. >> neil: 45 minutes away from seeing france but is it harder to see the difference with france? i'm neil cavuto, in moments president obama and french president nicolas sarkozy will address reporters. sarkozy is urging the u.s. to work together invent new rules for the global economy of tomorrow. president obama appears to be doing that already. just today signing a bill that not only gives the government more control of healthcare, but also takes over student loans. in fact, it seems the two countries aren't far apart on a lot of things. government run healthcare, check. big incentives to unions, check. jobless rates at or near double digits. check. top tax rate near 40%. check. government spending as a growing part of gdp, check. deficits, here we actually got france beat. check. not much a surprise to steve forbes who says we're not quite france yet but we're louie xiv. >> i said man, ohman, that's amazing. >> it is mazen and the president and others around him and democratic party has the feeling western in your opinion is the -- europe is the model to go. president obama is

one example is that france would not have the united states not supporting france for their presidency. i will not repeat what president obama said so eloquently on afghanistan for a week support his strategy. the people of afghanistan are entitled to live free. the road is difficult. of course, nothing can be anticipated and of course, we are sorrowful for loss of young lives but we have to have the courage to explain there is cold and stiff strategy. -- there is no alternative strategy. defeat would be too high a price for the security of americans, the french, and europeans. by fighting in afghanistan, what we are fighting for his world security, quite simply. on iran, i am very satisfied with what president barack obama has said. the time has come to make decisions. iran cannot continue its mad race. we don't want to punish iran which deserves better than what it has by way of its leadership today. therefore, we want tougher sanctions at the security council and take the necessary decisions. with angela merkel and gordon brown, we will make necessary everest to ensure that europe a

and christopher, and continuation with the france. and the exact of france way back.n 1803, the blue and red flag. ultimately we won our independence in 1804. i was led by the shock still lay. 1807, we had a civil war. until 1821. and invaded santo domingo where the entire island was controlled under haiti. 1838, the french never recognized the haitian independence but also a change for 1 fifteen million francs. most nations including the united states didn't recognize haiti until 20 years later. fearful of the slavery in happening in haiti would spread around. so therefore over the next few decades haiti was forced to take out $70 million to pay for independence. 1862 the united states granted recognition in sending frederick douglass to haiti. in 1916, u.s. marines by 80 to establish control of a custom house and authorities. national guard was created in the marines into livers and building roads and also people under leadership. and assassinated by the marines. 1934, by haiti. 1937, a lot of them massacred by dominican soldiers. in 1957 after it was time to move f

now one of the top cardiologists in france. >> of course it's not easy when you're from algeria in france. you know that. that's not easy at all. but you can do it. but it's more difficult for you. >> reporter: layla is a successful algerian author. she has lived in paris the last 17 years. but she says she sees examples of discrimination almost every day. >> if you talk in arab in a bus in paris, they look at you. they are not happy. >> reporter: as for raba, he says it's fine if you're exceptional, perhaps a great athlete. "for a guy like me, if i win the world cup or a gold medal, peop me the frenchman," he says. "if you get caught drunk driving, they call you the frenchman of algerian origin." perhaps a soccer star will emerge from this league in paris, although that's not the point. raba started it a few years ago because he wanted to teach players how to be good c it's not easy. they may be citizens of france but they don't feel accepted by society. raba isn't sure how much longer he can keep them playing soccer and off the street. i'm martin seemungal reporting for "worldfocus" in

others are already in custody in france and spain. a report from islamabad. >> the two suspects were presented to the media by triumph and pakistani police but the men managed to say they had looked after sahil but officers said they belong to a criminal gang who had been operating in the area. display of ammunition and grenades was found to -- said to have been found in their possession and also items said to have been stolen from his grandmother's house on the night of his abduction. police said the suspects wanted in connection with the murders of 22 people. >> 1 is already wanted in many cases of kidnapping and murder. similarly, the second one is also wanted in 15 murder cases. altogether they are wanted in 22 murder cases and kidnapping for ransom. >> but there were other members of the gang still on the run. a few days ago a series of arrests were made in europe related to the ransom payments. they now believe one of those arrested in spain is the brother of one of the two suspected kidnappers caught here. his father talked abo

of france.e was the main kind of symbol of the french resistance. there was nobody else. there was absolutely nobody else. even though churchill get furious at him many, many times. there was this back and forth between churchill and roosevelt brought the war until as you know until the end of the war. after paris was liberated. >> even then. >> roosevelt did not want anything to do with dugal. he refused to acknowledge that his government was a provisional government. it was really a huge blow of contention. and it's really tainted the well between france. he can speak more to that. he lived in france for many years. between france, england, britain, and the united states. we see the results to this day. >> tell us, and curious about your reporting process. you have always had this way of peeling away the hang in layers and telling asset detail that makes this tear up or crack up laughing. this particular item in has gone through a lot. over the years, it has been told in a different ways. we b

france had opposed a bailout but appears to have accepted germany's terms for the deal. lawyers for oprah winfrey say she has reached an out-of-court settlement in a defamation case brought by the former headmistress of the school she batted in south africa. she was sacked over allegations that another teacher was involved in child abuse. she said statements by the talk show host had damaged her reputation. the united states has agreed to speed up requests from pakistan for military equipment amid signs of improving relations between the two countries at the end of a day of talks in washington between the u.s. secretary of state and pakistani foreign minister. the claim is that u.s. suspicions of pakistan had gone away. he said the mood was completely different from his previous visit to washington. >> the people of pakistan, the armed forces of pakistan have shown the result, the determination, and the commitment. we will win in this struggle because defeat is not an option that we are planning for. we have a clear objective. we have a plan. we have a strategy, and that

of haiti, france will meet this challenge. side-by-side with the european union, the international and the international community. france immediately mobilize her resources to assist the haitian people. now it will a company and assist haiti in the long-term. french aid for 2010 and 2011 on will be of an amount of 180 million euros, with the immediate cancellation of 56 million euros of bilateral haitian debt and the direct contributions made by france to european multilateral assistan assistance. where will be a go? convinced that the government, and i repeat this, must be at the forefront of its own development. france has decided to allocate 20 million euros annually, budgetary assistance, and 5 million will be dispersed before the end of this month. this aid will be aimed at buying seeds for the next agricultural harvest, but also to back the administrative financial and security infrastructure of the haitian state, and enable it to implement its plan of action for reconstruction. france's aid is aimed at backing a new ec

and it failed in france and in the netherlands. two of the original six countries who formed this united europe. that was kind of surprising. but the really surprising thing for me, the guy who wrote all about generation e is that the younger french and dutch people voted against the constitution more than older people did. do you think -- is it fair to say i was wrong about generation e, yeah, i think that was fair. i was wrong. >> host: and to look at the european-u.s. relations through the eyes of some brits, who are the laudbergers? >> guest: the laudbergers that's a typical american family, peter. they used to appear on a morning -- a funny morning tv show in britain called "the big breakfast." it was their version of "good morning america" or something. and it would have news. and it would have entertainment news. it was a lot like our morning shows except they also had these skits in which -- in which these two very, very fat people -- they wore michelin man fat suits and they were overweight and holding onto guns. the laudb

france did. taiwan did. the netherlands did.ot of countries have made that transition because they made the moral commitment to cover everybody. i mean, germany -- i won't count 'cause they started in 1883. but a lot of countries have done it. did it in the 20th century. and i describe this at some length how these different countries got there. and i'll tell you the pattern. it's not universal but a very common pattern. the most common pattern is, some leader came along and said to the people of the country, hey, we need to provide healthcare for everybody in our country who's sick. everybody in our country, all our neighbors should have access to a doctor when they need it. and people bought that argument. but they only bought it because a leader came along and as i was talking earlier about what happened in switzerland, in many cases, the entrenched interests fought it like crazy. and canada the doctors went on strike. the doctors went on strike to protest universal coverage 'cause they thought it would get in the way of thei

it aired in france, but it echoes a famous american experiment about human nature and how far people will go. the results are sobering. here's jim sciutto. >> reporter: what does it take for good people to do bad things? the french documentary recreated a series of experiments conducted in the 1960s by yale psychologists. he told his subjects they were part of a learning and memory study. >> we want to find out what effect punishment wi have on learning. >> reporter: in reality, he wanted to know how much pain an ordinary person would inflict on a stranger. volunteers were ordered to administer what they believed were powerful electric shocks on students who delivered wrong answers. more than 6 in 10 complied. fast forward 50 years to france, and a game show called extreme zone, exploring the power of television. before a cheering crowd, participants were told to ask questions and like in the experiments at yale, punish all wrong answers with increasingly powerful electric shocks. still, urged on by the host, more than 4 in 5 contestants administer what they thought was the maximum j

left france somewhere in the '70s and settled in london, certainly by the early 1580. he was recruited by sir walter raleigh in 1582 or 1583. he worked with john white, worked together to produce this map. why would they do that? well, here's those gold bearing rocks from jack lemoine's earlier map right here. and here, see this very faint outline right on the edge of the map. always seems to be on the edge of the map. and here it is. it is either a great lake, england see, or perhaps the south sea. i think it was a way by which raleigh wanted to visualize the connection between these regions, that he wanted to understand that you have the chesapeake up here, the sound here, here is roanoke, here and here, down interior is the south sea and these gold bearing rocks. no english ship is going to sail down the coast down here and try and access the river to the passage. for two reasons, one, the current are against you, and the second reason is you've got a powerful spanish garrison at san agustin, 1565 and you don't want to run into warships down there. so it is a possib

at least 1 million people in france are without power.ister is calling it a national catastrophe. >>> boy, oh boy, we saw some really bad weather earlier in the week on the east coast. what did new york get, like 23 inches of snow? >> for the month of february, don, they set a record. central park saw about three feet of snowfall. this has been a punishing winter. they set all kinds of records. pittsburgh also, four feet of snow just for the month of february. and spring is about three weeks away. but tonight we're watching new england. still this weather system just very slow to pull away, slow to decay. and tonight all the way from maine down to massachusetts, still had the winds, still have the rain and snowfall. i want to point out one town, and that is this town in south central portions of new hampshire. i'll show you some pictures of allenesport. allenesport has been without power -- allenestown has been without power for the last two days. they will be without power for several days. and the power service of new hampshire says thi

do we want to sell cisco because france can't stand the parthenon? or maybe the gyros? i don't see germany invading greece anytime soon. they did that already with mixed results not that long ago. you want to jettison sandisk because portugal got their debt downgraded? hey, you want to play that? you really want to play portugal? all right. i heard good things about the beaches. that's the way to play portugal's fortunes. spain, stop worrying about spain and check in at ibitsa, the original jersey shore-like beach, sans the situation and shnook. nevertheless, you will still have to worry about the euro there. except for it's the euro trash. boy. and obama suggested tanning tax could explode that. it could close the whole place down. the bottom line, yes, the market can falter on extraneous food fight. food fights in europe, especially when trichet takes out a grecian animal house. again, if universal health care wouldn't drop the stocks i just mentioned, i wouldn't bet that france, germany ganging up on greece will hurt the price to earnings multiple of qualcomm or the

don't buy me a france, ever, it's france. second, that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard, let's buy everybody a sweater, what about the people who live by the equator. that was a hippie song that understood get rich and then buy everybody something that you want to do. do something charitable for you, what you want to do. what we have done here is we've destroyed everything which gives you the ability to get rich and build cancer centers. everybody comes up on the technology that is being made for somebody else. am i wrong? >> that's right. technology is really important. there's a real feeling of disappointment that the technology improving over the last 10 years, rapidly, just can't maintain any longer. >> glenn: i want to get into something different than the usual health care talk. we had a chat before we went on the air. i said to you, where is the dumper sticker, zack. you're college republican. >> college republican. a scam bumper sticker. >> glenn: i said i feel like we've been scammed. i feel like the debate isn't

of napoleon's army by haiti as was talked about, the reparations that had to be paid back caused france to be cash poor and land rich and therefore forced them to settle -- sell the louisiana territory to the united states because it had lost the cash that haiti produced, over 50% of all the commodities of tea and coffee and sugar in europe came from haiti and france lost that and therefore needed the cash from the louisiana sale to havity treasury boosted and -- have its treasury boost the and as a result the expedition began i st. louis and the united states was able then to take the rest of this nation, once again haiti had a tremendous part of this wealth. i guess i will have to yield back the balance of my time. thank you, mr. chair. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. miller: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. meeks: it is my honor to recognize the chair of the subcommittee for the western hemisphere, the gentleman from new york, the honorable eliot

most of the storm deaths have been in france.is where we find cnn senior and international correspondent jim bittermann joining me live from paris. i know the french prime minister described this as a national catastrophe. describe some of the damage for me. >> reporter: well, i'll tell you, it was really a bad storm. it occurred about 3:00 in the morning. i think that's what caused all the deaths. the death toll here is going to be going well over 50, probably, once the final death count is in. they're still looking for about 30 people that are missing. the storm struck early in the morning, as i said. people woke up, they heard some funny sounds in their houses. they got up and realized that water was suddenly rising. it was something similar to what happened in new orleans, in fact. because sea walls and dikes gave way under the pressure of the storm. 100 mile an hour winds. plus the fact that, in fact, this week, this last week there's been some of the highest tides along the coast that they ever get. the very high tides duri

france and germany were making that clear as well as other countries. >> you are referring to france when you refer to the security council? >> president should iraq was willing to support the military action. -- not prepared to support military action. he could give no indication there would be a time that he could support military action. >> after he made that statement, did not the french government to immediately contact number 10, the foreign office and the british embassy in paris, to say that the british government was not interpreting his statements accurately? gravette may have happen> >>> tt i'm not aware. there was very little chance that the diplomatic route could lead to success. i think you have to understand that we are at the beginning of a new phase of a world community. we are opposed cold war phase where tensions between russia and america are not the paradigm within which people see what they should do as individual states around world. there's a danger in this time that certain countries, a rogue states, would be prepared to take action that hurt the internationa

she told me if i put a factory, r & dfactory in france they'll pay for 50% of the r & d. prrx an dtax credit is down to 20%. that's a big difference. >> rose: 20% tax reduction on every dollar you spend. >> versus 50% in france. so it makes you think about where you want to put your next jobs. >> rose: given the difference in a 20% tax on-- for r & d, versus 50%. that's not a climb. that's a policy. that's a position. that's a number. >> and the way you create climates is to look at what the world's market for, you know, for investment is. and and that is different than deciding that we should subsidize semiconductor chips as opposed to wheat. >> rose: it seems to me what you want to see is an enlightened government that wants to create a climate and wants to take policies, encourage policies that will increase our competitive ability. >> yes. starting with education. >> rose: right, doing what in education? >> accountability. focus on math and science. even things as simple as immigration policy. you know, when you talk to the folks in washington, they are so mired up in

>> yeah, both france and germany have... know, they've been very badly hit, but on the other hand, the amount of suffering of the individuals has not been as bad. i'll give you one example. one of the things that we're now... a number of places are beginning to imitate in the united states is where they put people into part-time work so that they share the work. they've recognized the system isn't working well and that rather than having as the united states one out of six americans... one out of ten americans who can't get a job, what they're doing is sharing the work more broadly. >> rose: all right, let me just continue down this. you suest that capitalism has some moral failings. >> an example, for instance, was in the financial market the... >> rose: moral depravity of the financial sector, i think, is the term you used. >> yes. and the example i give is the discovery that w made a few years ago that there was money at the bottom of the pyramid and they did everything they could to move that money from the bottom of the

we are not concerned that france has nuclear weapons. for a reason. it's not all equal. it is a different thing, and an extremist government in tehran gets nuclear weapons, and i wouldn't want to predict what israel might or might not do. but, i can certainly see their concerns and i think their concerns will grow. yes, sir. >> this is -- relates a little bit to the answer you just gave, some apologists for iran seem to think the concept of mutual assured destruction which restrained the soviets might restrain iran and i'm skeptical of that and i wanted to get your take, and, secondarily, whether you think that appearing crazy enough to use nuclear weapons is an intentional tactic for the iranians? >> well, i... the psychologist in my family is my daughter. so i'm going to leave off the second one of those, because i don't know. i think it is a very dangerous form of preemptive capitulation to assume we can deal with iran through what is called extended deterrents. there have been some hints in the administration, particularly a statement by secretary clinton, last april

it will be shown in france, except in france it's called "another reason to hate america." [ light laughter they're just changing the title. "jersey shore" is also premiering in italy this week, and the nickname "the situation" will not be translated. but snookie will be known as "orange --" [ laughter ] that's what they're -- that's -- "jersey shore" made some changes for the middle east version, too. i think we have a screen grab of this. can we -- there we go, that's it there. [ laughter ] [ scattered applause ] it looks a little different. on the ads over there, the ads say, "muscles plus gel plus tanning bed equals sex." [ light laughter ] you can get that answer with a lot of different equations. for example, "golf plus money plus text messages also equals sex." [ laughter ] you can get there any way you try. [ light laughter ] more tiger woods news today. did you read about this? porn star devon "xxx" james says that tiger paid her to have sex back in 2006. hopefully this situation will make parents think twice before raising their daughters with the middle name "xxx." [ laughter ] h

france is ranked number one. we are ranked, i think, 17.lot of money but we don't nestle spend it in the right way or the right places. let me just finish. this bill is really important, because if we don't pass it now, you can forget health care reform forever after, i believe. so this is the opportunity. we are right at the goal line. i believe it is going to pass the house. it will be signed by the president. we should pass a reconciliation bill. i would really appeal to my friend, senator hatch. let this reconciliation bill get passed. then, you can see. if it is wrong, you will certainly say so. if it works, hopefully, you will say so as well. >> we'll get your answer after this. i have to take a break. we will find out if you listened to her appeal right after this. ♪ [ woman ] when i grow up, i want to take him on his first flight. i want to run a marathon. i'm going to work with kids. i'm going to own my own restaurant. when i grow up, i'm going to start a band. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. than

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she's currently serving in lds mission over in france and just having a wonderful experience. as far as the case moving forward, i guess that's in the defense's hands now, whether we go to trial or there's a plea. you know, it would be great if we could get it resolved sooner rather than later. but the bottom line is, accountability is coming about and that mitchell is going to have to be accountable for his actions. and in the end, i just don't want to ever see him hurt anyone the way he hurt elizabeth. >> ed smart reacting to the news in the case that a judge ruled 56-year-old brian david mitchell is competent enough to stand trial, so the charges against him will proceed. ed, thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. we appreciate it. >> you bet. thank you. >>> again, a pretty good decision in this case involving elizabeth smart. of course, it is a big ruling. now, could it be a break in the case of this woman, chelsea king? police linked a convicted sex offender to the disappearance of the california teen named chelsea, there's still no sign of her. the osmond family t

, rus britain, israel, france, russia three weeks ago actually we shot down one of iranian drone flying over iraq. one thing we have to question is where is the state of american manufacturing today as well as the science of mathematics training take us in this revolution? what does it mean to send out were soldiers who software is written in india? but warfare just like software is going open source. that is the other ripple effect. they're not like an aircraft carrier they need a massive industrial structure to put them together. they're promotional or off the shelf. you saw the video of the raven drawn the most widely used you can build your own version $41,000. so that means we have a flattening effect when it comes to war if not just the big boys can utilize the best technologies of the scandal and interesting directions one of the stories is of a group of college students that wanted to do something about genocide in darfur they held a fund-raiser and raised half a million dollars. upon which the college kids injured into negotiations with a private military company for the rental

we are well below germany people france and england. is this mythology that those economies are suffering because of their tax burden and it is not true. if you look at the important measure of productivity, what do you produce in an hour of work. they're very close and many estimates show that france is higher output per hour. belgium also. the idea that europe's economy is stagnant, that isn't true. it doesn't show up in the data. on would not go crazy about taxes but we need more revenue. my favorite way of getting more revenue is taxing financial transactions. we had a modest tax. if you attack a stock and trade 0.25%, and have very small taxes. huge tax credit default swaps. if when you had a trade you could easily raise over $100 billion a year. that would not solve all abroad that -- budget problems forever but it would be a pretty good boost and have little impact on the vast majority of people. it would affect the very wealthy and it would affect people who are engaged in speculation. my attitude is if you want to place a bet i

maybe we can learn more from germany, netherlands, france and finland to figure god negative and cambodia. of the discovery's look at those countries there is an exception to every major democracy be stationed in europe and north of us to those of much larger sum sum subsidizing media and journalism a much larger sum a factor in a rare of 40 or 75 times. but we also discovered the largest per capita subsidies in the world and i had never seen any secret police were no one had been beaten up it seem like a free society and some say how can that be? we went back and looked at the economist magazine and a judge the rating of the most democratic countries and the six leading countries based on the most honest government and civil liberties and freedom were the countries that have the heaviest press subsidies and the world norway britain and germany japan. we were low on the list may be that do so because they crushed the private media that did not exist and they brainwash the people. looking at a group called freedom house from the private commercial news media and it was set up to monitor co

i've made it to france!" [ laughter ] it's america, baby. yeah. >> including me, a little knucklehead from another country. first -- the first words i heard were, "you stupid? can't you speak english?" now they all work for me. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: now, speaking of working for you, you have like an enterprise. like gene simmons -- you're not even here. this is a robot that you made to send you out to -- i mean, kiss is like merchandise. >> yeah. >> jimmy: you have kiss coffins. >> we do. >> jimmy: you have -- are you writing a check to me? >> no. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i was going to say that's awesome. >> no, but keep talking. >> jimmy: okay, very good. what is this guy? oh, my god. kiss visa cards. [ laughter ] isn't that unbelievable? you have everything. >> yeah, we do. >> jimmy: what would you say is the biggest seller kiss item you have? >> us. >> jimmy: yes. besides you guys, absolutely. >> well, it is an astonishing thing to come from the streets of new york, i will tell you, without the funny stuff and to be four knuckleheads -- y

you were just in germany, france.ou said you weren't asking for money. >> that's right. >> woodruff: what do you want them and us to do? >> what we're saying is we're doing our part. we're putting our finances in order. and we've taken some very difficult measures. now what we also wanted to make sure that the markets are regulated in a sense so that they don't speculate against countries. and i have been in touch with the chancellor of germany the president of france, the president of the euro group so- called euro group which is a euro currency. we together are now making initiatives to push for worldwide regulation on this issue. and that is where what i also brought to the united states and just had a discussion with the head of the state department. >> woodruff: are you getting the support you need? is this going to happen? if it doesn't, what does that mean if it doesn't happen snen. >> yes, we are getting the support. first of all there are two forms of support. if we do go out into the market and we have probl

won their independence in a revolution, similar to our revolution, from the french colonial regime, france imposed a blockade and imposed and extracted a promise of a 21 billion reparations and that's $21 billion in today's currency. that is greater than the debt incurred at that time by the united states. a much bigger government. when they were born as a country, they were immediately -- their enslavement continued. and the amazing thing, if you look at that debt that the french imposed and you read about it, part of the debt was repayment for compensation of property, which included the slave population. i mean, that's amazing. that's amazing. and that's something that we can't do anything about. we can do something today. but when the french lost their ability to enslave that population, they extracted, because of their navy, a blockade and that debt. with the country's economic productivity to pay off this debt, which has never been paid off because there were other debts added, economic development is stifled since 1804. and some say, why haiti? why is it so poor? it never stood a ch

. >> we have heard about these arrests in spain and the u.k., france as well, linked to a ransom payment. we have not had the actual kidnappers arrested here in pakistan. the police have been holding a news conference, -- news conferences, they have produced two men that they say are linked to this kidnapping. in one case a local reporter managed to trust their microphone into the face of a suspect, on tape he said that they looked over -- look after the boy as if it was a child in their family, which sounds like a confession to me. police also produce weapons, explosives, and belongings that were stolen from the family house. remember, this is how it began a couple of weeks ago. the british boy was visiting his extended family with his father and just as they were leaving, this gang forced their way in. >> back to you, jonathan. >> the pressure is continuing to mount on pope benedict of alleged cases of child abuse. 14 years ago they warned that a priest may have molested as many as 200 deaf boys. the archbishop received no response and no action was ultimately taken against a priest in

. >> a substitute teacher in -- teacher is charged with urinating in france because of high school students. it happened in california. he urinated into a cup in front of the students. at one time, he was an anglican priest. he may have some mental issues because of a severe car accident that killed his wife. >> if it is bombarded by a swarm of bees in arizona. tens of thousands of bees swarmed the family. both mom and son did receive treatment and are doing ok. beekeepers have removed that nest, fearing that the bees would swarm in other family. >> conservative, to take -- commentator was kept from speaking yesterday. protesters protested her speaking engagement. eventually, officials ruled that it would be dangerous for her to come. she expressed her anger an interview with the washington times, calling the university bush like. still to come, a fairly new baby product is being pulled from the shell spirit it could suffocate a child if used improperly. that is coming up >> in consumer alert, airbus's the world trade organization throughout 7% of plans by boeing that airbus received state

on this united states and france are united and inseparable. we offered iran a good faith proposals to resolve this matter through diplomacy. but iran thus far has rejected those offers. today the international community is more united than ever on the need for ran to uphold its obligations. that is why we are pursuing strong sanctions through the u.n. security council. finally, we discussed efforts to advance security and peace around the world, including in the middle east, where we agree that all sides need to act now to create the atmosphere that gives talks best chance to succeed. it's come more from "the times" here. from the president -- not waiting -- interested in waiting months for a regime to be in place, but weeks. that is the front page story in open "the washington times." back to the offshore oil drilling question. atlanta, allan, independent. good morning. caller: i have not heard much lately about the strategic reserve, but anyway -- in a way, they could be looked at similar to the strategic reserve things. because even though

one thing i like to hear about this, in france, they have taken the color of white out of the flag ofi. this is a rejection of -- this is not the rejection of humanity, but this is the rejection of the white this. there was a phrase that was used 15 years ago. they said that this was loyal to humanity. we have to get past this question. in the constitution, everybody is black. we're going to get rid of race. but this is a big challenge. between that time and now, you have the government's -- people have to eat food. but how you constructed this state, where this never existed? you see this with the entire western world against you. this has not changed. i will continue but we will stop on any thing in history. the fact that the american government was helping a little bit. he is alleged to have participated in the 1779 battle in said that that was mentioned, where he spoke about the support. they helped us get our independence. this did not include us, because most of the black people were trying to get away. as many black people were fighting for the british as the americans. the fre

it's pretty much a dollar play we're seeing. >> we may be turning into france. markets don't seem to be bothered by that. >> it is more of a dollar question right now. there's a lot of time for all of the health care issues. >> we're back to trading on the dollar a little bit. the dollar index is near the highest level since july as we opened. stocks opened lower. there's is euro/dollar. when the euro started strengthening in the mid-morning, things got better. head of the euro group was making comments about greece, trying to soothe everybody's nerves again, saying we're not going to abandon greece, we'll find something, and the euro strengthened on that. our market strengthened as the dollar weakened here in the united states. there's good reason to be concerned about a really strong dollar at this point. you know all the reasons why the market doesn't particularly like strong dollars. number one, you've got the issues with what's going on overseas. profits get hurt. the amount of money you can actually repa -- there's another thing, by the way, floating aroun

we are about 15%, france is 10% and in overall performance by the world health organization, france isked number one. i think we're ranked 17. we spend a lot of money but we don't necessarily spend it in the right way or the right places. now, let me just finish. this bill is really important because if we don't pass it now, you can forget health care reform forever after, i believe. so this is the opportunity. we're right at the goal line. i believe it's going to pass the house. it will be signed by the president. we should pass the reconciliation bill. and i would really appeal to my good friend, senator hatch. let this reconciliation bill get passed. then you can see if it's wrong, you'll certainly say so. if it works, hopefully you'll say so as well. >> and we'll get your answer right after this because i've got to take a break and we'll find out if you listened to her appeal right after this. i work for a different insurance company. my auto policy's just getting a little too expensive. with progressive, you get the "name your price" option, so we build a policy to fit your budget

heavy rains and hurricane-force winds pummeled france the hardest, where 51 people died, but the storms also battered parts of belgium, germany, portugal, and spain. today french president nicolas sarkozy flew over the widespread flooding of france's devastated atlantic coast. high tides pounded sea walls there, causing them to burst open and flood nearby port communities. the president of toyota went to china today and apologized for a slew of safety problems with his company's vehicles. akio toyoda made the stop after last week's visit to the u.s. where he faced a grilling from lawmakers in washington. the number of vehicles recalled in china is a small portion of the eight and a half million pulled worldwide since october. at an hour-long news conference in beijing, toyoda apologized four times. >> the chinese market is very important. the reason why i came directly to beijing from the u.s. after the hearing is that i would like to express directly to chinese consumers our apology through my own remarks. and at the same time to explain to chinese customers what has happened recently

it is located 300 feet beneath the board over france and switzerland.s run by the european organizer for the nuclear research. the machine sends protons around 17-mile track at velocities approaching the speed of light, by smashing these particles into very tiny pieces, this is hoped to recreate the conditions of the universe fractions of a second after the big bang. here's a look at the collider from a report by steve kroft on "60 minutes" in 2008. >> the collider itself is a marvel of precision engineering. this animation shows how two beams of invisible hydrogen protons will be driven around the tunnel in opposite directions inside ultra high vacuum tubes propelled and guided by superconducting magnets chilled with liquid helium to a temperature of minus 271 degrees celsius. colder than deep space. as the two beams approach speeds of 186,000 miles per second, they will smash into each other at four different parts of the collider at the heart of the machine are four massive detectors where the actual collision of the subatomic particles takes place.

we are closer to japan but were well below germany, france and england. we are well below those countries and there's this mythology that some of those economies are suffering enormously. if you look of the most important measure of vitality, productivity, what are you producing in an hour for their clothes and in some cases menez michelle france for example has higher output per hour of work. belgium also said this idea somehow europe's economies are stagnant, that really just isn't true. i want to go crazy about taxes but i think we probably do with the end of the day need more revenue. my favorite ways taxing financial transactions. we had a modest tax, if you tax say stock trades, 0.25%, a quarter of 1% and have very small taxes, say tax credit default swaps, 1/100th of 1%, when you had a trade than you could easily raise well over $100 billion a year. that won't necessarily solve all the budget problems forever but that would be a pretty good boost and have little impact on the vast majority of people and affects some of the very wealthy and infect p

shocking new game show in france that is an experiment to see how far people will go.stants agree to deliver an electric shock at near fatal levels to their rivals. the rivals are actors. there is no electricity. the point is to see how far they will go. 82% were willing to administer what they thought were electric shots. they were told they were taking part in a pilot. they weren't even up for prizes. >>> redskins have the backup quarterback and the count down begins. e'r hdme06 >>> i'm dave feldman with the georgetown lay hoyas that will tomorrow take on ohio. >> my first time in many ways feels like this time. you are excited. it's something that does not get old. the opportunities to participate in this tournament is especially. >> i feel very excited to be a part of this. me and my teammates are excited, anxious to play. so, from a personal standpoint, i don't have any first impressions yet, it's still basketball. >> we are playing well. we are doing what we have to do at the right time. we believe in one another. that's one of the strongest points, our chemistry

offered the entire territory of louisiana which spain had just three years before retrocreeded to france to the united states for $15 million. spain was furious. england was alarmed, especially when it learned the sale was financing napoleon's war on them. overnight the size of the united states doubled even as humboldt and jefferson were meeting jefferson's hand-picked team of