they have received a french band initiation from charles de gaulle that he did not get from the british prime minister at the time.+ it is perhaps deeper than and some people imagine. it has been the case that germany and france as well as next-door neighbors have a particular interest in trying to achieve this together. it is more than a friendship. it is a partnership because they have common goals. the common goal was to integrate europe politically and economically. that is really a part of this friendship. it is something that both france and germany see as being essential to their own well- being. >> could also be about rival nations elsewhere? >> it is a unique treaty touted by the history of the two nations but certainly in the fact it shows that it is possible for countries that have been archenemies for a long time to become the closest of the friends and the driving force behind an integrating movement in a continent. >> thank you very much, john, from our parliamentary studios. >> a series of car bombings in iraq have killed about 20 people and wounded dozens more. >> one bl

there is misery and disappointment at charles de gaulle as well. >> my flight was canceled. i want to buy tickets. the nearest flights are from france. >> the roads are treacherous and accidents have already happened. at the brussels airport, clearing the runways is a priority. >> you cannot use salt at an airport because there is risk of it corroding the airplanes. so, we are forced to use machines. >> hundreds of passengers faced delays in frankfurt. but at least 130 flights were canceled their. in heathrow heavy snow and low visibility white 250 flights of the departures board. passengers have been forced to camp out in the terminal in the hopes of getting on an airplane eventually. the forecast will not do much to cheer them up either. more snow expected on monday, likely to mean more delays and misery. >> our top story at this hour, barack obama prepares to be publicly sworn in for his second term. with the trial of five men accused of the gang rape and murder of a student in delhi, the victim's father has told the bbc that those accused of the crime should face the dea

you can tell de gaulle to go to hell.nd said rusk you have to learn something about policy. you never tell somebody in politics to go to hell unless you can send them there. and obama can't send those republicans to hell. but he can i think,... he can get some cooperation from them that he hasn't gotten in the past. and also he's got to reach out to the democrats. bob woodward made an important point. i can confirm that. there's a real sense on the hill that he's not... he doesn't really... not that he doesn't like us. he doesn't respect us. he doesn't think we're you know, like him. he thinks our fingers are dirty or whatever. that's very important for him to get over that. >> schieffer: dr. peterson. i'll let you have the last word >> i disagree that he stuck his finger in the eye of the n.r.a. or the gun lobby. we're getting so far away... from the last segment people were talking about how he handled the n.r.a. without enough nuance. if you are around people who have been around these kinds of tragedies, i think you c

took a century, massive casualties, the overthrow of the third republic and the genius of general de gaulle to get the french army back out at the north african desert? [laughter] >> order order. order to i think we want to the prime minister's answer. the prime minister spent i can reach the shore my right honorable friend i am only planning to visit algiers, not anything else but i'm sure the event to which he referred he put down energy question and got a response at a time. [laughter] >> i am grateful, mr. speaker. last week the prime minister said that he was -- last week the prime minister said he was think of britain's debt, but on his what you go up by 600 billion pounds. would you like to take the opportunity to break the record? >> i'm very clear. we've got the deficit down by a quarter, and in order to get on top of our dead you have to get on top of the deficit. that is a state located on top of our dead. but it is worth reminding ourselves why we are having to do this in the first place. who was it who wrapped up the dead? who was it who racke rack up the deficit? who was it th

took a century, massive casualties, the overthrow of the third republic and the genius of general de gaulle to get the french army back out at the north african desert? [laughter] >> order order. order to i think we want to the prime minister's answer. the prime minister spent i can reach the shore my right honorable friend i am only planning to visit algiers, not anything else but i'm sure the event to which he referred he put down energy question and got a response at a time. [laughter] >> i am grateful, mr. speaker. last week the prime minister said that he was -- last week the prime minister said he was think of britain's debt, but on his what you go up by 600 billion pounds. would you like to take the opportunity to break the record? >> i'm very clear. we've got the deficit down by a quarter, and in order to get on top of our dead you have to get on top of the deficit. that is a state located on top of our dead. but it is worth reminding ourselves why we are having to do this in the first place. who was it who wrapped up the dead? who was it who racke rack up the deficit? who was it th

charles de gaulle stayed here while france was occupied by nazi germany. >> it's fascinating to pageeporter: one american president, harry truman, made this place his home while the white house was under renovation. >> it's not as oval. after president truman had left blair house, they moved this mantle into this room to commemorate the attachment between the white house and the blair house. >> reporter: and blair house was the site of what has been called the biggest gunfight in secret service history. in 1952 puerto rican accept ratists tried to shoot their way inside. a secret service officer stopped them, but was killed in the line of duty. >> this is the drawing room. >> reporter: the fine arts committee led by jackie kennedy select selected the wallpaper and day core. >> as you can see as you walk through this house, it showcases the history, who we are as americans. it tells a wonderful story about our great nation. >> reporter: blair house is where foreign ambassadors will have lunch today. and there are a record number of foreign ambassadors and their spouses attending this