. >> you became chief executive at central maine and new england electric and then the big one, whichch bigger, exelon. it combines the old commonwealth edison with the old pennsylvania electric and most recently in maryland where we have many viewers, you have taken over the utility there. is it good for consumers for utilities to get bigger? >> yes, within some ultimate limits. it would not be good to have one national utility i don't think. we don't need 100 or whatever we have now. this is a business that requires a lot of scale to do it well and you need companies that are big enough both to cope with the economic pressures of the industry and, frankly, to balance off some of the political pressures. it is convenient and nice the progressive to think of the grasping utility and the reforming regulator, but of course the real world is more complex than that. much of what utilities do is try to keep politics from driving their costs up to much. >> this brings up the subject of the interaction with government. you react with a lot of local governments and many local entities and man

it has introduced new advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment facility in the central part of the country. the news comes as a slap in the face to western countries which have been using the threat of more sanctions to force iran to abandon its enrichment program. nhk world has more from tehran. this came in increasing defiance. here is the report from tehran. >> reporter: iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced the new centrifuges at a speech at the country's atomic energy agency on wednesday. he said the new centrifuges at the uranium enrichment facilities in natanz have three times the production capacity compared to the older centrifuges. earlier, the president attended a ceremony where he loaded the country's first-ever domestically made nuclear fuel rod into a reactor near tehran. iran says the fuel rods and the reactor will be used to produce radio isotopes to treat cancer patients and for other peaceful research. western countries are calling on iran to stop the enrichment, which they say could be used for military purposes, or face more economic sanctions.

now, this boom is spreading to central regions that, until now, have been left behind. in 2006, a main road connecting central vietnam with laos and thailand was built, using aid from japan and other countries. it's known as the east/west economic corridor. there's still a lot of red tape that needs to be addressed, but even so, this direct route links vietnam with southeast asia's manufacturing hub in thailand. that gives central vietnam an economic leg up in terms of logistics compared with the north and the south. now the region is seeing more inflows of foreign investment than ever. nhk world reports. >> reporter: one of the most important cities in central vietnam. many foreign companies have their eyes on this old port town. the row of foreign capital is mainly directed at the tourism sector. tourists are lured by the beautiful beaches. the city's landscape is changing rapidly. this hotel opened last october. >> it's like the new hot destination. most of them enjoy staying here for a long holiday very much. >> translator: the vietnamese government is not going to miss the opportu

is up and is the was certainly off to this football pitch melee is this what the people of the main central city of cairo have been asking for for the past year it might appear to some their years revolution has not turned out all flowery at the end. i'm sorry it's very distorted i'm not able to actually. listen i must say thank you very much for coming on r.t. today we've got a bit of a glitch here somewhere there's a mouse chewing on a cable live from cairo a freelance journalist thank you very much belcher. you with r.t. live from moscow now a german chancellor angela merkel has called on china the biggest buyer of iranian oil to use its influence to persuade to ron to renounce its possible nuclear weapons ambitions merkel is on her fifth visit to china where she's trying to change beijing stance on iran and get her to support a western resolution on syria also on the agenda seeking support for the eurozone merkel's to hold talks with chinese leaders to try to win investment in the ailing euro let's talk more on the visit with professor of international politics young junior jang of the

now this boom is spreading to central regions that until now have been left behind. in 2006, the main road connecting central vietnam with laos and thailand was built, using aid from japan and other countries. it is known as the east-west economic corridor. at the land border, there is still a lot of red tape that needs to be addressed, but even so this direct route links vietnam with southeast asia's manufacturing hub in thailand. that gives central vietnam an economic leg up in terms of logistics, compared with the north and the south. and now the region is seeing more inflows of foreign investments than ever. nhk world reports from danang. >> this is one of the most important cities in central vietnam. many foreign companies have their eyes on this old port town. the flow of foreign capital is mainly directed at the tourism sector. companies are lured by danang's beautiful beaches. the city's landscape is changing rapidly. this hotel opened last october. >> it is like the new hot destination. mostly i enjoy staying here for long holiday very much. >> reporter: the vietnamese govern

maine ahead of that state's caucus tomorrow. >>> new tonight the hacking group "anonymous" claims to have infiltrated the cia. they tweeted cia tango down shortly after the central intelligence agency's main website went out earlier today. we tried to access the site ourselves late this afternoon but couldn't. the cia isn't saying much except that it's looking into it. >>> tonight for the first time, we're going to show you a beautiful new medical facility built for san quentin prisoners. costs a small fortune but wait until you see what goes on there. or better said what doesn't. robert lyles shows us a prescription for waste. >> reporter: it's san quentin's crown jewel a brand any prison hospital. at $136 million, it's state-of- the-art medical care for some of the state's worst other fenners. jackie clark is the head of the prison healthcare system and took us on a tour. >> we have exam rooms, physical therapy. >> reporter: none of this came easy. healthcare at san quentin used to be so bad that inmates filed a class action suit. in 2005, a three-judge panel found the entire california prison healthcare system broken beyond repair and ordered a never receiver

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they remain the world's central banker of international terrorism. but the mainhreat what ought to concentrate our attention is the nuclear weapons. the way the testimony went, it implied if we stop making noises about the nuclear weapons programs they wouldn't launch terrorist attacks here. you need to get the cart before the horse. >> greta: so that the iran will never get a nuclear weapon. meanwhile, there is a lot of chat ear and talk and each day goes by, i don't know how much, they are advancing? >> clearly iran doesn't believe it. if they thought they were going to face strict sanctions they would have taken appropriate actions. what is interesting to this testimony in response to senator of coats of indiana. he said all the existing sanctions against iran, all of them have not caused one change in its policies or programs in the nuclear weapons program. everything that has been going on for the past or six or seven years they have had no impact whatever. >> greta: we have had faulty intelligence over the years. how do we know that our intelligence is any

it's expected the inflation across the uk, which has been one of the main bug bears of the central bank may come down for a second straight quarter to around about 3.6%. last quarter it showed a sign of declining to about 4.2%. that could be something that the markets are focusing on when it comes to france. one of the main concerns is exposure to sovereign debt, not not just greece but potentially france given what moody's said. news of the moody's downgrade weighed heavily on the stock market in asia. in particular, the bank of japan announcing fresh easing measures. that as you can see here, gave the boost to the nikkei ending day up to the tune of 0.6%. energy and resource stocks across the region is one of the reasons we saw the sydney asx 200 not being hit quite as hard. that one ending down 1.2%. in japan, olympus did manage to recover some ground. it managed to close up to the tune of about 2%, one of the reasons the markets in japan did slightly better than the rest. the shanghai and the hang seng going in opposite directions with the shanghai composite down by 0.3%. well, in t

an effect pushing the reader into that trap on the intellectual trap of missing out the main street or the central? >> guest: i don't think so because i talk about that in the book as you know that one of the frustrations that muslim women have have had over the last decade is that women like ayaan hirisi ali and aafia siddiqui have crowded out their voices coming and that was -- i quoted a number of women and putting for a simple the nobel laureate talking about ayaan and she said people like ayaan hirisi ali play the mullah game because it isn't possible to have islam and democracy that muslims have to make a choice between the two come and she said i don't agree with that. i think that there's a third way to the islam can be compatible with democracy giving it and the same could be said about aafia siddiqui in pakistan. one of the things that's happened in pakistan is that these women, her voice is have been crowded out and she is accused of not caring enough because she is imprisoned by the west and so i think that's one of the most important points the book has to make and the need to start l

group of their meeting in the center of the city and marching here to block main square which blood night has really become the central focus point for opposition protesters here in moscow this is the second time that opposition protesters have taken to pull last night a square far fewer the this time than last but of course the the weather a big deciding factor in math cripplingly low temperatures here in the russian capital in fact the organizers of the protest here shortened the events that were going to be happening just to make it all comfortable for people who would come out in the cold minus twenty times on saturday here in moscow. so they came out to to voice their opinions you know better than if you were forced to make him leave because i'm tired of the government which doesn't do well promises lines and wants this to carry on for years. if they. change their elections and normal life here it was because my girlfriend wanted to come here i don't care about politics now talk about some of those groups that we've seen come here they really come from all across the russian political straw answer we've seen far

a half percent china's hang seng is also higher after its central bank reduced the reserve requirements for the banking system banks are the main beneficiaries. and it's less than two hours ahead of the opening bell there in moscow the russian markets finished one week mixed the my six dropped just a notch while the r.t.s. gained almost one percent on pretty low dollar. overall last week broad gains for the global equity markets greece moved to step closer to the second round of bailout and the beat economic news from the states boosted risk appetites should traders expect their ali to resume this week mark rubenstein for metropol financial moscow outlines the main drivers for the week ahead. and the meeting of the euro zone finance ministers is scheduled for monday in the late afternoon and it is expected and expectations are growing that there will be a decision made on their approval of the second tranche of their on the second package of the france rate for greece and also at the same time could be semen stains have proved their restructuring or they write off their voluntary write off all of their greek dead by private sha

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they formed a human chain on a main road circling the kremlin in central moscow yesterday to register their opposition. they're part of a movement ignited last december after alleged fraud in parliamentary elections. the 59-year-old prime minister fired back today, publishing a lengthy manifesto in a moscow paper warning the west and other powers not to take military action against syria and iran and accusing the u.s. of meddling in the politics of russia and its neighbors. and a state-run television station reported today that a joint russian-ukrainian operation had captured men reportedly plotting to assassinate putin after next sunday's election. the men are allegedly chech inseparatists. margaret warner is in moscow covering the election. margaret, good to have you with us. tell us more about this reported assassination plot. >> warner: it was very strange to watch this report on state- controlled television out of odessa in ukraine centering on an apartment complex where they said they nabbed several men involved in this bomb plot against putin. two of the men in different scenes

main concourse. it's probably -- we like to think of it as one of the most famous places in new york city. if you tell someone to meet you at the clock in grand central know exactly where to go. it's at the center of 43rd street to east-west and park avenue to north-south, and it really is right in the center of the main concourse, and we like to think it's the center of new york city. even if another train were not to come through here, it would still be an important place in new york city for people to come and visit and to see one another and to treat it as a town hall. >> reporting from the nation's largest train terminal, i'm kristen for "teen kids news." >> your opinion matters. that's why we call this segment "speak of the week." >> in recent years, many states have passed laws to cut down on wasting plastic. so, does your family make it a point to avoid using the plastic bags at grocery stores? >> yeah, my family usually uses the reusable bags that we get at the store, like the $1 ones. >> yeah, and if we ever do get, like, plastic bags or used plastic bags, we reuse them, like, for, like, trash bags. >> i save bags, and i recycle all the tim

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got the clouds starting to come on in, but the main moisture still offshore this area of low pressure spinning around that will swing through the central coast and take with it i think a lot of the moisture aimed first around the south bay for tomorrow morning and there you see mount hamilton, looking at the snow. that colder air starts to filter in, some of the higher hilltops may be close to 2500 feet by the afternoon, could have a mix of sleet, again, not at' level, higher hilltops of the north bind the south bay, we go into monday. rain totals, not all that impressive, manage quarter inch in san jose, that would be good the first system the drier of the two systems, the one coming in tuesday night and wednesday will pack a bigger punch. the sierra, a few inches of snow, relatively low snow levels, let's fast forward to what we are going to be watching for you tuesday into wednesday. this is going to be a we are the and stronger system, you can see a lot more sierra snow, a lot more bay area rain during the day on wednesday that i think should give us at least a half inch to an inch of rain for the bay area and elevations around lak

central plains states ... there could be a warning for some blizzard conditions and that main at the chicago area over the weekendossibly generating some precipitation here rain turning to snow ... no accumulations are expected ... we're noticing that that system is not getting into the chicago area. here is the afternoon forecast today: we will have cloudy. it's the fog advisory will remain in effect until 3:00 p.m. the temperatures will hover between 41 and 48 degrees depending where you are. tonight the clouds increase and we have colder temperatures between 27- 34 degrees by friday the lake when it will continue to cool things down saturday we will have cloudy skies the wind will kick up to 15-25 mi. per hour ... we expect around 40 degree temperatures ... we will have a chilly and shower a start to the weekend time for today's trivia question: surrounded by hot springs which u.s. state rose was sick, but they are not using that as an excuse for last night's performance in philadelphia. derrick rose scored 18 points but sat out the fourth quarter. the bulls were outscored 26-11 and the third quarter off the b

main story in markets. that all the major central banks now are ahead of the curve with unexpected big decisions that they have been taking since roughly november/december last year, more or less in parallel with the time of mr. mario draghi taking over the lead leadership of the ecb. >> the question, peter and silvia, is -- and this has been the debate going on in germany -- is whether we have caug cauterized the system from a bigger greek default, peter. >> i rather suspect that that's exactly what is happening. certainly the comments from mr. schaeuble over the course of the last few days suggest, and this may be brinksmanship, but suggests we're in a better position now to cope with problems than we might have been a few months ago and i've always suspected that it's in the eurozone's interest to continue to bail greece out until such time as the rest of the region is sufficiently strong to cope with any catastrophe which might arise. that's why i think this deal will go through but certainly it's not in the eurozone's interests or the greece's interest in order to get future bailouts. >> all right, peter,

central florida. several of them went to maine to help look for him and they were there when the suspect was arrested.believe that they found somebody. i'll probably be a little bit more revealed when we actually know we have him. >> reporter: his wife says he survived everything in iraq, she is still hoping, despite the blood, dna evidence and the police reports that somehow her husband, the father of her two children is still alive stphaoeut is a mystery. steve harrigan, thanks in miami on that. martha. martha: inside a terror trial at guantanamo bay, that story coming up. bill: also mitt romney surging two states, two places last night. can he take that into super tuesday? first, guys like gingrich and santorum are talking big. the chairman of the republican national committee is live next on that, plus there is more with jan brewer. >> do you believe that this continued race on the republican side hurts the party, and eventually hurts the nominee? >> yeah, i do. i think that it's probably not a good thing, but i will tell you that the romney team, myself included, we are ready for the long haul. i

for a few hours in the central part of the state, 2:00 a.m., comes down, rain for southern maryland, all snow as we get more cold air. by tomorrow, this will taper off, the mainow up overnew england. we will be left with snow showers and windy cold conditions in to tomorrow night and sunday. tonight, 32, 1-3-inc0v 0as the morning. 37 for a high. s kicking up. tomorrow, 20 with gusty, breezy conditions and flurries. sunday looks dry and cold, windchills in the 20s, windy still on sunday. we warm up for valentines. >> winter is coming back. >> we will see how it plays out later in the week. >>> political strategists was at the y of central maryland as part of the wineburg family centers annual tribute to dr. ,í hand to hear him talk about growing up during the civil rights era. >> soon it became clear what itm meant for us. it meant that we had to continue dr. king's work. we had to continue his struggle, that we had to take í) dream he >> it was titled inspiring stability in national political discourse. she talked about experiences so far in the presidential campaign. >>> it will be another interesting night with snow moving in. will it affect your saturday

increasingly decentralized and small cells that are either linked to al qaeda central although a very diffused way or to what has become the main umbrella group, the islamic state of iraq and increasingly links with other groups. one of the things the u.s. and iraq say they did was take down a lot of that network. it disdisrupted their communications, their lines of command and we're not seeing big attacks that we have in the past. but perhaps they don't need the big attacks. this was a series of small attacks but astonishingly in more than 15 different cities i a wide varty of placesnd it oes demonstrate they still have that ability to plan, to carry out these things and, importantly, to destabilize the feeling that iraqis have that their country is secure again. >> brown: of course, this does raise more questions and concerns about the iraqi security forces since the u.s. forces left in december. >> it does. now when you they to iraqi officials, they say "well, we had big attacks, in fact, even bigger attacks when the americans were here." but one of the things, interestingly, that was in the reaction to these bombings today

to a fresh bailout package the main sticking point was proposed deep pension cuts austerity measures to further reduce greece's debt demanded by the european union central bank and the international monetary fund. in the united states when the economy needs a fix so do the people the country is now the world's largest consumer of coffee and this addiction to caffeine is being exploited by someone scrupulous producers who are looking to boost their profit. reports. in the city that never sleeps are perpetual craving for energy never eases i nearly every manhattan street you'll find two things a coffee shop and customers cutting their fix a liquefied legal stimulant that most can't envision quitting i feel like now i get it maybe i get. to be three oh yes actually i don't know if i could give a. five or six cups a day yes right not good too much of anything good. is going to drink three cups the. americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us believe in consumer of coffee in the world according to medical experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three. three hundred milligrams or fifteen ounces of coffee one large cu

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