emil boc made the announcement today. he announced he was stepping down to ease political and social tension. romania imposed spending cuts as part of a deal for 20 billion euros in fiscal aid from the european union and other organizations. the government slashed public workers' wages and raised the sales tax from 19% to 24. public anger at the austerity measures triggered street protests. the row man yan president emil boc asked the former foreign minister to try to form a new government. >>> now let's check the markets. the nikkei is down to 8,920. the strong yen over the credit problems are cooling market sentiment. many invest ors are waiting to see if greece will accept the austerity measures. the u.s. dollar currently trading at 76.56. the euro against the yen is 100. 100.42. the look at the latest interest rates. this is the ten-year japanese government bond. >>> indonesia is getting a boost from the european debt crisis. gross domestic product in 2011 rose 6.5%. higher than the previous year. it is due to gross d

emil boc's government, many people are surprised it lasted almost its full mandate, four years. we were expecting parliamentary elections at the end of this year anyway. but the government has been looking very shaky indeed. support down to only about 20% in opinion polls compared to about 50%, the main leftist opposition bloc. he's been looking very weak in these protests, and that was the final straw. >> the protests tell their own story there, don't they? how much of this is actually electoral positioning, do you think? >> i don't think it is electoral positioning, so much as a feeling on the government side that they really didn't have the legitimacy to carry on. mr. boc has a very strong political ally in with the president, traian basescu, but they were popular other ways. a plan to introduce compulsory fees in the national health service, that was abolished in response to the protest. but really, the protests radicalized. they were never particularly big, but they were very persistent despite the cold weather, and they were widespread. >> nick, thanks very much for that.

so, they recounted the votes, and magically, the new winner was emil jannings. >> reporter: emil who? this award season, movieline mounted an online campaign. consider uggie. the british academy of film and television arts snootily scoffed that his unique motivation as an actor was sausages. that's true. but some argue, the academy should be more inclusive. >> i think the animals should get as much credit as we do. >> reporter: but presumably you don't act on command? >> i do. >> reporter: for treats? >> i do. are you kidding me? a mortgage payment like that is a treat. >> reporter: happily, uggie did get some recognition this year. last week, at the first annual golden collar awards. >> and the golden collar goes to -- >> reporter: uggie was top dog. every dog has its day. david wright, abc news, hollywood. >> hope he doesn't watch the oscars. too painful. >>> and by the way, don't miss a special "20/20" tonight. robin roberts with some of the big nominees, talking about life before they were famous. >>> and we thank you for watching. we're always there at abcnews.com. see you again

januarying. >> emile who?a movie line mount an on line campaign. consider uggie. show scoffed that his unique motivation as an actor was aah sags. >> i think the animals should get as much credit as you do. >> presumably you don't act on command. >> are you kidding me. >> happily, he did get some recognition this year. at the golden collar awards. >> and golden collar goes to. >> top dog. every dog has its days. david wright, abc newsers hollywood. >> the academy awards are this weekend. predict the winners and get the latest buzz right now. also download the exclusive app for iphones and ipads. are you can also get all of the information on oscar sunday and the academy awards at twitter at hash tag oscars sf. it's something. go back and update the forecast. spencer christian is back. >> start with a time lapse video from this afternoon looking out over san francisco. what a nice blue sky today. a few thin scattered high clouds above and, of course, it was quite warm and going to be warm again tomorrow. statew

emile. >> commissioners, good evening. for the record, very briefly, not to get into a combat givive -- this is what citizens get, approach in city hall by meter maids trying to do our citizens duty. they watch you and write a ticket as you walk to your car. very briefly, i would like to bring up the most of you on this panel are attorneys, at least half of you are. you understand we are in an adversary system. your job is not to patronize the police department, it is to help them by asking them questions and guiding them along some certain agenda. to see where we are going in 2012. looking over some past takepes, you, mr. mazzucco have done nothing but patronize the police department. that is not your job. your job is more of an investigator to ask and answer questions. it becomes adversarial in terms of being an advocate when i am not supposed to be one. this commission is supposed to analyze and talk to citizens about what the problems are in the county related to the police department. we are lucky that today we have a

good evening, emil. >> good evening. thank you for letting me speak this evening. i have lost part of my voice, so bear with me. i have listened to your four parts, based on the reported that is a fine hypostasis that the number of crimes have gone down. there may be some link, but it seems the bigger one is that the federal gorman in some shape and form, based on the population in prison today, which one-third is illegal aliens, is to enforce federal laws. in the state of california, and one-third of the california prison population are illegal aliens, committing basically felonies. two, a light to bring up that the police department does not act on itself. there are other crimes related communities. i would like to see the police department expands the special police -- the police officer is about that are doing the work, but that is being done by regular police officers right now. it would relieve some of the pain, where according to the civil grand jury, we will be phased into bankruptcy bose -- based but -- on those pensions of the policemen and firemen. if yo

good evening, emil. >> good evening. thank you for letting me speak this evening. i have lost part of my voice, so bear with me. i have listened to your four parts, based on the reported that is a fine hypostasis that the number of crimes have gone down. there may be some link, but it seems the bigger one is that the federal gorman in some shape and form, based on the population in prison today, which one-third is illegal aliens, is to enforce federal laws. in the state of california, and one-third of the california prison population are illegal aliens, committing basically felonies.

the prime minister of romania, emil boc, has resigned after weeks of protests against his government's austerity measures. his unpopular moves included cutting public wages and a freeze on pensions. an earthquake with a magnitude of 617 has shaken the central philippines, killing at least 13 people. instruct of the coast of negros island, triggering a landslide buried scores of houses. 39 people are still missing. the polish interior ministry says 62 people have died in the last 10 days as a result of an extremely harsh winter. the big freeze has struck with a vengeance across europe from london to bosnia. the death toll continues to climb as people struggled to cope with the arctic conditions. >> in eastern bosnia, they are sending in the helicopters. you can hardly see the village, as there is so much snow. when it came, it came thick and fast. many people were trapped in their cars. >> [speaking foreign language] >> there were 15 or 20 cars trapped in the snow for $20. we barely managed to get to them in time. >> eastern europe did a lot of snow every winter, but this year the condi

so they recounted the votes, and magically the new winner was emil jannings. >> reporter: emil who?ine campaign. consider uggie. the british academy of film and television arts snootily scoffed that his unique motivation as an actor was sausages. that's true. but some argue the academy should be more inclusive. >> i think the animals should get as much credit as we do. >> i'm presuming you don't act on command. or for treats. >> no, i do. are you kidding me? treats. a mortgage payment. like that's a treat. >> reporter: happily, uggie did get some recognition this year. last week at the first annual golden collar awards -- >> and the golden collar goes to -- >> reporter: -- uggie was top dog. every dog has its day. david wright, abc news, hollywood. >> oh. and he almost never was. he was destined for the dog pound before an animal trainer saved him. >> he was rejected by two owners as being too wild. but then the third owner -- ever since me and uggie. >> who's watching him right now? >> the girlfriend's back watching him. they're cuddling right now. oh, uggie.wswswswswswswswswswsws

s jeff emil, jim mcamericaning at boeing have consistently made these forced technology deals and the american worker and economy is really suffering. and then you hear the president talk about getting tough on china, and it's a farce. >> brown: all right, let me get stephen orlins in here. what do you see in a deal like this? >> i feel-- i see dreamworks getting close to their customer. i see them creating content for the chinese market. i see that, you know, 10 years ago, when china exceeded to thewt o these quantitative restrictions that exist on all foreign movies going into china were agreed to. this is not something that's new. the structure they adopted was the only structure they could use but it was 10 years ago that this was agreed to, and there are restrictions in other countries. there are restrictions in france. there are restrictions in canada, for cultural heritage reasons. so this should be a very profitable deal for them and i think a good one. >> brown: just to stay with you, even though the joint venture route is the only way dreamworks could get in, and as in a cas

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