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dr. anthony. what is the dccc's stance on addressing the, quote, human rights issues which appear on american media? and the second question is, why are the dccc countries purchasing large blocks of farm land in africa? >> on the human rights that's a sensitive one as for any country especially when the concern is coming from the outside. and it's got to the point where the european union that at the last summit they halted what had been their negotiations with the e.u. since 1987. from '86 they agreed they would try to have a free trade agreement and they started meeting annually in 1987 and last year they counseled them because they put no demands on the e.u. countries with regard again interfering with e.u. country's domestic affairs. the e.u. countries did put demands on the dccc countries there with regard to human rights and monitoring mechanisms as well. and the dccc countries rejected both of those across-the-board. again on the grounds of mutuality of benefit reciprocal respect. so that o

dr. anthony. >> thank you. thank you, russell smith, thank you for allowing your facilities to be used for the occasion. thank you to the guests and the participants. there is as you can infer an area of expertise and diversity of specialization. [unintelligible] it is hardly a region that is synonymous with [unintelligible] this is one of the few places, it is the only place on the plan and that the united states along with its friends and allies have mobilized and poured more troops and expended more treasure and accounted more casualties, three times in the last three decades than any other place on earth. and so it is significant -- its significance is italicized from that perspective alone. we're talking about eight countries, some of -- seven of them are arab and one is a persian, iran. the vast majority of the energy production and exports of the region come from the seven and not the one. this particular region is also one of the least well known among some americans of the nearly 20 centers for middle

dr. anthony atala runs the wake forest institute for regenerative medicine in north carolina. art, chances are dr. atala is trying to grow one. >> dr. anthony atala: currently at the institute, we're working on over 22 different tissues and organs. >> safer: so, bladder? >> atala: yes. >> safer: heart? liver? >> atala: yes, kidneys, lungs. the possibilities really are endless. >> safer: are you suggesting a remarkable future of, when organs fail, we simply replace them and live to 120, 150? >> atala: well, the hope for the future is that if you do have a patient who has organ failure, you don't want that patient to die because you're waiting for an organ. people are dying every day on the transplant wait list. so the hope of the field is we can provide replacement tissues and organs that can be used to help them survive. >> safer: dr. atala presides over the world's largest lab devoted to bioengineering body parts. he has made everything from components of fingers to kidneys. it's enough to make dr. frankenstein jealous. slightly spooky, isn't it? dr. atala says every organ in

dr. anthony. what is the gcc stance on addressing the human-rights issues, which appear on american media, and the second question is, why are the gcc countries' purchasing large blocks of farmland in africa? >> on the human-rights one, that is a sensitive one as it would be for any country, especially when the concern is coming from the outside. it down to the point where the european union, at the last summit, they halted what had been their negotiations with the eu's since 1987. they agreed that they should have a free trade agreement and they started meeting annually in 19873 but they put no demands on the eve of countries with regard to interfering in eu countries domestic affairs. the eu countries did put demands on the gcc countries. also a modern train mechanism as well, in the gcc countries. the gcc countries rejected those across the board. it was an amount of reciprocal respect. in the interim, they have said a free-trade agreement with the european free trade association in september o

dr. anthony, iran was included in last year's meetings or invited but not this year. why? >> it was not included in last year's it was included in the year before last. the only two times that oman has -- iran has been included has been when qatar was the host. and qatar has an image of pushing the envelope and being innovative and on the two occasions, i was there on both of them, it was qatar that extended the invitation. it has not been extended on any other occasion. >> how are the dccc countries using their economic and political capital to pressure the united states to be an honest broker in the arab-israeli conflict and champion the cause of palestinian statehood strongly? >> if everyone heard the question, i'm not -- i'm not aware of there being any efforts to pressure the u.s. without exception, there are degrees of difference among the six. their investments have been traditional and they've been conservative. largely they've been risk-averse. and this would even apply to kuwait's seemingly more risky investments. robert somewhat can correct me on this who knows

dr. anthony fauci. linda is on the democrats' line in cells vary massachusetts. >> caller: good morning, seize and and dr. fauci. i'm excited. i think this is the third time i've been able to get in and talk to you on a different subject because i am a health educator myself. one of the concerns i have about the whole influenza epidemic in terms of someone who is trying to educate patients and encourage them to get the vaccine is the we anecdotally the vaccine is distorted it. my experience it didn't go to those priority groups there were headlines recently about that where people in wall street and some lawyers and wallsten and that kind of thing got their vaccine prior to health care workers getting them. where i worked we didn't get our seasonal influences until mid december which was a private sector screwup because our private supplier decided to take the vaccine and distribute to the more clients to give them more business which is disconcerted to me. second we had residence who were elderly who ha

dr. anthony fauci who leads the national center for allergy and infectious diseases. from the national institute of health in bethesda, maryland, this is about two and a half hours. >> good morning, everyone, and welcome to nih. i am bill hall. i am with the office of public affairs at the department of health and human services. and i want to welcome you here today for this seminar on for the media and the public on new vaccine, new flu vaccine technologies. we have arranged this session today to offer the media and the public an opportunity to have a little more time to learn about the new technologies that flu vaccine technologies, that our department to a number of our agencies have been working on. as many of you have seen in the news about vaccine, h1n1 vaccine. it has been produced through our tried and true method of using eggs, which has a number of downsides to it, and so we have been working for some time now to develop new technologies, and today's event is a chance to sort of learn about the research that's been going on in both basic and clinical sides,

dr. anthony fauci director the national center for allergy and infectious diseases. from the national institutes of health in bethesda maryland, this is two one-half hours. >> good morning everyone, and welcome to nih. i am with the office of public affairs at the department health and human services and i want to welcome you here today for this seminar for the media and public on new vaccine, new flu vaccine technologies. we hever range this session today to offer the media and the public an opportunity to have a little more time to learn about the new technologies that flu vaccine technologies, that our departments three number of our agencies have been working on. as many of you have seen in the news about the vaccine or the age one and one vaccine, it has been produced through our tried and true method of using eggs, which has a number of down sides to it. and so we have been working for some time now to develop new technologies and today's event is a chance to sort of learn about the research that has been going on, advanced development activities that we are wo

dr. anthony fauci. democrat line in massachusetts. >> caller: good morning, c-span and good morning, dr. fauci. >>. >> guest: good "morning call" this is third time i've been able to talk to you. each time on a different subject because i'm a. concerns about influenza epidemic and trying to educate patients and encourage them to get the vaccine is the way that, anecdotally at least the vaccine was distributed. from my experience really didn't go to priority groups. there were he had headlines -- headlines recently about that. people in wall street and lawyers in boston that kind of thing got their vaccine prior to health care workers getting them. where i work, we didn't get the seasonal influenza until mid-december, which was a private sector screw-up. because our private supplier decided to take that vaccine and distribute it to their more, their clients who gave them more business which was kind of disconcerting to me. secondly, we had residents who are elderly who, had influenza-like illness during t

dr. anthony found she -- anthony fauci gives us an update on the h1n1 flu virus. following that, and ronald neumann and william island, at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> tomorrow, american univ. it holds their campaign management institute. you will hear democratic strategist discuss how to target voters. that is 10:15 a.m. eastern on c- span2. c-span thursday, a look back at world leaders including the dalai lama, ted kennedy, ronald reagan, walter cronkite, colin powell and robert byrd. then i looked at what is ahead. vladimir putin discusses his future on a call-in program. the creator of the subway and the co-founder of "guitar hero" on innovation and entrepreneurship. >> now, a senate hearing. they testified about the panel's findings. according to the panel, nasa will need an additional $3 billion a year to achieve its human spaceflight goals. this is almost two hours a. >> good afternoon. this is an exceptionally important topic. i think that buzzer may tell us that a vote is starting. no, it is not. it is a quorum call. hollywood. we really want to