for years as that country's economy soared immigrants poured into spain from africa, eastern europe, even south america. it was land of opportunity. but as we've seen over the last year or two, no longer. many jobs have vanished and spain's unemployment rate is among the highest in europe. but the immigrants have stayed. and many of them, especially those selling goods on the street, are under growing attack, as martin seemungal found when he traveled there. >> reporter: it's been a long winter in barcelona, cold and miserable. one of the worst in recent memory. the dismal state of the economy has done nothing to lighten the mood. financially, things are bad. the worst in recent memory. >> it's difficult for people from here. >> reporter: and the street vendors are on the run. immigrants from africa seem to have cornered the market on this over the years, selling knockoff merchandise like the prada and gucci copies you see here. but things are tough. business is down. the big stores don't like the competition and have complained to the authorities. so these are anxious times for them,

its increasing in europe, western europe, and were expanding into eastern europe. we are talking about china and india as the next countries where the property seem to resonate. >> abirached: >> abirached: despite the success of the princess range, disney is worried it might be overly feminizing its filmsand is restyling its next movie rapunzel to make it more boy friendly. it will now be called tangled and features a swashbuckling male lead. still to come on world business... we stay with hollywood and meet jon landau producer of the incredibly successful scifi epic avatar and riding out recession, why show jumping is getting a clear round in the uk clearing every hurdle in its path ...and the rest in just a moment on world business... >> abirached: james camerons scifi epic avatar may have been snubbed at the oscars, but the team behind the movie can take at least some consolation from the fact that it is now the highest grossing film of all time... >>reporter: avatar is a huge film by anyones standards. epic in scale and nearly 3 hours long, the 3d effects cost

we learned, and i was -- i spent much of my foreign service career living in eastern europe. we learned the power of rock 'n' roll, not only video cassettes, but rock 'n' roll. kids are kids. and they don't want this nonsense. they are skeptical of the political leaders. and they are the children of the leaders. and the nephews and nieces. and over the dinner table, they tell some homely truths to the people who live in the leadership of china. so i see so much evidence that we're basically winning. i mean, when you have 11,000 people with their own names sign charter 08, which is the most important written document in modern chinese history, not since they founded modern china has there been a piece of paper more explicit, clearer and more powerful. 11,000 of the leading people in the country. what we learned in eastern europe is among elites, when things look so dark, among elites there is a whole lot of firment going on. i just reading jao jong's book when he was the commerce secretary of the communist party at tiananmen. he dictated in secret his memoirs before he died. i

we learned, and i was -- i spent much of my foreign service career living in eastern europe. we learned the power of rock 'n' roll, not only video cassettes, but rock 'n' roll. kids are kids. and they don't want this nonsense. they are skeptical of the political leaders. and they are the children of the leaders. and the nephews and nieces. and over the dinner table, they tell some homely truths to the people who live in the leadership of china. so i see so much evidence that we're basically winning. i mean, when you have 11,000 people with their own names sign charter 08, which is the most important written document in modern chinese history, not since they founded modern china has there been a piece of paper more explicit, clearer and more powerful. 11,000 of the leading people in the country. what we learned in eastern europe is among elites, when things look so dark, among elites there is a whole lot of firment going on. i just reading jao jong's book when he was the commerce secretary of the communist party at tiananmen. he dictated in secret his memoirs before he died. i

myspace, video she had posted on youtube, e-mail she had exchanged with people across western and eastern europe and south asia for many, many months. >> ifill: now, we know that she was arrested or charged or held. she's been in custody since last october. why are we just hearing about this now? >> reporter: she was arrested in october in pennsylvania on a single charge of stealing her boyfriend's passport and takeing it with her overseas when she traveled to europe. she was arraigned in the courthouse in pennsylvania at that time but it attracted no notice. and since then, she's been held very quietly while f.b.i. agents and investigators around the world5.ave tried to track down communications she exchanged with other people. >> ifill: you're talking about tracking down leads around the world. do we know whether she was acting alo.ó0@6cj& >> reporter: she was charged along with five unnamed coconspirators. as you know, gwen, yesterday, early morning in ireland, four men and three women were arrested and taken into custody by the irish police on suspicion of working with miss larose on this pl

missile defense, like the bush era plan to build radars and intercepter missiles in eastern europe to stop any future nuclear missile launched by iran. keeping that option open for a possible u.s. weapons defense system could win key republican votes. when this new treaty comes up for ratification here in the u.s. senate. from the hill, i'm steve handelsman, news, 4. >>> the final version of a landmark health care reform bill has been agreed on and is now on its way to the president's desk. after a close vote thursday night, democratic lawmakers made some changes to the bill. several top democratic and republican lawmakers received threats and several offices vandalized after the initial version passed on sunday. lawmakers on both sides have condemned this. >> stand up and say this is wrong, and we do not want you to do it, and you repudiated. >> some top lawmakers are receiving extra protection while the fbi and capitol hill police investigate the vandalism and threats. >>> they are reunited. arizona senator john mccain and sarah palin are campaigning together again for first time si

missile defense, like theush era plan to build radars and intercepter missiles in eastern europe, to stop any future nuclear missile launched by iran. keeping that option open for a possible american missile defense system in the future could win key republican votes when this new start treaty comes up here for ratification. live from the hill, i'm steve handelsman, news 4. >>> there is a rescue operation under way off the coast of north korea now. a south korean naval ship is sinking there. there are a lot of questions about what caused that ship to sink and the tense wars around the disputed border area. news reports indicate 58 sailors from the ship had been rescued. but 40thers are still missing. the incident began just a few hours after north korea's military threatened what it called unpredictable strikes against the u.s. and south korea. however, there is no indication that north korea caused that ship to sink. a senior u.s. national security official told nbc news that the south koreans have said it is unlikely that north korea was involved. but intelligence officials are sti

the end of the war in europe , soviet tanks were rolling across eastern europe, the iron curtain coming down, the west who wanted russia to declare against the japanese because they thought it would take another year to have the soviets come in with help to save lives and shortened the length of the war that nobody knew much about the atomic bomb including harry truman. because of all of the guilt by association, for many, many years, he and his wiretaps is a very important traveler and wasn't listed by the man at the white house and the officials ended up making it worse and pulled john service into a web of suspicion he never escaped. he had phone calls to the top officials at the justice department even though by then jack's service had explained yes, he let the editor borough a few of his most recent reports but had nothing to do with american policy but his description of them near ration of what he was told. however the microphone and one of his rooms at the hotel said as they came in the door remember, -- he became a person of interest and after the outbreak or at the beginning o

in central and eastern europe it was raiffeisen bank. >> obviously you have tracked this for 17 yearsyou're not a stock picker. we should make it clear, but as an investor, i would be interested in how you see the dynamics changing. what are the major things that investors should be aware of? obviously we have written large the gains we have had while others like the kuwaiti bank aren't listed. >> well, if one wanted to look at emerging market banking as an investment opportunity, i think you want to look at the international banks that have a wide range of investments in emerging markets. you mentioned standard chartered. they get 90% of profits from emerging profits. hsbc, a global bank, is a power in emerging markets and it's made a significant commitment to emerging markets. it just recently moved the ceo michael gaigen from london to hang congress. the spanish bank, santandair which is a factor in the uk market has expanded significantly in latin america. we picked them as the best in latin america. there are a lot of ways to participate in the markets. one of the best ways is to

think of the fact that what transformed china, transformed india, transformed latin america, eastern europend asia that created stable, prosperous democracies was the middle class in those countries that were dependent on private sectors and integrated into the global economy. and we don't think in the muslim world you're not going to get them to where brazil, argentina, taiwan or korea are unless the same class that got those countries where they are also becomes empowered in the muslim world. so we're looking for a solution in the muslim world without having at what is the force that's supposed to produce a solution.ç i think the change agent in the muslim world ultimately will have to come from the middle class and from the capitalist business sector associat with it. >> vali nasr, author of "forces of fortune". thank you very much. >> thank you. >> up next, retired army lieutenant colonel and military historian, carlo d'este receives the andrew j. goodpaster prize due to contributions of scholarship. the army-navy club in washington, d.c. hosts the hour-long event. >> good evening. it'

all of the jewish communities, he lived in the middle east, but eastern europe, half of the jews were following this messiah. then he went to convert, just to show you how nothing really changes, to convert the sultan in turkey, the head of islam. and the sultan said convert or we'll behead you. and he converted. this was an unbelievable with tragedy for the jews. so the rabbis developed the concept of it was called hurrying the messiah. that human beings cannot make the messiah come more quickly. and of course that again is what -- that's what radicalism is about. making the messiah, expect that they think of themselves as the messiah. so it's -- and sarah also -- i could go through many things. but these are the kind of consideration that we had. -- conversation that we had. my own views are expressed pretty clearly in the end of time. i aming a a nossic. it's a mystery to me. i a tremendous respect for the religious vision. one the things i describe in the back was the christopher was a friend of mine. but i think that his book "god is not great" is a very shallow book. it's apper

no central central and eastern europe got really hammered because it was the integration modelver the past 20 years that was put in reverse, the financing came back, the trade came back in the remittances came back in the people came back, very hardly had. because in part by my own historical exposure with that region i felt it was important for us to be supportive but i also felt that was important for us to your european institutions, and the head of the european bank and reconstruction development is as good a partners you can get so we worked closely with him and the european investment bank and brought in the commission is a process to to that we put together a combined funding mechanism that we tried to do something similar in latin america. this will have to be the way of the future and the only way i would say it is we can't stop with them. we need to work with the u.n. agencies with this, we need to connect with private sector players see it as a much more complex network model. >> i think we have time for just one last question and again i apologize for the questions

in some cases we have troops in europe, in eastern europe, to help us deal with missions that might be outside of europe, but are closer to europe and to the u.s. it is important for us regarding afghanistan to have bases closer by to deal with these external threats. we're still seeing as the country important in helping to keep europe secure and stable. it is increasingly something that europeans can do themselves. there is still the lingering concern that without us there there could be problems of rising. it is lessening, but there are a number of reasons we still have troops there. largely, we have them there because europeans want them there. host: pa., stella, on the republican line. caller: sir, i will take you to another part of the world. in violation of international law, the nato charter, nato at the urging of president clinton little chinese yugoslavia that did not have weapons of mass destruction and was never a threat to us. instead of being honest brokers we csided with the terrorists that we are fighting today. there was another situation with osama bin lot in concerni

came in this country are catholic and many of e italian coming here and the huge wave of from eastern europeand the people acted differently and they brought their drinking habits with them and in a lot of cases that violated what the temperance movement thought what it meant to be a good american. in this country here we don't drink, wearing middle class proper, decent people and you catholics, unique to behave. so in a lot of cases your temperance was really the temperance movement was really targeted at the catholics to try to reform their ways. prohibition actually went into effect a year after the 18th amendment was passed and so that went into effect january 16, 1920, some 90 years ago. on the eve of prohibition, all the drives in the country were a bit sullen good one last chance to go out and alcohol. data norfolk, virginia, there was a mock funeral for john barleycorn led by a man named billy sunday. he was an evangelist and former baseball star and at his mock funerals he preached the eulogy. and in his eulogy he said, could i., john, you were god's worst enemy and the double's bes

because as many of you know, you had the particular problem in the banking system in eastern europe.to put tooth a pooling system to help microfinance. infrastructure, we would put something together with public-private structure because we wanted to make sure we didn't loose the process of how do you connect them together, not only in financing, but also in the management of these projects. one of the interesting changes about what's happening in the world economy is there is some fantastic innovations happening in developing countries such as india in the infrau practice structure sector that it would be useful for some of the developed countries to look at. i met a couple of the governors from the u.s., had a national governor's meeting and people are talking about the problems of obviously large budget deficits. frankly, a lot of states are sitting on big assets called infrastructure and there is some possibility of using financing methods that we see in india to help some of the financial needs in some of the developed countries. and this is partly what i think we're going to se

you compare the politicians and the thinking in the education of some western politicians of eastern europe, then you sometimes wish they had some of the wit of the chinese politicians. but that is, you know, a european statement. >> there's someone standing back there. >> i am the vital. thank you again for being here today to give us this opportunity. i appreciate your comments up front about being mindful of the sources and intent of the stories that we read in the media, and i certainly try to be mindful of that. at given that, are there one or two men, perhaps, negative trends that you are seeing as china tries to figure all of this out what you have some concerns for the nation about? >> i think the number one is the lack of confidence in what they are doing and the defensiveness they have about what they're doing, and the lack of sophistication in talking about what they are doing. it's just amazing to me have the chinese leadership is jerked around by stories in the western press. i mean, they really know about them and they really get upset about them, and they really don't know wh

the parent bank, other parts of europe, and the second wave of feedback from western europe to eastern europeing and useful. i think that it helps a lot to maintain stability in central europe, as we did for the last two years. we are not doing this alone. we are doing this with our partner, the financial stability board. their knowledge, in terms of microeconomics, is absolutely necessary to completely complement what we are doing on the macroeconomics side -- the macroeconomic side. also of great importance to us -- we need to look at government risk. you know the role of the imf. we stepped in when the capital flows stop or even reverse. to do this, effectively, the surveillance of the capital flows needs to be more effective, t 00. so what it needs to be more forthright in our policy advice. for many years now, the fund advice has been that lateralization of accounts should be pursued and cautiously, at the right time and in the right sequence. during the crisis, we have maintained this pragmatic position. but we certainly can do more in providing guidance as to what condition should be i

and we would not be part of extremist things in eastern europe that have linked up with the conservative party in britain. i think we have to think internationally our future lies in looking outward and not inward. and that will be one of the central choices that we got to make when we come to the general election in britain in a few weeks time. >> free market spent the prime minister is gracious enough to give us one more round. so please, and give this gentleman. >> i'm from the austrian newspaper. you expressing confidence about climate change. but since copenhagen there's been a pretty dramatic loss of, including australia, pretty strong on this issue. and has been a rise of skepticism and a lot of countries. we have an election later this year that can lead to a prime minister who in the past has a new prime minister in the past has referred to the concept of global warming as absolute crap. are you concerned about this lack or the slow death of momentum around the world? [laughter] >> thank you. catherine? >> catherine from swiss radio. regarding the e.u. prime minister, what is yo

i don't know how many friends have gone to eastern europe and china and russia to adopt babies. these are lucky children. why would you do that when we have children here to adopt? i assure you it will be no cost to the families. those medical costs will be cared for by these families who desperately need and want children. and what you brought out about a life that's lost, you can't -- maybe there will be a congressman or a president or a doctor or someone who -- mr. bachus: or a heisman trophy winner. -- mrs. bachmann: or a heisman trophy winner. mr. roe: and i have to brag about that great young person. those are the things that i think we have to bring -- talk about. and what you hear discussed a lot, congresswoman schmidt, is that you will ahear about third trimuster abortions, about the life of the mother. and i have to say this right now, there are no medical indications whatsoever for that procedure, a trird trimester termination of life. there will be none. i will be willing to sit and debate with over 30 years of experience to say there's only one reason for that proce

>> in eastern, certainly. in europe we have obviously many different countries. germany is in pretty good shape because the german export machine is doing really well, sending exports to china. but other european countries is the likes of greece, portugal, ireland, down key evaluations but all together tied to the euro so greece's position, those problems have really come to a head and in this last week we've seen the key economies in europe, germany and france trying to club together, maybe with the imf's help. but the reality is the smaller economies in europe have no easy way out. >> you're seeing a bit of power shift to asia as china grows, and we're seeing real vibrancy there at a time that europe is slow and the u.s. is slow. but sounds like a real devastating situation here in europe. karen, do you agree with that? as an investor, how do you want to approach that kind of a story? >> perfect question. absolutely perfect. economists and equity people, me, people and european equity strategists look at european equity markets very different than the european

but now when we're talking about the central eastern europe, or european funding is help to equalize onomic differences in europe, i would say that today europe more and more will be evolving. this is a challenge and that is why this financial crisis can be an opportunity, not so much as an answer to the past of the world wars, although when we get to the balkans, i think and greece and turkey and so on, and cyprus, that's where we can see that the europe can play very important role in putting this conflicts to the past i helping the solution to many of these protracted conflicts. but i feel that it's also looking to the future of how do we want to structure regions in the world in a globalizing economy? how do you get sovereign nations to pull their capabilities in a peaceful way so that we can deal with problems that go beyond such as the climate change or globalizing economy? we need to work together. we need to manage this planet. we need to have some form of governance of this planet. what kind of governance? well, i'm not saying that european governance is always as efficient a

soviet union and bringing democracy, or as they put in the document, political pluralism, to eastern europeand the soviet union. so that was a joy, because myself, my family, we spent a couple of summers spending at clark's ranch in of event data, getting to know him and his family. and that's a case where it wasn't just a matter of looking at documents and looking at books and other things and that people have been, i actually got to know the figure is a lot of time with him. >> had you come to write about hillary clinton? >> yes, that's -- the god of ronald reagan books started a trend i guess. my editor at harpercollins, your next book onto the the faith of george w. bush that he was the current president. and at the time it had been any books. stephen mansfield books, book, david aikman's book, both on bush's faith. those hadn't come out yet. so i did that, and then a couple of years come and not long after that came out, cal morgan came back and as they would like to do another god and the book. i said well, i don't want to spend my whole career writing god and the books, as you know,

we've done that in eastern europe. we did that with lech walenska and others around the world. it seems to me that when it comes to cuba, the recent actions by the regime to arrest an american citizen have totally frozen our actions. and i've even noticed that in the 2011 budget request stating what our democracy programs would do, a critical statement that existed in the 2010 request was eliminated. so my question is, are we going to have a permanent freeze on having entities that are trying to create peaceful change for civil society inside of cuba? is that the policy of the state department? >> no, senator. let me first express the united states' government sympathies to the family, friends and supporters. we were concerned about his welfare. we raised this with the cuban delegation during the migration talks. we urged that he be given medical attention and care. and we are deeply distressed by his death during a hunger strike on behalf of his rights. and to send a signal of the political prisoner situation and oppression in cuba where we think there are in excess of 200 oth

who benefited from the system and who didn't and it's happening in other parts of central and eastern europeas well, east germany is another example so i think this process is going to move in fits and starts. one thing on strongly believe the zero ase reconciliation as a notion has been much more our conception than an iraqi consumption. accommodation? great. we want to look for ways to accommodate with one another but reconciliation, we are not quite there yet. and in order for there to be true if there has to be justice so it is no accident this was the justice and accountability lal not just and reconciliation that there is one thing has to come before the other and so i think that it's going to be two steps forward, one step backwards but i also think strongly that these local committees are getting out of control. they are out of control and the government has to train them and because it's leading to a great deal of intimidation and as one of my colleagues has referred to as incipient mccarthyism it has to be avoided, has to be reined in because the de-baathification is a very serious

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but now when we're talking about the central eastern europe, or european funding is help to equalize erences, the economic differences in europe, i would say that today europe more and more will be evolving. this is a challenge and that is why this financial crisis can be an opportunity, not so much as an answer to the past of the world wars, although when we get to the balkans europe and play a very important role in putting a solution to these protracted complex. -- c

really doing is trying to address the 21st century challenges of america from solutions from eastern europem a century ago, and they don't work. [applause] >> now listen to this. our federal government as we are gathered here tonight in manchester, new hampshire, our federal government owns or controls two car companies, two large car companies, two of the largest in the world. they own or control the nation's largest insurance company. they own or control two of the entities that right now over 80% of all the mortgages in the united states of america. they own or control the entire student loan industry in our country. they own or control wide swaths of the entire banking industry. four days ago they have now seized a substantial portion and have taken control of the entire health care delivery system in our nation. if they have their way, they are soon going to be taking control or more control over the energy sector with a misguided cap and trade bill. i hope they don't pass it, but they are trying to do that. they are trying to get their fingers furt into control even into k-12 educatio

many of these individuals in eastern europe.ess it's because of the support we get from this committee with electronic crime task forces that these came to fruition but this was a terrific investigation as a matter of fact one of the defendants i believe we found a million dollars buried in the backyard and because of these types of investigations but we have seen is our numbers are up by about 8% from the last year and the forfeiture is up by about 35% so i do believe -- also because what people are doing we are able to prevent further fraud. >> that scheme i am told involved 11 individuals from four different countries who acted to the networks of nigh and major retailers and obtained more than 40 million credit card numbers and a debit card numbers; is that accurate? >> yes, sir. >> can you tell us the dollar amount of the crime that was involved? >> if you took those 40,000 account numbers and put a minimum $500 -- >> 40@@@@@@@ d banks and other financial the institutions? >> ibm. on this particular case with these defendant

smiths and frank wolves like there are more now people, look at this example in central europe and eastern europe of solidarity and more is coming, but much more is needed. nays, thank you, chris smith. mr. diaz-balart: i thank the gentleman from new jersey for spending time and explaining what's at stake here. it's important to note that the majority of congress has stood by the cuban people and continues to stand by the cuban people. but there are others who do the lithuanian the pole the czechs, the lithuanians -- the poles, the czechs, others, those who have had lack of freedom understand the horrors of that regime 90 miles away. they suffered under similar type of totalitarian regimes. i mention this again that this congress in a bipartisan fashion stands by the cuban people. stand by the political prisoners. stands by those relatives who have lost loved ones in the gulags and in the ocean. will continue to stand by the cuban people. will not be swayed by propaganda. do not forget, this congress does not forget, i should say, the suffering of the cuban people and does not forget that the mos

but now when we're talking about the central eastern europe, or european funding is help to equalize he economic differences in europe, i would say that today europe more and more will be evolving. this is a challenge and that is why this financial crisis can be an opportunity, not so much as an answer to the past of the world wars, although when we get to the balkans, i think and greece and turkey and so on, and cyprus, that's where we can see that the europe can play very important role in putting this conflicts to the past i helping the solution to many of these protracted conflicts. but i feel that it's also looking to the future of how do we want to structure regions in the world in a globalizing economy? how do you get sovereign nations to pull their capabilities in a peaceful way so that we can deal with problems that go beyond such as the climate change or globalizing economy? we need to work together. we need to manage this planet. we need to have some form of governance of this planet. what kind of governance? well, i'm not saying that european governance is always as effici

really doing is trying to address the 21st century challenges of america with the solutions from eastern europeom a century ago. they do not work. [applause] our federal government, as we are gathered here tonight in manchester, new hampshire, our federal government owns or controls two large car companies, two of the largest companies in the world. they own or control the nation's largest insurance company. they own or control two of the entities that right now over 80% of all of the mortgages in the united states of america, they own or control the entire student loan industry in our country. they own or control wide parts of the entire banking industry. four days ago, they have now seized a substantial portion and have taken control of the entire health care delivery system in our nation. if they have their way, they will soon be taking control over the energy sector with a misguided cap and trade bill. i hope they do not pass it but they're trying to do that. they are trying to get their fingers further into control, even into k-12 education and take away more of the local control that we a

but now when we're talking about the central eastern europe, or european funding is help to equalize differences, the economic differences in europe, i would say that today europe more and more will be evolving. this is a challenge and that is why this financial crisis can be an opportunity, not so much as an answer to the past of the world wars, although when we get to the balkans, i think and greece and turkey and so on, and cyprus, that's where we can see that the europe can play very important role in putting this conflicts to the past i helping the solution to many of these protracted conflicts. but i feel that it's also looking to the future of how do we want to structure regions in the world in a globalizing economy? how do you get sovereign nations to pull their capabilities in a peaceful way so that we can deal with problems that go beyond such as the climate change or globalizing economy? we need to work together. we need to manage this planet. we need to have some form of governance of this planet. what kind of governance? well, i'm not saying that european governance is a

who benefited from the system and who didn't and it's happening in other parts of central and eastern europe as well, east germany is another example so i think this process is going to move in fits and starts. one thing on strongly believe the zero ase reconciliation as a notion has been much more our conception than an iraqi consumption. accommodation? great. we want to look for ways to accommodate with one another but reconciliation, we are not quite there yet. and in order for there to be true if there has to be justice so it is no accident this was the justice and accountability lal not just and reconciliation that there is one thing has to come before the other and so i think that it's going to be two steps forward, one step backwards but i also think strongly that these local committees are getting out of control. they are out of control and the government has to train them and because it's leading to a great deal of intimidation and as one of my colleagues has referred to as incipient mccarthyism it has to be avoided, has to be reined in because the de-baathification is a very seriou

we will not be part of extremist groupings in eastern europe that have linked up with the conservative party in britain. we have got to think internationally. our future lies in looking up words and not in words. that will be one of the central choices that we have got to make when we come to the general election and a few weeks' time. >> yes. the foreign minister is gracious enough to give us one more round. so, please, the gentlemen in lee front. >> the australian newspaper. you expressed some climate change. since copenhagen has experienced it changed and there has been skepticism and countries we have an election in australia that could lead to a prime minister who has in the past reserved to rred to the concept of global warming as absolute crap. are you concerned about the slowdown of momentum around the world? >> thank you. >> kathryn from swiss radio. prime minister, what is your view on the proposal to create a european passport? >> thank you. yes. the lady there. >> german business weekly. prime minister, you mentioned it is not about currency, it is about growth. i was just

eastern on c-span. >> as "washington post" international correspondent tr reid has traveled the world. his books are not only about his travels but about his global views on contemporary issues including the united states of europe, the healing of america and confucius lives next door. join our three hour conversation with tr reid and your phonecalls live sunday at noon eastern on booktv's in depth on c-span2. >> massachusetts senator scott brown made his first speech on the senate floor. this is about 10 minutes. >> madam president. >> the senator from massachusetts. >> i ask unanimous consent to ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. >> without objection. >> thank you. madam president. >> the senator from massachusetts. >> thank you. i was hoping i could address an amendment that have on the floor today. >> without objection. >> thank you. madam president i come to the floor of the senate today to give my first speech as the, one of the senators from massachusetts, and first let me say i am deeply honored to have been elected into serve in this great and historic chamber. in addition i am pleased to have the opportunity to address my colleagues and the american people and all the folks up here watching us

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europe safer. there is the ability to build confidence in our central and eastern european partners with russia.eryone aware that this is something on going. one of the reason that the presidents will meet in prague is that we want to send the @ @ @ @ # s o snoo @ # s o can you explain how this treaty paves the way for progress on those areas? >> as the president said, we have a long-term vision of moving toward a world with no more nuclear weapons. we are absolutely realistic about how long that will take to convince everyone that this is in the world's interests. but the steps we are taking add up to something that makes a very clear statement of intent. so the treaty says to our country that the cold war really is behind us and this massive nuclear arsenal that both of our consumer thizztrizz maintained as deterrents no longer have to be so big. we can begin to cut that. that is not only in our security interests, but it is a commitment to the united states and russia toward nonproliferation and toward a world without nuclear weapons. nuclear weapons. the largest gathering as leader since the

europe of israel as a pariah state. over what? this example of the shepard hotel. israel, the easternerusalem is jewish neighbors, arab neighborhoods and mixed neighborhoods. people are purchasing land, selling it all the time. there are about 200,000 jews in the eastern area of jerusalem. imagine a city in the united states of that size where you have every day construction, permits issued, as a mart of routine. so, of course, it's going to be an announcement here or there it's a breathing, living city. the idea that it -- there should be no construction or no purchase or selling of houses is absurd. it would mean strangling the judiciaries in jerusalem and essentially extinguishing them ultimately. and this idea that it's arab but jerusalem is only because it look it houses the western law and the jewish corridor. it's odd, isn't it? that you have the jewish corder in arab east jerusalem? continually jewish habitation for over 2,000 years. and the only reason it was arab was for 20 years the jordanian army expelled all the jews. in 1967 the jews returned and that's why it's a mixed

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europe safer. there is the ability to build confidence in our central and eastern european partners with russia. everyone aware that this is something on going. one of the reason that the presidents will meet in prague is that we want to send the signal that this is good for europe, the u.s., and russia. >> when people are listening to this, their eyes glaze over. can you explain how this paves the way for progress on preventing terrorists from getting these weapons? >> we have a long-term vision of moving towards a world without nuclear weapons. we are realistic about how long that will take to convince everyone that this is in the world's interests. the steps we are taking will make a statement of intent. the start treaty says that the cold war is behind us and the is a massive nuclear arsenals that these countries maintain no longer have to be so big it. this is in our security interests and his towards -- and is towards the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. the largest gathering as leader since the end of world war two in the u.s. will happen and is devoted to the idea of how we keep

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europe, healing of america. join our three-hour conversation with t.r. reid and your phone calls, live sunday at noon easternpth" on c-span two. >> a hearing on internet freedom issues. we heard from officials from the state and commerce departments followed by scufts from google and other technology firms. the testimony has focused on china where google has threatened to come out. this is an hour, four minutes. >> this hearing of the judiciary committee subcommittee on human rights and the law. today is global internet freedom and the rule of law, part two. after a few opening remarks, i'll recognize the senators in attendance for an opening statement and turn to our witnesses. we appreciate their attendance. this subcommittee held our first hearing on this issue in may of 2008. at that hearing, we learned that repressive governments around the world censor the internet and persecute advocates who express their views online. since then, the scale and scope of internet censorship has increased dramatically. at our hearing two years ago, i showed pictures of censored internet searches on google and yahoo. unf

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europe. on tomorrow's "washington journal," a look of the obama administration's efforts to reduce foreclosures. john taylor will -- we will discuss gris's debt crisis with peter eavis. live at 7:00 a.m. easternon c- span. >> over 1000 middle school and high-school students entered this year's student documentary competition with a short video on one of our country prosperous the strengths or a challenge our country faces. we will announce the winners on march 10 and show you winning videos. >> president obama had a meeting on health care. this is about 40 minutes. >> hello, pennsylvania. thank you. thank you very much. what a wonderful crowd. i love you back. i am kind of fired up. [applause] i am kind of fired up. this is just an extraordinary crowd. i love you back. there are some people i want to point out who are here and have been doing great work. give leslie a great round of applause for her wonderful introduction. [applause] somebody who has been working tirelessly on your behalf doing a great job, the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius, is in the house. [applause] one of the finest governor is in the country, ed rendell is in the house. [applause] everybody no

europe, russia and the u.n. estimates by 205025% lower population that that that currently exist in russia the same way with all of the eastern we see a depopulation trend. the reason why there predict continues to grow israel living longer. it is not about birth but the other side of the spectrum. in south korea they are so far below replacement japan has the same problem they're looking at is serious is proportionality when it comes to workers and those of the other end of the spectrum receiving benefits. you're underlying assumption has been surpassed in many ways by 80 population trend that is very injurious to individual countries. and in china where the abortions has led to gender side as 1 billion messing -- missing girls whole other problem has developed a there. as many as 40 million then will not be able to find wives because they are dead as a result of one jintao her couple policy. and gender selection look at the underlying selections of population growth. there's a depopulation trend very dangerous. hi push very hard at former member usaid on building of the ability to meet with israel nablus where they have obs