blair, less so under gordon brown, was used more for briefing of cabinet colleagues and discussion of that kind rather than for acute decisions. i mean, it depended on the issue. >> i think we'll talk about some of those issues later on. up now also lord williams has been -- >> williams or wilson? >> williams. yes. they all become lords eventually. as the then dr. williams noted in his statement, there was -- for some reason you say he was a very assiduous -- the text hadn't been cleared with the proliferation office in the foreign office, it was quite an important discrepancy between the sort of standard intelligence line as it were and

. >> coming up, former british prime minister gordon brown presents his thoughts about the causes of the 2008 global economic downturn and suggests ways to turn things around. he speaks at new york university in new york city for about an hour. [applause] >> can i say i am here for one very, very important reason? because your brilliant president, john saxton, has inspired me as he inspires you and as he inspires, increasingly, many continents around the world with a vision of a global network university. this is a vision that is born out of john's great and deep thinking. it's a vision that is forged out of a view of the interdependence of civilizations around the world. it is a view that is being driven forward by brilliant people in this university, and it's being realized in a campus already in abu dhabi, plans for other campuses, plans for sites on all the different continents of the world with this great ideal that by people meeting with each other, discussing with each other, debating with each other ideas and challenging each other about their ideas and prejudices that we can

it is not, because whenever gordon brown says a swear word on telly, there's a man behind him with a puts a beep over it. you've got it all wrong. one, it's gordon ramsey, not gordon brown, and two, he has a beeper in his pocket, so when he's gonna say a swear word he hits his pocket and it makes a beeping sound. sometimes when he swears, he goes, "yeah, baby!" and his arms wave in the air really wildly. dad: hello, you two. hello! so, uh, how are you getting on? i've got allen key wrist and i think that i've put an akx where a bgx2 should be. anyway. pete, this is jo, jake's friend. oh, hi, jo. hi. you are well? fine, thanks. i think it's really good that jake's got a friend who's a girl. yeah, we've done that. how was it? well, it was a...funeral. oh, i don't know. poor johnsy, you know, you're 43, you feel a bit under the weather, next thing...bosh. there's a guitar in the hall. uh, yeah. i was, um... i was passing that guitar shop on the way back from the funeral, and i've wanted to learn a musical instrument for ages, but i've-- i thought what the hell? you've got your guitar. m

we have a member in a petition government cabinet of muslim descent we have a former member of gordon brown's cabinet as a member of the senior member of his government what it demonstrates treats him in particular terms is that politicians recognise that muslims are an integral part of our societies there are extremist a lot sites i've even seen on the shore today who try to pull communities apart and what we've all got to do in europe is come together and not let the extremists drive us apart we've got common values we've got a common ideals that bring us together and that's that's what we should be for casino and not want to know what divides us but rather what unites us anders who says you said something in the beginning of the program that i find interesting is that if you if your holy book is the koran you can't be a european citizen in a in a sense that i think all of us would agree on i don't understand that. ok i'll explain it. in the koran it's a lot of us who tell about how christians have to be mistreated cute. hot water in the stomach and so on put in teens we can't have a religi

the former prime minister gordon brown was a leader during that time and it was made by the scottish justice that the hat and no one else. -- deputy, and no one else. >> they released the man convicted of putting an airline bomb over 22 years ago. they send him back to libya, described as the best outcome. labour ministry's has said that it was nothing to do with them. gosh i made it absolutely clear to him that we had a new role in making the decision about his future. because it was a matter legislated by the scottish parliament, it was a matter over which we could not interfere and have no control over. >> his successor says that the report was not the whole picture. >> this tells us something that was not clear at that time. the former prime minister and former secretary gates. we were told about facilitating contact or a game plan. the cabinet secretary's report says that policy was never progressively developed. it should do all it could to facilitate an appeal by the libyans to the scottish government. and >> people have known the extent to which behind the scene, labour minis

gordon brown will defend one of the suspects. >>> two bay area neighborhoods have made a nationwide top ten list of places where cars are most likely to be stolen. according to the research group, neighborhood scout, there is a one in seven chance that a car will be stolen in west oakland. the second bay area neighborhood to make the list is in north san jose. >> i've had my car broken into once. they stole my ipod. so, we've had incidents here. >> i've been living here for like 19 or 20 years and none of my cars have been stolen or nothing. >> police say the number one reason for car thefts is people leaving their cars running and unattended. >>> a candle light vigil will be held today for the two walnut creek teenagers who drowned while rafting down a creek. it begins at 6:00 tonight at shell ridge open space in walnut creek where matthew miller and gavin powell often hiked. the boys' bodies were pulled from the creek sunday morning, a day after they set out on their raft during saturday's powerful storm. grief counselors were at the boys' school yesterday. >>> and above average snow

prominent oakland attorney gordon brown will defend one of the suspects. >>> well, a rising air fareike make you queasy, but what about germs on planes? the most germmy spots you may want to think twice about touching next time you catch a flight. >>> also a modesto man accused of keeping it secret that he was living in the home with the body of his dead uncle. >>> good morning. right now highway 4 traffic looks good here bay point. but we have some slow traffic elsewhere. we also have some commute warnings to give you. >>> good morning. we have perfect cloudy skies to mostly cloudy skies. it will be cooler today. look for clouds to increase and temperatures today in the mid- 50s for most. >>> all right, steve. welcome back. good morning to you. quick look at some of the top stories we're following for you right now at 5:47 in new zealand hundreds of troops, police officers, emergency workers are all searching for survivors in the ruins of buildings toppled by yesterday's big earthquake. more than 100 people have been rescued. but at least 75 are known to be dead. 300 are still missi

we will employ around 200,000 more people in the public sector than gordon brown and tony blair did when they came into the government in 1997 so yes it is a bold plan but it is not a plan which is being unthinkingly imposed overnight and when you put it in the perspective of a the pressures we render last may and the kind of context of how much we will be spending after we balance the books i can hope over time that people will see is yes it is determined and it is clear but it is also measured >> in just to see the, just briefly this point about going back to the drawing board. clearly, the united kingdom in the previous decade has benefited from a very strong, strongly performing financial services industry. do you think now that we -- britain needs to rebalance its economy in that respect and where do you see the other growth engines coming from? >> well i think we are again an estate of having to do two very big things at once. extraordinarily difficult and complex with the first to do evidence do with excessive government debt and an overleveraged banking system and excessive traff

we will employ around 200,000 more people in the public sector than gordon brown and tony blair did when they came into the government in 1997 so yes it is a bold plan but it is not a plan which is being unthinkingly imposed overnight and when you put it in the perspective of a the pressures we render last may and the kind of context of how much we will be spending after we balance the books i can hope over time that people will see is yes it is determined and it is clear but it is also measured >> in just to see the, just briefly this point about going back to the drawing board. clearly, the united kingdom in the previous decade has benefited from a very strong, strongly performing financial services industry. do you think now that we -- britain needs to rebalance its economy in that respect and where do you see the other growth engines coming from? >> well i think we are again an estate of having to do two very big things at once. extraordinarily difficult and complex with the first to do evidence do with excessive government debt and an overleveraged banking system and excessive traff

blair, less so under gordon brown, was used more for briefing of cabinet colleagues and discussion of that kind rather than for acute decisions. i mean, it depended on the issue. >> i think we'll talk about some of those issues later on. up now also lord williams has been -- >> williams or wilson? >> williams. yes. they all become lords eventually. as the then dr. williams noted in his statement, there was -- for some reason you say he was a very assiduous -- the text hadn't been cleared with the proliferation office in the foreign office, it was quite an important discrepancy between the sort of standard intelligence line as it were and the what was said. and it particularly revolves around the question of the five years in which iraq could get nuclear weapons in the parliamentary labor party statement it was stated that this had just happened. whereas rather critically in poll happen if sanctions had been lifted or ended. were you aware at the time of that discrepancy? >> i wasn't aware at all. >> there was also an article that you wrote for "the times" on the fifth of march, a coup

blair, less under gordon brown was used more for a briefing of cabinet colleagues and discussion of thatkind, rather than for acute decisions. it mean it depended on the issue. >> we'll talk about some of those issues later on. also lord believed to have -- william wilson -- william's find, yes, this all become lord's eventually. as then dr. william noted in his statement, there was, for some reason, you say he was very residual, no reason to doubt that, though the text hadn't been prepared with the proliferation department in the foreign office. there was quite a discrepancy between the standard intelligence line as it were and the -- what was said. this particularly revolved around the question of the five years in which iraq could get nuclear weapons in the parliamentary level party statements paper it was stated that this could just happen whereas rather than critically, policy terms it could only happen in the assessment staff's view if sanctions had been listened or ended. were you aware at time of that discrepancy? >> no. i wasn't aware at all. >> now, there was also an article th