the success of the queen's reign is attributed in no small part to the duke of edinburgh. his unwavering support and presence beside her majesty over the last 60 years has enabled her to concentrate on her duty to the nation. >> from the u.s. election to the economic crisis playing out in europe, the word inequality is still -- certainly getting a work of these days. across the globe, there's a sense the rich are getting richer while others are being left behind. in brazil, million four brought out of poverty, yet, those in the upper echelons have achieved even greater wealth as well. >> the life of the super rich in one of the most unequal societies on earth. it is a reality tv show in brazil. this is one of 5 million air ladies who lead their lives on national television. she was born rich and added a few millions to the family fortune working as an interior designer to fellow millionaires. a decade ago, they were afraid of what would happen as brazil lean left. well, they got richer. >> the upper class's was very concerned about the money, but the rich people continue r

kopel in denver he's an adjunct professor of advance constitutional law at denver university in edinburgh we have kenneth gibson he's a scottish national party politician and member of the scottish parliament and in london we crossed to william bayne he is labor m.p. for glasgow north east and shadow minister for scotland or a gentleman cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first i'd like to go to david in denver as a constitutionally legally david what kind of case does scotland have to become a sovereign state to have to express its national determination well they have the same right that people everywhere in the world do which is the the right to rule themselves so if the people of scotland vote in a fair referendum for independence then then that would be their right just as the people of ireland with somewhat more trouble were eventually recognised as independent and the people of taiwan wife wise have the same rights of self-determination everyone in the world has the right of self-determination i mean that doesn't mean they gave it doesn't mean

-- powers of devolution to edinburgh. >> over the fourth bridge in a bbc interview, he then the possibilityf devolving more power to the scottish government if the scottish public projects independence first. >> is there more that we can do to prove the settlement? are there other powers that can be developed? how can we make the united kingdom work better? >> the prime minister and his party scottish leader says that no opinion poll suggested that more dilution is more popular than independents or leaving things the way they are. >> scotland is a wealthy country. anyone who thinks otherwise are wrong. >> in an era, anti-capitalist protested against the prime minister's visit. david cameron sought to add a bit of passion of his own to the debate. >> i believe in the united kingdom. i am not a unionist, head, heart, and sold. >> then the prime minister called to see them and wants to take over his responsibilities in scotland, the nationalist senator alex salmon. >> what could be more frustrating than for someone to say that they will offer scott was something else and then not said what it

. -- he is offering more power to edinburgh. >> the union is to david cameron's case, and he fortified himself with a visit to a porridge factory. then he giggled the possibility of devolving more power to the scottish parliament is an -- he dangled the possibility of devolving more power to the scottish parliament if they rejected independence. >> we have to settle that issue first. is there more we can do to improve the settlement? are there other powers? how can we make the united kingdom work better? >> the prime minister and his party's scottish leaders know that opinion polls consistently suggest more dilution is more popular in scotland and independence and suggest the solution is more popular in scotland than independence. >> we have been attached to england for a long time, and i do not see a need to be independent. >> in edinburgh, anti-capitalist protested against the prime minister's visit. david cameron sought to add a little passion of his own to the debate. >> i believe in the united kingdom i am a unionist, head, heart, and salt. >> and the prime minister call to see th

in this argument because it's a question of whether you can have central planners in london or an edinburgh running the lives of all the people in scotland i notice that the two other guests didn't want to talk about my suggestion that the scots could have a much more home rule right now by letting them elect the important officials in their local governments that control their health care and the police both of these gentlemen are also for keeping scotland in the european union which is an institution which has a tremendous democratic deficit it has no legitimacy unlike say the united states constitution where states joined together to make a true national union that was done by the people themselves acting in the conventions were as in scale the european union has been this project ever since john boehner started it back in the olden days of jamming having elites jam it down on the public and they're all the elites have been consistently terrified of allowing referendums how about our scottish national party friend if this scotland achieves independence will you allow the people of scotla

i also spent a day inspecting the royal yacht britannia which is now a museum near edinburgh, and i was lucky enough to attend several dinners in the ballroom and the picture gallery at buckingham palace, i was not alas a guest of the queen's but i was invited by prince charles who was hosting his annual gatherings of his prince of wales foundation. but sitting at a table decorated with george iii silver gilt candles i could ensconced with royal livery while the queen entertained heads of state but my favorite moments was at windsor which the queen considers her real home. i spent time with two of the queen's elderly first cousins who have known her longer than anybody else. both live near the castle in modest homes that the queen gave to them. and every sunday after church, the queen drives her jaguar to visit one of the cousins, barbara rhodes who greets her with a courtesy and hands her a begin and dubanier and they sit down and they chat about friends and family. as i sat on margaret's sagging sofa in her alarm where her dogs toys were scattered all around the floor, i could imagine

he was a scottsman who is from edinburgh. later in life, madison was to write everything i became i owed to that man. it was an inspiration by an amazing teacher that prepared him to take on a strong role in building the american nation. we are going to go to the dining room and take a look at how james and dolly entertain their guests. we are now entering the madison's dining room. this is in a part of the house that madison had in his marriage to dolly. this was his first expansion of the home. during the presidency at the white house. we created a table with ghost of the famous visitors who came calling. they were introducing french-inspired papers. they ordered wallpaper from him and this was a replica of what he produced at that time. a feeling of attempt in this room. that makes the corners dissolve away. an intimate and spacious feel from the guest. the thing they noticed is madison was not seated at the head of the table. he was on the side of the table. it was his wife, dolly, who was seated at the head. she was runn

our castle in edinburgh, a senior palace official gave me a private tour. i spent the night in the tower of the castle which is the queen mother's house in northern scotland where the queen used to visit every year. i hiked the hills and walked along the river in the queens estate queen's estate in the scottish highlands. hearse estate in norfolk where she were at treats for nearly six weeks every winter. i spend a day getting a tour of the stud farm with our manager and our head stallion groomer. i also spent a day inspecting the royal yacht dania which is now any museum near edinburgh and i was lucky enough to attend several dinners in the ballroom in the picture gallery at buckingham palace. i was not, alas, guest of the queen but my was invited by prince charles who was hosting his annual gathering of the prince of wales foundation. sitting at a table decorated with george iii silver gilt candelabra and sculpted centerpieces, could immerse myself in the experience of being served by footman in royal livery where the queen entertains heads of state that

>> he left his edinburgh home for the last time. his place olson be taken here -- place will soon be taken here by mr. fred goodwin. >> you have been watching at newsday from bbc. >> a reminder, in the latest dates to find a republican party presidential candidate, mitt romney has won the florida primary by a wide margin. after strong performances in debates, he beat newt gingrich, reversing the results in a previous primary in south carolina. you have been watching newsday here on bbc. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu newman's own foundation and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and provide capital for key strategic decisions. we offer expertise and tailored solutions in a wide range of industries. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles. presented by kcet los angeles.

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an advisor to stem the mcchrystal in 2009 and is what the center for -- security and he is in our edinburgh studio in scotland. what kind of a threat to stability are these protests? >> i think there are a number of different factors that can use this unfortunate incident to their and manage. on the one hand, you will see hamid karzai to use the incident to increase his own negotiating power, telling the americans it is time for the bathroom of facilities to be turned over to afghan control. -- bagram facilities turned over to afghan control. others causing more violence and afghanistan. and i think the most general reaction that many of us have -- both many of us who serve in the military as well as many afghans who do not have any negative feelings towards the coalition in afghanistan, it is just the will demint, how this happened. had this happen in february of 2002 when the united states was relatively new to afghanistan, fine, may be understandable, but this is 10 years on. >> are you surprised that soldiers are not sufficiently attuned to culture and religious sensitivities in afghani

i am putting in a resolution that would change the street name from edinburg without the age to edinburgh with the h. we will still have the option of renting or mispronouncing it correctly. that is one item for introduction. the next is in except and spend item for the clubhouse in the amount of $710,000. i am happy to be ushering this through for a park that is very worthy of recertification. the rest i shall submit. supervisor farrell: today i remain incredibly excited about the america's cup coming to san francisco. i think it will be a great thing for our city and waterfront, and for all the spectators. but i am disappointed today for the port in san francisco, for all san franciscans. i think that we lost a golden opportunity and drove away and organization individual yes -- individual -- yes, a billionaire -- someone who wanted to spend $100 million rehabilitating our crumbling piers along our waterfront that we have no financial plans to fix in the next decade. i was the first person to say that san francisco needed to get a good deal out of the bargain. we should not give away th

. >> last week at edinburgh, the prime minister said there were more power is on the table for scotland but could not name any. can the prime minister now name one power that has been in his mind? >> i did not think that the scottish national party favored devolutioned. i thought they favored separation, but as soon as you are offered a referendum that gives them a chance, you start running away. >> thank you, mr. speaker. tomorrow, members of this house will have a chance following be fit for cycling campaign. there is still much to do. will the prime minister commit the government to increase investment in cycling and promote it across the country? >> i think the "the times" campaign is a good one, and i strongly support what they are trying to do. particularly in one of our busiest cities. they know you are taking your life into your hands every time you do so, so we need to do more to try to make cycling safer. the government is making it easier to install mirrors at junctions, and we are putting money into training for children and for better facilities across the country. i think

there are two photographs that have been released as well, the queen and the duke of edinburgh here, taken in the center room of buckingham palace. there's also a special message from the queen in which she promised, in her words, to dedicate myself anew to your service. that's a pledge that she first made at the age of 21. "bbc world news" will have special coverage of events marking the queen's diamond jubilee in june. and, of course, we have more for you on the website, bbc.com/news. on the diamond jubilee, on the celebration that is still to come, and it's going to be quite a year, but also, the main story, the situation in syria, where the government appears to have stepped up the bombardment and shelling of the city of homs. we have the latest here for you. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and h

all the will be a chair in the general assembly for you many thanks to my guest today in denver edinburgh and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at the scene x. time and remember. the official anti application your i pod touch from the. video on demand. my old girls. are as just feeds now in the palm of your. dot com. back to basics that they were fresh economic punishment for president assad syrian regime after failing to push through a polarizing un resolution. modern technology to support political activism prime minister putin goes online in his bid to improve russian democracy. winds of change in that fear as the country's russian minority votes to win an upcoming referendum that could see their native language push recognized. on air and online twenty four hours a day this is r.t. the european union is preparing a new batch of sanctions against syria which the french foreign minister says will be the harshest yet comes after eve back to a solution that could have paved the way for military intervention was struck down at the u.n. also getting disturbing footage

premier league this follows an unsuccessful legal bid by the inland revenue the court of session in edinburgh to appoint its own administrator london based duff and phelps will not take over the day to day running of rangers addressing the club's substantial debt problems. however there are better times as ambien fans who gave their national team a hero's welcome on their return for winning the africa cup of nations thousands gathered at usaca airport to greet the copper bullets who beat start of a tournament favorites the ivory coast eight seven on penalties on sunday night to play in the trophy for the first time in more than thirty years thousands more lined the streets as the team were driven on the back of army trucks to show grounds where speeches and celebrations were planned. while there was little hope that a break in brazil after a player was arrested and later released despite bashing his opponent with a camera stand during an on pitch brawl he hasn't happened as a man. championship you know one of the country states of that exam that i carry ok attacking and defend out of and as t

he was a scottsman who is from edinburgh. he was part of the scottish enlight enlightenment, a presbyterian minister. later in life, madison was to write everything i became i owed to that man. it was the rigorous training and inspiration by an amazing teacher that prepared him to take on a strong role in building the american nation. we are going to go to the dining room and take a look at how james and dolly entertain their guests. we are now entering the madison's dining room. this is in a part of the house that madison had in his marriage to dolly. this was his first expansion of the home. madison and dolly entertained constantly. they brought to montpelier the style of entertaining that they first developed during madison's presidency at the white house. in fact, we created a table with ghosts of the famous visitors who came calling from andrew jackson, here, to the marquee delafayette, jefferson, james monroe. what starts bringing this room together is the wall paper. we know from our research that james and dolly stron

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." >>> directly between glass co and edinburgh scotland is shotts, the farming village that dots thentral interior. but just beyond grazing sheep is a much more foreboding presence. this is hmp, her majesty's prison, shotts, a maximum security prison that houses more than 500 of scotland's most violent prisoners. >> all the prisoners will be serving four years and offer. that means they've committed a serious crime. 52% of the prisoners here now are serving a life sentence. most life sentences are given for murder. so we have a lot of murderers here. >> many of the men committed for murder here are in their 20s and claim drugs played a role in their crime. >> this man's crimes made headlines. >> so you were a drug dealer? >> a drug dealer, aye. a wee bit. >> but hutch ison was a drug deal with her a sadistic streak. he's serving a 25 to life sentence for two murders, attempted murder, kidnapping and torture. >> how did those two people die is it. >> one fell off a bridge and the other one died. >> one fell off a bridge. would that be an accident? >> aye. >> what happened? >> fell off

the best movie of the year, good luck to harvey wieinthe sum of all fears, west wing and duke of edinburghew yesterday. >>> when we return, let me finish with president obama finding the solution the way out of the political quicksand of the birth control fight with the catholic church. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. . >>> let me finish tonight with this, president obama gets the gold star tonight, he found a way to reconcile the goal of good health care including reproductive health care for women and what he acknowledges as the legitimate rights of religious organizations. he did it by mandating that insurance companies swallow the cost of birth control in their policies when church organizations decide they cannot in good conscience do so. today's announcement by the president was evidence he was both alert to the public debate and strong enough to make an adjustment in policy when needed. he decided early on that action was necessary and took it as soon as a solid policy option was before him.ç he wanted to bridge the goals of women's advocates with what he recognized as le

richard sharpe in edinburgh, scotland, one of the leading phthalate researchers in the world, exposedt rats like these to phthalates and produced a string of abnormalities in their male offspring. >> we see undescended testes. we see this penis abnormality, hypospadias. we see smaller testes in adulthood, which means lower sperm counts. >> so by giving pregnant rats phthalates, you're inducing some of the same problems that human males are having and that you're seeing. >> yes. >> there have been hundreds of studies on rats with similar findings. >> we come to the marmosets here. >> but when dr. sharpe tried the same experiment on animals much closer to humans than rats, monkeys, he got an entirely different response. he tested phthalates on pregnant marmoset monkeys like these. and their offspring? completely normal. none of those same effects that you saw with the rats. >> none at all. >> if someone were to tell me there was a rat study that showed one thing and a monkey study that showed another thing, as a human, i would think that i'm closer to the monkey; i would lean toward tha

. >> in a speech made in edinburgh last week, the prime minister talked about a pioneer in a country like and the industrial revolution. the next pioneering revolution in this country will be in green technology, and having now visited, does he agree that it is a perfect location for this institution? >> it is certainly one of the locations that is being considered, but i think you know, there are a number that have also been made from different cities and regions of the country to host this excellent innovation of the green investment bank. >> mr. speaker. can i ask the prime minister to talk about the issue of the n.h.s.? why has the prime minister broken his promise not to engage in another reorganization of the national health service? >> what we are doing is abolishing the bureaucracy that has been holding the n.h.s. back. we are going to be cutting in this parliament 4.5 billion pounds of bureaucracy by getting rid of the strategic health authority, all of which will be invested into patient care. now, his own party's policy is to see that real increases are, and i quote, irres

first the friends at the edinburgh zoo keeping us posted on the latest antics.e's a basket case, josh. >> he's napping. >> he's napping in a -- >> in a basket. >> that's what bears do. we also have information on ciku. look at him, rejecting his mom. in the park, and thriving. you can follow him live on polarbearcam.com starting february 27th. that is international polar bear day, did you know? >> did not know that. what day is that? what day is that? >> february 27th. >> robin and george will be out. >> yes. >> but outside right now is sam champion. sam? >> celebrating animals day on "gma." good morning, gang. it's a holiday crowd. and america, you got it figured out, i can't believe how easy it is. what's your name? >> i'm amanda. >> where are you guys from? >> charlotte, north carolina. >> amanda bringing cookies so she gets on tv. the other thing that's easy. what's your name, sir? >> frank. >> frank, where are you from? >> flanders, new jersey. >> there's the sign i like so much? >> right here. >> we're easy america, you figured us out. that's how you get o

with her the duke of edinburgh, fully recovered it would seem from the operation before christmas to coronary artery. but feeling the cold on a day when norfolk wasn't the place to linger outside. for the queen there were flowers and thanks for the 60 years of service which had begun so unexpectedly. she'd last seen her father, king george vi, at london airport on the 31st of january 1952. she was departing for an overseas tour. unknown to her, her father had lung cancer. elizabeth was in kenya when her father died. she was given the news by her husband. she was now queen. she returned immediately to london to begin a reign which, 60 years later, is now the second longest in british history. and it's that reign which will be marked by the diamond jubilee. it's hard to imagine it in the depths of winter, but by the spring and the summer a reign which began the moment george vi died here at sandringham will be marked by events in this country and beyond. nicholas winchell, bbc news, at sandringham. >> the big event will be early june. june 2nd to june 5th. those looking to travel to ta