he secretary of the european committee on radiation risks. chris busby is a regular mainstream media guest in his black parade he has become an easily recognizable figure on the b.b.c. or al-jazeera he was recently consulted on the consequences of a nuclear crisis at fukushima. unlike the iraqi authorities he has investigated in fallujah but the way around that is to just knock on the door and say scuse me. how many people got cancer here in the last five years and who lives it and it's very simple because if you know who lives and how well that you can you can then predict how many causes they should have on the basis of the national average of the rates and so on and just compare them with the numbers that they report and the one divided by the other is a relative risk. so you did you try to. get older no way i got too many people off of my cut so i'm not going to come stick myself probabilities are. not a problem of the year and well all i did was i told them what to do i said look i'll tell you what to do i'll create the questionnaire. ba

went forward karen a former chairman of the european parliament committee of inquiry into the growth of racism and classism in europe thanks for your input this hour. thank you. well for anyone who wants to keep up with the anders breivik trial you can log on to argue dot com we're streaming live pictures from the proceedings in. this of course is our t. live from the russian capital on the way for you we look at who's holding the cards over cairo. the fact that they have to send the go delegation to form the washington shows you that what they are trying to hide is not very charming these are main political force to drive through washington because it's all coming presidential election could keep america facing a tough choice on do with our lives really are. and the filipino fury as a proud man found five the american embassy in manila against the two countries controversial war games in china card. story coming up but first the belorussian president has released two political prisoners one of which is a former presidential candidate alexander lukashenko unexpected move follows pres

as you may know the european parliament committee held a important stakeholder foreign today to get views of a variety of stakeholders and european is going to be asked to ratify the. trade agreement as early as june of the house. pets july and so it's an important time for our stakeholders to get their views and concerns on the record about the impact that actor would have on citizens freedom of expression and privacy what twenty two out of twenty seven member states i mean that's a pretty good majority as far as those who signed it the first time around what are some of the concerns that some of these people are now starting to have about actor . so that's a very same question break for activity e.u. law both the individual member states and also the european parliament have to ratify aca and so the european parliament is going to a process at the moment of getting opinions from its various our matriculate is and then it will have a plenary vote as early as june and has the latest to lie on whether to approve or reject the agreement in its entirety and five member states have decided at

committee stands adjourned. >>> next on c-span 3, members of the european parliament debate the situation in syria. then a senate environment committee hearing on gsa mismanagement. after that, gun violence victims call on congress to pass new gun laws. >>> from the colonial era, prohibition to today, drinking for better or worse has been a part of the american landscape. saturday night a history of alcohol in america. watch our simulcast with the american history guys. tales of beer and spirits of america, saturday night at 8:00 eastern. this weekend on c-span 3. >>> coming up next on c-span 3, european parliament members debated the situation in syria tuesday as well as a peace plan set out by u.n. envoy. members voted in february to impose sanctions including a weapons e embargo and financial and banking restrictions. this 45-minute debate from france includes opening remarks from katherine ashton. we will now start debating the next point on the situation in syria. i would now like to give the floor again to the high representative of the eu. >> mr. president, thank you very much. honorable memb

republican committee members opposed contributions to the imf to help resolve the european debt crisis. this hearing is about 2 1/2 hours. >>> this hearing will come to order. the purpose of the hearing today is to receive the annual testimony of the secretary of treasury on the state of international -- the international financial system. the chair would note the very notable absence of our chairman today, chairman bacchus, who is undergoing a minor surgical procedure. he is expected to rejoin us tomorrow. he regrets his absence. pursuant to rule 3 f 2 of the rules of the committee for the 112th congress, the chair announces the recognition of opening statements will be limited to the chair and ranking minority member of the full committee. and the chair and the ranking minority member of the subcommittee or their respective designees to a period not to exceed 16 minutes, evenly divided between the majority and minority. without objection, all members' written statements will be made a part of the record. the chair now recognizes himself for five minutes for an opening statement. clea

for the joint committee for the existence of these high there in the european markets have just opened also latest and they opened up in the last twenty minutes to say kerry and it's actually good news it's quite a different view from yesterday both the footsie and the dax are posting modest gains in the first the first twenty minutes of trade that's going after the international monetary fund has approved a five billion euro loan for portugal because of its high budget deficits helping deal with the country is seeing the results of these tight austerity measures they managed to raise one point five billion euros and the debt option on a wednesday so it's good news there stay remains a problem they had a bomb so go on yesterday and it was a disappointment to still concerns in the region to have a look at the russian markets first focus on on their second hour of trading and it's quite a different picture from yesterday we've got one point point six percent for the r.t.s. and of my sex i just say we saw a massive global selloff we saw losses of over two and a half percent for the us and

at the great insistence of the european economic committee as it was called then. we got zero in return. it was the worst deal made in the entire tokyo route. it says that -- anti-dumping laws would be a great place to start. if we were going to make changes in our own system. we have set a terrible example for the rest of the world in the way we run anti-dumping. the rest of the world as copying us. we are getting a kick in the rear for what we have been doing to the rest of the world for a good many years. the fact is, anti-dumping laws are written such a way that one can find anti-dumping in 90 plus% of the cases. -- 90 plus% of the cases. what we ought to do is shaping up anti-dumping laws everywhere and as was said earlier, the u.s. needs to set an example in some of these areas and exercise some leadership. that is one example where we have fallen down. >> great. >> hello. i just want to thank everyone for their great presentation. makes me feel 10 years younger, actually. [laughter] the thing that was not addressed, and there is a lot of momentum about trade

that is why we formed the sanctions committee today and the united states will be working with arab countries and european countries and others to have them understand the most effective way to imp lemt sanctions. as one of them said to me, the americans have a loot of experience. we are making progress. also the individual sanctions, the travel bans, the visa bans, the kinds of direct personal sanctions are beginning to really wake people up for the rest of my life. >> there is no break in the relentless shelling in the city of holmes. it seems it need s money to support the rebel army. >> mitt romney says he is con if i tent heading into tuesday's primaries but his challengers say they are not going away. rick santorum is forging away. today, santorum disputed claims that his continued campaign might hurt the party. >> four years ago we had a nominee in march. how did that work out for us? we didn't have the right nominee. the democrats went into the middle of the summer. they were saying the same thing. what hurts us is not getting the right candidate. >> even though he has cut spending and staff and c

with president assad is possible only by the un european union and the arab league speaking on their visit to moscow leaders of the national liberation committee also said that foreign interference into the conflict is unacceptable so it's possible that in the ceasefire syria is fragile and stressed the importance of a large scale observer mission mass rallies vengeance activists for freedom and democracy are being discredited by their own militia. some of the images and some workers report. this is the media face of the syrian revolution and she's been man of with kalashnikovs appealing to the international community to still be killing our children. army. a few weeks later this man this time towards the soldiers going around homs knocking on the doors of innocent people. later we see them again already dad shown on you tube as civilians killed by troops . still western policy makers insist on calling these people freedom fighters rather than charities the united states of america. and the definition for terrorists from the united states of america. for if you don't. who are fighting really for. and if you talk about. we have. no. fear of cou

is possible only if brokered by the un the european union and the arab league speaking on their visit to moscow the leaders of the national coordination committee also said foreign interference into the conflict is unacceptable that says moscow admitted the ceasefire in syria is fragile and stressed the importance of a large scale observer mission now with mass rallies renewing with a vengeance there are fears some activists legitimate calls for freedom and democracy are being discredited by the entre militia and we find some of the images on a boy because report disturbing. this is the media face of the syrian revolution and shaven none of it kalashnikovs appealing to the international community to stop the killing of children. the assad army. a few weeks later the same man this time posing as soldiers going around homes knocking on the doors of innocent people. later we see them again already dead shown on you tube as civilians were killed by troops . still western policy makers insist on calling these people freedom fighters rather than terrorists united states of america. so far. and the definition for. united states of america. who are fig

european commission is pushing now. >> a rough cut. sorry about that. thanks very much. the american businessman donald trump has questioned the scottish government policy on green energy. this morning in front of a committee of the scottish parliament to object to a proposed wind farm which is a short distance offshore from a golf course than his building in scotland. -- he appeared before a committee. >> donald trump is not known for subtlety. >> the best in the world. >> the golf course is impressive. plans for a hotel and hundreds of homes put on hold. he will not build them if a wind farm is constructed just offshore. >> this is a much bigger project than the wind farms. frankly, if they do it and if they destroy scotland, they would have committed a terrible error. >> one of donald trump's neighbors says that the american has a cheek. david's of view has been blocked by a line of's of donald trump's trees. >> he is talking about something that is a mile away and would barely be visible. >> the windfall will be situated about as far away as those ships on the horizon. it is just a couple miles from these dunes, one of the most famous and important sites in britain, but donald trump's development is st

committee is that this is not a u.s. problem. this is a global problem. so, even simple things like sharing inspection reports, there might be laws in european countries in canada and japan that also prevent share. there needs to be a mechanism to influence the regulators in other countries to make this a two-way dialogue. >> which is why our first recommendation is to bring this to the g-20 agenda to get everyone on the same page on that. >> to build on jim and martha and claire's good point, this is why is this committee took such great efforts to family size that there is as intersection of global health, trade and development on these issues. that operates both internationally and why this should it be important at the g-20. it's not just about public health. it also should operate domestically as well and we're hopeful that that allows the ability to bring together all the necessary partners that you need to bring to bear on this problem. >> and thanks very much. once again, if you would like to ask a question please press star one. >> yes. >> hi, i'm lorn becker. i'm sort of curious for the sort of second set of recommendations the u.s. government

and all of european nations singularly are in the single digits collectively are much more significant than that. i had run out to meet with the gentleman who's the chair of the standing committee on international trade who is a member of parliament. from canada. and we had a little conversation about this. we talked about what's happening in canada. with their budgets they are actually going to be introducing an austerity budget. they have lowered their tax rates. they believe that they are on firm ground. and certainly prime minister harper who has been here and other places around the world is looking for those trade partnerships. we know that when we're talking about america, we're talking about an expanded north american envelope of influence really. and canada being so tied directly to europe they're also affected by that. i wanted to talk a little bit about -- you were starting -- two things, you were starting to head down a bath, i believe we've run out of time about the brits separating their retail versus institutional spending. you said it's much more radical. i wanted to give you a brief time to expand on that. then i've got a very s fiwell. >> i'm not sure i can re

group formed a committee to create sanctions and cut off the leader's ability to, quote, wage war on its own people. >> and the united states will be working with the arab countries, the european countries, north african and others to have them understand the most effective way to implement sanctions, because as one of them said to me, the americans have a lot of experience in doing sanctions. we don't. so we're making progress. also, the individual sanctions, the travel bans, the visa bans, the kinds of direct, personal sanctions are beginning to really wake people up. they're looking around thinking, you know, for the rest of my life, i'm only going to be able to maybe go to iran? that doesn't sound like a great idea. >> clinton also announced today that u.s. aid to the syrian opposition will nearly double. this is money for humanitarian aid and medical training. >>> nobel peace laureate aung san suu kyi wins a seat in myanmar's parliament. the official results will probably come out tomorrow. suu kyi spent years under house arrest and her party was banned during her struggle for democracy in myanmar. the country has been under military rule for 50 years. >>> the chairman of

committee and the truth will emerge. this is a culture of monarchy or the vatican comes out of the european experience.he monarch is always right. where dissidents -- where there is not room for a plurality of thought. the united states has an easing pluralism that is our gift because it creates such diversity like biodiversity. a create a vibrant society. i think of hybrid society really is running headlong into the culture of monarchies at this point. >> sister simone campbell, the father that -- the point father roy bourgeoise raced about sexual abuse in the catholic church. do you believe if there had been more women in leadership roles throughout the church worldwide that there would have been, over the past half century, somewhat of a different response by the elders of the church to this whole issue of sexual abuse, which really has created -- it is unbelievable the extent of it, country after country. >> is horrifying. the anguish this has caused to the victims, to their families, but also to the whole church, to the whole body of the church. we will never know whether or not women would have m

committee understand what you mean by that? >> well, in the wake of the passage of 1929, which raised substantially the baseline of global sanctions against iran, we, the united states, our european partners and a number of other countries, japan, south korea, some of the gulf countries, canada, australia and others implemented additional sanctions using 1929 as a legal foundation but raising the national bar for each of these countries even higher. the cumulative effect of those decisions as well as what we have seen most recently with respect to the central bank of iran sanctions, the eu decision to embargo oil that we were discussing earlier with respect to swift has been that the global pressure on iran is mounting enormously. now, do i see an immediate prospect in the security council for a new round of sanctions on iran? i think frankly the answer to that is not immediately, no. i think that many countries are rightly focusing on what they can do within their national and regional authorities to step up the pressure. and it's indeed the major trading partners of iran that have the most impact and leverage, and they're the ones on which our efforts have been most focused and

european theater stationed in england. remember, there was no really u.s. army in europe yet. a bunch of headquarters people running around england decide to find out what to do about this and appoint add committee. the committee came back and said what we need when we finally go into europe, a battlefield decepti deception. they brought the camouflage group from fort meade. a group of radio specialists who came radio disinformation specialist whose wrote scripts that were quite elaborate. a head guy a former script writer for nbc radio, fred foxx, i'll talk about that a little more. they also brought into the fold a group even the army or most people in the army didn't know yet existed, because it was formed on technological breakthroughs. this was the 3122 sonic deception company. signal service company but they called themself sonic deception. these guys were the product of two mavericks. one maverick was douglas fairbanks jr. the movie actor. douglas fairbanks sr., none of you even here is old enough to remember and certainly not me, but douglas fairban p bankbanks his day was the greatest superstar on earth, along with charlie chaplin. you could go to any country, go to africa, show his pic

formed a committee to coordinate sanctions, and cut off their leadership's ability, quote, to wage war on its own people. >> and the united states will be working with the arab countries, the european countries, north african and others to have them understand the most effective way to implement sanctions, because as one of them said to me, the americans have a lot of experience in doing sanctions. we don't. so we're making progress. also, the individual sanctions, you know, the travel bans, the visa bans, the kinds of direct personal sanctions are beginning to really wake people up. they're looking around thinking, for the rest of my life, i'm only going to maybe go to iran? that doesn't sound like a great idea. >> clinton also announced today that u.s. aid to the syrian opposition will nearly double. >>> the chairman of the house budget committee says he misspoke when he accused u.s. military officials of not being honest about the pentagon budget. on cnn "state of the union" this morning, candy crowley told paul ryan that military leaders were a little offended. >> i really misspoke, to be candid with you, candy. i didn't mean to make that kind of impression. so i was clumsy in

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committee, this is not a u.s. problem but a global problem. even simple things like sharing inspection reports, maybe laws and european companies -- countries and canada and japan that prevent sharing. and these to be a mechanism to influence regulators and other countries to make this a two-way dialogue. >> which is why our recommendation is to bring this to the g20 agenda to get everyone on the same page. >> the good point. this is why the committee took such great efforts to emphasize that there is an intersection of global health, trade, and development of these issues and it operates but internationally and a lot of this should be important to g20. not just about public health. also should operate domestically as well. we're hopeful that allows the ability to bring together all the necessary partners that you need to bring to bear on this problem. >> thank you very much. once again, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one. >> yes. >> five. global health technology coalition. i'm curious for the second set of recommendations, very clear. for some of the first as well. i'm curious because, as we all know, the challenges an

committee is too busy to disagree. >> speaking of financials, the thing that i look at every single day at the open is how the europeanks are fairing because we usually take the lead at some point in the session and taking a look, no surprise, down sharply almost 4% for bbba, sb down by 3% and the likes of barclays, deutsche bank, rbs, and they're also down and now soft innocence the likes of morgan stanley, bank of merks, goldman sachs and something to watch as we are sitting here down about 77 points, whackness in the financials could lead to weakness in the overall markets. >> here we are yesterday the goldman sachs conference call. linked to activity and one of the points the c f o made is the long tail risk meaning at home the big worry about europe is behind us. every time you say that, you have three eggs over easy on your face. you just don't want to say it. i like buying runny, you know. >> a little tabasco. >> head over to berta coombs here for bob this morning. >> good morning, melissa. more or less a bit of broad decline right now the highlight are the oil services stocks, halliburton with the first quarte

. >> sir, the committee obtained, our committee obtained into most of us' october meeting on mf global. there's a discussion of mf global's big europeanexposure, analysts attracted these notes also writes that mf global is scrambling for funding, and that it had lost its liquidity. now i'd like to take to october 24, a day right in the middle of when this break the glass plan was being drafted. and implemented, and just four days before s&p said that mf global was scrambling for funding. on the 24th, mf global's cfo wrote a memo stating among other things that he believed mf global's capital and liquidity quote has never been stronger, and that quote, mf global was in its strongest position ever as a public entity. can you reconcile those two statements for our committee? >> i can't. i don't know what context our cfo said that no doubt, so i couldn't, or to the best of my recollection, is not part of the dialogs i couldn't really speak -- >> did you speak with mr. steen camp? do you speak with them around that time? >> not in the subject, no. >> given what he know about the liquidity challenges that mf global was facing on october 24,