these talks are likely to continue tomorrow at an informal economic summit in brussels. if there is a rescue it will be controversial, prompting questions about who was going to pay and what the conditions will be. >> the united states is expressing deep disappointment in a london court ruling that has forced the disclosure of intelligence reports about a way that a british man was treated by the cia while in american custody in pakistan. the document sho that british officials knew that he was subjected to cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment. >> at the heart of the case was the intelligence sharing relationship between the u.k. and the united states. while the judge's considered their ruling, it appears that the court in washington, d.c., had already half tip the balance. >> they said it would be absurd, just because a court decided to publish material that had already been made public by an american court. >> the foreign secretary answered allegations that the british had colluded in the torture. >> there is a fundamental commitment on the part of myself and my se

>> there's a certain amount of panic in brussels, for good reasons.ometimes hear it invoked that the good news is that the new europe and the countries formally in the soviet world have actually weathered the crisis a little better. is that right? >> i'm not sure. >> they have stronger budgetary positions. the polls, the czechs, the hungarians -- greece, spain, italy, france, 9% of gdp. >> not just a deficit or debt problem. it's a current account problem. if you look at the countries like the baltic states, hungary, they've had to make severe adjustment. interestingly the imf came in to help them in western europe. the germans and the french don't want the imf in. why? it would be seen that they failed. president sarkozy doesn't want his socialist rival dominique strauss kahn that runs the imf take any credit whatsoever for helping to achieve a greek solution. >> before you guys go, since you're both brits, who is going to win -- i assume gordon brown will have to announce british election sometime around easter, which means they'll take place about

wall street took heart from the news out of brussels.the dow jones industrial average gained more than 105 points to close at 10,144. the nasdaq rose 29 points to close at 2177. police were targeted for a second straight day in northwest pakistan. a pair of suicide bombers attacked a police complex near the afghan border, killing 15 people and wounding up to 30. the first blast struck outside the entrance gate. minutes later, the second went off as rescuers were responding to the first attack. president obama will meet with the dalai lama-- the exiled spiritual leader of tibet-- next thursday. a presidential spokesman announced the white house session today. china had warned against any such meeting. it accuses the dalai lama of pushing for tibetan independence. the chinese have also complained sharply about u.s. proposals to sell more weapons to taiwan. ten american missionaries detained in haiti may be going home. a judge there recommended today they be released and not face trial on charges of child kidnapping. most of the americans a

the head-on collision happened just south of brussels at the height of morning rush hour. a belgian official said one of the trains ran a stop light as it was traveling through light snow. more than 80 people were injured. eurostar and other high-speed international trains suspended their service in and out of brussels because they share the same tracks. ukraine is set to inaugurate its new president on february 25. viktor yanukovich was declared the official winner of the presidential race after a runoff in early february. but prime minister yulia tymoshenko has yet to concede defeat. she is now pressing a court case to prove there was election fraud before her opponent can be sworn in. the appeal begins tomorrow in kiev. but today, european election monitors said the election was fair. in u.s. political news, democratic senator evan bayh of indiana announced he will not run for a third term in congress. at a news conference in indianapolis, he cited "too much partisanship and not enough progress" in washington as a reason for leaving. bayh is the fourth sitting democrat

. >> now finance ministers have been meeting in brussels faced with the biggest crisis since the euro was created 11 years ago. confined to greece greece. with the greek government -- public sector workers have staged a series of strikes. many greeks believe the crisis has been engineered by external forces. our economics editor paul mason traveled to greece and has this report. >> halfway along the main route from athens to thessalonica, everything stopped. welcome to the new normal in greece. what's happened here seems to be that the farers have stopped the traffic simply by parking their tractors at the side of the road. there's no traffic on the road. there are no police. there are not many farmers. but it's paralyzed the main route across greece. and like everything else here, this is going to be about money. this is just one of 30 road blocks paralyzing greek trade with the balkans. who's the enemy? well, i'm about to find out. >> they are like the octopus, corrupt politicians, america, britain, he says. the octopus which goes take take take. >> these men farm cotton, corn, frui

european leaders need to hold a special summit in brussels on thursday where the greek crisis is likely to top the agenda. >> that report from deutsche welle. >>> from iraq, there is news about the company onc as blackwater. today iraqi officials ordered about 250 current and former employees of the country out of the country. the order comes after the recent dismissal by a u.s. judge of charges against five blackwater employees in the september 2007 shooting deaths of 17 iraqis. that dismissal unleashed widespread anger in iraq, and the obama administration has promised to appeal the judge's decision. >>> turning to the latest from iran, today's "new york times" reports that the iranian government has engaged in an epidemic of arrests in advance of the 31st anniversary of the iranian revolution which takes place tomorrow. those arrests are designed to head off opposition street protests. according to the article, the ranks of those imprisoned include artists, photographers, children's rights advocates, women's rights activists and scores of journalists. human rights groups say some of

bill: we'll see how it goes, new from europe, two commuter trains colliding today, outside of brusselslgium. and the death -- at least 11 dead and it could be twice that and the force of the collision, smashing one train, deep into the front of another. and some of the rain cars flipping high en to the air and passenger on record called the crash a nightmare and alex ross with our sister network, sky news and a delay in the signal, but, do investigators know how it happened. >> reporter: there is a great deal of confusion as to how it happened, just south there is confusion, conflicting reports, some say ten, some saying 25 and the problem at the moment is firefighters are trying to recover the bodies and when you look sdheent and those pictures, you see those carriages fused together it is a desperate situation, described by firefighters having to cut through the wreckage to try and recover those bodies. in terms of the cause of the crash, there are a number of theories at the moment. they may be -- join each other, in terms of theories. one, is the weather. it was snowing fairly heav

the issue tops the agenda at tomorrow's summit of european union leaders in brussels. treasury secretary timothy geithner says the u.s. financial system is healing, but there's a lot of repair work ahead. his comments came from a prepared statement summing up how the administration worked to stabilize financial markets over the past year. still ahead, will airlines stocks soar higher this year? we ask our "street critique" guest julius maldutis, chief airline analyst at aviation dynamics. >> suzanne: wintry weather is slamming the mid-atlantic and northeast tonight. it's the second massive snowstorm to plow through the region in less than a week. in washington, d.c., the severe weather has forced the federal government to shut down for three days, at a cost of roughly $100 million in lost productivity a day. the snow has also postponed the release of economic reports which have been pushed back to friday at the earliest. scott gurvey takes a look at other ways mother nature is weighing on the economy. >> reporter: the double whammy of snow which has pounded parts of th

haig stayed at nato till 1979 leaving brussels in frustration. >> don't er expect our european friends and i know something about them having spent five years with them and i love them dearly, don't ever expect them to stand up and take tougher positions than we're going to take. >> reporter: controversy followed haig into the reagan administration in which he became the first secretary of state. in the chaotic hours following the attempted assassination of president reagan, haig uttered what became his most famous statement. >> as of now i am in control here in the white house. >> reporter: the remark misrepresented the line of presidential succession and made it easier for critics to portray haig as a usurper of power. >> everybody in that room was very familiar with the fact that this was not a discussion about transition, but rather authority within the executive branch. >> reporter: haig quit the reagan cabinet after a year and a half, disgusted he said with bureaucratic infighting. >> you can't have a state department putting out one line and the defense department another line a

just came from brussels where we try to do is figure out how nato and the work together and those are two huge primarily organizations and what the magnetic effect to bring in new members because in some ways it provides the average for countries to adapt their behavior so to get your point* i think it is a good thing for serbia to go into that direction. >> i really enjoy your frank testimony but we see secretary clinton and her job so far what do you think should be heard top agenda item? >> first of all, i had never been in a position where i was a former secretary of state and a democratic administration or with my best friend is secretary of state. [laughter] i think she is doing a great job in a very difficult or prenup. first of all, f you look at the issues i will not go over them again but not only in dade necessity for cooperation internationally but requires a very complicated decision making process internally. the senior member of the cabinet but as do disk-- to study decision-making you can see more and more departments get involved with national security. and national-s

to see if greece is going to get bailed out so it's not very comfortable to hear angela merkel or brussels or ben bernanke saying we're going to look into it. obviously regulators again must try to be ahead of the curve when it comes to these esoteric derivatives because once again wall street no matter firm is paid to game the system. so it pays just an ounce of prevention, an ounce of forethought pays back in spades. >> brown: briefly at the same time wall street stock exchanges continue to watch this warily. we saw that today. the market went down quite a bit for a while today and people were talking about that as link to worries about greece and europe. >> this is systemic. what happens, i again, german banks, french banks, swiss banks have something i think of 150 or 175 billion dollars of exposure to greek debt that was just passed along the system. it was very fungible after these initial deals were signed and what happens if greece defaults? would there be a change reaction? would ceci this type of contagion spread to other weak players in a very weak economy such as spain, portuga

minutes to go from one city to another as it happens here, the distance clean colon and liege or brussels and in two hours you are almost in london it means you see the station has to be very open. it has to be very welcoming and it has to be seize city to use and accessible for everybody. >> rose: should it remind me of anything when i see that from an image standpoint? >> well, it's a gate, it's also a lupl us in place. >> rose: okay. the next slide. what's the material? >> the material is steel and the big canopy you are seeing is important because belgium and this part of the world is very rainy. so it's a way you can approach the station and you are already covered before being in the station itself. >> rose: next there's an interior. >> yes, i think the quality of the interior space is very important because people have to feel the quality of the transportation, the quality of the service, and also that they are novel places in the city. >> rose: and the next one you'll see a shot from above. >> well, this is the integration in the overall cityscape. you see the significance of the

. >> european union leaders will address greece's debt crise at a summit tomorrow in brussels.he death toll from a series of avalanches in afghanistan kept climbing today. authorities said search and rescue teams have recovered at least 166 bodies from snowbound vehicles on the salang pass. helicopters ferried out more than 2,500 survivors, but hundreds of cars were still trapped in a 2-mile-long tunnel. across the border in pakistan, a suicide bomber attacked a police patrol vehicle in the northwest, killing at least 17 people. it happened on the main highway in the khyber tribal area. most of the victims were policemen. some 15 others were wounded. the u.s. today announced new sanctions on iran over its nuclear program. the penalties affect four iranian companies linked to the elite revolutionary guard. president obama had promised a significant regime of sanctions after iran moved this week to begin enriching uranium at a higher level. but iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad remained defiant today of western pressure. >> ( translated ): in their view, economic, scientific

test of europe's single currency since the inception of the euro 11 years ago, finance ministers in brussels today told greece that it must take "urgent measures" to rein in its huge debt problem. the ministers set a one month deadline for new actions. >> our view is that the program from the greece government is not enough. we need more concrete steps to regain credibility in the markets. otherwise, this will drag out. >> reporter: last year's global recession exposed the depths of greece's economic trouble. according to recent news reports, wall street firms had for years helped mask the situation with complex financial instruments, while the greek government hid the full extent of its problem. a new government has vowed change, pledging to dramatically reduce its budget gap this year. >> the greek government has already started implementation of its stability and growth program, which exactly deals with the problem of the excessive deficit. we are encouraged by the fact that we are moving quite fast. >> reporter: but those austerity measures have already spurred demonstrations in greece.

portugal's had today that could pose a real issue for the euro zone, well jean-claude trichet in brusselstep in before that to provide a bailout plan for maybe portugal, greece, to stop that happening? but the other thing that is talked about here in europe is what is happening in the united kingdom. the bank paused qe, pimco said that market is sitting on a bed of nitroglycerin. could the uk be next? that's the real threat. >> that is what they're focusing on here as well, guy. ty? >>> let's bring in stew schweitzer in new york. good to have you with us. >> tough day. >> how or whiched should we be about the credit default swap spreads, as it pertains to part geez, span irk, greek debt? what is it telling us? >> i think it's telling us that we've swapped a private debt problem for a public debt problem, and not just in america but around the world. and what investors are really concerned about is that it's going to take a long time and a lot of austerity to bring the deficits and the debts back into line. >> i wonder if, what we're seeing in europe, is the beginning of bond vigilanteism.

they're going to be getting together in brussels. talk of the deal being done tlchlt the bond spreads are once again widening out. mark haines have a great weekend and enjoy the super bowl. >> thank you, sir. we have a deal and david faber has details, next. >> also, earnings central. several market moving names on today's list again, mark, the poor earnings relegated to the bottom of the barrel but not here. investors have a lot on their minds. we've got the problems with the p.i.i.g.s., the jobs report which is truly a conundrum. what do you think? we'll see next. here's your question, mark. 9% unemployment or dow 9,000? >> got tongue about that one. >> you do. let us know. squawk on the street.cnbc.com. which would you choose? i know there are a lot of variables. let us know bottom line. would you like a pony ? yeah. would you like a pony ? yeah ! ( cluck, cluck, cluck ) oh, wowww ! that's fun ! you didn't say i could have a real one. well, you didn't ask. even kids know when it's wrong to hold out on somebody. why don't banks ? w

. >> leaders of the 27 nation european union met in brussels for an economic summit.da was the debt crisis in grease. the half hour closing news conference from the study -- from the summit. >> as i was saying, i am pleased to meet with you again. since the 19th of december, which was the day i was appointed, we have held our first european council. i decided to convenient -- to convene it so that we could have the opportunity to discuss economic strategy. the heads of state and government were of the opinion that we really must look into the medium and long term. we should focus increasingly on concerning economic growth. it is extremely important. they all agreed as of the 10th of december that we should convene a special counsel to speak on this topic. unfortunately, events often decide otherwise. we had done a lot of preparatory work, the european commission and i, but economic strategy ended up being pushed into the background due to the events occurring within the euro zone. in fact, that reminds me of something that the former prime minister harold macmillan sa

. >> european union leaders met in brussels yesterday on the debt crisis in greece.nations allowed not to let the greek government default on its debt. they had a half-hour closing news conference from the summit. this runs about 35 minutes. we decided to convene so we could discuss economic strategy. because the heads ofÑi state and government are of the opinion that we really must look into the medium and long term. we should focus increasingly on the concerns that people have. economic growth and the jobs of that come from that are extremely important we all agreed on december 10 that we should convene a special counsel to tackle this topic. unfortunately, we have done a lot of preparatory work but economic strategy ended up being pushed into the background due to the events occurring in the bureau's own. -- the euro the zone. that might beÑi something that e former prime minister macmillan said. what is the most difficult thing in political life? õihis reply was events. it is often these events that lead to us having to change our agenda and that is just what hap

and belgium were on fiji you now have it will end with your guys marching through this streets of brussels and taking down their flag and running yours up the flagpole. how can you know when you've won a war and terror? furthermore, if you cannot even name of the enemy, it doesn't have that telling the enemy something about the will and confidence you bring to the struggle. i sought to panel cartoon couple months back and on the left hand panel it said that this is your brain and on the right-hand panel and said this is your brain on political correctness and and it was a small and shriveled then. it's a cult of stupidity. but what happens when is so ingrained in our schools, churches, media, and our government that it becomes in effect the air that we breathe? the great strength of what we call multi-cultural a son is in that it is an argument for this or that. but that is short circuits the rear possibility of arguments period if someone says, well, i'm calling as you can say i'm a fascist, and in a sense of their ideology is designed to be opposition of. they're designed to provoke an a

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brussels, the capital of cool. well, i think you get the point. one special reason to visit india in 2009 -- any time is a good time to visit the land of taj, but there's no time like now. we have millions and millions of people traveling around the world. on average an overseas traveler spends nearly $5,000. nearly $5,000. and all of these countries are saying to those overseas travelers, "come to our country. see our country. see the wonders of what we have to offer the world." the united states of america, we've not done that. and that's why, in my judgment, at least in part, we have 2.4 million fewer visitors last year than we had in the year 2000. it's pretty unbelievable. so this proposition is simple. there's a problem. the number of people between the year 2000 and 2009 visiting other countries -- that is overseas travel -- that has increased by 31%. and during the same period the number of people coming to the united states of america has decreased nearly 10%. so international travel is up; travel to america is down. now, there's another