challenge to the united states. the united states under the past administrations of jefferson and madison, for 10 years, respond with milder, with diplomatic protest and even the self-defeating measure of an embargo on our own trade, which really did not bring the europeans to their knees until they destroyed much of our own shipping. but finally, we reached a point where over 900 u.s. flagships had been seized by britain and france. the massive ministration finally declared war on britain, and really at that point serve notice on the entire world that th

britain ranks among the top handful of defense exporters in the world. that includes america, france, israel and russia. last year britain posted a banner year with exports that topped 5.4 billion pounds or about $8.1 billion. a key player in that growth is our next guest, richard paniguian the head of the defense support organization. richard, welcome to the show. >> great to be here vago. >> and thank you very much for taking time out of your schedule to meet with you. everybody is racing for the export markets around the world as their domestic budgets shrink. what are the british products you think will be most attractive on the markets? >> you're right vago. last year with a 5.4 billion- pound defense export record, this was a terrific year. it matches the previous year's figure almost pound for pound. and places us as the second largest defense export in the world. so at a time when markets are becoming ever more competitive. great results with the uk. in terms of markets for the future, well, we're going to be looking at digging in deeper to markets where we already have a substantial position. so the united states, the middle east, far eastern austral asia but there are also mark

now to cycling or britain's mark cavendish has won the second stage of this year's tour de france the world champion beating germany's on pole in a bunch sprint for the finish line cavendish seen here in the yellow helmet when the sprinters green jersey in last year's race and threw down a marker to his rivals on monday switzerland's family and councillor stays in the lead in the lead as yellow jersey i should say and remain seven seconds ahead of another great bragging wiggins in the general classification. now euro twenty twelve it may be over but for the host countries the effect will be felt for a long time to come kate partridge looks now and how the last month in the spotlight could help boost ukraine's tourist industry. football the world's favorite sport and big business poland and ukraine pumped around fourteen billion euros into their country's infrastructure to co-host euro two thousand and twelve economists a host nations rarely profit from big tournament but the feel good value could prove to be priceless in ukraine to resume is booming more than three hundred thousand pe

or loser for an almost call with priceless memories. now to cycling and britain's mark cavendish has won the second stage of the tour de france the world champion beating germany's andre grove pollen a bunch sprint for the line have an interesting him helmet one sprinters green jersey in the race last year and threw down a marker to his rivals on monday switzerland's fabienne canter lara has no rules no yellow jersey and one seven seconds ahead of another great rivalry game so. now maybe a couple of months away yet but anticipation is growing ahead of gold ryder cup the buy annual event takes place in illinois in september europe a current holders having been victorious at celtic manor in two thousand and ten but usa captain davis love the third says recent excess on the p.g.a. tour shows his men have what it takes to wrestle the trophy back. i think we get overlooked a little bit now people start to catch on that our tour american players the young players are playing very very well now but every time i go to a ryder cup we sit up on the stage and we look at our team and we think wow we have a great team it always is close and we know

the beginning, to think that kofi annan or anybody else for that matter was going to bring russia and china to the same view as the united states, britain and franceand it wasn't going to happen then and has not happened since then. and it is not going to happen in the future. >> eric: the future is even tomorrow, because kofi annan, the former secretary-general who you know so very well is due back in damascus in the warning, what possibly could that accomplish? >> well, i don't think it will accomplish anything, the syrian regime through the militar exercises you mentioned at the outset continues to show determine nays. now, it has not been a good week for the assad regime. they've had a high-level military defector and there are reports of other officers defecting but, nonetheless, nothing changed, the russian or the iranian strategic imperative which is to keep, if not bashar al-assad himself in power, to keep the regime in power. >> eric: you mentioned iran and kofi annan says they need to be part of the solution. how can that be, ambassador, when mahmoud ahmadinejad -- i see you laughing -- mahmoud ahmadinejad is saying that the nation shoul

areas with tensions or we do not know whether we could end up with is attrition where the weapons are used against the bundeswehr. >> germany now exports more arms than britain and france together, and critics say germany's tough regulations were watered down long ago. many politicians are calling for greater parliamentary control over weapons sales. >> , deval is always a colorful affair, and in haiti, the festival is known as the carnival of flowers is no exception to that rule. >> thousands of people have been taking part in festival celebrations in the capital. some critics have balked at the three-day event, but the haitian government is hoping that carnival will boost morale in the country. haiti is, of course, still suffering from the devastating effects of that earthquake that struck the country some two years ago. stay with us here on dw. we're going to be back in a minute's time. we're going to be going to moscow and having a look at a high profile trial which is putting a female punk band against none other than vladimir putin. >> if you have been watching the olympics, you may have noticed a lot of it in d.c. it's a some of the events. we will have the late

and yet, france spends eight times less on treatments per person than the u.s. system. eight times less. or consider britain which handles diabetes far more effectively than the u.s. while spending less than half of what we spend per person. the study concludes that the british system is five times more productive in managing diabetes than the united states is. to understand this issue better, i spoke with daniel vercello of novartis and a physician by training. he's also frankly pro-market and pro-american, both of which have occasionally made him a target for some criticism in europe. he emphasizes there's no single model that works best, but he explained that france and britain have been better at tackling diabetes and lung disease because they take a syst systemwide approach that gives all providers an incentive to focus on early detection and cost-effective treatments that make wellness the goal. so i asked him, is the lesson that only the government can produce systemwide improvements? his brief answer is yes, this is a case where you need government action. you see, economists have often written abou