president after a campaign in which same sex marriage became a key issue the servant of congressman fabrizio of otto leads a field of thirteen candidates if no candidate receives forty percent of the vote goes to rico will hold a runoff for the top two in april. a polish opposition group has demonstrated outside the president's residence in warsaw urging him not to sign into law a controversial bill on the home of cost the bill would impose jail terms for suggesting that poland was complicit in nazi crimes israel the u.s. and international organizations of all strongly condemned the proposed law. here in germany the domestic intelligence agency says that north korea regularly acquired equipment and technology for its nuclear weapons program for its embassy here in berlin a united nations report accuses european countries including germany of not doing enough to stop ailing young from building up its nuclear weapons you know how we have a report now from a journalist who uncovered this story called sherif from the german public broadcaster and already these north korean agents wanted ukrainia

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still with us, fabrizio pagani.ed in the prime minister's office and held a series of advisory roles. -- gentlemen, thank you for sticking around. we were talking about the italian politics. what worries you when you look at the italian economy? we talk about euro. this is one thing the political class has little impact on. at what level is euro really damaging for italian exports? >> i cannot give you a number, but a very strong euro would not help. let me say that the italian businesses, which has been weathering the crisis, because many went out of business -- those which survived are very strong and resilient. the italian recovery is driven by exports. ,nternal demand is picking up but not as fast as we would like to see. exports is very important. obviously a good chunk of italian export is european. it is not affected by euro level. i cannot give you a number. francine: if you look at europe, it seems strong in general. there's a lot of investors taking interest, apart from ray we will come to. at what point d

representative fabrizio began his service in 2002 in the house of representatives. prior to that he served for 20 years as erie county clerk. he's a life will long resident of erie and has been active in the community, serving as a board member of the pleasant ridge man nor and is a member of many other philanthropic and charitable organizations. representative fabrizio has been diligent and dedicated and served the commonwealth with distinction. i wish him the best on his retirement and hope he'll enjoy spending time with his wife vick tira and his children. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? without objection the gentleman s recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise to tell the story of a young teen who came to our country with nothing but hope for a better future. no english, no money, just a dream. the story may sound familiar but it's special to me. it's the story of my grandfather, adam cristadolas. the story of america is

april the issue of same sex marriage dominated the campaign leading up to sunday's first round vote fabrizio alvarado who got the most votes is fiercely opposed to the idea the marilyn wall the barrier the divided the german city during the cold war era has now been done for as long as it was up the wall was built by communist east germany and completely encircled the western parts of berlin from one of the historic crossing points paul brennan reports. these days the famous checkpoint charlie is a magnet for tourists the colville of going hot stuff for vividly remembers the cold war years it was just seventeen when the war was built and he devoted the next twenty eight years of his life to campaigning and demonstrating against it when. i was seventeen years old and i just cried i couldn't believe it when they told us after the war in one thousand nine hundred five that injustice was meant to be over that people would never again be violently imprisoned and be the victim of political powers and then they put a wall into a world city in my hometown. from the thirteenth of august one thousand

in a presidential runoff after sunday's first round of voting with almost all the votes counted fabrizio alvarado is in the lead his popularity soared after he came out strongly against gay marriage an issue that dominates at the campaign and second place is carlos alvarado no relation who is the only candidate to speak out in favor of letting same sex couples get married well another issue that's been concerning voters in costa rica is the rapidly rising murder rate last year saw the highest ever number of homicides the central american nation is still considered one of the safest in the region but the growing violence is causing concern amongst people in the capital san jose for more on the gallagher reports. i know for san jose's police operations like this are becoming increasingly routine being billed much evening they gather a large force and head out into the city's poor neighborhoods the streets here a not what they were authorities say violence fueled by drug trafficking has led to a record high murder rate when i started this community policing is part of the effort to fight ba