. >> we wanted to hear from the sugar industry, so we visited george simon sugar cane farm in louisiana. >> would it surprise you that every scientist we talked to said they're eliminating all added sugars, getting rid of it because they're concerned about the health impacts? >> to say that the american consuming public is going to completely eliminate sweeteners out of their diet, i don't think gets us there. >> simon cautions that eliminating sugar wrongly vilifies one food rather than working toward the long term solution of reducing calories and exercising. >> a lot of people, jim, are saying sugar is different. it's bad for your heart and causing a lot of problems we're talking about. it is addictive and in some cases might even fuel cancers. you have looked at this. you must have looked at some of the studies. what do you say about that? >> science is not completely clear here. >> some of the studies exist. i mean, what does a consumer make of all that? >> i would say to them that they have got to approach their diet in balance. >> the doctor agrees, we need a balanced diet, but h

simons, bbc news. >> this is gmt from "bbc world news." i am george alagiah. french president sarkozy accuses the syrian authorities of trying to wipe homs from the map. at least 30 people are still in iraq across the capitol and four provinces -- are killed in erupt across the capitol and four provinces. news that the european parliament has approved a controversial bill to transfer airline passenger details to the u.s. a permanent homeland security. our correspondent joins me now. what sort of information are we talking about that will be transferred? >> we are talking about the kind of information that you have to supply to an airline when you fly anyway. quite a long list of details. name, address, phone number, credit card details, your meal preferences, where you are sitting, medical conditions. all of these things are collected by an airline. it supplies a great deal of information about you. this is information that the u.s. department of homeland security has been asking for from the european union for quite some time. it has gotten some of this infor

adjunct professor of history at george mason university where he teaches courses on 19th century and military history. he earned his ph.d. under the direction of john weiss simon. his dissertation was on the care, treatment, and use of civil war cavalry horses. i would like to tell you a little bit about the work that david does with the papers of abraham lincoln. david and his fellow editors are doing an incredibly labor intensive but extraordinarily important job with the papers of abraham lincoln. . there are many editors working at the national archives going through millions of documents. every piece of paper that was generated by the federal government or sent to the federal government from the civil war years that is held at the national archives will be looked at by one of the editors of the papers of abraham lincoln. they are daily finding new insights about our nation's 16th president. this work is extraordinarily important and shedding new light on someone we thought we knew a lot about and we did and we are learning more about every day. david is a part of that project. that project has been a wonderful boon to historians like myself. today, we are

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simon reporting. >>> on the trayvon martin killing, news that george zimmerman, the shooter is about to be formally just got a statement from the florida governor rick scott. i'll read it to you, it's short. we are fortunate in our state that most floridians and local civic leaders are law-abiding, responsibility is zens who all want justice to prevail no matter what state attorney angela corey determines following her investigation of the trayvon martin tragedy. i trust in the goodness of all florida citizens to allow our justice system to reach an appropriate conclusion in this case. that statement coming in from rick scott, the florida governor. remember, we're standing by for a news conference, angela corey, special prosecutor about to announce what she plans on doing. there you see one of her young aides. they're testing the microphones there in florida right now. we'll go to angela corey's news conference as soon as it begins. stand by for that. >>> meanwhile, before the killings that made him infamous, did cult leader charles manson father a son? the man on the right side of the screen tells

megyn: simon rosenberg is here, a clinton campaign adviser. and mark thesen, a former george w.ter. are you really at war? are you at war on me, mark ph. >> no, not at all. there is no war against woman. what there is is a war for the women's vote and it's a war that barack obama is losing. in 2009 he had 70% approval rating with women. today his approval rating with women according to gallop is 47%. he knows he's got to turn that around if he's going to get reee hrebted. he's either creating or waeugd into all of these controversies. he's entering the fightin' to whether women should be allowed into the augusta national golf club. they are putting all poison pill amendments in the women's act to get republicans to block it. that's why we have this controversy where the president is forcing religious employers to offer contraception to women because he wants the fight. he could have easily blocked that fight by extending the exemption that was offered to churches to religious employers but he wanted the fight and that's what he's doing. megyn: is this simon about good politics f

when simon's old boss bill clinton came into the office one of the first things he did was reach across the aisle to republicans was major initiative. north american free-trade agreement. george. bush, my old boss came into the office one of the first things he did was reach out across the aisle to ted kennedy, liberal lion and work with him it write, pass sign into line the no child left behind act. by the way also we forget it now but the bush tax cuts were passed and negotiated with democrats and passed with bipartisan majorities. when barack obama came in the office he reached across the aisle. he invited republican leaders to the white house, sat then document looked them in the eye, elections have consequences i won. he had 60 votes in the senate and control of house and he told them he didn't need them. what he did he rammed through obamacare. he rammed through trillion dollar stimulus on part line votes. result of it is quite frankly that he really has no major significant bipartisan achievement that he can point to in his first term in office. megyn: simon has he been a uniter? >> i think so. i mean if you look at just let's talk about what he has done as president,

george washington. >>> meanwhile, top nine. ludwig. moves a shot past ryan zimmerman at third. and this game, tied at 2-2 with the cubs. later, runnersa the second and third. former runner, alfredo simonen is crossing the plate. nats win on a walk juv. they're 5-2, atop the n.l. east, by a half game nfront of the new york mets am meantime, four, count them, four, national hockey league teams set off. including the washington caps, lacing up against boston in boston. >> i don't think somebody can say who is favorite or who is not in the play-offs. you know, last couple of years, i think everybody said we were going to be undefeated. and it's going to be easy for us. and we lost. >> oh, they lost. but we'll have highlights at 11:00 tonight. >>> last night marked one of the more unusual ways of announcing. 7-foot super star, normalins norwell, considered the best big man of high school ball. he told everybody where he is going to play. here's the word from headquarters. >> i'll be taking my talents for college to play at the university of... kentucky >> you know, a lot of people say that this guy is already a better shot blocker than freshman anthony davis. the guy from kentucky that led

simon, thanks very much. also tonight, keeping them honest. a fresh look at two key pieces of evidence in the trayvon martin killing. newly enhanced videotape and newly analyzed audio. one lending credence to george zimmerman's claim of self-defense, the other perhaps undermining a key part of his story, that he cried out for help before fatally shooting the unarmed teen. by now you're probably familiar with that grainy surveillance footage of george zimmerman being brought in for questioning. tonight we've taken a higher resolution version and enhanced it further so you can better decide how seriously injured george zimmerman was. reports say sanford police initially called for a second ambulance presumably to take him to the hospital. it was later canceled. also, remember this, zimmerman claims that trayvon martin sucker punched him, then repeatedly slammed his head into the ground or pavement. they say he was treated on the scene for injuries to his nose or head. it was hard to tell much if anything from the original videotapes about the extent of his injuries or whether they were consistent with the story he tells. the newly enhanced video, which you'll see in a moment, may shed new light on