to appoint vice president as a successor to the president during the national congress of the communist partyn the second half of 2012. the congress is held every five years. the party also confirmed that new methods to control society must be strengthened to maintain social harmony and stability in aparpt attempt to reign in domestic public opinion before the leadership change next year. >>> and now let's look at the market figures. >>> time to look at the global weather forecast. >>> hello, welcome to your weather update. let's start with east asia. a high pressure system is keeping things dry and settled across much of china, mongolia and the korean peninsula. lots of sunshine for you. light to moderate rain will linger across inland china. meanwhile, strong northeasterly winds are creating thundershowers across the southern indochina peninsula and a separate system will continue to dump heavy rain on bangladesh, northeastern china as well as northeastern india and northern myanmar the next couple of days. as for japan, it is mostly dry, but the pacific side will see more cloud cover as th

, and the communist party used emilia-romagna as an example of good governing. [speaking italian] [translator] it's well-known that the culture in emilia-romagna is traditionally leftist, and especially so after the liberation, as the region has been ruled by the communist party, which is communism with a humanitarian face, and has organized many useful things to improve the quality of life and of the population. [different man speaking italian] [translator] first of all, we have to bear in mind that immediately after the second world war, emilia-romagna, unlike other northern italian regions, was a strongly agricultural region. at the beginning of the 1950s, more than half of the work force was still employed in agriculture. from this starting point, we have arrived at the situation today in which, as in all other parts in italy, the service industry now prevails. as well as services to business, emilia-romagna provides some of the best social and health services in italy. statistics show the highest percentage of working women in italy, though they've not yet

there is a chinese communist party. if you want to practice, they will pick you and if you continue, they will kill you. my mother was lucky. a few days ago, i saw a chinese red flag outside of the city hall. when i was a kid, i could see the chinese red flag in the garden, the park, and my classroom. actually, when i see it, i think the chinese communist party has come to san francisco. i am very afraid that they have my mom and that is a red flag. when you make your choices, think about that. last time i came here and talk about this, and i think someone, they decided we will never do that. it is a california flag. but i think that would be right. please. thank you. >> city hall. [speaking foreign language] dehere -- [speaking foreign language] perry in [speaking foreign language] >> islander city hall. r.r. radanovich city hall area to exercise. when i heard a the chinese light was on in city hall, i was shocked and saddened. in china, my mother and i could not live in our home and we were in constant danger of being

guest: you should not dismiss the communist party or socialist party so easily. basically said there and said you are afraid to say that hand of someone who is a communist party leader. who cares? guest: i think i just said that. under this constitution, people have the right to believe what they want to believe. we fought for the right for people to stand up and say they believe in this or that. the entire spectrum is out there. the more that we encourage people to participate, the more those rights are protected. host: florida, an independent caller. caller: thank you for c-span taking my calls and the afl-cio. [unintelligible] i do not think this country is going to go anywhere unless they bailout main street first. guest: i think what you're saying, and what you believe in, many people believe in. we have a jobs crisis in this country. wall street has been taken care of. significantly. now they're back to business as usual. main street is still 14 million jobs them. we are -- 14 million jobs down. they sit on trillions in profits that they are not investing t

that some of them were members of the communist party, that others were as--associated with communist party members. and you have to remember, this is a period of time in which the conflict with the soviet union is just starting to heat up, and the question of: 'where are these people's loyalties, with us, the united states, or with our air--erstwhile ally during the war, the soviet union?' the list was put together and presented to the state department for--with a nasty note, in effect, saying, are these people still on the payroll here if we're, in fact, gonna be in--you know, in--if we find ourselves in the midst of a conflict with the soviet union?' conflict with the soviet union?' the state department wrote back a reassuring letter saying, 'well, in fact, a lot of these people have, in fact, been removed from the state department. and--but there are still some who are left, whose cases are still pending for investigation. we'll get to them as soon as we can.' the number that were left was 57. this was in 1948, the number 57. and this was how the number 57 gets to mccarthy, is tha

guest: you should not dismiss the communist party or socialist party so easily. you basically said there and said you are afraid to say that hand of someone who is a communist party leader. who cares? guest: ihink i just said that. under this constitution, people have the right to believe what th want to believe. we fought for the right for people to stand up and say they believe in this or that. the entire spectrum is out there. the more that we encourage people to participate, the more those rights are protected. host: florida, an independent caller. caller: thank you for c-span taking my calls and the afl-cio. [unintellible] i do not think this country is going to go anywhere unless they bailout main street first. guest: i think what you're saying, and what you believe in, many people believe in. we have a jobs crisis in this country. wall street has been taken care of. significantly. now they're back to business as usual. main street is still 14 million jobs them. we are -- 14 million jobs down. they sit on trillions in profits that they are not investing to

the communist party of chicago also weighed in. olidarity to the movement. and they plan on being there side by side. welcome aboard. >> they never endorsed the tea party. the interesting thing is to say that some people used to call the tea party racist, i think it is still present tense. people still call the tea party racist. so why we only hear this maybe on fox? why we hear that woman saying what she said about zionist jews. well, bill o'reilly discussed this last night on his show. >> here we have some antisemitism. but that woman who we just heard from puts liberals in general and liberal journalists in particular in a dilemma. they are in a bad situation. there's a black woman who speaks very well, who is dressed nicely, and she's a bigot. what are we going to do now? >> what they are going to do now is ignore it. >> exactly. >> i guarantee you you aren't going to see her. they aren't going to cover it. that's what they always do if something doesn't fit into their world view. >> that's the point. if there was one sign with

seen as possible candidate to suck eed premier next year when the communist party is expected to carry out a major leadership reshuffle during its national congress. the party is expected to appoint zing shin to tao. >> we begin with an update on the floods in thailand. the governor of bangkok has called on citizens to remain on alert and be prepare teddy vacate. the warning comes as larger than expected amounts of water descend from the north towards the capital. the physical and economic damage to the country is worsening by the day. work to reinforce flood barriers around the clock. more than 1 million sandbags have been deployed. but it seems that won't be enough to save the entire city. the bangkok administration issued a warning on wednesday to seven districts in the north and east of the city. it asked residents to be prepared for severe flooding within the next 24 hours. six industrial estates in thailand have been submerged. attention shifted to another threatened zone. the latest government estimates are that 600,000 jobs are at risk. some factories across the country have be

they have support of nazi and communist party.e and about to go away. >> kimberly: they want redistribution of wealth. socialnism the country. >> monica: that is right. we need to keep an eye on what is going on. radical leftist play the same game and they keep their eyes on the prize. this move in the the pipeline for months. sec, ad busters. is to detract from the left wing base and get the country riled up so they can equate the tea party with what is going on now. >> bob: does it bother you at all, monica, 1% of the people in the country control 40% of the wealth? >> monica: what are you talking about? >> bob: does it bother you. 1% controls 40% of the wealth. >> eric: hold on. >> bob: i'm asking monica. >> eric: how would you fix it? >> bob: government come in and change the system. >> eric: you want government -- >> bob: exactly. >> monica: the government confiscating -- >> bob: so you think it's okay -- i'm going to ask you. are you okay with 1% controlling 40% of the wealth? >> greg: i'd love to control 40% of the wealth.

he is a leading candidate from the tunisian communist party.e was jailed -- he was jailed for years by the former regime. the relution gave him the opportunity to voice his opinions in public and to stand up for its political goals. the communists want to fight the high unemployment and they want more rights for the rural population. today, the campaign brings into a remote area. a place were not many people have been interested in politics or politicians for a very long time. he wants to bring the revolution here, to this far corner of the country. >> the freedom train has already started, and nothing can stop it. i think there are political forces were trying to the name of religion to get to the top. the freedom train is rolling and i am certain that tunisia is headed for freedom. all the other arab countries as well. >> the communists are the only ones who personally come to visit these voters. >> you know that the regime was not toppled by the rich. it was poor people and workers. that is why the election is your chance. >> we reached the

. >> the communist party is in power and celebrates things they think is irrelevant -- that is relevant. >> the 1911 resolution pose more problems. it stood for certain principles. democracy for one. china's communist rulers did not want people living by them. bbc news, beijing. >> win, lose, draw, i was is having a difficult time. in california on sunday, a young gentleman, through a hot dog onto the green. he yelled, tiger, tiger, tiger. he missed it, but this is what he had to say afterwards. >> i am glad -- he had a hot dog on the green. i do not know how he tried to throw it. i was focusing on my past, when he started yelling. next thing i know, he laid on the ground and put his hand on his back and turned his head. i wanted to bury that putt. >> not much security. >> this was a local man. he was a fan who is committed to that he may have had a drink or two. -- whom admitted that he may have had a drink or two. >> good luck to them. thanks very much indeed. you are watching bbc world news. coming up, two recent kidnappings in kenya. it is sending businesses reeling. here in the u.k

. >> in russia, it used to be the communist party that dominated the headlines, now, it is a birthday party. vladimir putin's. in 15 cities, his young supporters came on to the streets to record a nationwide birthday greeting for their political hero. what is it exactly about the prime minister which lights their fire? >> he is going to be our president. we should support our president. >> it is hard to imagine supporters of david cameron or chancellor merkel gathering up and down the country with candles to sing the birthday greetings. then again, vladimir putin does get the strain this birthday presents. previous gives included a crocodile. not everyone was celebrating. and die putin protesters got dragged away by police for spoiling the party. -- anti-putin protesters got dragged away. >> he is scared of any competition. he needs to believe he is popular. he needs to believe he is irreplaceable. >> even the kremlin confesses to a little stage managing here and there. this week, mr. putin's spokesperson revealed the truth behind these images which impressed russian television viewer

. >> angela davis, a black panther and member of the communist party became an international icon andle. >> today marx a beginning of a new era in the movement in this country. >> it was brewing with anger and determination. >> we'll walk on this power structure and we'll tell the whole damn government stick them up [ bleep ]. this is a hold up. we've come for what's ours. >> as far as angela davis is concerned, the revolution is far from over, but it is different. today she's professor ameritus at uc santa cruz. she lectures and travels the world. we sit here on the college campus at uc santa cruz. 40 years ago you were far removed from santa cruz. you were an active member of  black freedom struggle. >> well, actually, a little over 40 years ago i was teaching at ucla, and because i was fired from my position in the philosophy department there my whole story began. so you might say that it's trajectory from one campus to another campus with a lot of interesting, dangerous, exciting encounters in between. >> one of those major encounters obviously was, i think, the third woman in a

the communist party of the philippines issued a statement saying its military arm, the new people's army, carried out the attacks. it says the firms cut down trees and use large amounts of sulfuric aez sit harming the environment. it says japanese executives ignored repeated requests to stop environmental destruction. >>> that's all we have time for this week. thank you for watching. we'll see you next week on "asia 7 days."

the communist party of the philippines issued a statement saying its military arm, the new people's army, carried out the attacks. it says the firms cut down trees and use large amounts of sulfuric aez sit harming the environment. it says japanese executives ignored repeated requests to stop environmental destruction. >>> that's all we have time for this week. thank you for watching. we'll see you next week on "asia 7 days."

he told communist party leaders and foreign ambassadors that he's extremely proud of the chinese government's achievements. he said the government needs to put top priority on improving the chinese people's quality of life. he said it will tackle the rising cost of living and provide affordable housing. >> translator: we must solve the practical problems that people are most concerned about. >> he also said development needs to take place at a speed that allows both quality and efficiency. he was apparently referring to the high speed railway accident in july and the subway accident in shanghai this week. the chinese community party will choose a new leadership at its convention next year. the party is facing an increasingly dissatisfied public as the gap widens between the rich and the poor. achieving stability is at the top of its agenda. >>> tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in the egyptian capital of cairo to call for changes to the new election law. ♪ demonstrators took to the streets in cairo's tahrir square after friday prayers. they claim the military council's new elector

. >>> the communist party pledged to strengthen its culture. authorities say they will boost china's comic and animation industries and want to see the sectors become 1% of the gdp in 2015. according to legal media, the total output of animation last year has surpassed japan and the u.s. making china the world's number one producer. but the country faces some hurdles before it can reach genuine development in pop culture. heroes and villains, the chinese are enchanted with a costume play. the hobby is a popular pasttime. >> thousands of people visited the comic and animation expo in beijing earlier this month. about 200 artists from ten countries gathered at the venue. china is cultivating the industry and offers subsidies to animation firms of up to $300 for every minute the productions are aired. the policy has encouraged an increase in the number of anime studios. there are now about 10,000. and nearly 100-fold jump compared to ten years ago. but the quality has not progressed enough to win public favor. >> translator: chinese products are f

at the party's meeting earlier this mopt, china's communist party pledged to strengthen the promotion of its culture to gain global influence. our reporter has the story. >> reporter: the chinese are in charge of this costume play or cross play as it is known. the hobby is a popular past time. thousands of people visited the comic and animation expo. china us cultivating the industry and offers subsidies up to $300 for every minute productions are aired. the policy encouraged increase in the number of anime studios. now about 10,000, nearly hundred fold jump compared to ten years ago. but the quality has not progressed enough to win public favor. >> translator: chinese products are for children. so they don't satisfy us grownups. >> reporter: this movie released in july was five years in the making and cost more than $8 million. but the first ten days box office earnings only covered 5% of the total cost. experts blame it on poor marketing and lack of creativity. a government official expressed his concerns over the current situation during the expo. >> translator: animation from japa

tessin communist party's rally and survive the second world war. all the time keeping its reputation as world class and upper and ballet. the first performances are a concert and then offer a. the ballet company takes the stage in mid november. all the tickets for the first three months are sold out. bb news in the -- bbc news in the bolshoi theater. >> let's remind you of the top story on gmt. thousands are fleeing bangkok as peer groups residents that the flooding is getting worse. relief efforts -- that is all for me. i am zeinab badawi. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. union bank. and shell. >> this is kim - about to feel one of his favorite sensations. at shell, we're developing more efficient fuels in countries like malaysia that can help us get the most from our energy resources. let's use energy more efficiently. let's go.

. >>> the new people's army, military arm of the communist party is active in eastern mind and ow island>>> unone of the nobel winners died. there will be no change to his award. he won for understanding the body's immune system. he shared it with bruce butler and jules hoffman in france. the rockefeller university issued a statement monday saying steinman died at the age of 68 after suffering from pancreatic cancer for four years. the university said steinman's family made the death public after the prize was announced. >> it is really impossible to describe what our family is feeling right now. of course, we're devastated he to have lost ralph over the weekend, and of course we're so incredibly proud of dad for receiving this wonderful honor. >> the nobel committee in sweden has a guideline to only give the award to living candidates. the committee has decided to stand by their decision because they were unaware of his death when they made the announcement. >>> and welcome back to your weather update. let's get a look at a tropical storm system moving through the south china sea. cloud

general secretary of the communist party gen fu chong visited beijing the next day and met with chinese premier hu jintao. state-run china central television reported that while discussing the territorial disputes between the two nations hu gave a stern warning about vietnam and india's joint project. hu told wen that vietnam should not make any moves that complicate or expand the disputes. some southeast asian countries including vietnam and the philippines are trying to coordinate an effort to negotiate with china for an end to territorial disputes in the south china sea. >>> now the world's largest opium producer is getting even bigger. according to the latest united nations survey, poppy production in afghanistan will increase by about 60% this year. the u.n. office on drugs and crime made the forecast on tuesday in its annual report on afghanistan's poppy farming. the plants are used to make opium and other narcotics. >> we still have around 1 million afghans, that means 1 million afghan families, who are being and are affected by drug addiction. >> the u.n. says that more and more

china's ruling communist party-- the last meeting of the party's central committee before new leadership is chosen next year calls for a push to energize state-owned media. to the libyan capital of tripoli where hillary clinton held talks. at a town home style meeting, misses clinton said she was proud to be standing on the soil of a free libya. she is the highest at visiting american official to visit libya since the uprising started against colonel gaddafi. >> hillary clinton flew into tripoli on a military transport. it is not equipped to fill up -- to deal with the threat of thousands of service to air missiles scattered around -- surface to air missiles scattered around libya. on the tarmac, anti gaddafri fighters. the official welcome is warm and grateful. it is not every day the u.s. years thanks in the arab world. >> they give his military and moral and political support. we have respect for what the americans have given us. >> libya is rich with billions of dollars, so misses clinton did not pledge money but she offered american expertise to rebuild the country. she called on al

downtown athens but turned ugly when masked protesters with firefightbombs turned on peaceful communist party supporters. the new measure include pay and tax cuts on civil service as well as pension cuts and tax hikes for all greeks. >>> back here in the u.s., the number of people collecting unemployment benefits is down slightly in the last week. 403,000 people filed initial claims for jobless benefits. that's down 6000 from the week before and down almost 20,000 from a month ago but that number would have to be less than 375,000 to indicate a healthy job creation rate. the number of continuing claims also slip by 7500 to 3.72 million. >>> the world's largest social network is teaming up with the labor department to help people find jobs. facebook has creating a job network on its site. facebook will also study how job seekers and recruiters use social media. the company plans to develop a way in which people can receive free job postings through facebook. >>> the championship rein of the giants is coming to an end but the bay area is still playing a big part in the world series. >> that is

senior members of china's communist party are gathering in beijing later for the party's most important annual meeting. the theme of the four-day conference is culture, with the economy china's international standing, expected to be among the issues discussed by the party's central committee. roman catholic bishop in the united states has been charged with covering up suspected child abuse in his diocese. bishop robert fin from missouri has publicly apologized for his handling of the case but has pleaded not guilty. he is the highest ranking catholic clergyman in america to face such charges. marcus george in washington has more details. >> this is a very significant case. it involves, as you say, the most senior catholic church official to date in the u.s. being charged with effectively facing charges related to the sexual abuse of children. prosecutors say that he covered up certain activities relating to one of his clergymen. last year, his clergyman, a man called shawn rad began was basically contacted -- he faced some kind of allegation that his behavior around children was simply

if i tell the house, they may not be surprised that the communist party of china was skeptical about my advocacy of the use of twitter. honorable members might understand i think it's a force for good and for democracy and for free speech and for communication without constituents, another source, you know, for bad, and a lot of the members opposite who have concerns, and i understand what their concerns are, i think might find themselves embracing this means of communication with their constituents and beyond that in the near future as a good way of getting the messages that they have about politics in their views out there and engaging in a moment, engaging in an interactive discussion with their constituents. i'll give way to the honorable gentleman. >> i thank the honorable gentleman for giving way, and i agree with everything he said. do you not agree that actually social media, twitter and facebook and so on actually give mp's the chance to forecast to their constituents without relying on forecasters themselves? >> i do agree with the honorable member actually, and it goes fur

it's one of the element it is communist party uses to manage the economy and then stay in power. >> liu: and then charl's interview with author robin wright. her new book is called "rock the casbah: rage and rebellion across the islamic world." >> i think what we're goi to see is something that confuses us in the west because it has two parts. one is this quest for political participation, accountability we're seeing in the trials, as in the hosni mubarak in egypt, the idea of justice and fairness. but it also has a desire to be islamic and these two things are going to confuse us. it's a different kind of islam. today islam is a means to an end not an end in self. 40 years ago the majority of women in egypt didn't wearhijabd covering. today over 80% do. but thatoesn mean there fanatics, that they want to see the muslim brotherhood take over in egypt, that they want sharia islamic law to prevail rigidly. it a expression of we want islam as the cultural milieu, the environment in which chan. it's no different, really, than the kind of judeo-chstian values so many of us have in the westn

is it fair to say, peter, the communist party, and the reason they're so fearful and aggressive in pushing for these riggings and extraction is to ensure full employment for the young people in that country, because they don't want people on the streets? >> that's right, dylan, but here's the thing. it's like, no question that over the last ten years, currency manipulation, illegal export subsidies, counterfeiting and pirs, all of the unfair trade practices that china engages in has worked for them, even as it's killed the american manufacturing base, but china has to realize that in order to move forward, from this point in time, they can't keep sucking our blood and europe's blood, because we're the people that propel their economy, ultimately. so there's got to be balance. >> how do you create aligned interests? this is the conversation that i was having with the folks -- i'm going back to the professor, peter. i'm sorry. whether it's with the kids that occupy wall street or the old people or whatever it might be, whether it's the tea partyers, everybody talks about the misaligned inter

general secretary of the communist party visited beijing the previous day and met with chinese premiere hu jintao. state run china's central television reported that while zutsi i discussing the territorial disputes between the two nations who gave a stern warning about vietnam and india's joint project. hu said that vietnam should not make any moves that complicate or expand the disputes. some countries including vietnam and the philippines are trying to coordinate an effort to negotiate with china for an end to territorial disputes in the south china sea. >>> now the world's largest opium producer is getting even bigger. according to the latest united nations survey, poppy production in afghanistan will increase by about 60% this year. the u.n. office on drugs and crime made the forecast on tuesday in its annual report on afghanistan's poppy farming. the plants are used to make opium and other narcotics. >> we still have around 1 million afghans. that means 1 million afghan families who are being and are affected by drug addiction. >> the u.n. says that more and more land is being use

democratic version of the soviet regime the reformist alexander do puke i just come to power huge the communist party's group on the country granting citizens agree to freedom of expression the reforms however were not received well by this. of it you know and a series of negotiations followed but the you were ceasars leader their new direction if wasn't satisfied with the results eventually on the twenty first of all the troops from five warsaw pact countries and to czechoslovakia soviet tanks were deployed in the streets of the capital prague during the uprising seventy two czech and slovak civilians were killed later on a group of moscow citizens held a protest on red square against the invasion demonstrators were arrested then lead upon ish to the soviet invasion put an end to this short period of liberalization in czechoslovakia which had to wait a further twenty years to be read of this soviet regime. yours if you graduated from university back in one thousand nine hundred sixty one and you got a diploma of an engineer yes the same year when you graduated you you actually. organized your first ex