now bulgaria's -- mayor of serpia. he formally presents his new cabinet.ion just issued its latest report on corruption and bulgaria saying the justice system still fails to meet european standards. the report now from the capital. ♪ >> he is bulgaria's most popular politician, mayor of the capital sofia for the last few years, he is also the product minister. he is a man with a colorful past. now he is promising to tackle crime and corruption which bedeviled the poorest country in the european union. bulgarians have grown depressingly used to stores of corruption, sometimes in high places. and last year the interior minister, deputy interior minister, had a tax office, three heads of national road- building agency all resigned amid allegations of bribery and corruption. in his office at sofia's city hall, surrounded by trophies from his wrestling career, he talks tough. this priorities,, to get bulgaria back into your good books. >> i am not going to shield the minister or deputy minister or anybody who engages and corruption. we need 100 percent trust fr

we need 100% trust from brussels. >> corruption cost bulgaria dearly. the farmer should have benefited from hundreds of billions of euros in subsidies, but last year the money was frozen. it was not getting through to those who needed it. also, this farmer has not seen a penny. why? >> corruption. i do not have proof, but i have proved that we have applied for different programs and have not received the money. >> as mayor, he has filled potholes in notoriously bad streets. some of them. his no-nonsense approach goes down well with taxpayers. he is a real tough guy, he says. when he was young, he made his name in the 1990's as a bodyguard for his deposed communistic trader. before that, he was a wrestler and a karate coach. before that, he guarded the former bulgarian king, who became prime minister. he was so impressed that he was made a general and put in charge of the police. last week, the new parliament opened, and his party has 113 seats, just short of an overall majority. a brooding presence from the balcony, he now has to match words with deeds.

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bulgaria have grow used to corruption, sometimesn high places. the interiominister and deputy interior ministernd head of the tax offic three heads of the national buiing agency have all resigned under allegations of bribery and corruption. >> in his offi at sophia's city hall, surrounded by wreling trophies, talks tough. >> am not going to shield the deputy minister or anyone wh gages in rruption. we need 100% trust from brsels. >> last year, brussels ofroze a subsidy money and it simply was not gettinghrough to thoswho needed it. this farmer has not en a penny. why? >> corruption. i do not have proof, but i hav proved that we have applied for fferent program and not received the money. as mayor, bossov hilled potholes in bad streets -- well, somef them. his no-nsense, can-do appach goes down we with voters lik this taxi drir. he is a real tough guy, hsays. the young borissov made his name in the 1990's as bodygud to the deposedictator. beforehat he was a fireman, wrestler, and kate coach. a decade later, he was guding lgaria's former team, and

. >> qasab bulgaria, greece, italy. and solve the baltic sea. at the same time, it was like a very big blow. fantastic. >> that is the russian cosmonaut talking to the bbc. and there is plenty on them landing on our website at bbc.com. more news for your -- the interim leader of honduras still opposes the reinstatement of saliva -- of zelaya. and a televised address, he called his position unchangeable. phil negotiations have warned of possible civil war in -- civil war. the present upper room has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison after paying a bribe to his former security chief. he is already serving a term for human rights abuses. and they crimes court has convicted two bosnian serbian cause since for a killing spree. the ringleader was sentenced to life in prison, sredoje lukic. his cousin, -- the ringleader, milan lukic, was sentenced to life in prison. his cousin, many years. there are no questions that india, the world's biggest democracy, has felt overlooked -- until now. secretary of state hillary clinton concluded her five days in

. >> on the left side, i saw bulgaria, greece, italy. i saw the baltic sea, the ural mountains.s like a very big blow. it was fantastic. -- it was like a very big globe. it was fantastic. >>> he waited late in life to find his fame and fortune. at the age of 66, he completed his memoirs that detail a child of other deprivation and squalor in ireland. -- a childhood of thatcher deprivation and squalor in ireland. >> in my wildest dreams, i could not imagine this. we were the lowest of the low. we were cold, hungry. >> traditionally, the irish immigrate to america in search of a better life. his family did not. they went from new york to the slums of limerick. "angeles ashes" were based on those memories of poverty and watching his brothers died. >> we walked on that november morning. he was called in the bed beside is. the doctor came and said that the child died of pneumonia and should have been in the hospital. >> he made his living as a schoolteacher in the united states. literary success came later in life. the book was also turned into a movie. [crying] >> but not everyone w

. >> for bulgaria. sean: that's funny.overnment care, taking over the car companies, taking over banks, insurance companies, financial institutions, dictating pay, that is the very heart of the definition of socialism. let's call it what it is. why are you running away from the left supports. >> i'm not running away from it. sean: you. >> he was elected with record numbers, and he was elected on this idea that the government is -- the government can and should make people's lives better. it's the humanitarian -- form of government. sean: where does it say you have to have guaranteed health care. >> i believe in universal health care. sean: i don't care. where in the constitution does it say every american should have rationed government inferior care. >> it doesn't have to be. sean: it will be. >> 99% of americans will be covered, revenue neutral, wouldn't cost any money. sean: the cbo says -- let me bring breitbart in here. >> one of their tactics is to go after the people who would krutnize the president, and one of thei

russian-build aircraft very sophisticated and that operates includes algeria, armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, bulgaria, cuba, hungary, iran, malaysia, north korea, peru, poland, russia, serbia, sudan, syria, ukraine, and yemen. again, widespread globally that air to ground capability and air-to-air capability. today, there is a fifth generation being developed that will be highly competitive with the f-22 and the f-35. that fighter is currently being developed by russia and china. to challenge the f-22 and the f-35 so that gives you a sense of where we are today. these are very sophisticated aircraft operating today. the surface-to-air missiles are very sophisticated. and in countries today they can take out, in fact, our existing technology in many areas. and of course the fifth generation is what we're talking about being ready for the midpart of this century. our air superiority what gone unnoticed by others in many ways. this is identified on the maps. all the countries in red as i pointed out have an air capability comparable to the mig, all on par with our current aircraft technology. specifical

as we know, france has 70% -- and even bulgaria, hungary, switzerland, have significant nuclear powerants but i want to review a quote from president obama that really exemplifies the ignorance of this situation. he made a quote in 2007 -- i start off with a promise that nuclear energy is not optimal so i am not a nuclear energy proponents. he told his questioners -- it is true that illinois has the most nuclear power plants of any state in the country. that makes me that much more concerned about safety issues cents i have a nine year old and a six year-old daughter who live in that state. i don't think that's the best option. i am much more into it and solar, wind, biodiesel and strategies for alternative fuels. if people are interested, there is an organization called non- governmental international panel on climate change which are the true sciences and the world -- 36,000 scientists to sign petitions refuting the ipcc's contention that we have a co2 produced climate change which is totally erroneous. host: we got to wrap up here. caller: people ought to look at it carefully and a

go to the new york times website and google bulgaria healthcare.ou will see testimony from a couple who has lived in that nightmare of socialized communist corrupt medical system their entire life. they paid almost $600 a month prieb ry money to have their pediatrician show up when the baby was born. unfortunately, somebody else paid $700 a month, i guess, because he wasn't there. as a result, their child had an umbilical cord wraped around its throat and it shows them holding their deaf, dumb and blind child on their lap. i'm asking you, america, anything you give to the government, nothing is going to end except corruption. host: we have to interrupt you because we have so few minutes left. thanks for your call. next is thomas, a viewer in inglewood, florida. independent line. go ahead. caller: my father is on medicare and we sent him to the hospital in an ambulance and it was $670 for an ambulance ride for 2 miles. he spent four days in the hospital and it was $41,000. medicaid picked it up and they give him motion sickness pills that he had to

the former now czech republic, then czechoslovakia, bulgaria, romania, other countries that sought to undue the devastation of the command-control policies that had spread ash within 50 miles of a power plant so there was no living plant or, you know, couldn't grow anything and the rivers were polluted and the lakes and so forth and they ought to undo that. where did they go for the technology? they went to germany and japan. we lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, economists currently estimate, by the blinders that we put on that precluded us from buying into the future, from -- from investing in that future. andd so i hope colleagues will look carefully at the economic realities that are staring at us right now. china is investing $12 million-plus per hour in a green economy. they're investing six times the amount of money of the united states of america. the pew foundation has found that from 1996 approximately until 2007, the greatest job growth in our country came from alternative renewable energy sector, from new technologies. about 9.1% as opposed to the growth of about 3.7% or