couric: i'm katie couric in london at 10 downing street in front of the most famous door in all of great britain. tonight, inside this historic residence, a conversation with prime minister david cameron about libya, the british economy, and, of course, the royal wedding. >> it's like the team of the future, and an excuse for a bit of a party and some fun at the same time. >> couric: and the lady at the center of this fairy tale romance and how it began, once upon a time. captioning sponsored by cbs >> this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric reporting tonight from london. >> couric: good evening, everyone. it was an extraordinary moment. president obama went on national television today and did what no other president has ever even been asked to do: prove he's a natural born u.s. citizen, a requirement for holding that office. calling the birther issue a distraction, the president released a copy of his long-form birth certificate, showing he was born in hawaii, as he's always said. the short form, which has been out there for a while, had not satisfied some obama critics. but there is

great britain has a new duke and duchess. >>> a long way from where we are right now, a very different story about families coming together today. britain's prince william and kate middleton entered into marriage and history with an estimated 2 billion plus people watching a royal wedding truly for the digital age. nbc's kate snow is outside buckingham palace for us tonight. kate, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it was a moment of history. they are officially now the duke and duchess of cambridge, but tonight, they're just william and kate having a late-night party right here at buckingham palace with all of their closest family and friends. it was majesty on a human scale. the embodiment of national pride and centuries of tradition. an estimated 1 million spectators in london alone. perhaps 2 billion more watching around the world. the day began at historic westminster abbey decked out like an english garden with nearly 2,000 guests. the prime minister, elton john, the beckhams. the couple's closest friends and family, royal and otherwise. but this was william and kate

first of all, he has duel citizenship between the united states and great britain and great britain does have diplomatic ties with iran while the u.s. does not. second, the british government he says worked very hard to keep his story out of the media. he believes there by keeping politics out of the situation. something that cannot be said of the berkeley hikers. barber doesn't know if there's anything he can do on the outside to help them. he's reached out to their families but not heard much back. as for his life, it won't change, he says. he'll still travel and would one day like to go back to iran. if they would ever let him. garvin thomas, nbc bay na news. >> barber believes he was held right down the hall from shane and nate. their trial is set to resume next month. slgz >> let's shift gears and talk about the weather. >> the giants played for 4 1/2 hours, so yes, we matched their intensity. >> i'm still thawing out. >> 12 innings of that breeze coming in, chilly out there. highs around san francisco today in the low 50s. 51 degrees right now. but inland, we're down in the upper 3

were you a little bit startled when you went to great britain and found that you were actually even biggera little bit. did it feel good? yeah, it felt very good, but it was scary, you know. how many times can i go to europe and work and make a living? you know what i'm saying? but america has so much to choose from. we--i remember when we were going to europe, they only had one radio station and one tv station or something like that. if you wasn't careful, it was on and gone. your album, man amongst men, you've got a song about this. and i wanted to share some lyrics. by the way, the first cut on man amongst men is bo diddley is crazy. sick. he's crazy. he's sick. he's a lunatic. you were just trying to frighten interviewers, weren't you, with that? no, you know-- it's a terrific song. you know what? that was my approach to punk rock. that's what it was. this is a man who opened for the clash, the definitive punk rock band. he opened for the clash. that was my approach to punk rock. and i just wrote a new one called i'm a bad seed. [laughs] you understand? talk about the song called kids,

free from all duty from great britain to america allowing it to wipe out its small competitors and take over the t.v. business in all of america they got their tax cut and now they were going to underprice and put the smugglers out of business hence use rights it was no longer the small vessels of private merchants who went to vendor tea for their own account on the ports of the colonies but on the contrary ships of inner norma's perth and transport an immense quantities of this cannot commodity amassed in suitable magazines use wrote accordingly the company sent its agents at boston new york and philadelphia six hundred chests of tea and a proportionate number to charleston and other maritime cities of the american continent the colonies this is hughes writing in his in his book the colonies were now arrived at the decisive moment when they must cast the die and determine their course at new york captain sears and macdougal darian an enterprising men affected a concert of will against the east india company between the smugglers the merchants and the sons of liberty by the way who had

refusing to reimburse the corp again openly stated their defiance of the east india company in great britain by taking on british troops in an armed conflict at lexington and concord the shots heard around the world on april nineteenth seven hundred seventy five so there you have it the boston tea party it was a revolt against corporate power and corporate tax cuts from the mouth of the man who was there that night and today it seems as if this generation of tea partiers as they begin to slowly realize that their so-called movement is being funded by america's second largest privately held corporation and its owners the east india company of today and maybe they're beginning to wake up there was a tea party event scheduled today for washington d.c. and so few people showed up that thought news which would sort of satellite truck it was intending to break into their news with the coverage gave up and went home it's time the truth of the real boston tea party came out spread the word. that's it for the big picture for more information on the stories we covered visit our website it's on martin

pre-crime arrest of anyone with a dissenting opinions are truly see the fake states of liberty in great britain there is no real liberty as long as you as long as you toe the line you'll be fine ok speaking of the london metropolitan police we have another clip i want to play for your gets a reaction this from the london metropolitan police commander christine drones pushing the operation taking action on the day wherever possible help us to achieve safety and security. we have been working closely with the office is investigating recent demonstrations in london and as you well well well conditions have been. arresting people including that they will not be allowed to enter london on the day of the what were you one of the sixteen peoples he was referring to i was the ninety ninth person banned from london and they arrested him. we didn't even get to be one of the first sixteen. i wasn't important enough and you know what's really funny guys is that they've charged me with conspiracy to commit a public nuisance and the evidence of conspiracy is here to you tube rants i made and that's their lev

nine and the united states has been the largest in the world since it took that position from great britain in the eight hundred ninety s. china's population is about one point three billion and ours is about three hundred ten million they have over four times as many people to send their economy being a bigger than ours if the average american isn't producing over four times the productive output of the average chinese person. so why have previous estimates been so off base the surgeon productivity in china has not been unexpected as their economy has been in many ways been more free market than ours from one thousand nine hundred ninety one nine hundred seventy eight china had a centrally planned economy but since then has been learning and applying the lessons of the free market part of the current dispute as to when exactly china will surpass the united states has to do with how size is mean measured how do you measure the size of an economy anyway according to market watch the previously used measure of gross domestic products compared by current exchange rates is really meaningless th

and france and great britain do you think that they should have just ignored to gadhafi as a madman. well i mean i think if you actually listen to a kid off he said he said that he would show no mercy to rebels but he said that he would show mercy if the rebels gave up the thigh gave up their weapons so he was very clearly saying he was going to target fighters he made clear he was not going to target civilians he wouldn't even target rebels who surrendered so and he was clear about this so it seems to me that president obama exaggerated the threat he exaggerated khadafi said in fact misrepresented would could offie had said and so would you know with their pippin some killing yes there would have been some been some killing in benghazi but the civil war essentially would it ended the rebels were on the run they were not asked for a treat and the war would have ended in march and instead here we are in the second half of april and the war is ongoing and people are suffering every single day so as i say i don't think we stop the bloodbath but i think we have perpetuated the war and my

and european forces began airstrikes in libya president obama and leaders from france and great britain well they all said that the need was dire and that the mission was humanitarian based and would also be brief well since that time nato forces have taken control but the weapons and the intelligence on the ground in libya are largely from this country well some people say that this is a just war others say the justifications for getting involved were not only not good enough they were wrong all along those people alan cooperman a professor of public affairs at the university of texas at austin he's also an author and among his works this book the limits of humanitarian intervention. and alan i know that you've written a lot about this and something that you said was that the u.s. involvement in libya is not only not preventing murder and suffering but that it's in fact causing suffering by innocent people and also prolonging the civil war in libya where is your evidence at this. well my my evidence is that the claim that was made by the obama administration that there was going to be

by comparison, according to world health, the homicide rate in france, germany, and great britain in the same year in 2000 were .6, .8, and .9 respectively. children in the united states are far more likely to be shot and killed than their counterparts and other industrial nations. the firearms homicide rate is 16 times higher for american children. as alarming as such numbers maybe, the united states homicide rate involving -- it is the united states homicide rate involving handguns that makes the united states stand apart internationally. in 1996, for example, handguns were used to murder 30 people in great britain, 106 in canada, 15 in japan, and 9,390 in the united states. the cdc, center for disease control, reports the rate of firearm deaths, that is the number of americans shot to death per hundred thousand as hovers between 8.8 and 9.2 for white americans in 2000 and 2005, between 7.5 and 7.8 for hispanic or latino americans, and between 18.4 and 19.3 for african-americans. such statistics suggest that there is something unique and frightening happening in the united states.

. >> the whole problem here is if you go back to great britain to see what is happening in great britain, the purpose of shariah finance is to promolt shariah. and one of the ways they've basically lulled the british to sleep in to accepting shariah in to their society is through shariah finance. the archbishop of canterbury made a statement saying they have to incorporate aspect of shariah and it really isn't that big a deal, seeing as we've already incorporated shariah compliant finance. this is a trojan horse operating in terms of that specific hedge fund, there is a shariah advisor on the hedge fund who was educated in a medrasa in pakistan that is a medrasa that has all kind of ties to jihadis. that doesn't mean he is a jihadi, but he went to the same school so it's worrisome. >> glenn: all right. for instance, a hedge fund like that. the hedge fund is unregulated. wild power with wild amounts of money. there was a pentagon report that came out recently that said that there are sovereign funds, or huge pools of wealth, that they have seen -- for instance, they almost collapsed on th

in 1996, for example, handguns were used to murder 0 people in -- 30 people in great britain, 106 in canada, 15 in japan and 9,390 in the united states. the cdc, the center for disease control, reports the rate of firearms death -- that is the number of americans shot to death per 100,000 -- as hovering between 8.8 and 9.2 for white americans during the period 2000 to 2005, between 7.5 and 7.8 for hispanic or latino americans and between 18.4 and 19.3 for african-americans. such statistics suggest that there is something unique and frightening happening in the united states. and, of course, the homicide rate is only one measure of violence, and i talk about all kinds of different things in this book. and in part that's the point, to sort of look at undercurrents of violence in american life, to look at what i call the ethos of violence in american culture and american society. and accordingly, i spend time in the book in the first chapter looking at violence as a male phenomenon. violence is predominantly something done by men to other men, to women, to children as well. and so i wan

in 1996 handguns were used to monitor--murder 30 people in great britain, 106 in canada. fifteen in japan and 9,390 in the united states. the center for disease control reports the rate of firearm deaths, the number of americans shot to death as hovering between 8.8 and 9.2 for white americans from 2000 to 2005. between 7.5, and seven.8 for hispanic or latino americans and between 18.4, and nineteen.3 for african-americans. such statistics suggest there is something unique and frightening happening in the united states. the homicide rate is only one measure of violence. talk about all kinds of different things in this book. the undercurrent of violence in american life to look at what i call b ecoterrorists of violence in american culture and american society. accordingly i spend time in the book in the first chapter looking at violence as a male phenomena. it is predominantly something done by men to other men the additional to women to children as well. i want to look at the violence of american masculinity, how masculinity is constructed in the united states, to look a

. >> from coast to coast, americans are heading to great britain in droves. >> bye, see you monday. >> 600,000 tourists are expected in london just for the wedding. many of those will come from the u.s. experts say the number is up 20%. >> i followed william since he was born. when diana died i wanted him to see him find a woman and fall in love and get married. >> the fascination begin 30 years ago when she found herself backpacking in london. it blossomed into a mass thing. something to get to the wedding is what she had to do. >> we had to be here and feel it. >> it's going to be one heck of a party. >> the georgia couple bought their tickets soon after the engagement was announced. >> anything we label as a kate item we sell out. >> the trip will be a business center. >> it's going impact my industry for years and years toing is. >> she is dragging her husband and two sons along. >> he would prefer to be in a pub having a beer and watching it on tv. >> the journey won't come cheap. round trip tickets start at $800 and home rooms can cost several hundred a night but others can camp

not if you are teen in great britain. they are banned from use sun beds. 12 states have laws that propose age restrictions for commercial tanning salons. in the golden state, a bill is underway to ban those for under 18. >> i have a name for tanning beds, i call them cancer coffins. if they only knew the real wifk. malignant melanoma kills people. >> according to the skin foundation, indoor tanning before age of 35 raises the risk of melanoma by 75%. laurie greenberg had no idea she was putting herself at risk when she starred using tanning beds in the ninth grade. she has been battling melanoma off and on for the last decade. >> she got it because of the tanning beds because of natural sunshine. >> they recently added tanning beds to group one of cancer cause can substances. while the fda is considering stricter regulations on tanning beds they are currently in the same medical category as band-aids. the indoor tanning association maintains the decision should be left up to a teen's parent. they released a statement, if

saying that this couple, william and kate, really represent a new generation, and young people in great britainamily now looks like them. >> it is. i mean, just as david and samantha were a new generation of politicians, a new political family, a dynasty to a young family, the royal family now has a new couple to focus on. and you know, it's another rebirth for them. it's very, very exciting. >> meanwhile -- >> david cameron is having his second royal wedding in his lifetime. lovely for him. as it is for us. >> meanwhile, as we can see, people entering the abbey. we should mention that most of the vvip guests are entering the great west door while sort of the regular folk, if you can call them that, will be going in to the north entrance of the abbey. why is that, ingrid? great west door for the members of the royal family, the members of the diplomatic corps, and foreign dignitaries. and they've got to get everybody -- they've got to get 1,900 guests in that abbey by the time the royal party arrives. so, it's kind of good to have a two-door section. >> meanwhile they're expected up to 1 millio

. >> and whoever in great britain the question for any meteorologist.is it going to be like for the wedding? >> and it will be green. >> it will be chilly but there is a chance of rain. >> how about around here. >> the timing -- take you outside. heavenly, we're looking at sierra, scattered snow showers earlier this morning and more expected this weekend, at least at the extreme peaks, it looks like a lot of rain is going to fall. we're getting down to april and temperatures at the tahoe and break level will be in the 50s. let's show you what is going on. mount tamalpais down to the south, fair weather cumulus clouds as the warm sunshine works on this cool moist ground and creates those clouds. you can see them on the satellite and showing a little bit of drying trend as the satellite looking clearer. high pressure moving in and that area of high pressure that is going to keep us dry for the next day or so. here is what we dealt with this morning. rainfall amounts of nearly quarter of an inch in santa rosa to .01 around redwood city. temperatures right

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. >> from coast to coast, americans are heading to great britain in droves. >> bye, see you monday. >> 600,000 tourists are expected in london just for the wedding. many of those will come from the u.s. experts say the number is up 20%. >> i followed william since he was born. when diana died i wanted him to see him find a woman and fall in love and get married. >> the fascination begin 30 years ago when she found herself backpacking in london. it blossomed into a mass thing. something to get to the wedding is what she had to do. >> we had to be here and feel it. >> it's going to be one heck of a party. >> the georgia couple bought their tickets soon after the engagement was announced. >> anything we label as a kate item we sell out. >> the trip will be a business center. >> it's going impact my industry for years and years toing is. >> she is dragging her husband and two sons along. >> he would prefer to be in a pub having a beer and watching it on tv. >> the journey won't come cheap. round trip tickets start at $800 and home rooms can cost several hundred a night but others can camp

. >> and whoever in great britain the question for any meteorologist.s it going to be like for the wedding? >> and it will be green. >> it will be chilly but there is a chance of rain. >> how about around here. >> the timing -- take you outside. heavenly, we're looking at sierra, scattered snow showers earlier this morning and more expected this weekend, at least at the extreme peaks, it looks like a lot of rain is going to fall. we're getting down to april and temperatures at the tahoe and break level will be in the 50s. let's show you what is going on. mount tamalpais down to the south, fair weather cumulus clouds as the warm sunshine works on this cool moist ground and creates those clouds. you can see them on the satellite and showing a little bit of drying trend as the satellite looking clearer. high pressure moving in and that area of high pressure that is going to keep us dry for the next day or so. here is what we dealt with this morning. rainfall amounts of nearly quarter of an inch in santa rosa to .01 around redwood city. temperatures right n

in great britain, they are going to have all community schools. it's what my colleague, jim dierck, is doing. we need to turn every school into a community school. i had a fabulous opportunity to visit this school. it's for kids who have failed in every way. it's colead by the cb on. they do the counseling. vocational work. the district is the class teaching. they have somebody at their side all the time to help with the needs of the student and the principle and cbo get up and meet every morning. they were total partners in making this a community school. then i will be through. i had the opportunity to go to another school at 9 o'clock at night where i thought it was going to be closed. i walk into the school in upper manhattan and it is lit up like a christmas tree. we have to light up every school. it changed the whole neighborhood. it was a beacon of wonderfulness. it was full of activity. of young people. parents. esl. everything. i got so excited about the potential could be. and it changed the neighborhood and young people. if you want to

might remember the time when margaret thatcher was the prime minister of great britain many russians in the time said well after the end defer to term in office let's ask her to come to russia. to govern the learned this government. in italy happened but with with john kennedy and also. when. he was just been elected and. there was. a need to the people. saying bet that we can not to realize that there isn't a union between a france and italy and some twenty the the the same in the same head of the government technical asked because he is perfect well why don't you try to write a bill putting. an effective had a gun but it's not. ok now don't you need me in any case. i was i was saying that the the the people favorable to the government in the last poll was only twenty three percent but the people having the good. judgment on the opposition was only fifty percent and even less even less so the problem may need to be but only literally is that. the modern democracy. a good government efficient government but also a position having a tentative programs and. and the really good antenna

and united nations and great britain have condemned that raid. >>> now that lawmakers have averted a government shutdown, the work begins on a deal to finance the rest of the year. president obama spoke at lincoln memorial crediting congress for coming up with an agreement to cut $38.5 billion from the budget. it leaves out federal funding for planned parenthood. now, the 2012 budget battle is shaping up. lawmakers have to decide by the end of the summer whether to let the government borrow more money to pay for this government's $14 trillion debt. boehner tackled that issue at a fund-raiser in connecticut. >> how can you raise the debt limit without dealing with the problem that is causing us to have to increase the debt limit. there is no plan to deal with it. i can tell i this, there had will not be an increase in the debts limit without something really big attached to it. >> boehner described last night's agreement as the first step of many needed to get america's spending under control. >> coming up a new video shows the moment the devastating tsunami hit the fukushima power pl

this year in great britain, we are seeing an inquiry into that process. the chilcutt inquiry. wikileaks released a cable on this inquiry. this was telling the u.s. ambassador at the time of the inquiry, do not worry, we are going to protect all of your interests here. similarly, there was a time in 2007 when there were serious moves afoot to get up to war with iran. most of you remember that feeling. -cons were pushing through their mouthpieces in america and the united states, pushing for that war. people can afford and said, do not do what i did. he was the leaker of the pentagon papers. do not do what i did and wait four or five years until after the vietnam war had started. do not wait to come forward until this war starts. sources did come forth. sources who saw the planning for that war. as a result, there were moves against it. the sources have not been exposed. they did their best. they may have changed history and they went back to their jobs and continued on. that is that model that we want to promote as much as possible. whistle-blower's based difficulties. it is ra

. >>> they came from alabama, texas and great britain to learn how to surf. british-american soldiers who were wounded in war came to wound their minds and their bodies. >> reporter: daybreaks on the fourth and final day of surf lessons for these beginners. for some, it was the first time they touched the ocean and for all, it was the first time they tried to ride it. few places are as beautiful and unforgiving as the ocean. backing down from a challenge is not something david and his classmates are inclined to do. the waves may be new, but the surface is not. everyone here is an active duty soldier who served on the sands of iraq and afghanistan. >> we have everything from what you refer to as a bilateral, guys who lost both legs, several of them above the knees. walking is hard for them but they are out riding. >> working with afghan farmers. >> you have to learn to do things differently. >> reporter: part of that learning is happening here in santa cruz. operation surf is a week-long break from the grind of rehab and physical therapy. time to live for the

are there a lot of snobs here in great britain who think, ah, she's not good enough. an aristocrat some. >> i think actually there are a lot of snobs in grat britaieat . the queen is the least snobbish of all her subjects. david is absolutely right. this is a new, this is a modern britain. there's no point being snobbish about the fact that these people have humble origins. >> this is, by the way, a big celebration. this is a national holiday. you know, this means a lot for the economy of great britain. >> yes, we all stop working. we all stop working. >> i was going to say $6 billion in lost productivity. >> that's not so good. >> that's a chunk of change. but they're hoping that will be yes. more important that nations aren't just about economics. they're about feeling good. this is the supreme sort of feel-good event. happiness is more important than productivity. >> at the same time there's been an aw stirty program enacted by prime minister david cameron. he's reduced government spending by 25%, reduced welfare payments, gotten rid of something like 130,000 publi

to be mindful and not too ostentatious or over the top, given the fact that so many people in great britainted states, by the way, are struggling. >> but it's not quite the balance. . we want the pageantry, we want the troops, we want the color. but we don't want the overblown quality. >> so they really have tried to balance both. >> it's a balance. >> also, the banquets at buckingham palace, they can take 600 people -- i beg your pardon, the reception, 600 people. and normally a wedding breakfast would only be 100 people. so, they're getting more of the people in again on this. and a lot of obviously william and kate's friends. >> and of course, the real fun for them will be tonight when there will be a dinner/dance at buckingham palace. including a disco apparently. a fair amount of hip-hop music which prince william enjoys. what a beautiful shot. >> it's amazing. you're going through, this is the former headquarters of the english army and they're now going on to the site of king henry viii. this is royal england. thousands of buildings around you. you can actually feel it in the air. mi

the heels of moussa koussa's defection, gadhafi's foreign minister and key adviser who is now in great britain being debriefed by british intelligence. and even members of gadhafi's family, including his son, saif al islam, may be seeking a way out as well. publicly defiant as in this recent interview with nbc news -- >> this is our country. we live here and we die here. >> reporter: but british media speak of secret meetings in london between saif's top aid and british officials. and just how spooked is gadhafi about a possible flood of defections? well, the government has now assigned security guards to shadow each and every major government official just in case. brian. >> jim maceda inside tripoli. jim, thanks for your reporting tonight. for more on all of this, we're happy to be joined tonight by retired u.s. army four-star general, barry mccaffrey, who is, of course, an nbc news military analyst. general, first off, where do you see the momentum right now tonight? and if i can ask, how do you think this ends? >> well, brian, to some extent this is bizarroland. we've got nato announcing t

the man was the minister -- foreign minister, that is of libya, but he's in great britain now, his name is moussa koussa. he is believed to have been deeply involved in the 1988 lockerbie bombing. he's currently being questioned by british intelligence. >>> religious groups are quite upset arch state officials evicted a number of people from a homeless camp. as many as 100 people are now shut out of the facility. that's dale city, virginia, near the clover leaf exit on i-95. jackie bensen is in woodbridge now with more on this. jackie? >> reporter: jim, very few people even knew that these campsites were even there. chopped away in the wooded areas around the ramps for exit 156 the dale boulevard of i-55 was a secret world. unseen by the tens of thousands of motorists passing by every day. it was the last refuge for a few dozen people with no home, no job, and no money. now they've been told to leave by owners of the land, the virginia department of transportation, who say there have been complaints about the camp's creating a distraction for drivers. >> so as you have motorists coming

. >> particularly interesting part of this joint statement from the united states, great britain, and france is a part where they basically say that as long as gaddafi is in power in libya, the nato military operations will continue, which is a fairly bold statement given the situation on the ground in libya. the timing of this statement is particularly interesting. it comes hot off the heels of comments by the french foreign minister in berlin at that conference of foreign ministers where he basically said that he'd asked the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton if the united states could again provide more planes to military operations in libya. and her response apparently was that the united states will provide planes on a case-to-case basis for the operations. and i think that's another way of saying that she said no. >> nevertheless, barack obama has joined the other two leaders in this publicity. >> that's right. i think the statement really is an expression of unity. it's really saying, look, there have been a lot of reports all around the world, in the media here in the uni

children in great britain are banned from using sun beds. 1 states currently have bills pending that proprose age restrictions for using commercial tanning salons. in the golden state voting could begin as soon as monday to ban those under 18. texas has a law which prohibits thousand 16 and a half. >> i call the tanning beds cancer coffins and if they only knew the real risk because the malignant melanoma kills people and it kills our younger people. >> according to the skin cancer foundation indoor tanning before age 35 raises the risk for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer by 75%. laurie greenberg had no idea she could be putting herself at risk when she started using tanning beds in the 9th grade. she has been battling melanoma off and on for the last decade. >> do you think that your daughter got cancer because of the tanning beds rather than natural sunshine? >> definitely the tanning beds. >> the world health organization added tanning beds to the group one cancer causing substances. the same group as cigarettes. medical beds are currently in the same medical category

he has done a lot of fairly controversial things dealing with the economy in great britain. i'm looking forward to doing that. i'll be doing it at downing street. that will be fun. it is a big event. big events are fun and goodness knows we could use a little happy news given the kind of year we have had had with tucson, egypt, libya and japan. you know, some people may think it is frivolous, but it is historic and sort of -- it is such a visual kind of spectacle, i think it will be fun to preside over it in my own little way. tavis: what is not trite or simple, you're interviewing the husband of gabby giffords? >> yeah, i did that already. did that last week in houston, prior to his launch on friday. i have to tell you, i'm so impressed by him. he is so incredibly, you know when somebody just emanates goodness? he is so incredibly strong and stoic and steadfast. and you can understand why he's her rock and she might be his rock as well, by the way. i just know more about how he is reacting to the situation. and he is a very, very impressive person. tavis: you know stories a

royal chamberlain's office, which was there to look over the script of any play to be done in great britain censor it on the odd assumption that her majesty might want to go to the theater. [laughter] um...her sister went a lot. and so i went to the lord chamberlain's office, where they had read the play and informed me very quietly-- nice guy with a necktie and an english accent and everything... [laughter] said that they had 75 objections to my text. i said, "oh, dear, really? well, what-- what are they?" he said, "well, let's start at the beginning: "the opening line of the play, jesus h. christ! we can't say that on the british stage." i said, "is it the 'h'?" "no. [laughter] you can't say jesus christ." and i said, "well, let's put that aside for a while, and i'll think about that one." then they went on to some others, like, there's a point in the first act of the play where george refers to martha's father, president of the university, and says to the guests, "she is his right ball, so to speak." they objected to "ball" as a slang term, and this really, really puzzled me. they said,

who says the european union is tying great britain's hands in its attempts to tackle a massive life or an influx of. that story in the next hour here in our team now exactly fifty years ago this week europe again made history when he became the first man to go into space it was a monumental achievement marking the beginning of a new age the age of manned space exploration that is to say i met some of the people who knew the legend in person. i've been feeling alright ready for launch. to them than i have the honor of taking the cost of a great spacecraft into space first i was very happy to have found out it was only the beginning of april twelve one thousand nine hundred sixty one the day utica got in blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe. it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened the last chilly course my school but for this man it was also the day his name shot to thing you heard it is not paris didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from planets academy and that the facility was w

who says the european union is tying great britain's bands in its attempts to tackle a massive migrant influx. in the headlines at this week was that the russian presidential race for elections in two thousand and twelve both president medvedev and prime minister vladimir putin have stressed that it is too premature to speak about the race but they also didn't rule out their involvement the president also stressed that the possible differences of opinion between the two are just part of the democratic process. exactly fifty years ago this week yuri gagarin made his history in history when he became the first man to go into space it was a monumental achievement marking the beginning of a new age the age of manned space exploration or at least as are sillier met some of the people who knew the legend in person. i'm feeling all right ready for launch . and i have the honor of taking the cost of a great spacecraft into space first i was very happy to have it was only the beginning april twelve thousand nine hundred sixty one the day you really got in blasted off into space orbited the eart

we talk to any he says the european union is toying a great britain's hands in its attempts to tackle a nasty of migrant influx. that in the next year in our team now exactly fifty years ago this week going to gary made him history when he became the first man to go into space it was a monumental achievement marking the beginning of a new age the age of manned space exploration and that is a silly went out and met some of the people who knew the legend in person. i'm feeling all right with the financial. times and i have the honor of taking the cost of the great spacecraft into space first i was very happy to have that it was only the beginning of april twelve thousand nine hundred sixty one the day you to go got in blasted off into space orbited the earth and made history. a feat celebrated across the globe in the arrival surely it was incredible it was hard to believe that this actually happened the national course but for this man it was also the day his name shakti thing you know i didn't use her liquid appears didn't know where i was serving they only knew i graduated from pilots

because he would like to see france consulted along with the other imperial powers of germany great britain the united states in its orbit nations like israel and in following that agenda mr sarkozy will indeed take unilateral action to assert the primacy of france in the boys club in the leadership council if you will of global managers and fred certainly wants to be considered once again a part an intricate part of global management i just very very quickly finish now briefly are we going to see stability in ivory coast now do you think just very briefly well we may see an end to the civil strife maybe maybe don't count on it these these these tensions have been brewing. since the country became independent and it was divided secondly the new president what is a former monetary fund manager and world bank director watch to see hopefully not but that as an i.m.f. director he doesn't settle that country with enormous. debt in the name of global management mostly it will have to leave it there thanks very much indeed mostly good there joining us live there in paris thank you thank you. japan

now joined by environmental experts are supposed peace on the line from risk university in wales great britain thanks for much being with us for weeks on the plants operated still struggling to regain control of those nuclear reactors and stop the spread of radioactive material from the plant why is the progress been so slow. well because the the as i said long ago it's me no pleasure to have been proved right the accident was really much more serious than anybody admitted at the time and it's still more serious than than people are admitting now one of the problems of course is that you can't get close to the reactors because they are still fissioning still material that is producing great activity as a result of efficient process many of the reactors damage to the point that fuel is coming out of them and you just can't work under those conditions and nor can electronic instruments work under those conditions because what happens is that the microchips that run the robots just don't operate when the great ocean field gets up to a certain level here did when i spoke to few weeks ago you were

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and great britain by friday will have a new princess not previously from the royal ranks. nbc's kate snow, part of our team in london and is with us from there with more. kate, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, brian. on friday when millions of people are watching, they will see kate middleton as a bride, a symbol, possibly even a future queen of england, but for the folks in bucklebury, just north of here, she's quite literally the girl next door. the old boot inn is the kind of spot where everyone is a regular. everybody knows the village dairy farmer, richard plank. and everyone also knows the girl from up the hill who is marrying a prince. though in bucklebury, they're used to seeing kate middleton in jeans. >> she would pop in for a drink or might come in with her family and have a meal. >> reporter: john will be at the wedding friday, and so will hash and chan, owners of a minimart in town. >> at the end of the day, she's still a young lady from bucklebury, a young girl who wasn't forgotten by people around her. >> reporter: the middleton family briefly