--easley manchester city obviously manchester city has one bank every game at home and we won every gameat home bar one -- manchester city has won every game at home. sergio for city. boxing day program in england. arsenal level on points with liverpool. face a short trip to take on west ham. fourth-place chelsea host swansea. everton tackles sunderland and new casco -- without a doubt, 2013 was all about serena williams when it came to women's tennis. it was an inspirational season for the 32-year-old who became the oldest world number one in wt a career 11 titles -- winning the french and u.s. open, a trophy case that town has 17 majors. just one behind the great chris evert. >> i think her year was phenomenal. i think it is wonderful that she at her age can still find the motivation and inspiration to go out there and go out and improve her game. she did very much. she became a better defensive player. she worked on her physical fitness. i think she ran down a lot more balls. she cut down on her air worries. she is very inspired. she has gone through a lot of adversity in our life and

it's an election year, we would like to get through this easley, this is the modest bipartisan budgetpromise, this is a model. maybe we can do this again. but you've got all those republicans in the senate who are facing tea party challenges. and are you starting to hear from the senate, oh no, we want to fight, we want to cut spending again. >> ifill: back on the merry-go-round once again. >> exactly. >> ifill: well, i hope you and the other reporters on capitol hill get a little time off for the holidays to prepare for the next round. >> thank you, i hope so too ooz lori montgomerie of "the washington post", thanks. >> woodruff: this week, north korea's supreme leader, kim jung un, just began his third year as head of one of the world's most isolated countries. today chairman general martin dempsey comment be on kim's execution of his high ranking uncle said this kind of internal actions by dictators are often a precursor to provocation. defense secretary chuck hagel called it concerning to everyone. tonight senior foreign a fare-- affairs correspondent margaret warner takes a close

. >> of easley china is a closed market.we cannot go in there and buy shares area -- obviously, china is a closed market area -- a closed market. ,hey are turning to the well debt management securitized products. ?> so to pure lending the old-fashioned way? >> right. they do not want to deal with the stock market. >> one of the interesting things about the shanghai index, it is very heavily rated -- as it moves to a consumer society, you would expect the growth to be in the consumer index. those overall numbers are not really surprising. >> and maybe not reflective of what is going on in the economy. >> right. >> it is hard to find anything that is overall reflective of what is going on the economy. >> more sophisticated investors are looking at hedge funds on the ground in china. those guys know what is going on and that may be the smartest way to play it. tebow i think the chinese ruled that has now been lit did -- >> i think the chinese ruled that has now been lifted, one child per family, will change the consumer state a