italy has experienced the fastest and most extreme decline in fertility ever recorded. [man] italy will be the first country in the world in which the number of people aged 60 and over will become greater than people aged 20 and less, so the first country in the history of mankind in which we have this crossing over with people aged 60 and over which is increasing and people less than 20 who... um, who are decreasing. fertility rates have dropped throughout europe, but in southern europe, the rates are lowest, with italy averaging 1.3 children per woman. low birth rates are brought about by a combination of factors. some are common to many countries, and this program will look at how italy in particular has been affected by these. we'll also look at some factors that are specific to the very low fertility rates in italy. probably the most significant factor that has influenced fertility rates in europe has been industrialization. industrialization has brought more people into urban areas and encouraged more materialistic life styles. in northern european countries, this

that rings true to fertility specialist dr.rbert. >> the problem is there are so many things that can change a woman's voice, the tone of a woman's voice, especially if she smokes or if she had two drinks the night before or she is an exerciser and got a little dehydrated. [ singing ] >> reporter: ellie dean doubts it, too. >> i haven't noticed any difference with my speaking or singing voice. >> reporter: she is a soprano with the san francisco opera. while she has never seen a change with,lation, there is a huge change with menstruation. >> the first day before is a nightmare for opera singers. we don't get time off if we have a performance so it's like moving a mac truck. >> reporter: this man sees the same monthly change with his wife, as well. >> her sentences get really short. [ laughter ] >> she is short with me. she's short with my dog. my dog knows to stay away from her. >> reporter: now, that gentleman could be a scientist. the study found that the only significant change in a woman's voice happens during menstruation

there also drawn by the fertile agricultural lands that can be leased for rock-bottom prices. many are investing here, angry business is big business. the biggest business of all is an indian multinational. you're in the far west, the company aims to lease up to 100,000 hectares in the next few years. >> we will be working on the land. we are planting about 15,000 hectares. >> these fields are a testing ground. one day, this could be a 300,000 hectare farm. this is an area bigger than luxembourg and all for under one euro per hectare per year. 20,000 people could be employed here soon. the labor pays the equivalent of 1 euros and 20 cents a day. some workers look earn less than that. and they have to pay for their own food and drink while in the fields. >> i am working here -- delong >> this farmer says that if he has to buy his own food and bred, it will cost him up to 15 -- per day. the land was previously unused and for many here, any job is better than no job. prices on the global market will dictate how much of the food produced year will actually stay in ethiopia. when e

so just let that sink in for a second the moment of fertilization how do you know when that happens now if it passes it's going to make all abortions in this state a legal including those instances of rape or instance incest and many are already questioning if the wording of this bill would have an effect on birth control and in vitro fertilization as well mississippi as a state is already extremely hostile to women's reproductive rights for example there's only one planned parenthood in the entire state for the campaign to pass this personhood amendment a ballot question twenty six has a moving across the state for months check out this clip from a local c.b.s. affiliate. the key to. the person who did them which is number twenty six on the ballot this fall the amendment decides who person is a human being absolutely zation abortion is based on one big lie it's not a person in a picture is worth a thousand years. now the bills game celebrity support from the american family association mike huckabee and even brett farve wife however it's actually the brainchild of fringe activists

sometimes they stop the implantation of an egg that has been fertilized.to be a person in mississippi, does that mean using birth control is going to be committing murder in mississippi? birth control is going to be illegal? the folks behind this personhood bill have said on their website, yes, they are, in fact, opposed to certain forms of birth control including the forms that statistically speaking, you probably use. the folks behind the proposed by the way control ban and total abortion ban, they have edited the faq section since we took this screen shot two weeks ago. now they're more careful about. they just say, well, we don't advocate the use of contraceptives. maybe somebody got to them with the numbers on popularity of birth control. they are adopting the message. maybe it was the comparatively smaller group that has campaigned against this personhood amendment in mississippi. they're called mississippians for healthy families. they they put the health and safety of mississippians and family at risk. the number one potential consequence they list

>> most people like to fertilize in the spring. right when things start growing, everything turns green, it's a good time to feed most lawns and most garden plants. >> okay, and how do you know which one to use? >> there are three numbers on the front of the bag. the first number represents nitrogen. that's the nutrient that makes things green. it makes the grass blades come up thick and strong. that's typically the one that's gonna be higher in the spring. >> i see. >> phosphorus is the middle number. that generally helps plants to grow roots and blooms and fruits. >> i gotcha, okay. >> so, you'll see that number higher on, um, fertilizers for vegetable gardens a lot of times. >> oh, i gotcha, okay, cool. >> and the final number, potassium, is kind of an all-over plant strengthening nutrient. you'll see that number higher a lot of times in the fall, getting ready for winter. most of the time, a balanced fertilizer with the three numbers the same, like these-- these and these both have the same ratio of all three nutrients. that's

a $60 million project to distribute seeds and fertilizer to afghan farmers became a $360 million cash for work program, paying villagers for what they used to do voluntarily. and the commission warned of massive new waste. for instance, an $82 million afghan defense university that the government of afghanistan cannot afford to keep up. commission member dov zakheim: >> what is the point of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on projects that will then fall into disuse? >> reporter: the commission said that without a major overhaul of wartime contracting, we can expect more of the same. >> pelley: david, thank you. the general who commanded u.s. troops in iraq and afghanistan retired from the army today. david petraeus is leaving after 37 years to become director of the c.i.a. his parting words included a warning to congress: "don't weaken the military to balance the budget." murky floodwaters washed over entire towns, and now there's concern about what may be in that water. that story is next. ñ ,,,, >> pelley: hurricane-turned- tropical storm irene did not damage any nuclear fa

sage major determinant in a woman's fertility.or egg freezing. >> any drawbacks or risks? >> well, there are risks. we think we have been doing this awhile. we're able to minimize the risks. some ricsks with the medication. hyper sensitivity. redness and swelling. some risks with the procedure. overtreating the egs, bleeding, there's a risk of hyperstimulation. it happens in less than 2% of people that go through this. i would say, the big risk that people should know about. just because you freeze the eggs doesn't mean 100% chance you're going to have a baby. >> you know this going in. this doesn't guarantee you anything. it just gives you batter chance. >> it's a bit on an insurance policy. doesn't mean that in two or three years, i'm not going try naturally. t least i have this in case there is a problem. women don't know a lot of what is going on inside their bodies until these situations come up. there have been interesting twists and turns in this process. i would never have expected them had i not gone through this. >> no p

the other one is the fa fatima fertilizer company. 80% comes from fertilizer when mixed with fuel oil becomes exemploys itch. the pack arab company in pakistan made enough fertilizer last year for 140,000 bombs. gregg: what is the u.s. government doing to stop it? are the pakistanis cooperating in any way, jennifer. >> reporter: the u.s. has been reaching out and trying to negotiate with the pakistani to control this calcium nitrate for the past year and a half. a delegation with bob casey went to discuss this with the pakistani, the state department has reached out. they are trying to stop the flow of basically the fertilizer is being smuggled across borders such as the torkan border crossing that you're seeing in these pictures at th kyber pass. he wrote in the wake of the killing of osama bin laden we believe that pakistan must implement concrete measures to counterterrorism removing a moment yum nitrate from the terrorist arsenal is one good nature measure that is pakistani's interest. twice the number of people were killed this year. jenna: one of the biggest athletes out there f

i don't know if a fertilized egg is life. a stem is not a flower. you don't say your birthday -- you don't pull out your driver's license. it is not nine months from before you were born. it is when you were born. you are a human. so i don't know, it was way to advance at that point and they probably thought i was trouble i guess. >> what did you study michael moore mark -- moore at the university of michigan and find. >> added double major of political science and theater. so, the year ahead there went well. i dropped out though. again, i was probably bored with school. i had just gotten elected to the board of education at 18 years old. it was right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote. it was called the davison school district, and 18-year-olds had just been given the right to vote. i decided to run, and became the youngest elected official in the state of michigan. and i was learning more about clinical science doing it than i was sitting in a classroom. so, the first day of my second semester of my sophomore year, being a commuter campus yo

portugal because it is a pretty fertile country within the euro so so they tend to lump together countries that are very different but they resemble each other because they are part of that very free and i think that that's the real recently is just a psychological perception and then again it's true that the growth in spain growth is not very good so that in the long will be a problem for there we don't have a problem now but we may have it in the future that is true you're watching r t from moscow in a few minutes from now the fast fading friendship as turkey's relations with israel to a new low party here is that it could impact palestinians hopes of getting u.n. recognition got story. next. in libya rebels are detaining oil engineers and cooks from former soviet countries suspect a move being programmed from snipers to russians were later released along with the ukrainian couple after they'd managed to contact the russian embassy but more than a dozen ukrainians are still being held at his roof and often is in tripoli for us . well as far as we know thirty two people including two owne

portugal because the fertile country within the euro so so they tend to lump together countries that are very different but they resemble each other because they are part of the periphery and i think that's the real recently is just a psychological perception and then again it's true that the growth in spain economy growth is not very good so that in the long term will be a problem for there we don't have that problem now but we may have it in the future that is true with the financial turmoil raging around europe the calls are growing for the worst hit economies to abandon the euro and return to their old national currencies but germany economic analyst michael ross tells r.t. that the only solution to the crisis is a strong economies leave the eurozone. there's no other solution that the weak countries but a strong country has to exit if germany for example pulls out of the euro or doing a whole problem would be solved means that we will have a stronger currency germany can live through that the others them will have a devalued currency this is exactly what they need it means all s

talk to people who sell things like propane gas tanks or fertilizers. see if there's been any irregular activity or suspicious activity. you're trying to create a public-private partnership. this is a city and a nation that's done a very, very good job of doing that and they are enhancing that capability now given the current threat that is out there. jon: thises more than just the fact that we are about to mark ten years since the 9/11 attacks. >> traditionally al-qaida has not shown any type of pension for dates, yet the documents that were recovered from the osama bin laden compound did make a reference to this. they haven't had a successful attack, thank god, in the ten years since 9/11. so one would obviously expect that this is the type of thing that they would be examining and looking at. having said that, this city, new york and certainly washington d.c. as well some of the best protected cities in the nation. they've done tremendous work over the past ten years, you've got to give your hats off to commissioner ray rel lee and dave coen. one of

it is not an equally fertile back up plan. if you look at 75,000 as a percentage of the whole, that is an optimum rate of 32%. that is a number to keep in mind. this is a key risk element for us. i am inclined without further discussion to look at something which is more conservative -- a more conservative rollout plan that would cover that kind of risk. >> it is important to realize that some things can be mitigated. that is what we are doing with the program. >> 85% -- what does that mean? >> the firmed and shaped are resources were you take a intermittent resource, these are regulatorily definied. the wind power works when it is windy and the sun power works when the sun is out. when you are trying to get a block to try and cover when people are using their appliances and such -- >> how do we anticipate forecasting? >> we have historic data and we are forecasting the load. since we have so many -- is accurate. >> 30%, 40%, 50%? >> it will be in the 90's. >> commissioner torres: in the 90's? i did not think we have the techn

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a few months ago when israel seemed internationally to win the fight against stopping the second fertility tends to break the blockade on gaza seems that most israelis do not understand. as a war that we are fighting with a seems that we are. behaving as if we are fighting a conventional war with north of the sphere of the fee of five hundred a symmetry war which is totally different and what we are doing we are winning every bottle and we are losing the war in light of what happened with egypt and in light of what happened with turkey and now in light of what will happen at the united nations do israelis since the growing isolation people have in the international community one of the huge me stupes. as that weezer is of doing. we do not see. the regional and not god the international consequences or results of of the new reality or the new middle east. that was born during the last twelve months. for example we do not understand zor all of turkey in this new middle east we do not understand that the collapse of egypt is a regional player. created a situation in which turkey is a regional

showing us one is an epidemiologist for years she has been carrying out test some fertility in two thousand and five she started studying the effects of finds another chemical additive for plastics she selected women with a high level of science in their urine instead of the effect on their infant male children. no one had done this before. these ballots particularly the ones of most concern are called anti and richer as they lower testosterone they do it actually to adults as well and but it's more important what happens in the womb because the changes that occur in the lower than permanent for life and so because it's an empty and or janick lower testosterone at the critical time will alter the path of development of the male genitalia so normally it starts in a feminine default if you will and then becomes masculinized under the influence of testosterone and that process is interfered with by certain sally it's when they get to a certain level. well it's a used in food packaging and toys for example to soften the plastic. but in rodents to feminize the species. the testicles disappear in

this stretch of the pacific is fertile feeding ground. >> the krill does really well in very cold waterlast year was the coldest it's been in 30 years. >> reporter: the length of a basketball court they can live up to 90 years. blues are graceful, elegant and even curious. ten years ago, spotting even one would have been rare. but this year, at least 500 sightings so far. researchers saw blue whales courting. >> what we got to see today was off the charts. >> reporter: for kayakers, it doesn't get closer than this. hunted primarily for their blubber, blue whales were headed toward extinction when, in 1966, they were placed on the endangered species list. scientists won't say they are thriving but there are roughly 10,000 worldwide. near the port of long beach, the big threat now is being hit by ships. >> what concerns us though is because they are so close to shore now they are venturing into the shipping channels. >> reporter: but today, for scientists and tourists alike, a reminder of what we almost lost. gentle giants like few have ever seen before. miguel almaguer, nbc news, long be

we also recommended releasing fertile land to graduates with agriculture degrees. we made clear what help start- ups need. >> the trade unions' support the friends, including financial assistance. the government does not provide adequate help for the unemployed. >> reforms in morocco. that has been the focus of in- depth. thank you for watching. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

we bomb petro chemical plants and fertilizer factories spreading mercury. other carcinogens on the landscape and into a canal that lead into the danube river it will take the eco systems decades to recover. forests are among the ecosystems that are most often damaged or destroyed in combat itself the main reason for that is because they're very useful for guerrillas trying to find concealment from forces with superior firepower forty years ago when the united states was trying to prevail in vietnam and its enemies the viet cong were using the forests for concealment the american forces tried through fire and chemical defoliants to clear large parts of the forests of vietnam. not invulnerable. they think of themselves as wrong and they have. seven days in the week fifty two weeks a year most days in the base to spew out the total of nearly eighteen thousand gallons of diesel. from one nine hundred sixty two in one nine hundred seventy one the u.s. military conducted a large scale defoliation drive code named operation ranch hand planes helicopters and tanker

we know what' this can do to power when you have skittishness about their fertility.ot ofy, there is a nervousness about what is going to happen to larger economies. germany is not growing at the same rate that it was and that has people very nervous. >> in britain, of course, there has been a lot of quibbling about the banks being too big to fail and not enough being done to separate them and break them down so we do not have another financial crisis. did britain go the right way with this financial reports? >> it is not surprising that in the u.s. the banks also do not like dodd-frank. in the end, the taxpayers do not want to be bailing out the banks and they want some of the riskiest -- the riskier behavior on the investment front. and they want to know that you have the money to back it up. it will probably reduce competitiveness, but i do not think taxpayers will mourn that reality. >> everybody wants to be too big to fail. thank you for joining us. in one more financial note, which probably could not come at a worse time for the white house, bankamerica has anno

few months ago when israel seemed internationally to bring the fight against stopping the second fertility tend to break the blockade on gaza facings that most israelis do not understand. the wars that we are fighting with seems that we are acting. as if we are fighting a conventional war we do not understand that we are facing a significant war which is totally different and what we are doing we are winning every bottle and real losing the war in light of what happened with egypt and in light of what happened with turkey and now in light of what will happen at the united nations do israelis since the growing isolation that they have in the international community one of the huge mistakes. as a result is that doing. we do not see not the regional and not the the international consequences or results of of the new reality or the new middle east. that was born during the last world months. for example we do not understand zor all of turkey in this new middle east we do not understand that the collapse of egypt is a regional. created a situation in which turkey is a regional player and probab

we also recommended releasing fertile land to graduates with agriculture degrees. we made clear what help start- ups need. >> the trade unions' support the friends, including financial assistance. the government does not provide adequate help for the unemployed. >> reforms in morocco. that has been the focus of in- depth. thank you for watching. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>reporter: this week on world business... >>building on a huge new scale, mumbai's property boom is being driven by demand from the very top. >>there are ten thousand new apartments coming. the minimum value of the apartment is going to be a mi

it lasted so long that cows became less fertile. in august last year, 34 cows were inseminated. but only one gave birth. so not much raw milk was produced. >> translator: when it's very hot, they don't eat as much. if they don't eat, they don't calf. >> reporter: another cause of the shortage was the earthquake and tsunami on march since apri tons lower than in the same period the year before. the milk shortage has hit butter production the hardest. when raw milk is produced manufacturers give making fresh milk top priority because it sells for the highest price. the second-most important product is fresh cream. what's left over is made into butter. so if there's a shortage of raw milk, butter is the first product to be affected. when raw milk was in short supply last summer, butter production dropped 22% during eiclin h a plan for the winter season. demand for butter rises then because of the seasonal holidays. the plan calls for importing 2,000 tons of butter. the government fears that the chaotic enf threa ago will b peed the w naw mk and butter disappeared from shelves. >> t

but today the republican >>> michele bachmann in marin county not exactly fertile gop country.ay the republican presidential candidate ventured into hostile territory to raise some cash for her campaign. as stephanie chuang shows us, the people who came out said she was brave just to show up. >> mistaken notion that the tea party are right wing radical fringe who wear red, white and blue all the time and come down from the hills of appalachian... [ laughter ] >> reporter: tea party favorite michele bachmann kicked off her 30-minute speech with promises of repealing obama's healthcare reform, passing free trade and legalizing american energy production. [ applause ] >> jobs just in energy we would increase america's domestic energy supplies by 50%. that would bring $800 million into the treasury. i mean, what is not to love? >> reporter: event organizers head up the bay area patriots. she says that 1800 people identify with the tea party. >> she sends out an email and we come. >> reporter: this tea party member came from san francisco. he was one of the roughly 125 people to att

they have less fertilizer, fewer tools, poorer quality seed and less access to training or to land. and they have much less time to farm because they also have to do most of the household work. when that resource gap is closed and resources are allocated equally, and better yet, efficiently, women and men are equally productive in agriculture. and that has positive benefits. in nepal, for example, where mothers have greater ownership of land, there are fewer underweight children. so what we have is an opportunity to accelerate growth in developing economies while at the same time producing more and cheaper food for our planet. close the resource gap holding women back in developing economies, and we could feed 150 million more people worldwide every year. that is according to the food and agriculture organization. that is in addition to the higher incomes for families and the more efficient markets and the more agricultural trade that would result. the same kindthe same kind of ie seen in other sectors of the economy, because we know the entrepreneurial spirit of a man is strong. mo

the fertilizers to increase. from the farming and everything else that if we were to cut our food lawful and half we would probably be the total overall patient right. after my conversation with timothy jones and i went to the l.a. food bank the second largest of its kind in the country since nearly all donated food from grocery stores goes through the food bank i hope to get a better understanding of the situation. located in the heart of downtown l.a. near one of the largest concentrations of homeless people in the world the infamous skid row i couldn't help thinking about all this wasted food in relationship to hungry people in my own city. los angeles county we have a population of ten million people about one in every ten people are at risk of hunger in los angeles county roughly just over a million people in los angeles county at some time during the year are at risk of hunger not knowing where their next meal's going to come from so los angeles regional food bank through a network of about nine hundred cha