>>unlike davos, this meeting changes location each year and this summer for the first time was held in central asia this summer; in astana, the capital of kazakhstan, current chair of the organisationon the islamic conference and an economy of growing global importance. >>today we witness a seismic shift in the demographics of global economics. a resurrection not only of increased trade connection between different regions such as southeast asia, the middle east, africa and central asia, but a coming together of its peoples and with it a greater understanding of cultures and various traditions. >>reporter: aside from the usual round of discussion on the halal industry and islamic banking, there was a sense delegates wanted to tackle deeper issues in the muslim world, most notably its underperformance economically, along with unemployment and poverty, highlighted in a keynote address at theforum. >>gdp growth for muslim cotris as a whole was only 2.1% in 2009 - a relatively low growth rate that is further compounded by unequal development and inequitable distribution of wealth and incom

this is a man who when you go to the davos world economic forum which is a forum for world leaders and executives, when he walks into the room, they all turn and watch him. so, to see this man physically looking depleted, just not even looking like himself, and then for him to be saying, you know, i didn't know. i have 52,000 people working for me. i just really how could i possibly know. it was really very much at odds with this guy. the other thing, you know, murdoch is legendary for his command of the details, particularly in his newspaper empire. he pretty famously said when he bought "the wall street journal," one of the first things he said is this newspaper has too many editors and i know because i calculated that every piece of copy is touched by 8.3 editors. now, that man with that command of detail is not at all the man we saw today on the stand. >> and so you have that, you make that case quite passionately. jeff, i want you to comment on why it would matter. but first i want you to listen to a different take from our piers morgan who also knows rupert murdoch. >> when he sa

then i went to dock post -- davos, and everything erupted in egypt. my wife called and said they are playing your song. i have been about the arab democracy thing since the start of the iraq war. she said i had permission not to come home, so i went out there. i will tell you, it is the most remarkable story i ever covered, because it is such a human story. what it tells you is that human beings are capable of surprising in so many ways. but here is what worries me. when you go from singapore, where the government on any given day and ask it sell, how do we better teach fractions to third graders? the whole government there -- i exaggerate but they are thinking about this. you realize in egypt, that never crossed hosni mubarak's mind in 30 years, you realize how much ground that have to catch up. >> you began your top with some -- you began your talk with people sank they got used to it about the escalators. it seems like too much of the american public is getting used to it. >> my experience in the last year is how many people are so anxious for some

. >> davo you think that's true, david, this is toure.think that's true about 22 out of 30 teams didn't make money? >> i think it's more true than not. in the nfl there's a lockout because owners refused to answer the players association when they said three words. open the books. they refused to open the books and show that they had any kind of the hardships they were claiming. the nba, david stern, they actually have opened the books. i've talked to people in the nba players association. people on the executive council of players and they may disagree on how many of those teams are losing money, but it is say greed that a lot of teams are losing money and i think it's because a typical nba owner, i mean, they have the personal fiscal discipline of -- of a trunk. they're like -- somebody in a fireworks factory with a zippo. they -- they sign these players to these massive contracts as if someone has a gun to their head and then they say, oh, this is terrible. we don't want to have to pay these guys. this is awful. it's like, no one force

then i went to dock post -- davos, and everything erupted in egypt. my wife called and said they are playing your song. she said i had permission not to come home, so i went out there. i will tell you, it is the most remarkable story i ever covered, because it is such a human story. what it tells you is that human beings are capable of surprising in so many ways. but here is what worries me. when you go from singapore, where the government on any given day and ask it sell, how do we better teach fractions to third graders? you realize in egypt, that never crossed hosni mubarak's mind in 30 years, you realize how much ground that have to catch up. >> you began your top with some -- you began your talk with people sank they got used to it about the escalators. it seems like too much of the american public is getting used to it. >> my experience in the last year is how many people are so anxious for someone -- people will be used to it if they think they have no choice, but if they start to proceed there is another choice, i think that can fled in a seco