also, in denmark. ithey have all the facilities ad priorities for bicycles. it turns out that these towns have a lot higher bicycle use than elsewhere. it pays to have good bicycle facilities. >> yes, i have another question. this is more on the cost and maintenance. one thing that plagues american cities is the maintenance budget for maintaining public streets and public right of ways. we know very well that you have very high taxes and you have very high parking fees. could you talk about who and how you maintain your infrastructure and the streets? is that just a given, you decide to build something and somebody maintains it, or is there an agreement with another department to maintain it? >> the authorities in amsterdam, the infrastructure and transport department and municipalities, they financed it, they planned it, they build it, construct it, and they maintain it. i think that is the logical route. and is paid by the community's -- and is paid by the communit ies, and also from the state department. [inaudible] >> in the netherlands, if a road is real

did you grow up in denmark? grew up in denmark for the first six years, and in that period ever since i could walk, he, being a keeper of antiquities at the national museum in copenhagen, dragged me round its corridors. and is that what inspired you to do archaeology then? it was. i decided at the age of 12 that i wanted to do archaeology, and i read archaeology at university. i did the old stone age, and then when i came out i discovered there aren't too many jobs for old stone age people. so we have to move into a later period. well, you could've been the indiana jones of our times, lars and here you are on the antiques roadshow. well, my hat's in the car, you know, if they want another study. no, i'm very glad i chose the way i did because when you move into the more recent period, you begin to see human beings individually rather than as cultures or groups, and hence the choice of my second item. we go from 1,000 years b.c., on this, to 1732 and you were probably expecting me to run out of the house with a p

members are less sympathetic denmark says that the e.u. is not a self-service buffet where members can cherry pick the legislation that happens sleeping said the e.u. would simply become a mess so while david cameron appears to solve any internal squabbles within his own party to take the lead appeasing the euro skeptics it also appears that he is driving a wedge between britain and other e.u. member states andrew farmer. london. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu won the country's parliamentary election this week but suffered a serious setback the results gave his right wing likud party the narrowest of victories with just thirty one out of one hundred twenty seats where now netanyahu will have to struggle to form a broad and stable coalition to govern israel could be a challenge as a right wing and orthodox religious parties one half the seats in the parliament meanwhile some analysts take all hopes on the obama administration influencing who to back off new settlements and restart peace talks with the palestinians but peace activ

hub of ballerup, denmark's very own silicon valley. a few rounds of football help the team drop their defences. >> by the book this should be difficult because this is about foreseeing how other will act in different situations. that's great skills and great practice. >> he can't resist taking a shot himself. 52-year-old thorkil sonne has also an appointment in copenhagen with a commercial business partner of specialisterne. he doesn't meet his partners as much as he'd like he's often travelling to drum up support for his fledgling foundation. his company has already been copied in other european countries and in the us. clearidium is an innovative danish anti-doping service provider with an international reputation. one of sonne's protegÉes who doesn't want to be filmed - works for the company on data collection and organization. he tracks the lcoations of athletes so that group doping tests an be carried out. his boss is very satisfied with his performance. >> we have a lot of computers trying to communicate but we need a person to m

this is just shortly a slide that shows you what already has been polled, that denmark and the netherlands, they are in fact far ahead of all of the other european countries and belgium is somewhere in-between making an effort but for sure also at this trip, i have been able to learn a lot from my european colleagues in denmark and in the netherlands. brussels is in the heart of europe and i think it's also has been a very good thing that there is european regulations, although at this moment, european regulations are mainly on achieving certain environmental standards. let's say pollution by co2 and particles. but that has helped us as we had too high air pollution in brussels as it was sanctioned by the european union that we really could stress on alternative mobility. we don't wait until european legislation or regulation coming up. we also have no brussels, no belgium, but european towns, towns in europe, trying to find one another and to press, to put pressure on mayors and regional ministers to commit themselves to invest in bicycle policies. so those towns can learn from one anothe

now we've heard that a number of other european countries including denmark pledging their support for the french military offensive in the region so it is growing quite quickly and by sunday we've already had hundreds of french military personnel taking part in the operation officials say that french as strikes are targeting rebel forces rebel strongholds and logistical points however human rights groups are already counting a number of civilian casualties with three children dead since friday and of course this is quite a departure from francois loans promise to kind of step away from the very paternalistic ties that fronts used to have with the former african colonies in fact through their differences with nicolas sarkozy he's been just as quick to jump into military military intervention in mali as nicolas sarkozy was jump into a military intervention in libya two years ago so a lot of political experts saying that it could be a way of trying to ratchet up his political polls and his approval ratings because apparently those have been plummeting and is that he was elected as presid

the first is claudius and ger trude for hamlet to stay in denmark. here it is. >> good hamlet thy collar off and let thine eye look as a friend on denmark. do not forever with thy lower lid seek they final father in the dust. all that lives must die. passing through nature to eternity. >> i, madame, it is common. >> if it be, why is he so particular with thee. >> nay, it is, i know not seems. 'tis not alone my cloak, good mother nor customary suits of solemn black, together with all forms, molds, shows of grief that can denote-- these indeed seem for they are actions that a man might play. that i have that within which passette show these but the trappings and the suits of woe. >> rose: . >> it's also in a way that little speech of hamlets defines who he is. i know not seems, these are actions that a man might play but i have that within which passette show. and it is sort of a core idea of who hamlet is. he has an interior being which he cannot express externally. he has a sense of authenticity of emotion, of feeling, of spiritual state that he does

the attack in denmark was going to involve terrorists storming a newspaper office in denmark, beheadingg the heads out of the window of the newspaper office out on to the street. they were going for the highest level of horror possible. that's the terror in terrorism. american david headley was in the process of scouting locations for the danish attack, just as he had done for mumbai when he was arrested in chicago. and then yesterday david headley was finally sentenced to 35 queers in prison. he was sentenced in chicago. the only reason he didn't get life is because he turned state's evidence in what prosecutors say was a big way. only one of the actual gunman from the mumbai attack survived the attack itself. he was hanged in india last year. but as an orchestrator of the attack, david headley was tried here in the u.s. and you may recall that precisely nobody complained that it was too dangerous to try david headley here even though he was a terrorist involved in a complicated international terrorism plot. arrested here, questioned here, he turned against his former comrades and help

but here in denmark, they have a very different approach. instead of suing your doctor or hospital like we do in the u., he you dect your complaint to this office, the patient insurance association. martin erickson is the deputy director. >> so let's say i'm a patient and i believe that i have been hurt by a doctor or a hospital. what do i do? >> all you have to do is actually to fill in a claims form. you can even fill in on a web page. >> you done need a lawyer. >> don't node a lawyer. >> does it cost any money to file. >> it's absolutely free for the patient. only has to fill in the form. that is all you have to do. >> the patient's complaint about their injury then goes to an independent panel of lawyers, doctors and administrators. there is no courtroom. and no testimony. they examine a patient's medical records and hold it against this standard. would an experienced specialist in the field have acted differently, thereby avoiding the injury. if so, then a patient is offered compensation. all paid for by danish taxpayers. >> need to kno

but here in denmark, they have a very different approach. instead of suing your doctor or hospital like we do in the u.s., here you direct your complaint to this office the patient insurance association. martin erickson is the deputy director. >> so let's say i'm a patient and i believe that i have been hurt by a doctor or a hospital. what do i do? >> all you have to do is actually to fill in a claims form. you can even fill in on a web page. >> you done need a lawyer. >> don't node a lawyer. >> does it cost any money to file. >> it's absolutely free for the patient. only has to fill in the form. that is all you have to do. >> the patient's complaint about their injury then goes to an independent panel of lawyers doctors and administrators. there is no courtroom. and no testimony. they examine a patient's medical records and hold it against this standard. would an experienced specialist in the field have acted differently thereby avoiding the injury. if so, then a patient is offered compensation. all paid for by danish taxpayers. >> need to

it's not that fattening. >> apparently, transfats have to be bad if the country of denmark is banningk city is banning them. melissa: okay, you want to get a sleys after -- slice with me after the show? that was a lot of silence, my goodness. i don't know. >> i'll remain silent. melissa: thank you so much. here's the question of the day. do you want to get a slice of pizza with me after the show? no, that's not the question. the lawsuit make you less likely to buy frozen pizzas? so far not. one person makes them a loser to pay the civil court system. that makes sense. keep the responses coming. like us on facebook or follow me on twitter. coming up. it sounds like the perfect dinner out, soup, meat, wine, and then a bowl of dirt ice cream for dessert. delicious. this is served at one restaurant, and people are shelling out wads of cash to indulge. you thought the pizza was bad? bizarre details coming up. you can't ever have too much "money" or dirt. ♪ ♪ melissa: you can dance. you can dance. yes. it's okay. he is advancing. he has that been going. no, he's not. it's time for four.

researchers looked at nearly three thousand patients in denmark - from 19-95 to 20-10. it found the risk of early death from cancer or heart disease was much higher among infected smokers. and that smoking was more harmful to the body than the virus. >> jacqueline: it is going to be very cold. 20's and 30's. ted meserle not warming up that much. pretty chilly. thursday, friday, we will see more cloud coverage. temperatures out the door. it is going to be cold. 20's and 30's. 27 in santa rosa. 29 in concord, pleasanton. and in the south bay temperatures will merely be freezing. 31 degrees in redwood city there is a freeze morning in effect for the north bay tomorrow. virtually the entire north bay. a sub-freezing for several hours. frosty icy conditions and to the peninsula. the east bay shores, morgan hill in defrost a advisory. temperatures in the mid 30's. giving yourself some extra time. for the afternoon, similar. low mid '50s. 50s and richmond. 57 degrees in san jose. a look a your extended forecast with very cold chilly and called again. we will start to see a shi

denmark has an extensive welfare state and it works very well. you cannot go, what a horrible country. what they are doing, they do well. what switzerland does, it does well. when we try to do it, we do not do it well. maybe we are too big of a country. institutions that work with 4 million people do not work with 310 million heterogenous people. i do not know. sometimes policies work well in one place and not another. it is also a left vice. i have colleagues that go, denmark has this policy and it works great for them. it is not obvious we can just take on that institution and have it function that way here. >> where was mr. lee teaching you? >> new hampshire. a small town 35 minutes north of boston. >> have you ever told him how much he impacted you? >> after the book came out, i got my first publication copy. i wrote the introduction. i sent him a copy of the book. a little thank you note. i sent it through amazon. i got an e-mail from him saying, it was really touching. i did not have his contact information. i have his e-mail -- i knew he w

it was operating successfully in denmark.i got ahold of him and said we have to do this through the united states. and through salesmanship or persistence, we were able to convince him to allow us to expand that company into the u.s. we're pretty excited. we're opening our first location in fargo, north dakota, here this spring. >> you should be excited, it's a wonderful thing. tim hanson, thanks very much, we enjoyed talking to you and we wish you every success with the program. thanks. >> every once in a while, there's a moment in sports that takes on a life of its own, the story behind this incredible shot coming up. ...and down. just use your maxperks card and get a case of x-9 paper for only 1-cent after maxperks rewards. find thousands of big deals now... ...at officemax. >>> while you were sleeping, a tentative agreement was worked out between the national hockey league and its players association. it could have the players back on the ice in a matter of days. but both sides still have to ratify the ten-year deal. the

those delays at the airports because of snow spread across the british isles and into france, western denmark dealing with problems because of incoming snow. a low from the atlantic. things look better on wednesday. high pressure from the scandinavian peninsula across the british isles and central europe that will help to dry things out. down toward the southeast, it is going to be -- well, precipitation will continue and turning over from snow to rain and as we look at warmer temperatures. the picture in moscow, somewhere used to getting a lot of snow, but two storms over the weekend, has caused quite a problem in the capital. here we have a couple of storms, one on sunday and one last friday, hit the city, in response, thousands of workers with snow plows were deployed to clean up the roads and the city became paralyzed because of the excess snow. let's take a look at temperatures. moscow is going to be falling to a minus 15. very chilly. that is the high temperature, minus 7 in stockholm and berlin. minus 2 in vienna. athens, 16 degrees forecast for your tuesday. here is the extended forec

only denmark has it elsewhere in the world.s a discussion on spending cut but it's not what the debt limit is for. >> your explanations have been right on target. let me tell you what i would wish the president would do. i hope the president's successful, because as a country if he's successful, we'll be successful. but he's got to begin to negotiate with the house and the senate to find a path forward on spending less and borrowing less or we're going to be on an unsustainable course. if it were me, if i were the president, i'd take the simpson/bowles proposal he got two years ago and never brought forward. i would push it forward and say deal with it in a macro sense. put tax expenditures, spending, on the table and put entit entitlements on the table. then you have the whole ball of wax from which the debt is caused and you have the solutions, reform of taxes, entitlements and -- >> you know that is at minimum a two to three-year process. i wish we would engage in it starting this minute. i show my viewers the tax code, 73,0

of getting a boost, or it's a commercial for -- okay, which i believe is a gasoline credit card in denmark. >> i didn't think it could be possible, because if you eat that much cabbage, you're bloated, heavier, don't move at quickly on a bike. you want to be sleek. >> how does that relate to a credit card? >> a gasoline credit card. they're relating gags with -- >> ah. >> saying if you get this credit card, you'll be able to afford your gas and not have to poot your way through town. >> you won't have to eat cabbage. >> it's funny now that i know it's a commercial. >>> it's your very own beaux dwyer photo shoot. the story behind the sexy photo shoot next "right this minute." >>> checking out a cruise ship with this guy. >> a [ bleep ] -- [ bleep ] adult pool, indoor pool [ bleep ], outdoor pool. >> see the ship and meet the funnyman tour guy. >>> and a moose on the move gets a close-up. >> oh! >> instead of running away, the moose turns around and starts walking right up to the camera. >> watch the meeting, "right this minute." >>> there's a lot of stuff to do on cruise ship. >> we're on a

bulgaria was punished for racist fan behavior in a match against denmark. well, severe winter weather has caused travel chaos in turkey, and urologists say there is more snow in store for the country in the days to come. >> the city of istanbul has been blanketed with snow, and schools have been closed for the past two days. icy conditions on roads, and many residents opted for public transportation, making for some big crowds on the metro there. this is the second big snowfall in istanbul in the past two months. >> i remember the pictures from the last big dump of snow. not a single car had no chance, and not a single person seemed to be able to walk on ice and snow. a highlight reel of people slipping and sliding in istanbul. entertaining for me, but probably not a whole lot of fun for the people there in istanbul. >> talking about the pending pulp -- dependable public services when we come back. we will look at the statistics out for the eurozone unemployment situation -- not looking very good today. an historic high for unemployment, almost 12%. more on

stroke of midnight sparked beginning of giant fireworks show in the skies over copenhagen, denmark. spectacular. thoughts of dane cheer from the streets as the many bright colors lit up the night sky over scandanavia. very, very nice evening. >>> we have breaking news pass along now from washington where senators have just passioned the bill we were talking about few moments ago to avert the fiscal cliff. tax hike spending cut we told you about. we have mr. on that deal on 7 morning news beginning at 4:30 am and of course on our web site but again senate voted to pass that deal. >>> back now to new year's eve. getting ready for our own fireworks ferry building on embarcadero on san francisco. spencer here with life doppler 7 hd. lacks pretty good. it does. clear out there as we see. moisture early in the evening offshore moved well to our south. skies clearing. trems falling however pretty chilly out there. 32 degrees fairfield. 35 in nap a.36 livermore here in san francisco relatively mild 48 degrees and falling. so here's a look what we expect conditions to be like at midnight fir

bulgaria was punished for racist fan behavior in a match against denmark. well, severe winter weather has caused travel chaos in turkey, and urologists say there is more snow in store for the country in the days to come. >> the city of istanbul has been blanketed with snow, and schools have been closed for the past two days. icy conditions on roads, and many residents opted for public transportation, making for some big crowds on the metro there. this is the second big snowfall in istanbul in the past two months. >> i remember the pictures from the last big dump of snow. not a single car had no chance, and not a single person seemed to be able to walk on ice and snow. a highlight reel of people slipping and sliding in istanbul. entertaining for me, but probably not a whole lot of fun for the people there in istanbul. >> talking about the pending pulp -- dependable public services when we come back. we will look at the statistics out for the eurozone unemployment situation -- not looking very good today. an historic high for unemployment, almost 12%. more on

second is denmark with 20% and down to great britain to 2% and the u.s. only has 1% trip share by bike. advantages and the benefits of cycling, very short but, which you can capitalize is the health part, the reduction of health costs because the effect of cycling on health are above expectations. it's nearly all diseases will have less risk of occurring when people have enough physical exercise and all the extra, the ideal means of physical exercise is about half an hour a day, medium-intensive exercise. so it's far better than going to the gym twice a week and then, very intensive sporting for two hours. and what is easier than having this bike trip into your daily commuting? then automatically you have your half an hour exercise and it's been shown in the managementerlands that people who sigh -- netherlands that people who cycle to work have more than people who don't. also the environment there are a lot of things you can capitalize because you don't have to invest on electric cars or transit or whatever to reduce the carbon dioxide, because the emis

we of queen elizabeth ii, 86, the king of norway, 75, the king of spain, 75, queen of denmark, 73 and the tricks herself is coming up to 75. >> on thursday. >> her birthday. >> generally when you look of the world -- thailand and countries all over, monarchs tend to die on the front before the handover. >> all over the world. as we are an aging population we are also an aging market. it reflects the pattern of the population. much of the monarch's across all the throws. >> do you often heard being an heir of the front is not do it is a predicament. >> the weights are getting longer. -- waits a getting longer. >> we are glad people are living longer. does the dutch royal family need a shop in the arm? prince wilhelm alexander, 45, relatively glamorous, young wife. >> he will be the first man on the dutch throne since '89. he has three daughters, so you will be essentially a brief male interlude. it is going to be a change because the dutch are used to a female monarchy. but things have been changing in holland because in 2010 the queen of holland had much more power than the average eu