kim was going from oklahoma to finland. now, you may ask, why finland? i mean, i don't know about you but if i had the chance to go somewhere when i was 15, finland would not have been on the list, even at number 75 or 80. it wouldn't have even cleared the list. so, kim is this remarkable young woman who had never left the united states, actually. she was born in oklahoma. her mother -- a single mother who also had never left the united states. was a teacher, actually. and yet kim always felt this kind of craving to see the world, this curiosity about what else there was beyond oklahoma, and so she would complain, as teenagers occasionally do, she would complain about her town and the small town and the onlying there was was a wal-mart, and this and that, and finally her half sister, who is in texas, said to her once, why don't you just -- she called her bluff. say, why don't you just go live in some other country if you think it's so great? and she said, was there do you mean? she said, you know, like on one of those exchange programs where kid goes to

this is not finland. this is a fairly complicated place. and in estonia, the socioeconomic status can be -- explains 9% of teenagers scores on the test. so, you see the variants in different countries. by the way, france is worse than the u.s. on this. so, for what it's worth there are countries that do worse not only on average, there's plenty of countries that do worse on the average scores but in equity and fairness and how much does matter. is it, when you look at the highflying countries with a sort of education superpowers but you see is that they they could be roughly divided into two categories very roughly. i sort of made this up for my own brain to think about this. one category is the utopia category. of which the best and the most clichÉd example is finland where there are a few standardized tests where the teachers do have a lot of autonomy and where the students do not work night and day and in fact very few of them attend afterschool tutoring and that sort of thing. and there's almost no variation from one school to the next

but we do have the action by finland. i wanted to ask, i am presuming when you say there is no appetite it means georgia-ukraine. if finland said we want to join, wouldn't that be a game-changer? or can i delve into what you were saying, when the neighborhood is on fire. they wouldn't say no, would they? >> >> that is a great area to explore. they are going to do a lot of thinking about how that would look. you are right. i think that there is a stark difference among the nato allies. bosnia. ukraine and georgia. thinking about sweden and finland. they are very different places in their approach. i think you see where sweden and min land, working so close with nato have in some ways their military modernization d their close relationship puts them ahead of that dialogue with other nato countries for sure. would it be a game-changer if finland and sweden were to formally come to nato and seek membership? yes. it would give the alliance an extraordinary conversation about what that would mean. speaking of provoking. that wo

it has a broad curriculum - this is finland. they have a lot of responsibility given to students, head teachers and teaching itself is a well respected and properly compensated profession. people will say to me "you can't compare america to finland? >> you can't. america has over 300 people in it, and finland has 5.5 million. most of education in america is organised at the state level. and there are 32 states in america with populations similar or smaller than finland. i have been to a lot. i do a lot of work in oklahoma, and some of the best schools in america are in areas of low income, high unemployment, but they have in commonly a visionary principal, passion at staff and connection to community and a willingness to innovate in how they do it. if you keep doing the same thing, and it keeps going wrong, do something else. a lot of problems in american education are not caused by kids, but the system. if the system would change, a lot of these problems that we ease. >> thank you so much for being on al jazeera, sir kens >> le

we look at finland and say why can't we be like finland? their poverty rate is under 5%.overty rate was under 5, we would think we have the greatest worlds in the school. >> i will ask dr. deasy this same question, diane, i wonder if you think fundamentally the american people still place public education at the top of their list of priorities? >> well, there have been a number of polls that show the american people if asked about public education they have had now 20 years of solid pounding, our public schools are no good, really you could take it back to 1983 to a report during the reagan administration called a nation at risk. our public schools are mediocre, they're failing, we're falling behind. this is such nonsense, in fact, our test scores today are higher. our dropout rates are lower than they've ever been in history. our graduation rates are higher. our public schools are doing a great job. but when the public is asked the question and they've been asked this by the gallup poll, what do you think about american public education, public has a very low opinion. th

finland owns 56% of sin air. 50% -- was one -- owns 56% of finnair.inland was one of the big losers when russia threaten to ban airspace. it might just be this is a case where it was fear of retaliation that had some of the eu countries saying, let's see how the cease-fire works out. >> let's talk about a cease-fire. as soon as the cease-fire was agreed i think a more cynical is this going to last? >> it's going to last as long as the parties wanted to last. if they want to get out of it they have had ample reason over the weekend. you might say the alleged violations of the truce have been slowing in terms of violence. the ukrainian president saying they had one soldier killed yesterday. you compare that to the 20 killed on average before the truce was introduced. they are very concerned of losing for fear that could create a land bridge between russia proper and the crimea peninsula. he also jumped on the telephone with vladimir putin, another the that at least for moment these leaders appear very focused on trying to make the cease-fire work. one a

what is interesting is we think what is interesting is we think about finland. about finland.l, finland is mainly white well, finland is mainly white kids, right, and they teach them kids, right, and they teach them well. well. we teach our white kids better. we teach our white kids better. we beat everywhere. we beat everywhere. our white kids are taught the our white kids are taught the best public school education on best public school education on the planet. the planet. those are the facts. those are the facts. >> if you take the suburban >> if you take the suburban well-off-white kids out of the well-off-white kids out of the picture and now take the inner picture and now take the inner city mostly minority schools. city mostly minority schools. >> we are at the bare bottom, i >> we are at the bare bottom, i imagine. imagine. you can see the united states you can see the united states has education has education apart hide. apart hide. that's the facts. that's the facts. that's it. that's it. >> come up with five fixes. >> come up with five fixes. areas that you study. a

funding so in the regional transportation plan we were designated for new starts they put together a finland program committed to have the bridge tolls for the d t x and a little bit lower two items included in the regional funding plan one was 5 hundred plus for the future hrl funds from the state or federal government. being able to successfully object the 5 hundreds plus million dollars it is because of the cap & trade program it will grow over time a specified portion is set aside for the hrl project and other set aside so it creates an opportunity for the transbay to over time 5 hundred accomplice million dollars. the regional transportation plan includes the potential $350 million for a future local sales tax increase so some additional money from the parcels that were donated three to $4 million that's phase two extra loan we'll get from the property tax increment from the redevelopment area i have a phase one but the tax increment s it allows for the phase two loan for the phase two loan the tax increment section this is what we brought forward to the city the idea of extending the p

downtown rail extension for the transbay center a reduction of the tax rate will jeopardize the finland's potentially laeflz us with a $9.9 million bus terminal and worse gridlock a small portion of the tax revenue will fund the street improvements probation officer to make the neighborhood bike friendly and improve the traffic flow this is critical we're willing asking to accept this we must have those infrastructure improvements please keep in mind this is the lowest open space and the most dangers streets in san francisco. we're asking i to accept this resolution for the special tax district and uphold the cf d tax rates as outlined >> thank you. next speaker. and good evening supervisors. friends of caltrain and nonprofit over 35 hundred parents on the san francisco through san jose including seven hundred here in san francisco and basically everyone strongly supportive of the downtown extension project bringing caltrain and hrl into san francisco and correcting to muni and bart as the major traffic hub the businesses in this area are will benefit trerpgly and it's a strong proposal t

what is interesting is we think about finland.ell, finland is mainly white kids, right, and they teach them well. we teach our white kids better. we beat everywhere. our white kids are taught the best public school education on the planet. those are the facts. >> if you take the suburban well-off-white kids out of the picture and now take the inner city mostly minority schools. >> we are at the bare bottom, i imagine. you can see the united states has education apart hide. that's the facts. that's it. >> come up with five fixes. areas that you study. you narrowed the list to five problems that if aapplied properly you can create solutions. the first is teachers. >> now, the continuant, the thing that we are saying is no roadblock teachers. what i mean by that is the research supports that the bottom percentage of teachers, the 1%, 2%, 3%, the bottom are pulling a drag on the system that it's hard for the other teachers to compensate for. for example, a child that has had one of these teachers, the bot on 1, 2, 3%. you can't make u

countries who are not official nato members but might as well be finland and sweden they've long been partners but again not officially these so-called neutral nations they're not so neutral after all nato will soon be able to deploy its forces in finland and sweden under new agreements as new levels of partnerships are being hashed out let's bring al birken investigative journalist based in sweden into this discussion he joins us live from stockholm recently sweden's defense minister has said that there is a very sharp difference between being a member and not being a member that they're an active partner with nato and they want to deepen the partnership even further what is that sharp line for sweden what's the point of closer times with no ties i should say with no membership well the sharp line does not exist except as a propaganda message to the swedish people who or. by rather large majority against becoming a member of nato. it's clear that the line has been almost totally eradicated in fact two thousand and five almost ten years ago an official of the defense department here s

those documents are living documents, and finland, korea, poleland, all these countries have standard. finland has them for every subject, not just math and reading but home ed and history and this i thing that is within our grasp if we can continue down this path, keep tweaking the standards, that's fine, the assessments or a whole nuther thing that is going to go down this spring, but having clear rigor is consistent standards is probably the smartest reform we've made in 20 years. thank you so much for having me here. it's greed have this audience here. [applause] pgh [inaudible] pgh [inaudible questions] conversation pgh [inaudible] pgh [inaudible questions] conversation pgh [inaudible] pgh [inaudible questions] conversation. >> next up from the science pavilion at the national book festival, sally satel. >> welcome to the national book festival. imwendy malone any of the u.s. copyright office of the library of congress. please note we're recording this presentation for later webcasting. over ask a question during the presentation you're giving permission to use you in the webcast

commie house. [ laughter ] commie house, finland house, argentina house.know, you'd go there. they drink a lot, and we'd have a bunch of ice cold ones and go to the games. >> seth: now that of course is the miracle on ice, 1980. >> i saw that. >> seth: live at that game? >> i got free tickets and watched that game. it was incredible. >> seth: i'm sure. >> herb brooks and mike eruzione. and that amazing, once in a lifetime team. >> seth: i bet there's a lot more people who said they were there than were actually there. >> that's true. but i was. i can prove it. i have the ticket. >> seth: oh, that's great. i'm glad you saved it. you're a big sports fan. you're also a big soccer fan. i'm sure you'd say a football fan. but you share a favorite soccer team with the pope. is that correct? >> yeah, pope francis is a big, from his childhood, fan of san lorenzo, which is a team in argentina. buenos aires. they're like the -- they would be like the mets, and boca juniors would be like the yankees. any time the mets can beat the yankees, it's -- >> seth: it's a big

finland is innt, favor of an active role for the e.u. in supporting iraq. toport for capacity building address challenges related to fighting and various organizations like isil could be further explored in the e.u. welltion of civilians as as respect for international law and international humanitarian law could form part of the e.u. capacity building assistance. women would contradict. security structures is crucial. the man could look at certain like capacities radiological and nuclear and providing an appropriate framework. we do attach great importance to addressing the issue 04 and fighters. we are currently assisting our national [indiscernible] and we're looking forward to finding solutions in corporations with the european union and beyond. thank you. >> mayor c for your statement. -- thank you for your statement. i give the floor ti saudi arabia -- to saudi arabia. >> thank you, madam president. congratulate you upon your fromming presidency september through the month of december. thank you for having convened this important meeting for the const

you could look at ukraine as a modern-day finland. in the cold war days, finland was basically the buffer state between western europe and eastern europe. there were other countries who played that role as well but finland, because it bordered russia and the soviet union at the time, was the key player in that way. the ukrainian state could play a role like that. they feel themselves being more else.oland than anything they want independence and are looking at themselves as a poland from the polls -- post-world war i era. that is what they would like to do. they would like to go in and create a degree of independence from russia. russia will not allow it unless we develop some kind of accommodations between them and us. >> thank you so much. >> when we come back, the former countrywide ceo says, dude -- do not blame me for the financial crisis. he rejects the idea that he or the company he founded did anything wrong. >> what else will we do? drink it up. when we come back, we will talk at -- about the crass beers market. -- craft beer

that's according to the finland president. find out what he means after the break. stay with us from "worldwide exchange." xkç how do you beat the number one seed? you just have to win 70% of your points at net. and keep unforced errors under 10%. on the ibm cloud, the us open analyzes 41 million data points from 8 years of competition to uncover key insights. data can help show you how to win, no matter what business you're in. today there's a new way to work. and it's made with ibm. >>> let's have a quick look at the u.s. futures ahead of the open. the implied open across all three exchanges is down. the s&p 500 expects to osteopathy points, the dow down 15.5 points, the nasdaq down about 3 points. that, of course, with the uncertainty ahead of the nonfarm payroll prints we'll get in a few hours. >> all right. we've got some flashes coming from the u.s. secretary of state mr. kerry. he says no boots on the ground is the common deadline for allies and the islamic states. he is urging -- to contribute in some form towards the militant threat and kerry calling for a

she has been on the planning board and has worked for the prime minister's office in their native finland. her daughter, now in custody, had been living in chesapeake beach in a house also owned by the family. the father of the 3-year-old petitioned for visitation and custody. spoon petitioned to change her younger child's name last year from james dougan to aiden spoon. a key question for the detectives, about to meet with the media, is do they know what the motive was? in prince george's county scott broom w ua a-9. >>> while ravens running back ray rice serves his two game suspension for punching his wife, tmz is now posting video from the inside of the elevator in atlantic city. rice is actually delivering a crushing punch to his then fiance, now his wife. jenae palmer's head hits the railing in the elevator, that knocks her out cold, rice drags her out of the elevator, unconscious, into the lobby. last week nfl commissioner roger goodell says he mishandled it. rice has said he wishes he could take that time of his life back. all of the information about the incident has been requeste

leapfrog finland and germany on the latest list. the u.s. is moving higher on that scale but still face as number of challenges. one of them involves something that the world economic forum calls social sustainability, the access all members of society has to economic prosperity in the country in which they live. it is impropering less than other advancing economies because of high levels of economy and youth unemployment. this inequality, it's something that the economic forum has lashed on to the la few years. how does the u.s. fit into the rest of the world. on one level we have more people moving out of poverty than ever before. and yet we've got this growing inequality problem. >> when we've seen growth over recent years a lot of growth has accrued to the wealthiest. what is happening now although it's not causing massive social unsustainability in the u.s. we've seen it in other places and this is something that could end up he'd roding at the social fabric and the ability to be productive, the sense that people have of being able to m

it is followed by singapore, the usa, finland, and germany. the u.s. moved ahead of germany after trailing its ally the last two years. they believe the minimum wage could adversely affect the economy after it is introduced next year. they also say germany has to create better job opportunities for women and foreigners. many germans will be retiring in the coming years and highly qualified candidates will have to replace them. >> stay with us. >> thanks for watching. ♪ >>> laos is a land locked country in indochina with a population of 6.8 million. it's lunchtime in the capital and business is good at noodle restaurants. piping hot

. >> reporter: the pops are enlisting the help of a 6-voice vocal group out of finland to help create the sound of the 70s hits. >> one of their specialties is singing the music of abba we'll get all the biggest hits, dancing queen and momma mia all those great songs. >> reporter: he hopes the audience relives some of the heartwarming musical memories. >> i meanted to have the familiarity -- i wanted to have the familiarity in all the selections. there were so many joyful songs that came out of the era. the music of abba represents that in a big way. >> the pops will take you back to the era of abb october 13 through the 19 at the kimmel center. go to the arts in philly.org or visit 6abc.com/loves the arts. for 6abc loves the arts, i'm karen rogers. >> thousands came together on the benjamin franklin parkway today for an effort to raise money to fight pediatric cancer. ten thousand participants started the parkway run and walk. the 5k run and 2k walk raised 1.$2 million for research and survivorship programs at the children's hospital of philadelphia. since the event started a few yea

so we normally think of norway, sweden, denmark, finland as very socially liberal, unifying countries that they would always have higher taxes than we do. they do have as percentage of gdp but don't tax the overseas earnings of their obserwn compa. so we need tax reform. meanwhile it is the duty to collect whatever tax is you owed under american law. if they can discourage people from moving overseas they ought to but the best is to give taxes and incentives to repatriot now overtaxes --. and to put the rest of america to work. that is another thing that will change the job mix. >> doing something like that, over hauling the corporate tax code was probably take two sides to talk with each other and work with each other in washington. and i just wonder if you know anyone who might go to washington in 2016 and start that process [ applause ] >> that may be the -- i vn have been assaulted by cleverness on all fronts for quite a long while now. that may be the cleverest in i've ever heard. yeah, i think first of all let me posit the first thing you said is clearly right. we can't do this

finland moved. now they're at the top. what -- >> right, finland moving is the same as saying we moved. the fact is, there is a gap between us and these other countries that didn't always exist. >> because of what they're doing. >> okay, so you're blaming arne duncan for the fact that we are falling further and further behind these other countries. >> i'm saying people think something called reform is one more standardized test, hit your number or get punished. that's what's corrupting. finland doesn't do it. >> we need only about three hours with you. where you based? >> i'm in d.c. now. >> so you can just -- when we're in d.c. -- i'm serious, we need to have a conversation with this. and thank your sister for watching. >>> coming up in our next hour, social media come, to the defense of bill simmons. after espn suspended the commentator for calling roger goodell a liar. it's one of our top talkers. and new air strikes targeting isis in syria this morning just one day after president obama rallied the world to help disman

finland always seemed like a nice country. why go after finland?e for a code name that was really canada. it was really about microsoft. worried microsoft was the dominant player. >> a long way to get to microsoft. why tonigdon't you just say -- >> we organized the plan because we knew we had had to sort of suspect they would be in our space. we looked at products. we understood the only way to win now is to build better products. because everything else has become common. >> i'm confused about the self-driving car. is that really going to work? >> does that scare you? >> can i just ask, is that really going to work? >> would you rather have your teenager driving your car or the car driving the teenager? >> you just answered it for me, thank you. >> that's the great thing about what google is doing. most of us think of google as being a search engine and an easiness in our lives trying to figure things out. now a product like this, which is going to be a vehicle that's going to get us around. is that the idea of expanding the footprint of what goog

undergoing treatment for blood clots that developed when he was working out in finland. it left his hockey future in doubt. today he spoke for the first time about his condition and where it leads him on the ice. >> my design is obviously i want to play but chances of me playing is really slim. that's the fact. but i'm ready to wait that chance to see how i feel. if i still have those clots in time, who knows when. >> this guy wants to play hockey so bad. he could have just said to us i don't feel comfortable even if things are great, i don't feel comfortable. i don't want to and he wants to continue to play. so i think it's a testment to how bad he wants to play. >> to the gridiron, michael kin drikz is looking doubtful to play against the redskins. he did miss practice today and on the redskins side, desean jackson also missed practice with a shoulder injury. nick foles struggled at times monday night with the accuracy against the colts, something he's working to improve and his teammates are there to back him up. >> the big thing is no pointing of fingers because we k

we have films from cypress, spain, finland, australia. it's amazing. >> the length of the movies, what's the shortest to longest? >> our shortest is 60 seconds to the longest which is 30 minutes long. >> frig from -- anything from a commercial to a sitcom half- hour. >> we have some really super short and some longer films that they need to be that long. they have really good complex stories. >> let's remind people where the three theaters are you can see them in person. >> landmark and the u.s. naval memorial around the metro center and the angelica theater in fairfax. >> the website is once again? >> dcshorts.com. >>> very comfortable here in northeast d.c. we have clouds. the temperatures are in the 70s here. some of you, though, are stuck in the 60s. look at these temps. right now as we go to break, looking at a couple of sprinkles out there. we have the upper 60s in upper montgomery. reston 69. when we come back, we'll look at doppler 9000 again. i'm talking about not one but two more chances for rain before the week is over. i'll se

strongly lobbied for the sanctions to come into force as fast as possible, but other ministers such as finland, for instance, raised concerns that fresh sanctions could stand in the way of a cease-fire. when asked whether his country actually asked for a postponement of sanctions, he denied that. so the eu, despite these different opinions, still wants to stand united on the issue. >> we are going to head to some other news now. a local militia group in iraq says it has pushed back the sunni extremist group islamic state from a key town in the northern district. >> members of the militia say they have read and control of the town, and the militia priority is protecting sacred shiite shrines not are away. they are iraqi army and local militia groups have been trying to regain the town since it was seized by i as militants back in june. u.s. president barack obama is struggling with how to go after it islamic state militants. they have taken large parts of iraq and syria and are increasingly perceived as posing a security threat to the u.s. >> now and a major shift, support for more strikes agai

, had been undergoing treatments for blood clots that developed when he was working out in native finlandg the off season, leaving his hockey future in doubt. timonen spoke for the first time about his condition and where it leaves him on the ice. >> my desire is obviously i want to play, but chance of me playing is really slim. that's the fact. but i'm ready to weight that chance to see how i feel. if i still have those clots in time, who knows when. >> this guy wants to play hockey so bad because he could have just said to us, i don't feel comfortable even if things are great, i don't feel comfortable, i don't want to, and he wants to continue to play. so i think it's a testament to how bad he wants to play. >>> the eagles now. back on the practice field today preparing for a sunday visit with the redskins at lincoln financial field. this is not a normal week for the birds. with a win monday night, it made for a shorter practice week. the first of four occasions this season where the eagles have a nonstandard workweek. chip kelly spoke about the keys to preparing with less time. >> it's

the smelly gases are so strong, that residents across the sea in norway and finland have reported smelling them. now scientists say the eruptions could last months. >>> back here in the u.s., memphis is recovering from a serious soaker. 4 to 6 inches of rain fell, flash floods left folks in need of rescue. and in michigan, wicked waves, some as high as ten feet. they looked cool, but proved to be too much for one kayaker. he had to be rescued. and wait for this, yep, it is snow in september. parts of south dakota got hit with two inches of it. two inches of snow. nbc meteorologist bill karins is here. >> the leaves are green. >> this is crazy. this is a wacky september. >> it snowed last night in denver. i know. >> what's coming up next? >> i know. a heat wave for the west. try to wrap your head around that. look at yesterday's high temperature map. that tells the store are ary. it was 100 in phoenix, high temperature was 41 in casper, wyoming, that's about -- that's almost 60 degrees difference between those two locations. so the heat is moving in the opposite direction as the cold air. t

. >> finland. care, no, the president of bought.e will with us to the arctic and got out on the ice and signed it. a little polar bear appeared on a ridge while he was signing it. after the summit, i'm going to write every head of state to actually ask them to support the declaration. i believe this is now winnable. but after the urgency voices we've heard at the climate summit, we now it is the weather they were just words or whether it is backed by real -- >> i want to ask about the climate summit. you spoke on a panel with judah major international companies -- international copies. pretending or saying they're going to act even faster than governments are on the issue of beginning to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is there any concern about this whole sort of, let us do it voluntarily rather than through treaties or through government commitments? >> absolutely perfect question position,eenpeace some have signed and we understand, we took the position not to sign precisely because we do not believe that voluntary action on its

the idea becoming over latin america, finland, russia had been using it was all completely over. america after world war ii there was the fault of actually being fewer in the american units were going to become more popular because hitler was nothing so much as, well it was all metric and all of those getting help were getting equipment and everything else sized in the imperial or u.s. units. but after world war ii, when colonialism broke apart, that is when the metric system actually jumped forward and it finally looks like it was going to overtake the english measures. again, america was totally oblivious to any of this going on until sputnik. when the russians had just gotten the atomic bomb and they beat us to having rockets, while satellites people believed there would be atomic bomb is being dropped from the satellites and it was like we are going to get on the mac. map. the kids need to become engineers. kids at that point were pretty well tortured in the third or fourth grade every conceivable algebra taught in school but people also started looking at the metric system.

from finland to japan. so we are not normal. we are a geographical oxymoron. in this sense we do imagine the world not the way it is. judging by the actions of vladimir putin always appears this way. we are guilty of that. so we try to be normal as i said. my birth grandmother who i just called a new boss because i am far from knowing her and loving her although i did interview her for the book. fringe didn't work out for her. she was accused as people do in the u.s. as our for contact with foreigners which she did and she went to gulag. it is a very sad story. as perfect as she was, as hypocritical as she was, she didn't deserve any of this. c-span ten years in the detention camp. one of the fun facts, in russia fun facts are always very tragic. one of those fun facts, one of the riot members, those young women, at st. against vladimir putin, they went to prison, one of them was released blast year. she was in the same camp as leonid's suppose the wife. just imagine for a second. this is the camp that continued to exist. the gulag did not exist the 7 camps ex

cnbc spoke to the governor of the bank of dpn finland about what issues he has with that abs market.>> we already have many figures, but they're mentioned in this whole package. one is the lpros, which are demand let. so banks decide how many they want to lend in the outright purchases, which be decide. so they are a different part of element. it goes with time. >> looking right now at the abs market, it doesn't seem to be big enough, right? what do you want to choose especially by buying those assets from the bank? >> actually with abs program received package in lpros. very important. abs designed but covering -- they'll all be three together, not only to size and volume, but there are geocratically. it's all well known that in this market in europe it's not -- but we also want to develop european markets. >> so you want to develop it back to what it was before the financial crisis? >> not really. we all know that before the financial crisis, it went quite far. people didn't know what they were buying. better abc is clear, perhaps simpler, it's a really products which are traded an

his command stretched from new finland to mexico and hampered by inadequate means, poor communications very limited support from his home government. his defense of british shipping in the atlantic would determine the outcome of the war, but only after the americans declared they were desperately serious about waging it. only then could he turn defense into offense imposing a devastating economic blockade that simply treated the united states as another part of napoleon's continental system, something to be blockaded and economically ruined. initially, a shortage of ships and limited rules of engagement hampered warren's business. but even in late 1812, he began the difficult job of capturing and incarcerating american privateer fleet. as they filled with sailors, the privateer fleet would begin to falter. five months after war did warren learn americans were determined to continue the conflict. he was then tasked with setting up system to protect shipping from new world to old, caribbean and british north america into british ports. by this stage over 150 british merchant ships had al

. >> north korea and syria at the top are finland netherlands and norway, where is the united statesthis list? you've got to drop all the way down to 46 to find the united states. that's just behind places like rowromania and haiti. the u.s. dropped 13 places from last year, reporters without borders blames that on the government's crack down on whistle blowers and elaboration. it mentioned the cases of chelsea manning and edward snowden. reporters without borders put the united kingdom as number 33 on the list also because of edwaredward snowden's leak. overall activists worry not only are wars and regimes holding back journalist. john. >> coming up, more of my revealing conversation with lls and the impact of silencing on all of us. >> an al jazeera special report. war on truth. >> now more than ever, journalism is a dangerous business and not just because of the risks of covering war. governments and rebel groups alike are cracking down on reporters and much worse. paul beban has more, paul. >> john taking risks in combat areas is not only dangerous, but media organizations have s

leapfrogged finland and germany, ranking fifth.ow, tony these ratings are based on 12 different factors but they have to do with how easy itsel it is to do business . civil institutions how strong innovation is, technological readiness and efficiency of the country's labor market. it measures all those things and the united states is third. >> the u.s. may be the third most competitive economy in the world, but the world economy forum said that the u.s. has problems that they have to fix. >> they didn't come up with anything that we didn't already know such as the government debt, and the national savings rate. the debt ceilinge ceiling, dumb stuff like that makes it difficult. switzerland doesn't have that. some other weakness, though, are that u.s. businesses don't tend to trust american political leaders. this comes up a lot. this vitriol in washington, the extreme partisan it does have an affect. this is important. because reports like this is what helps companies make decision where is they're going to expand, where they're go

finland and norway have cultures that allow press to flourish.here is the united states on this list? you have to drop down to 46th. to find the united states. in front of row romania and hai. the u.s. dropped 13 places from last year. reporters without borders blames that on the government's crack downed on whistle blowers and leaks. it actually mentioned the cases of chelsea manning and edward snowden. reporters without borders placed united kingdom 33 on the list also because of the edward snowden leak. caichts worractivists worry, drs obsessed with hunting down whistle blowers. >> coming up more of my conversation with abdullahal shami and the impact of silencing journalists on all of us. >> and al jazeera special report. war on truth. now more than ever journalism is a dangerous business and not just because of the risks of covering war. governments and rebel groups alike are cracking down on reporters and much worse. paul beban is here with more. paul. >> reporter: john, covering conflict is made much more dangerous today. first media organ

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looking for ways to deal with this threat, to be fair, if you look at other countries, denmark, norway, finlandre people to go to syria and join the fight. >> in countries like bell yum, you have greater aish populations. in countries like belgium and france, you've got algerian and more rack en. the threat right now is unprecedented, bigger than even before 9/11, after 9/11, during the iraq war. they have never been more worried and this is really something echoed in the muslim community. i spoke with one leader who is working on a cutting edge of deradicalization. he's saying there's been a surge for isis in the british streets. these are very worrying times. >> in your talks over the last three days, have you caught any whiff that british officials think there is a specific threat? >> it does not. more general concern about the numbers returning, concern somive of these people may retaliate in the u.k. also you have this big nato summit this coming week in wales. it's not lost on british officials that last time you saw a major attack on british soil, the 2005 london bombs, there was a g 8 s