many orioles from eastern europe to indonesia had a chance -- observers from eastern europe to indonesia had a chance to spot the astroid with telescopes. >>> one of the passengers from the stricken cruise ship broke down this morning on the side of the road. an arlington woman said it was pretty terrifying when fire first broke out in the engine room. >> we were throwing our wallets and bottles of water into our bags and grabbing our life jackets just there was smoke out the hallway firemen walking down the hallway and we just decided amongst us it would be best to get to the top of the deck. it was definitely not pretty. the boat stunk. all of our clothing now stinks. so it was not fun. >> sabrina says she's never ever taking another cruise and if carnival gives her a voucher, she will give it away. >>> ever since the tragedy in newtown president obama has been on a crew side to bring gun control to the united states. today in chicago mr. obama met with students enrolled in an anti-violence program. before that he reconnected with some of those families from sandy hook at the white hou

that pits them against the nations in southern and eastern europe who are the main beneficiaries. here's the latest from brussels. >> there are winners and losers when you look at the kind of heading of the expenditure that's being agreed. , so for example, many of the newer countries in eastern europe wants funds to help improve infrastructure, their transport, their broad wand band. that's going take quite a big hit if what was discussed overnight is finally signed off and some of them are uncomfortable with it. david cameron, british prime minister, along with others, have called for big cuts to the brussels bureaucracy, but he's getting less there than he wished, so there's some debate there. there's also likely to be a snide over what happens if there's an underspend in the e.u. budget. does the money come back to the nation state as some would like, or does it stay away? the deal isn't yet done. >> let's go from the macro right down to the micro. do you know what your child is doing online? children as young as 11 are writing malicious computer codes with the intention of st

we have a lot of ethic groups here including those from eastern europe. the russian center was established in 1949. the 25th festival will have traditionally russian food. i tried to last year and some of the liquor was strong. the frafrd russian drinks and napoleon drinks and not to mention the open house of culture and other organizations but it's wonderful to bring people today. the volunteers and this community groups are incredible. i want to invite people up to say a few words >> thank you supervisor mar and thank you ladies and gentlemen and the supervisors for the honor. we do have a fantastic agenda for you if you come to the festival. i'm looking forward to this. thank you. again >> the website is the ranch center s f all one word.com. you'll find we have entertainment's two hour shores - one and a half shows every two hours. there's two food courts, vodka bars and the ladies are cooking up a storm. it's all homemade, the deserts are all homemade and, you know, it's too much to talk about. it's all volunteer based. it runs friday night, it's all

today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. >> this is our 55th year and in san francisco we're the largest armenian food festival and widely recognized as one of the best food festivals in the area. we have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. we really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and that's really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. >> we are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. this is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right? >> absolutely, since the beginning of time. our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords. we have a combination of beef and lam and parsley. and every september over 2000 pounds of meat being cooked in three days. >> after all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. >> this is armenian cheat sheet. it's tomatos and mint and olive oil. that makes summer food. and wh

we export so much content to europe, latin america, to eastern -- to asia, i mean eastern europe.hat, you know, i think we're -- other countries know that we're not sort of a monolithic society and you know, what's interesting about this is that, in latin america they're going to dub honey boo boo and it airs in english with subtitles. it's interesting to see, you know, if there is something actually lost in translation when it's dubbed. >> it's a huge hit. >> it is. at the end of the day, they're laughing all the way to the bank, too. that's the other thing. making a fortune. good to see you. >> coming up "around the world" michelle obama presented the award for best picture. >> at the oscars. iran thought her outfit needed accessories. the altered version coming up. bright students are getting lost in the shuffle. and administration's work gets more complex every year. when you look at these issues, do you see problems or opportunities? with an advanced degree in education from capella university, you'll have the knowledge to meet these challenges and make a difference in the li

even after the berlin wall fell in november 1989 and democracy fled behind the iron curtain in eastern europeh paused, feeling among other things about the crackdown such tedious witness at tiananmen square. more profoundly though, bush recognized the end of the cold war disseminated in the stable aspect of the international system since 1945 and bush above all else is enamored by national stability. time and again during the spring and summer of 1990, bush told global leaders their alliance is required an enemy to survive. in his verse, the new enemy was in stability itself. a united germany could not leave nato because the economy now its unpredictability, apathy and destabilization. he told margaret thatcher that when i am not were enemies now come i tell it doesn't apathy, complacency. in december 1989 after meeting with mikhail gorbachev, choppy seas up of malta, bush lost his temper to declare the cold war over because he simply did not know the answer to the next obvious and fundamental question, what came next. he said, and i quote, is the cold for the same? and income as a region lik

the existence of secret facilities for enhanced interrogation techniques have been reported in eastern europe and the middle east arena delusional reports even if the facts weren't forthcoming or were forthcoming just as might not be. guantanamo may hold all the headlines but all the interested it means people aren't moving their focus elsewhere so-called black sites secret prisons were established by the cia during its well publicized war on terror unlike the cause however these secret facilities were never publicly discussed by the authorities the us claimed they could hold prisoners outside the us because then they wouldn't be subject to the geneva conventions to international law and humanitarian law reports suggest such prisons were in existence from two thousand and two basically not long after the events of nine eleven the us government denied the existence of these prisons until two thousand and six now the only country in europe which has acknowledged the presence of a secret cia facility on its territory is lithuania and if you were to look at it you will you will see something almo

and you'll have to be in australia or eastern europe. john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> great television fiction on the hit show scandal, but it is based on plenty of fact. we will have a look at some real-life scandal that made history in d.c. the capitals fresh off their third victory in a row. every special visit to special fans. so cute. we got to spend a morning with these little puppies. that's next. a live look outside with sunshine. enjoy it while you can. the wintry weather is >> you are watching abc 7 "news at noon," on your side. with scott thuman and cynne simpson. this is abc 7 news at noon, on your side. >> it's a very special day for patients at the children's national medical center in northwest washington. several capitals players and their wives and girlfriends and slapshot stopping by for visit this afternoon. they're making the visit fresh off their victory last night in tampa, their third straight in a row. today's visit to the hospital the group will join patients' for an arts and craft project, happening in the hospita

a nato that wanted to do for eastern europe and central europe what nato had done for western europe, to provide a platform and a basis for a democratization for building up the economic vitality and capitalist systems that we saw occur over the last 20 years for countries like poland, and the czech republic, and hungary, and then the baltic states, and romania, and bulgaria. and even croatia and albania became vibrant places of western democracy of, of market economics and nato members. >> if you look down from mars on earth the bulk of the nations with free political systems and free economic systems that are close friends and allies of the united states and canada are in western europe and, uh, what they're gonna have to do is to recognize that, that it obviously remains important to defend the needed treaty area. >> originally founded with 10 member states, nato now comprises 28 nations and scores of partners who contribute military personnel and equipment to its ever widening missions. >> there are many global partners and they are part of an increasingly dense security network t

brothel managers to the actual masterminds who are importing sex slaves into the country from eastern europea. the raids on brothels in the town of cheltenham resulted in a roundup of trafficked women and customers, but none of the brothel's managers. but the police's luck is about to change. >> middle aged, brown jacket. she's the madam. we want her arrested. >> go down there. >> the undercover surveillance team is looking for a woman seen leaving one of the brothels just before the raid. >> female noted. lower high street. >> they suspect she may be part of the brothel's management. >> i'll hold onto a mobile telephone and seize that as an exhibit. >> under questioning, the woman identifies another suspect, greg blackhorse. blackhorse has been under surveillance for two weeks. police think he's the owner of one of the brothels. he's arrested at his home and brought in for questioning. >> hello. you have been arrested as part of operation pentameter two. suspicion of operating a brothel for purposes of prostitution. okay? do you understand why you've been arrested? >> could you give me the

and it's great, 'cause it's a bridge between western and eastern europe. prague's, like, a really unique place in europe. >> while i was there, the city was mourning the death of its first freely elected president, vaclav havel. in 1989, he helped lead the young country from communism to democracy. since the transition was peaceful, it's known as prague's velvet revolution. one thing you can't do in prague is lose track of time. clocks are everywhere, all shapes and sizes. in fact, the city is home to one of the oldest and most unusual clocks in the world. called an "astronomical clock," it dates back to 1410. it not only tells the time, it serves as a sort of planetarium. it shows the positions of the sun and moon, the month, sunrise and sunset, and much more. every hour, people gather to watch a mechanical show that has been running for hundreds of years. it begins with "the walk of the apostles" and ends with death tolling the hour. there's certainly not enough time in one report to show you all the sights. this is just a taste of a city i love. as they

they would have easy access to africa and eastern europe. >>> the u.n.ting today to discussion sanctions against north korea. the obama administration negotiating with council members for stronger sanctions. a week ago north korea detonated the third underground nuclear test since 2006. it was the strongest blast to date. >>> 6:53. good news. that dollar in your pocket buys you a dollar worth of stuff. >> inflation nothing to worry about. i guess that gives us more freedom to fool with the economy. >> the government has tried just about every trick it can think of to get the economy going. think of them next to a wood pile trying to start the fire with a lighter, right? the risk is inflation. things taking off much faster than you expected. the latest numbers show that even with high gas prices, inflation not much of a factor. the feds have run out of ideas but this latest data shows if anyone can think of anything, it's probably the time to try it. >>> hewlett packard reports financials today. one of the few times i can think of there will be no big ann

many countries in eastern europe are faced with that question because of the megalomania of their former communist rulers. albanian still has hundreds of thousands of bunkers. romania has a monstrous government palace. in bulgaria, entire cities of prefabricated high-rises are still a visible reminder. they were built to house factory workers, and when the factories closed after the collapse of the soviet union, many of these concrete slabs were quickly threatened with the case until the students came. >> they love and usual venues like this one in the southern district. welcome to a new party zone inp. 30,000 students live here. most of them in prefab high rises. there's no other place like this anywhere in the european union. they do not mind the socialist image attached to the concrete blocks. it fits their needs perfectly. >> the great mixture of everything. the party places like discos, restaurants, cafes, and everything. i think that this gives a great opportunity for students to communicate with other people, to be in different situations. >> antoine is a member of the student uni

. >> this incident happened somewhere in eastern europe. notice we're in a store. you notice that chain there? watch. >> what a dummy. >> i think that takes another viewing. that guy clearly looked like he was trying to hop the chain. but he didn't make it. >> you can't go back into the store and continue shopping at this point. you have to, you know, just say, all right, i'm out of here now. >> or help pick up the entire rack of gum and candy that you spilled. >> some woman came to his aid, but after that happened i would leave the store. >> talk about being at the right place at the wrong time. >> the guy was riding on the hood there for a few seconds. >> this is at the international race in ireland. look at that car. in just seconds, according to reports, that driver loses control of the car and goes the wrong way, cutting through the ropes and stiking one of theration marshals that's there. hits him. he ens up riding on the hood, and then it sends him off and knocks him to the ground. >> you can't even blame that guy for standing close to the race course becaus

world's fourth largest [indiscernible] profits have stalled in their key markets of russia and eastern europe. they say they are now focusing on asia to exhaust their opportunities. like much of the world, the british high street has suffered from huge casualties lately. but now a supermarket chain is hoping to find some success. they have purchased 49 shops from the failed film rental chain, blockbuster, which they will transform and convenience stores. the new franchise is expected to create new jobs. for the moment the managing director describe what was behind the change. >> the convenience sector, 20 pence on every pound in the u.k. is spent in convenience stores. customers tell us that those convenience stores do not give them fresh products or prices. we thought we could bring morris into a convenience store, offering great and fresh products at great prices. they consider the opportunity to go to high streets and bring back some bustle. >> the japanese yen has continued its slide against the u.s. dollar today. they were not following a lack of restraint against the japanese authoritie

cyber criminals based in russia or eastern europe could be carrying out the attack. we have more. >> someone has been nibbling at apple, the iphone, ipod, and ipad maker says it has been hit in an attack against it and other companies today said, "we identified a small number of systems in apple that were infected and isolated them from our network." it comes less than a week since social media giant facebook revealed it was targeted last month in a sophisticated attack, identified as coming from china. the firm also says it failed to compromise you their data -- compromise user data. .he story made front-page news the cyber attack on apple comes within hours of a report by u.s. company -- by a u.s. company that points out -- points a finger at china. this is allegedly the building in shanghai that is believed to be at the center of the global hacking operation. the office is said to be occupied by a chinese military unit. the chinese government denies the accusations. experts say hacking is a way of gaining an advantage over countries that the chinese art keen to tr

and it's great, 'cause it's a bridge between western and eastern europe. ke, a really unique place in europe. >> while i was there, the city was mourning the death of its first freely elected president, vaclav havel. in 1989, he helped lead the young country from com

brazil, the philippines, poland and eastern europe and kongo, whereas the united states our catholic lation is about a quarter of the united states would be in decline if it weren't for immigrants. >> paul: in europe, the churches are essentially museums. they're empty except for the american tourists. so what-- do they need a pope, does the catholic church need a pope what might be done for catholicism in the west where it's declining or maybe get a pope who can address where it's active and growing, and play to that strength? >> i think the cardinals have a tough choice, paul, if they have the idea they need a pope who has to protect the christians in middle east and china they want a highly political leader, a politician as pope. if they want a pope who can invigorate the church in europe, the west and africa where it's growing, they want a strong spiritual leader. he that's a difficult combination to put together. >> paul: you made a point this week and on our tv show and in our discussions that they need somebody who can also administer a vatican bureaucracy which always doesn't

many countries in eastern europe are faced with that question because of the megalomania of their former communist rulers. albanian still has hundreds of thousands of bunkers. romania has a monstrous government palace. in bulgaria, entire cities of prefabricated high-rises are still a visible reminder. they were built to house factory workers, and when the factories closed after the collapse of the soviet union, many of these concrete slabs were quickly threatened with the case until the students came. >> they love and usual venues like this one in the southern district. welcome to a new party zone inp. 30,000 students live here. most of them in prefab high rises. there's no other place like this anywhere in the european union. they do not mind the socialist image attached to the concrete blocks. it fits their needs perfectly. >> the great mixture of everything. the party places like discos, restaurants, cafes, and everything. i think that this gives a great opportunity for students to communicate with other people, to be in different situations. >> antoine is a member of the student uni

. >> it has been a long road since the revolution that swept away atheist communism in eastern europe. today the wave of religious freedom that swept the region now seems to be receding. >> 20 years ago, when the soviet union fell apart and collapsed, when the berlin wall fell, everybody was sort of excited about all of the future possibilities. 20 years later, we're again talking about freedom. what happened? >> reporter: it might not be a return to the soviet era, but the signs are troubling. >> churches are being torched, crosses are being burned. there is a lot of anti-semitism, a lot of negative things appearing in the press about different organizations. so there is some reason for concern. >> reporter: the atmosphere is thick with intolerance and these countries, and individual pastors are relu reluctant to speak out. >> they are not so interested in speaking to the government and speaking to the ministers and so on because, really, it is a question of security, first of all. will it be used to against them? will their persecution become even worse? >> reporter: in uzbekastan,

period that i up in the united states when people were looking at what was going on in central and eastern europe and the hungarians would have revolutions and the poles would have revolutions and the czechs had only a small thing in 1968. then vaclav havel appears on the scene and he is somebody that kind of restored the moral authority of the country and made people feel proud of their background and he was kind of the philosopher king. >> rose: about saving turtles with eric goode the entrepreneur restaurateur and founder of the turtle conservancy. >> it's hard to generalize. in the case of the plow share tortoise it comes from a tiny geography, there's maybe a few hundred left in the world. it's rarer than a panda bear. and these animals tend to slip through the cracks and so what i'm trying to do is protect it in the wild and we've hired guards and done a number of things. i don't know if it's working. we also work on breeding in the madagascar. >> rose: is that working? >> that is working. >> rose: we conclude with garry wills, he is the author of a new book called "why priests? a failed tr

. >> eastern europe has a multi- drug-resistant tuberculosis. it is the only area of the world with an increasing rate. >> one focus is ukraine. high-risk groups such as prostitutes are often marginalized. money from international donors has repeatedly gone missing. germany has even suspended payments to the fund. support is resuming with hopes for better control. >> we have to work with partners on the ground. >> we have to make sure these misappropriations are no longer possible. >> in a moment, we will look at why volkswagen is racking up record sales. >> first, a look at some other news from around the world. >> in syria, opposition activists say an air raid near the capital has killed at least four people in a renewed bid. russia called for direct negotiations between syrian government and opposition leaders. >> another day of strikes by security staff has disrupted regional airports in germany. hamburg airport in the country's no. some more than 100 flights cancelled on thursday. more walkouts are planned on thursday. unions are demanding