president lee myung-bak and his colombian counterpart juan manuel santos have agreed to upgrade their countries' bilateral relations... and sign a free trade agreement. president santos will head back to colombia on friday. our presidential office correspondent yoo ji- hae reports. president lee myung-bak held summit talks with visiting colombian president juan manuel santos on boosting cooperative ties on energy, resources, science and technology. during thursday's summit at the presidential office of cheong wa dae... the two leaders agreed to elevate their relations to a "strategic cooperative partnership"... and set up systematic mechanisms... such as high-level conferences, business meetings and forums for comprehensive and long-term collaboration. they also agreed to sign a bilateral free trade agreement... whose talks began in 2009... by the end of this year... so as to expand their political alliance forged in blood to an economic alliance. two-way trade between korea and colombia nearly doubled in 2010 from a year earlier to 1 -point-8 billion us dollars... while korean export

we are told the colombian government has suspended its union protection program. one of the hallmarks that we were told signify the change of the colombian government and their desire to protect workers is now suspended. that doesn't bode well. i asked this question of my ceo friends any time in the business round. last year, 51 trade unionists were assassinated. not accidentally killed. potentially assassinated. 51 ceos had been intentionally assassinated last year, how many people here think there would be a clamor for a trade deal with columbia? we happen to think that workers, union officials are no less deserving as human beings than ceos. so we will continue to fight that. i will add this. workers on both sides of the border. the korean workers' and colombian workers also oppose those traded raiments because they know they're not going to be good for workers on either side of the border so until we get a trade regime that is fair to american workers, not jobs, we will oppose that regime. >> i certainly understand your opposition but with the poisonous atmosp

with that whole series of exchanges between colombian trade unionists in this group and activists aregoing to colombia. larry cohen, the president of the union, confronted the previous president of columbia a year or two ago around a continuing violation of workers rights in colombia. and again i think the lesson of that model program is its bottom up, it's worker to worker. its rank-and-file. we are not rely on national endowment money to finance this partnership. i will say that the solitary center has been very helpful throughout the 10 years that we and kerry was one of the staffers who helped get it off the ground. >> ten cents per member per year. that's really bottom up. >> not a lot of money but it's not a mandatory assessment. a local have to care enough about this program, has to of had some members who have met, courageous colombian trade union. joint work of fighting free trade agreement, fighting his dread plan colombia like a wars in iraq and afghanistan drained billions of dollars, tax dollars out of this country that could go much more profitably to filling some of the

we tasted colombian, that's what you're having now. that's gloria jean.asted ethiopian coffee. we have actually two winners. we have two winners in the columbiaian and we have two winners in the ethiopian. this is the top. this is gloria jean. >> arthel: medium roast? >> yes. then we have the newman's own, and this is a bonus. these are made from organic beans. >> arthel: medium roast? >> medium roast. you want to give it a try? >> rick: how do you take your coffee? >> arthel: black. >> rick: how do you take it? >> with tea. >> rick: oh, you don't drink coffee. it's good. >> this is the newman's own. these are the colombian. i have the caribou, this is a coffee bean and tea leaf. these two were neck in neck winners in this. this is a more complex, stronger coffee. if you haven't had it, you might want to -- it kind of takes an acquired taste. also market shares. that's how we -- >> rick: how do you do a test like this? it's so subjective. everybody takes their coffee a different way. >> well, it sounds very much like wine tasting. because this is also the

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colombian president juan manuel santos has called for his country and korea to sign a free trade agreement as soon as possible... stressing that a trade pact would greatly boost commercial ties. in an interview with yonhap news agency on tuesday... ahead of his official visit to korea this week, santos expressed hope that the two countries could conclude negotiations on an fta by year's end. since the two countries began talks in 2009, they have made progress, but differences remain over certain issues, including how much to open their markets agricultural and electronics products. two-way trade between korea and colombia nearly doubled in 2010 from 2009 to more than 1-point-8 billion us dollars while korean exports to the latin american country hit close to 1-point-4- billion that year. mr. santos arrives in seoul on wednesday for a three-day visit, which will include summit talks with korean president lee myung-bak. us software giant microsoft is currently reviewing plans to build a cutting-edge data center in korea. the ceo of microsoft korea, kim james woo, revealed the plans on thursd

communitarian or economic or social situation in syria there have been reports that foreigners in particular colombian ukrainian nationals have been executed by armed forces. do you think that it's time for u.n. peacekeepers to intervene in libya peacekeepers that you usually have when you have a cease fire arrangement now the situation is different now hopefully the military operations are going to come to an end very soon so what will be required is a. police range meant the united nations now the security council is working on. security council resolution and under that resolution u.n. mandate will be spelled out for libya and in that meant mandate there will be steps taken in order to make sure sort of a law and order system is going to be created in libya which will which will prevent those horrible things which of allegedly happened happening but let me also tell you that we are keeping very close track of those reports and at every opportunity what is that in our discussions in the security council which we have very often and making sure that every measure is taken. of the new only been author

humanitarian or economic or social situation in syria there have been reports that foreigners in particular colombian ukrainian nationals have been executed in libya by armed forces. do you think that it's time for the un peacekeepers to intervene in libya let me also tell you that we are keeping very close track of those reports and at every opportunity what is that in our discussions in the security council which we have very well and making sure that every measure is taken out of the. sort it is understand the responsibility but of course nothing candled out because the situation as you pointed out correctly is quite dangerous and it's chaotic when all that sort of for them to hold pretty view should have happened including some killings of black people simply because they were suspected of having been cut off and mercenaries this is something which you know caused our unhappiness when we were raising our complaints and what is about the. absence a lack of proper implementation of resolution one thousand seventy three if you want to protect civilians the last thing you do is stop a civil war and t

increased pay and better health care riot police were sands to deal with the demonstrators while the colombian vice president urged workers to avoid violence the country's oil industry is down by around twelve thousand people. why wasn't all that long ago the al-jazeera news network was considered by washington s quote evil but the white house has certainly changed its tune recently praising its groundbreaking coverage that's little surprise critics after we can leaks revelations expose the director general of the qatar based network of having links to the cia i am promoting him to hurriedly quit. takes up the story. right now al jazeera english is seen in a million american cable household al-jazeera or the island is not in isolation anymore the channels in your face coverage of the violent turmoil of the middle east libya's emerging civil war has grabbed cousy prime time slot with the u.s. and recent week uniques claim al-jazeera has now resigned director general had ties to the cia what e.t.l. is. the u.s. government and monitoring. channel. well they went to the web. and the. inappropriate

communitarian or economic or social situation in syria there have been reports that foreigners in particular colombian ukrainian nationals have been executed by armed forces. do you think that it's time for u.n. peacekeepers to interval the security council is working on a security council resolution and under that resolution u.n. mandate will be spelled out for libya and in that month mandate there will be steps taken in order to make sure sort of all along what a system is is going to be created in libya which will which will you know prevent those horrible things which of allegedly happened happening but let me also tell you that we're keeping very false track of those reports and at every opportunity ways that you know this doesn't from the security council which we have very often . making sure every measure is taken. of the new early going to sort it is understand the responsibility. of course nothing can do all that because the situation as you pointed out correctly is quite dangerous and it's chaotic when all that sort of quote unquote reclusion said happened including some killings of black p

increased pay in better health care riot police were sent to deal with the demonstrators but the colombian vice president urged workers to avoid violence the country's oil industry is staffed by around twelve thousand. russia has expressed concern over the fact that nato has proposed a missile defense shield in europe ignores moscow's calls for legal guarantees of safety rapidly drawn up agreements concerning the shield or an attempt to get it up and running before anyone realizes that's according to russia's envoy to nato. it's a small beach just with what it was the u.s. is trying to secure agreements with countries where the missile shield has to be placed turkey romania and poland but they haste with which they're trying to seal these deals can mean they want to create a new reality with certain european states before they rest of europe has made clear its stance on the shield then they'll pin western europe down to the fact of its existence i think our western partners are trying to get ahead of themselves they aren't providing any legal going to use concerning their missile defense t

colombian emeralds. i wanted to bring a little colombian flavor to the red carpet.ight. >> and the dvd season two comes out today. >> and clothing all over the kmarts already. >> you are always welcome here. >> thank you so much. >> love to everyone. that's tonight at 9:00 8:00 central. a full hour of "modern family." >>> you know who also loves it? sam and he's not here. you're missing sofia in los angeles. >> she is gorgeous. i love her. i love the show. tonight at 9:00 no doubt. we'll be watching it. by the way, let's get to the boards. we have to talk a little bit about japan. it's been a rough year for japan. in the last three weeks, we'll show you pictures of typhoon roke moving through there. that's two typhoons in the last two weeks. and this one is moving over the fukushima area as well. 135-mile-per-hour winds when that storm made landfall. now, to the tropics and ophelia. by monday we feel this storm and some kind of tropical storm flare will be near puerto rico at that point. here's a look at the big board. we'll show you what's going on today. a lot of

in the strike of crossed legs colombian women with health effects to get a road paved what is she would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about that right now the economy we need. so. that will get better. that also. a lot of the closer i think. is just to still mix. in friends maybe for world peace or to end hunger or something like that but. it was the ending for the road for road if it were ending hunger around the world you could unite yeah that would be good. nothing i don't think so. what about if it ended war. can imagine. i'm sorry the deficit. in congress. so if american women that's having sex do you think it would change things here we would solve the deficit crisis very quickly going to do it was going to do and if that's the only way to get their money motivated i can understand it or get me on the show pretty quick is there any thing that you would withhold facts or are you kidding no. there's not a problem in the world that would have me with my wife i think it's an effective tactic. it certainly works there yes good for them do you think it would work anywhere in

and we now know that in fact it was my work and that of one other person in power who was the colombian people that initiated this investigation does work with her past in the colombia though not very many a few more but not everybody has had the power and there's a lot more but you want to do you have taken aside and it will come like and does it every one of the start of the conflict there again and for anyone in the united states to do things by publish their statement and we think we're going to get it is a question of whether or not even have the right in that i'll just link that you know this is a we talk about colombia and we talk about palestine that's not exactly what we're talking about one we're thinking about our war on terror and al qaida here but do you think that the policies post nine eleven have been used to you know to allow the federal government to come in and to spy on you or to take your belongings not sense. i think that the right people living in that united were severely abridge the nine eleven the first communities targeted really heavily with the rich well bac

and we now know that in fact it was my work and that of one other person in saudi arabia was the colombian people that initiated this into. some of us look at our group have been to colombia though not very many a few more but not everybody has have been to palestine and that the letter clearly went to the u.s. i've taken aside in civil conflict and that that every one of the start of the conflict there again and for anyone in the united states to do things like publish their statement and you think we're going to whether it is a question of whether or not we even have the right to do that well just some of the things that you know because of it we talk about colombia and we talk about palestine that's not exactly what we're talking about one we're thinking about our war on terror and al qaeda here but do you think that the policies post nine eleven have been used to you know to allow the federal government to come in and to spy on you to take your belongings in that sense. i think that the right people living inside the united states were severely abridged after nine eleven the first comm

and we now know that in fact it was by working out of one other person in saudi and it was the colombian people that initiated this in the initial the mother spoke with her we're talking to colombia the not very many a few more but not everybody has had the power right and that allowed or believe one of us have taken started a little conflict and instead of that everyone on this side of the conflict there again and for anyone in the united states to do things like publish their statement in newspapers are going to but it's a question of whether or not we even have the right to do that or just somebody but you know this is a we talk about colombia we talk about palestine that's not exactly what we're talking about one we're thinking about our war on terror and al qaida here but do you think that the policies post nine eleven have been used to you know to allow the federal government to come in and to spy on you or to take your belongings not sense. i think that the right people living inside the united states were severely abridged after nine eleven the first community targeted really hea

years now in my old the district one in the northeast we developed and 200 to a partnership with a colombianpublic sector union and for six years and the locals every year and raised $10,000 we transmit to the solidarity center and we have had a series of exchanges between the colombian trade unions in this group and activists going to columbia and the previous president of columbia uribe and the delegation and a year or two ago around the violation of the workers' rights in colombia and again i think the lesson of that model is its bottom-up, its workers to worker, its we are not relying on the national endowment money. i will say the solidarity senator husbandry helpful in its -- throughout the ten years that we -- carey was one of the staffers that helped get it off the ground. >> 10 cents per member, per year. that is bottom-up. >> not a lot of money but it's not a mandatory assessment. a local house to care enough about the program, has to have had some members who met the courageous unions to be put on tour. the have had to have done joint work fighting the agreements and the dreadful

libya and by 1987 noriega was dealing with our right terrorist organizations such as the plo and colombiangroups and despite the pattern, the great quote to the secretary of state george sold schulz you cannot find him you can only lend him. but prior to the invasion noriega was constantly tracked by the members of the delta force aided by the national security council but the surveillance and intelligence and then with telephone to vacations directed a network of informants tracing the dictators movements. the last known location on december 19 when the u.s. invaded, shortly thereafter leading toward panama city part of the convoy turned off all the other half headed toward the panamanian pentagon. although the joint special operations command was confident noriega had not returned to the headquarters they could not say where he was and each share u.s. troops raided noriega -- noriega and a department sell this was a great puzzle we have every intelligence asset and why could we not find those under circumstances? and then headed to the panamanian defense forces club he dismissed the poss

in 2006, the colombian agreement was finalized. now, it's been tinkered with since then, but we're talking five years ago. unbelievable. and what we have sat on our hands and not moved forward with giving our farmers and our workers and our service providers the chance to go into that colombian market, you're exactly right, they've gone ahead and made trade agreements with other folks and colombia is a great example of this. back when we negotiated this agreement and completed it, and i was the u.s. trade rep then as you indicate and i negotiated it directly with the then president of colombia, president aribe who made lots of concessions including on agriculture, services, at that time we had a 71% market share in terms of exports of agricultural products, wheat, corn and soybeans into colombia. 71% market share. today that market share is about 26%. why? because after we completed our agreement with colombia, they engaged with other countries, including argentina and brazil and now they're buying their products instead from those

and the police are involved and i agree with that but the number of people in the lower ranks, the colombian police, they are a lot more than the people involved. so they have a social base and the drug cartels and the drug profiteers have a social base. that is only possible because there is a population that has no ability to form an organization to confront what he called -- capitalism blah, blah but the reality is they cross over to the united states to -- u.s. workers and that is a reality. unless you change the vision -- you say government is the problem and yeah i agree with that but how you change it -- i have been in the revolution and i am not for legalizing drugs and yes in the united states every day the police are arresting mexicans involved in methamphetamine every day. i know you don't read the paper but they are there. they have lost amelia and all those who are actually leaving the business in the prisons. so don't tell me that there is no news about it. there is. you just have to look for it. >> well, i actually disagree emphatically with your statement that there is no soc

former colombian president arube vice chair of the u.n.'s gaza flotilla investigation commission., like two years ago we were in croatia know he was jumping from the top of the theater and in my bravest dreams i would never consider getting there. >> he's 80 something. >> he likes to swim. >> it's amazing. >> itas maizing. >> also joining the table nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" andrea mitchell. >> thank you. >> we still have eugene robinson and mike murphy in washington with us. so that's great. >> so what do you expect to happen this week? is there going to be a lot of talk? you've obviously been conducting an investigation. you expect that to go under a lot of attention this week on the flotilla? >> of course. we worked for one year on this inquiry. on september 2nd we handed our report to the secretary general of the united nations. we have to behave with the same ethics. i have to be very quiet, totally quiet, because our thought is in our report. >> so you have to be very quiet. >> of course. >> i wouldn't be good at that job. >

companies have paid more than $3.2 billion in colombian import tariffs. that would disappear under the free trade agreement. since 2008, the united states has lost more than $800 million in agricultural exports to countries that trade freeley with colombia. though less stark, the same story is true with panama. the people most disadvantaged by our failure to ratify these frames are united states -- trade agreements are united states workers. what's more, colombia, panama, and korea are not waiting on us. our allies are not dependent on us. they are confidently pursuing their own interests with us if possible, but without us if necessary. colombia and panama and many other latin american countries are concluding their own trade agreements, often at our expense. since 2006, u.s. exporters have lost 10% of their market share in panama, and from 2008 to 2009, our main agricultural exports to colombia declined by more than 60%. these jobs are going to europe, canada, and china. not because their workers are outcompeting ours, but because washington is forcing

ambassador william brownfield, suspended usaid to the d.a.s., diverting the resources to the colombian national police. yesterday, congresswoman schakowsky and i sent a letter to the secretaries of state and defense, the u.s. attorney general and c.i.a. director asking them to provide documentation of all forms of aid to the d.a.s. and what it was used for. that's not too much to ask for. there has been a -- there has been a shocking lack of oversight of the d.a.s. funds in the last decade. colombia appears to be doing its part. the attorney general is carrying out an aggressive investigation and series of prosecutions. six former high-ranking intelligence officials confessed to crimes. more than a dozen other operatives are on trial with more still under investigation. president santos promised to dismant they will d.a.s. and replace it with a new intelligence agency but in the meantime the old intelligence structures remain. witnesses cooperating with the attorney general find themselves an their families threatened and human rights defenders even now are under surveillance. mr. spea

the colombian market for agriculture products is another good example of the high cost of delay. in 2010, for the first time in the history of u.s.-colombia trade, the united states lost to argentina its position as colombia's number-one agricultural supplier. consider the story of the 3 million crops we grow in south dakota: corn, wheat, soybeans. the combined share in colombia for these three u.s. agricultural exports has decreased from 78% in 2008 to 28% in 2010. a staggering decline of 50 percentage points. and this situation will only get worse now that the canada-colombia agreement has taken effect as of august 15 of this year. as gordon stoner, a wheat grower from outlook, montana p, testified before the finance committee earlier this year, "our share of the colombia wheat market has declined from 73% in 2008 to 43% in 2010, ands and industry representatives in colombia indicate we could lose our entire market share following implementation of the canada-colombia free trade agreement. end quote. mr. president, we're living in a global economy where america cannot afford to

the colombian won his first pga title at this event in 2008.and he tees off 5 strokes back of justin rose. >>> for the artest formerly known as ron, today ron artest officially changed his name to mehta world peace, mehta is his first name, world peace is his last name, that's what you'll see on the back of his lakers jersey if the nba season starts, they are locked out which is giving mr. world peace a chance to do "dancing with the stars" and compete with nancy grace who you just had on. >> i wouldn't want to go up against nancy grace. >> world peace is tough, but nancy is a whole different story. >> she's world chaos. thanks thanks, jeff. >> all right. >>> it's just about top of the hour. thanks for joining us. we begin today with presidential candidates wrack i s racking up, rick perry is in iowa and herman cain is in south, and we're following them every step of the way. >>> first we begin with a wake-up call with a pretty troubled white house, cnn's james carville said it's time to start firing people, while some jewish and black leaders

almost every week i see come across my desk the face of a new dead colombian trade unionist, or, another dead priest, who preached gospel of jesus the carpeter. once again i ask you if 51 ceo's had been assassinated in colombia last year, instead of 51 trade unionists, and nothing had been done about it, and no one had even been charged, you think we would be signing a trade deal with colombia right now? we happen to think the trade unionists lives are every bit as important as ceo lives. see, we also need to reconsider the economic baseless idea that deficits are the problem and austerity is the answer. four fridays ago we learned unemployment was stuck at 9.1% and the interest rate for 10-year bonds was approaching a record low. now, if the nation really were in danger of a debt crisis, the interest rates on u.s. bonds would be climbing, not cratering. take a look at greece. see we have a massive jobs crisis that's caused by collapsing demand and austerity will make it worse, not better. the economic crisis and the growing budget deficit created a opening for tea party extremists and t

the colombian market for agricultural products is another good example of the high cost of delay. in 2010, for the first time in the history of u.s.-colombia trade, the u.s. lost to argentina its position as colombia's number one agricultural supplier. consider the story of the three crops, main crops that we grow in south dakota, soybeans, corn and wheat. the combined market share in colombia for these three u.s. agricultural exports has decreased from 78% in 2008 to 28% in 2010 a decline of 50 percentage points. we are living in a global economy where america cannot afford to stand still and to stay on the sidelines when it comes to trade. in 1960, exports accounted for only 3.6% of our entire g.d.p. today, exports account for 12.5% of our g.d.p. exports of u.s. goods and services support over 10 million american jobs. it is long past the time, madam president, that we get back in the game by passing the three pending trade agreements and then to work aggressively to make sure that our administration is in a position with trade adjustment assistance to promote new agreements tha

we are told that the mexican government -- the colombian government has suspended its union protection program. one of the hallmarks that signifies the change of the government and their desire to protect workers. they are now suspended that. that does not bode well. i ask this question of my ceo friends. it's 51 -- if 51 ceo's would have been assassinated last year, would there be a clamor for a trade bill with colombia. workers, union officials are no less deserving as human beings and ceos. we will continue to fight that. the workers on both sides of the border also opposed to those trade agreement because they know that it is not going to be good for workers on either side. until we get a trade regime that really is fair to american workers and helps us to export products, not jobs, we will oppose that regime. >> [inaudible] i understand your opposition. i was wondering, with the poisonous atmosphere in congress, are you hopeful that they will not be able to get this done? >> first of all, the republicans do not want to add taa to its. every trains workers who lose their jobs becau

we have the agreements negotiated between the koreans and the united states, colombians and the united states, panamanians and the united states and we would create many, many jobs here in the united states. yesterday, madam speaker, i met with the ambassador from colombia. and on august 15, they implemented an agreement, a free trade agreement between canada and colombia, and there's been an 18.9% increase in wheat exports from canada to colombia in one single month. now, madam speaker, i've said this time and time again here. we have union and nonunion workers. who are employed by companies, great american companies, that have manufacturing companies like caterpillar, john deere, whirlpool, and we could get these people working, we could get these people working if we could open up new markets for those manufactured products in latin america in asia. that's exactly what we've got ahead of us. i hope that the president will send to us those agreements so that we can enjoy and again bipartisan those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted, democrats and r

we have the agreements negotiated between the koreans and the united states, colombians and the united states, panamanians and the united states and we would create many, many jobs here in the united states. yesterday, madam speaker, i met with the ambassador from colombia. and on august 15, they implemented an agreement, a free trade agreement between canada and colombia, and there's been an 18.9% increase in wheat exports from canada to colombia in one single month. now, madam speaker, i've said this time and time again here. we have union and nonunion workers. who are employed by companies, great american companies, that have manufacturing companies like caterpillar, john deere, whirlpool, and we could get these people working, we could get these people working if we could open up new markets for those manufactured products in latin america in asia. that's exactly what we've got ahead of us. i hope that the president will send to us those agreements so that we can enjoy and again bipartisan those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted, democrats and r

we are told that the mexican government -- the colombian government has suspended its union protection program. one of the hallmarks that signifies the change of the government and their desire to protect workers. they are now suspended that. that does not bode well. i ask this question of my ceo friends. it's 51 -- if 51 ceo's would have been assassinated last year, would there be a clamor for a trade bill with colombia. workers, union officials are no less deserving as human beings and ceos. we will continue to fight that. the workers on both sides of the border also opposed to those trade agreement because they know that it is not going to be good for workers on either side. until we get a trade regime that really is fair to american workers and helps us to export products, not jobs, we will oppose that regime. >> [inaudible] i understand your opposition. i was wondering, with the poisonous atmosphere in congress, are you hopeful that they will not be able to get this done? >> first of all, the republicans do not want to add taa to its. every trains workers who lose their jobs becau