he has long experience giving has time to improve neighborhoods where he lives. as a practicing attorney, he is knowledgeable and professional. as a neighbor, he gives generously of his time and studies and works hard and gives his time on issues. as an entertainment commissioner, i believe he will represent neighborhoods while also giving a balanced consideration to all sides of an issue, which is as other speakers said, sometimes been sadly lacking on the commission. the entertainment commission needs fresh air. that is relevant and balance. i urge you to support gil spurloin. he is the candidate who spoke clearly and on a point about issues and how they relate to neighborhoods. that i understand is what this neighborhood seat is about and i urge you to support him. thank you. >> hello. i am chris shafer. supervisor kim, you asked that an excellent question. have you gone to and entertainment commission hearing? i have. i facilitated a retreat for the commission. i as a professional trainer and development consultant run a small group of -- we donate promote ti

anaconda who has been -- is someone who has brought great many into nightlife. he would be the perfect person for the seat. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm here in support of jim meko. we are neighbors. we have been on the task force and the summer leadership council. his good neighbor policy is an effective policy. he is easy to approach. he is willing to talk about entertainment. he has no discretion about that. that is his livelihood. a good neighbor policy is the policy that has been working throughout the city. i'm asking you to work with him and reappoint him with the seat. also his ability to work with community people really stands out. there have been times that we have bumped into each other late in the evenings. i will not be long because i can be very long winded. can you do this without objection? thank you. >> i am here on behalf of glendon hyde. i have known him for over six years. he is a tireless fund-raiser. during his run for district 6, he was running to help improve the sound area for the lgbt community but also for san franci

and israel are his policy has more from tenet. there has been no explanation given by athens as to why this preventing these ships from sailing former sports distant to gaza justice today friday one of the ships called the giuliana set sail it was in the waters for some fifteen to twenty minutes before the greek closed guard stopped it and diverted it to a military dockyard now athens is not quiet about this and has come on record as saying that no ships distant from gaza will be that sports and ought to correspondent on board one of the ships that has been seized explained that greece is acting in violation of international law. cannot or will not give up there are twelve members of european and other national parliaments among the free gaza activists and they're trying to pull strings to force their governments to try and influence greece's decision to block their ships in their harbors are lawyers for the freedom flotilla are saying the greek government actions are unlawful because the ships cannot be prohibited from going to g

it has been 30 years. this has been part of so many people's lives and has been such a stellar program for this nation. like everyone out there, you hate to see it come to an end. this is such an honor to have such a successful program. part of my career at the kennedy space center. i feel very lucky that i have had such a magnificent career. i feel very lucky to have been in that line of work. i could have retired at an earlier age but i did not want to. this is like family. >> he is remembering his years there at nasa. from all of us here at bbc world news america, thank you for watching. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. .. >> union bank has put its global financial strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news america" was presented by kcet los angeles.

the ecb has raised interest rates. they have raised their benchmark level rate by 25 basis points, 1.5%, signaling that battling inflation remains a top priority. the ecb also weighed in on the debate raging over rings agencies, that wl continue to accept portuguese that as collateral despite the decision by moody's earlier this week to lower their debt rating to junk status. >> praise for portugal from jean-claude trichet. it will privatize more state assets than stipulated by the e.u. and imf and will raise taxes. those are reasons why the european central bank is bending its own rules and will continue to lend to portugal despite its junk debt rating. >> whave decided t spe the minimum collateral requirements for the purpose of assistance and credit operations. in the case of marketable debt instruments by the portuguese government, this extension will be maintained until further notice. >> the eurozone debt crisis cannot stop ecb from raising its key interest rates. benchmark rates go up to 1.5%. but during the fin

has gone on a trip around the county to file this report. they're young they're enthusiastic and they want to make best sense in idyllic surroundings the twenty eleven seliger international youth forum brings together representatives from seventeen nations to discuss innovation politics and the future media or else they find here is a plot for japanese to meet that brazilian and talk to the french people right at the same time so for me this is kind of a concentration of globalization processes happening throughout the world this is the second year that opened its doors to florence and those who have come from abroad are looking to make contacts with a future here in russia but this is a great chance to make. some people also you can meet people from other countries over there were old and also pretty complex and some ideas about. the history and. how they how they see the. internal or international or. it's not all work the organizers saying they want to create the atmosphere of an elite some account so alongside discussions on the future o

to sports now, a russian writer has -- rider has failed a doping test. he tested positively for htc on july 6. cycling present governing body says it hopes the team will remove him from the race. he is legally free to continue competing until the results confirmed in a controlled sample test. more sports now and a story about the poetry of a perfect jump -- a bunny jump that is. a spectator sport gaining popularity were the athletes are as cuddly as they are competitive. here's more. >> meet snoopy, a champion bonnie hopper. two years old, and on this course, no one can catch him. he faces a host of rivals in a high-stakes battle to find the fastest bunny around. there are three glasses -- easy, medium, and hard. the hurdles are different heights. 25, 35, and 40 centimeters. so the rabin has to jump more than 40 centimeters. >> that is too much like hard work for some contestants. others are happy finding their own levels, and a few just ponder the meaning of it all. but snoopy has no such concerns and sales his way through the course, leaving the others

or portugal's credit rating has been deemed junk. and in greece. where unemployment hovers at about sixteen percent and the debt crisis has sparked anger nearly all of this anger stemming from poverty and failed economic policies in the u.s. as well high unemployment sits atop a mountain of problems like a housing crisis and slow financial growth. this is the world christine legarde inherits as she begins at her new post as managing director of the international monetary fund and her first formal meeting with the press at the i.m.f. headquarters in washington she seemed optimistic in her hopes the international monetary fund is here to serve and to provide services to its hundred and eighty seven members it's not the sexiest of news stories but still the inaugural press conference for the new managing director of the i am and then garner quite a bit of media attention most likely it had less to do with christine lagarde herself and more to do with the reason why she's here. and what lessons do you think ought to be drawn from the way the u.s. legal

the british establishment has been really. mr. cameron defended hiring andy coulson but he said that in hindsight he would not have made the same choice. this report contains flash photography. >> a french in need -- a friend in need is a friend. they become a massive headache. david cameron has always defended his decision to give andy coulson a second chance. >> with 20/20 hindsight, i would not have offered him the job and i expect he would not have taken it. you don't make decisions in hindsight, you make them in the present. you live and you learn, believe you me, i have led. >> the prime minister said he was extremely sorry. what he -- was he ready to say sorry for hiring him? >> if it turns out that i had been lied to, that would be a moment for a profound apology. >> few expected him to go that far. >> that is not good enough. this is not about hindsight, mr. speaker, it is not about whether mr. colson lied to him, it is about all the information that the prime minister ignored. >> there was questions about the prime minis

even has his own twitter page. and coming up we'll bring you a closer look at the father of the soviet hydrogen bomb well that's right after a recap of our top stories coming up in just a few moments. we'll . limited. to a feast please. come a. few feet. from female a. female.

she has committed no crime. she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. she is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance but i cannot pity her. she is white. she understood full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking she persisted in breaking it. she persisted, and her subsequent behavior is something we have all known at one time or another. she tried to put the -- she did something every child has done. she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her, but in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband. she struck out as her victim of necessity. she must put him away from her. she must remove him from her presence, from this world. she must destroy the evidence of her offense. what was the evidence of her offense? tom robinson, a human being. she must put tom robinson away from her. tom robinson was her daily reminder

we hit the road to find out. >> it has been bad. i have had to sell my calves earlier than i used to. last week, i sold half of my cows. >> whether u.s. pakistan relations can ever recover. >> anyone who has stepped back from the abyss after looking into it realizes that once again we have very important objectives. >> it is a year until the british show on earth comes to london, will the city be ready? on a live picture to remember. there is nothing new about political gridlock in washington. republicans and democrats have fallen out over something that normally passes on a nod, raising the debt ceiling. out in the real america, there is a great deal of pain over the economy. our correspondent has been taking the route over oklahoma which inspired the john steinbeck novel "the grapes of wrath." >> to the red country and part of the great country to open, -- to oklahoma. the last rains cut gently. >> so begins steinbeck's novel "the grapes of wrath." the events that happened or 80 years ago, but once again america is in the grip of

social media has brought about a communications revolution and has also helped spark revolutions as well being used as a tool to avoid government censorship and organize protest in the arab world this year but is everyone to find out his own president a reporter in new york his base rivals to ask what people that like. in today's social media driven world you can post whatever hate speech doctored photos or other nonsense you want with virtually no consequences how you feel about that defining our times this week let's talk about that i was talking a guy on facebook one time by mistake instead of writing his name and such i put it as my status was a liquid i knew continuity things right quickly adding everybody to really see did you learn your lesson yet people just put anything on here young girls young kids you know home addresses and everything like i got a nice. open opposite. people see what you show them not what you actually are in my experience and if you put something on the internet people will watch and think that she was at your life you know when when people could be sitting

the problem has been foreseeable for a decade, but silvio berlusconi's government has been ignoring it until they looked at the austerity package. european union leaders are jittery. >> this family has been producing the course and start since 1875. they are a storybook family. she took over in 2001, but times have not become easier. while business is booming abroad, their domestic business has been sagging. recently, the family spent millions on new bottling plants and would like to realize some profit now. at the moment, a gift packs for the u.s. are doing well. >> of course we had a really big problems. domestic sales have tumbled, but we were able to compensate by doing business abroad. for one and a half years, domestic activity has stalled. >> a 48 billion euro austerity package is supposed to kick start the recovery. along with cuts to the public- sector budgets, the berlusconi government wants to boost revenue. they say privatisation will bring in billions of euros. at the same time, various taxes are to be increased. experts warn that will not stop the crisis. >> as a whole, t

also on lot of bengal tiger cub has become the main attraction of a zoo in russia's urals he even has his own twitter page. that the star studded international film festival in moscow is coming to a suitably dramatic climax where the winner of the best film being announced our correspondent peter all over is there at the ceremony soaking up the glitz the glamour. this year's winner of the coveted golden george award is the movie the waves directed by alberto maya's it's a spotless movie the second year in a row that a spanish language movie has won the top prize here at the moscow international film festival last year it was the turn of a man also brothers this year though it's gone to the waves a movie set in the case against the backdrop of the spanish civil war it's not the only prize not movies picks up carlos out of it is also taken the best actor price at this year's festival so two awards going to the spanish movie the waves the top prize for best film and also the best actor prize now there's also been plenty of other awards up for grabs and one person who's picked up one of t

premier has made his first t.v. appearance since treatment in cuba three weeks ago speaking all of his condition he called his recovery slow and careful but said he expects to make a full recovery government officials later confirmed the venezuela will continue with its socialist reform program despite travis's house. ok that's where the news that saab next organizes business dealings with. hello and a very warm welcome to a business update russia has lifted the year long grain export ban imposed after heat wave devastated one third of the country's crops ban caused world with prices to rise to their highest level for two years but optimistic harvest forecasts have prompted russia to return to the global grain market to discuss the market reaction i'm joined by allison like a from the financial services company world's brights mr mccain thank you for joining us so. russian grahame's back to the international market while russian wheat exports now flood the market and mark the end of the bull market and will prices f

leon panetta has been sworn in as the new u.s. defense secretary replacing robert gates who held the post for over four years well during his time as pentagon chief gates struggled to bring about victory in iraq and afghanistan but artie's military contributors says the retard defense secretary actually helped nurture the taliban in the first place. for our generation of the cold warriors on the both sides in the united states and russian federation it is robert gates the outgoing secretary of defense who personalizes the cold war at its peak robert gates was anything but controversial and he has garnered phil respect all across the board during his failure to reach exit tour from again it's day all across europe and back to the united states robert gates displayed unbelievable specter of sincerity and candor providing he's honest and unvarnished assessment of the united states strategic of all reach all across the globe from lance somehow has a hunch in his upcoming memoirs robert gates really explain his one unfinished dream tha

tavis: your colleague at princeton paul krugman has been much tougher, has he not? >> he has. i am much more favorably inclined than my colleague. tavis: you have raised the stimulus three or four times in this conversation as the best thing the administration has done. paul krugman and others have suggested that it was never big enough from the start. the white house cut a deal and they thought they could get through even when they controlled both houses of congress. >> right. a couple of things. let's remember that it barely got through. there was not a lot of margin. that is related to the second point. i am sympathetic as a peer of economists to the notion that it should have been there. -- i am sympathetic as a pure and economist. it did not look obvious that say a trillion dollar stimulus could have gotten through the congress even though both congress is had democratic majority. -- both houses had a democratic majority. the number kept changing. it was 787 and now it is estimated to be 850 as more data came in. this is not at all obvious that we had gotten bigger. what

has ever faced.bc news in brussels. >> the irish prime minister has made an unprecedented attack on the catholic church. he accuses the vatican of tampering investigation into child abuse by priests. >> the church and state in ireland have been linked for generations. the close relationship appears to have changed with the publication of the report into child sex abuse in the diocese of county cork. the report from the vatican had blocked and frustrated and inquiry into the issue as recently as three years ago. he was scathing in his criticism. >> the report shows the disfunction, disconnection, and elitism that dominates the culture of the vatican today. the rape and torture of children were downplayed. they managed to pull the primacy of the institution from its power, standing, and reputation. >> other deputies in parliament voiced similar criticisms. the hierarchy of the catholic church expressed deep remorse. >> i find myself today asking if i can be proud. when i am seeing, i have to be ashamed

in recent weeks, especially in the last few days, the paper, which has been printed for 168 years, has been indelibly linked with the worst practices in journalism. murdoch's son james believed it could not be amended. >> clearly, certain individuals did not live up to the standards and quality of journalism that we believe in, that i believe in, and that this company believes in. this company has been a great investor in journalism, a great investor in media in general. it is something we believe very strongly in. clearly, certain activities did not live up to those standards. that is a matter of great regret for me personally and for the company. >> there were revelations about the alleged hacking of the phone of a murder victim, and of the families of those who died in the seven-seven atrocities, and the invasion of privacy of the families of british soldiers killed in action. here is 80-year-old rupert moderate -- rupert murdoch's earlier today, pursued by journalists. one of his staff was less tight- lipped. >> he has done a lot of good things for "news of the world." because of w

nasa shuttle atlantis has arrived at the international space station where it has docked for the very last time as part of the fleets last ever mission it carried a crew of four americans and several tons of vital supplies russian american and japanese astronauts are working on the station and it just last shuttle mission brings going on you know those are food and equipment after thirty years of highs and lows in america's space shuttle history the final landing a will be a painful time for many who have devoted their lives to the program or he's going to church or cam comments. empty shells of what was once florida's thriving space coast. up to ten thousand people will be out of a job as soon as the last shuttle makes its final voyage back to earth home to many of the kennedy space center workers rock luge is on the verge of becoming a ghost town without the space program or pretty much nothing i mean this is what you know because the beach was built on the space program you know just a lot of people are going to be out of jobs sorry to be out of homes people are welfare left and ri

no democratic base is anymore than the regime of colonel gadhafi has an elected place and so he has made a value judgment based on his political instincts so let's talk about those assets . frozen well like his so far as that oil assets have been handed over to the rebels as you know is do you see a danger in allowing billions of dollars into the hands of a fairly disparate opposition group. well this is the concern because it's very unclear where the support for this opposition group comes from it is known that they have political support from a number of gulf gulf cooperation council countries and saudi arabia it's known that. oil salesmen there often it's known that france has been giving them as much as it is causing because and also apparently there are special forces from a number of countries operating on their behalf within libya the coalition forces britain france and the nato forces said it was a no fly zone in reality it has been the bombing of infrastructure targets as well as military targets throughout libya and has been considerable bombing going on in tripoli itself.

has been battling its debt crisis for the past eighteen months and has seen violent protests from a dissolution public journalist simon young says that despite the second cash handouts troubles in greece are far from over. president sarkozy has been saying in brussels you know greece is a special case it's received this special support from the europeans and other countries won't receive that but of course it's do we believe that i'm not sure that we do because it seemed conceivable that the europeans wouldn't step in very and it is also i think inconceivable that even the resources now available to the financial stability fund a sort of nascent european monetary fund i think they wouldn't really be sufficient in the end if it was a sort of battle between kate's and the italian government so without wanting to paint nightmare scenario i don't think we're out of the woods yet. financial woes are also rife across the atlantic were the us president has held emergency talks with congressional leaders barack obama accused party members of risking a huge global catastrophe after tossing a

the via has warned a u.n. envoy that no peace talks will be considered until nato stops airstrikes a government spokesman also insisted that market obviously leadership is non-negotiable earlier this week as a u.n. envoy held talks with the rebel council in benghazi where he also made little progress towards a peace deal going civil war in libya started four months ago and has taken the lives of over two thousand people. those who say that money doesn't grow on trees have obviously never been to russia illegal logging is thriving all across the country as people learn how to profit from natural disasters or to six on a boy go reports. fire has long had a reputation of a bad master but in russia these days it's increasingly being used as a good servant the flames terrorizing the country's forests every summer some unscrupulous and trip or nurse have come to use it as a smokescreen for illegal logging the problem reached such proportions that even the government has realized the chips are down in some regions co

it has worked out very well. we are following up with the campaign consultant ordinance to dovetail that in to work the same way. we want to simplify the fee structure. we want to have monthly reporting instead of quarterly so that information gets to the citizens faster. we want to ask some additional information. there is additional transparency, additional efficiency. we make the process easier. we appreciate supervisor winner bringing this to the board. we think this is an obvious follow-up to that reform. chairperson kim: thank you. any questions? if not, we will open it up to public comment on this item. if you have any public comment, set -- step up to the mike -- microphone. supervisor weiner: i would make a motion to for this to the board with a positive recommendation. chairperson kim: i believe we can do that without opposition. madam court, can you please call item five? >> ordinance amending the municipal elections code to require the director of elections to establish a process that permits voters t

three kilometers from the bank it has the bulgaria is in a ship's name it has sunk thoughts and then slightly to the right and divers are now trying to search that ship to try and find any bodies then to try and find out what actually happened the ship was cleared to sail after the ship but always crucially by the ministry of transport on the sixteenth of june this year it was a check ship back in nineteen fifty five and they were sailing yesterday around two pm along the volga has them in rather profound patients not quite sure just how rough conditions are we're not quite sure exactly what went wrong the theories at the moment suppose for the emergency services other perhaps the ship was overloaded perhaps it was down to a crew error or perhaps there was some problem with the engines of the moment is going to require a lot more investigation to find out exactly what happened there yesterday afternoon. i meant the search is focusing on various the ships on the flanks but also on a number of small islands dotted around the center of the volga which is very wide at this point it's tho

people one person with the confirmed dead and they were put onto a possum boat which as we've heard has now arrived. so they had managed to achieve these people we can hit the lakes from the emergencies ministry. rescue teams left for the scene as soon as reports came over those who were immediately rescued were taken to another ship that was standing close by but it's now arrived to because. some people managed to swim towards nearby island who are now searching for the other one woman has died another man is in hospital with injuries so we do seven people have been saved we're going to. know if i actually heard the likelihood of people being able to swim to the shore tool say is island is thinking less and less probable is very strong currents in the area of the volga and it would be a long distance to swim now the beta stuff was headed friend a ton of both to the people who survived being taken it was a two day trip it was going to have a turning focus and the focus of an incredibly popular area this time of year the tourist to take these kind of boats and we've heard from present da

more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for a chatroom today. when i return to our top story this of the thirty countries including the u.s. have officially recognized the libyan rebel council that's the n t c as the legitimate governing authority there restraining earlier calls that colonel gadhafi and his family must go well let's discuss this development now with dr franklin lamb he's director of an organization called americans concerned for middle east peace and he's joining us there live in tripoli in libya so washington and its allies have made their support of the opposition official putting it in some clear isn't it who the rebels actually are so therefore is there not a danger of them turning against the u.s. and indeed its allies a few years down the line as we've seen so often in the past. yes well that's right but just to tell you update on the situation here since that news broke and a lot of people are glued to their radios i had a har

the government has remained silent about this deal but the opposition has blasted. >> another downgrade for portugal, now the rating agencies come under fire. >> jubilation in one city, broken hearts in another, the international olympic committee has chosen pyeongchang in south korea as host of the 2018 olympics. this was made in the first round of voting. munich was among the front runners. in the end, it was the south koreans that proved most convincing. >> african children in traditional dress deliver the envelope that contained the results of the secret ballot of the host of the 2018 winter olympics. it was opened slowly, which raised the suspense. >> pyeongchang. [applause] >> south korea was a clear winner. they secured an absolute majority with 63 votes in one round. munich got 25 and france, just 7. pyeongchang narrowly lost two earlier bids. >> we are absolutely delighted that pyeongchang has been awarded to host the 2018 olympic winter games. over the course of 10 years of bidding, we have been listening and learning from the olympic family. >> the south koreans when in this

he has said that everything is on the table, including entitlement cuts. how significant is that difference? if not the policy difference, the approach coming to the table -- is that a concern for house democrats? >> the biggest concern for house democrats, as you pointed out, is the core values that we stand for as it relates to the great programs for social security, medicare, and medicaid. that has been the position of our caucus and of democrats since these conversations began. notwithstanding, everyone has said that everything needs to be on the table. here are the parameters. the president, wisely, said he was the president of the united states. this is about governance. i will have to govern from the center. he has consistently reached out to the other side, in an effort to compromise. consistently, they have walked away. democrats feel that he is negotiating to much away. the president says he understands the feelings, but that we have got to come up with a package and we have got to

has a bestselling child lawyer. and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our taking e.p.o. up to date with the latest information on breaking news a cruise ship has sunk on the river volga in central russia leaving five people dead and one hundred others still unaccounted for one hundred eighty five people were on board and many of them children when the ship foundered survivors were plucked from the water by a power. i think she has been taken to the republic's capital for treatment our correspondent tom burton has more details. it's known that they were the conditions that time were difficult but whatever happened the ship sank within three minutes which meant that a lot of the people didn't even have time to put on their life jackets before getting into the water and she was sick of it and didn't even have basically buried alive as if in the middle to cope with this we managed to get through the window there was my ten year old daughter and i couldn't risk it here she swallowed too much water

since the 1950s congress has always passed it and every president has signed it. president r president reagan did it 18 times. george w. bush did it seven times, and we have do it by next tuesday, august 2nd, or else we won't be able to pay all of our bills. >> now, meanwhile the speaker of the house, john boehner, also addressed the nation late on monday and he took the opportunity to reiterate his point, that washington has a problem, they spend more money than they bring in. >> i always believed the bigger the government, the smaller the people. right now we've got a government so big and so expensive it's sapping the drive out of our people and keeping our economy from running at full capacity. the solution to this crisis is not complicated. if you're spending more money than you're taking in, you need to spend less of it. there's no symptom of big government more menacing than this. we're up to the task. i hope president obama will join us in this work. >> all right. love that home-spun economics. the key is to make money through higher taxes. that's the othe

secretary of state has said syrian president-are al-assad has lost legitimacy with the diplomatic tension between the two countries. supporters attack the u.s. embassy in damascus. >> let me also add that if anyone, including presidents , thinks the u.s. will secretly emerged to continue its brutality, they are wrong. the president is not dispensable -- indispensable, and we have absolutely nothing invested in him remaining in power. our goal is to see that the will of the syrian people for a democratic transformation occurs. >> let's get more from our washington correspondent. strong words from hillary clinton, the strongest yet. >> the strongest yet, the message was very strong and very clear. i think is quite significant what mrs. clinton said about the fact that the u.s. finds that is notnt assad indispensable. many have thought that deep down, despite all the pro- democracy rhetoric and talk of support for the protesters, the u.s. would still like to see the government's stay in power. the secretary made it clear that they do not want him in power, or they have nothing invested in hi

and beyond has the murdoch family finally outfoxed itself. and. crossed out the implications of the phone hacking scandal i'm joined by kevin zeese in baltimore he's a spokesperson and lawyer for the government accountability group protect our elections and author of an open letter to the f.b.i. and s.c.c. urging them to investigate murdoch's news corporation in the us in washington we have dave south danae he is communications director for free press and in london we cross a toby young he's a journalist and author of how to lose friends and alienate people all right gentlemen cross talk rules and in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want kevin if i can go to you first because of your open letter here i took a look at some of the button laws and by laws of the f.c.c. and they be.

claims it has a video confession is proving their guilt but skeptics say. a witch hunt to score political points out is tom barton reports next on what's being seen as anti russian hype. georgia is on a spy role and not for the first time this time the spotlights being shined on those usually behind the camera four photographers were arrested on thursday on suspicion of spying but who was there suppose it must but first georgian authorities didn't say who they thought the ledge spies were working for but a day later they did russia in turn that moscow has accused georgia of paranoia the georgians are so quick to stick a spy label on to anyone i guess is just a level of democracy and that has been noticed not just by russia but by various key international organizations like the un one of the photographers was released without charge the other three were charged with espionage and will remain in pretrial custody for two months one of them has gone on hunger strike in protest. however georgian president mikheil saakashvili is personal photographer has reporte

perry has the least amount of baggage. he has done a pretty good job as governor of texas. i think he's got some comments in his past which might hurt him with independent voters and also being so closely associated with texas which there is some concern about george bush being from texas and texas, oh. >> we've seen this movie before. >> we've been there, done that. that could be a problem. the biggest baggage i think is going to come with president obama. he's had a chance to govern for three and a half years when the election happens and he hasn't got a lot done to help revive the economy. i think when it comes to baggage, president obama is going to have a lot of baggage. >> one quick point coming off where we started in 2008, 2009 with the recession that george bush gave us. the idea that we have had 18 consecutive months of job growth in this rough economy -- on friday we'll get some more evidence of where the future is going. >> fingers crossed by all when we get those numbers. thank you both. we have to run now. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >>> breaking ne

and what has really changed has been the military., exclusive of war costs, has just about doubled in real terms. and then of course you've had the war costs on top of that. so that's had a big, big role in, you know, getting this deficit. it cost about $1 million for every troop that we have in afghanistan. so i think that people are recognizing that defense has got to be part of this. and secretary gates basically has played a shell game. you give him too much credit. yeah, he said let's spend more on the state department, but he didn't want to take any money from defense. where did he think we were going to get it? he pretended that he was cutting the defense budget, but he never did. for example, in 2008, when he presented what he thought would be his last budget to congress, the 2009 budget under the bush administration, he said by 2012, we'll need about $543 billion in the base budget. know what he asked for this year? $553. this is after he pretended all these cuts. we've got to make some real cuts now if we're going to get thi

the has to make an emergency delivery of food and humanitarian aid to somalia worst dream drought has put ten million lives at risk will be the first airlift since a two year ban on international aid was removed by some knowledge of militants several weeks ago on wednesday un representatives will withstand a conference in kenya to find ways to raise one point six billion dollars in aid over the next year. or longer has passed an historic law allowing couples to divorce in their own country it will take effect from october after the president signs it all although it was the only e.u. country with divorce legislation in couples have to travel abroad to apply for a moment through the courts or church taking up nine years the vote is a blow to the ruling nationalist party which opposes the wars. and now from the wars to uncle eventual marriages i comes to the dating game in russia it really is a man's world barracked one million more when the man of the country forcing some to turn to exotic means of finding love even of that means a better half is more like several better waters or the

european commission has removed quotas for coming from russia and belarus the e.u. says the restrictive tariffs twenty years ago are no longer relevant amid growing fertiliser prices rogers will tell you world's largest producer by albert currently meets around thirteen percent of europe's them out. u.s. carbon of energy is said to award a seven hundred thirty million dollar loan to be american units of russians to manufacture service start funds will go to a great american factory that supplies u.s. automakers severstal north america provides steel components for general motors ford and chrysler recovery specializes in high technology steel that is lighter and safer than conventional first time for the markets now and the world prices are flat out to read a high as investors bet but increasing the u.s. troop supplies and debt crisis in europe may hold the montreuil materials both light sweet and brant are down slightly this hour losing four cents and twenty four centers. across asia markets are positive of the data showed the chinese g.d.p. expanded a loss in expec

has insisted on a multinational framework. later this month, the countries involved will sit at the same table at the asean forum. a heated debate is expected to take place. junpei yoshioka, beijing. >>> cambodia's booming economy is attracting attention from private investors and the government is hoping to lure even more money into the country with the opening of its first stock exchange since the country was devastated by a civil war. an official ceremony was held on monday to mark the occasion. the cambodia security exchange was set up with support of south korea. the country has been an aggressive investor in cambodia. three state-owned companies, a water business, a telecoms firm are expected to be listed for trading within the year. >> translator: today is an important historical day for cambodia's financial sector. it's a new pride of cambodia. >> cambodia's economy grew at an erage annual pace of 7.9% over the past decade. direct investment from overseas is also increasing. >> translator: i expect cambodia to develop

every family has to do it. every business has to do it. every individual has to do it. when your income is not as much as your outgo, you have to reprioritize. you have to stop spending as much as you want to and you have to live within your means. everyone else, every other government in your country has to do that. cities, states, county, they all have to do that. the federal government is for some reason the only one exempt from these normal laws of fiscal -- the fiscal laws of nature. we had this historic vote -- have this historic vote tomorrow, i'm looking forward to cut, cap, and balance our nation's finances. representative franks, i'm glad you're sponsoring this time so we can discuss this important issue and i yield back to the gentleman. mr. franks: i thank the distinguished gentleman. madam speaker, may i inquire as to the remainder of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 20 minutes remaining. mr. franks: with that, i yield to the gentleman from indiana. >> thank you. mr. young: i know the president said we don't need a constitutional amendme