he has proven himself to be an asset and he has proven he has the kind of establishment that any of us would want in our community. with that, and you have any questions for me? president newlin: no, thank you for coming and thank-you for your presentation. anybody else? please come forward. >> hello. i am the past president of the marine and merchants association. we have met with paul owens cheryl *. i was at the meeting for the neighborhood and he invited everybody. i know that he did a lot of -- a job of outrage. i get it. i am a business owner. pretty involved in my neighborhood. it is an asset, for sure. we're lucky to have him. he is doing the best that he can. i think we should note he has asked for help, which i think is good. we wrote a letter of support from our president. i hope you will consider it. president newlin: thank you. >> i was retained as part of the gardland -- pearl and public relations team to do the average necessary trade and want to thank patrisha. i have been on the phone week after week and my wife thinks i'm having an affair with a lady named patrisha. t

>> inouye gingrich has had a difficult week. -- a new to gingrich has had a did a good week. he has been kind of lethargic on the stump. this has been arguably the most unsettled primary race for either party in the modern era. in 2011, there were more people had in the voting in the national polls than any previous at a year's election. we have never had a race where different people one of iowa, new hampshire, and south carolina in the republican race. this could reestablish mitt romney as the front runner if he wins, but it does not feel like the last act of this play. tavis: if i say to you that mitt romney is going to win and you say, so what, newt gingrich has already said he is going to win. if mitt romney wins in florida, what of it? >> money and organization do matter. they have pulverized gingrich in florida on television, outspend -- outspending him in some instances of 5 to 1. what has really been a pretty miserable for gingrich is that there is an action and reaction foundation in the party. you have seen more establishment republicans like john mccain and bob do

something has changed. the supreme court ruled that corporations and unions have the right to spend as much money as they like on political campaigns. that unleashed the big spenders, and it will really make a big impact this year. creativeoodman's agency has made many ads for republican candidates. the amount of money spent goes up astronomically each season. >> it is great for business. it is a great showing in a way in terms of democracy, because they suggest that fewer people are having more power in the process them before. >> newt gingrich was easily outpaced, but he says he will fight on. >> we are going to have people power beat money power in the next six months. >> the need to scare voters about the horrors that lie in wait will grow stronger as the battle for the white house gets nearer. already obama has criticized mitt romney. they have not made a film about a. not yet. >> there will only be more about that in american politics. mona lisa. the mere mention of her name evokes images of the maste

allies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world that don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can rally their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole i don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develop

occupy has become a brand. it has also become e ncampments. soon it will need to be more than a space and a place. it will need to go to state houses, occupy banks, occupy congress. take the movement energy into those stairs -- spheres with the ideas matter of the heart of occupy. >> winter is coming. cities like san francisco and oakland and other cities are closing down the encampments and chasing people off. you can drive 90 miles from davis and pepper spray. it is hard to maintain people's attention for long periods of time. i am wondering -- should they be occupying the supreme court? [applause] >> i was talking about that today. with all respect for putting your body on the line which captivated the imagination in the beginning, it now needs to be less about states and place -- spaces and places and more about going to wear in justice -- injustice is. there are plans to occupy the supreme court from the second anniversary of the citizens united decision. that crazy decision has given the rights to corporations to unleash their treasuries

according to latest reports fighting has actually intensified in the syrian city of homs shelling has actually been the worst that it has been over the past five days but also there are some unconfirmed reports saying that the army troops are moving towards the center but of course most of these reports are coming in from sources which are affiliated with the arm syrian opposition none of them can really be confirmed as there are really no reliable sources on the ground in syria syrian t.v. at the same time is reporting that armed rebels have taken to have a tax on oil refineries just outside of homes and have said those on the fire of course of that all of this comes. right on the heels of the recent visit of the russian delegation to syria following which president bashar al assad has said that he is willing to go to great lengths in order to reinstall for peace in the country he has promised to go through with major reforms among them a referendum on constitution which should take place some time in march he's also but he's also said that he is more than willing to sit down for tal

the regime has call them terrorists and has vowed to wipe them out. they say that they are trying to protect civilians. >> we are the free syrian army. the armies are outside on checkpoints and outside of the hospital. we are here to respond. >> if the russians have reached some agreement with president assad behind-the-scenes or if they have failed, the results will be felt first and foremast hinder in -- first and foremost here in homs. >> we are in sight of the city and we spoke earlier about why the assault might be happening right now. this place was pretty much cut off that it was not under the huge bombardment. i think the regime has to change tactics. but one is military necessity. the free army is growing in strength every day. i was speaking to a man who is a full colonel who defected and he said that morale is crumbling with the army. he does not give the regime much time while in his opinion the rebel forces are growing in strength. the other reason people believe is that they are vulnerable to international pressure and they don't feel an

the number of people died in the cold snap has run into hundreds. it has hit -33 degrees celsius. the factory in the pakistan city has collapsed killing at least nine people and trapping 40 others in the rubble. the factory was located in residential part. today, the main palestinian factions agreed that the leader will have an interim government to organize the elections. the move came with a warning from israel that might close the door to future peace talks. >> abbas, a leader, palestinian presiden and prime minister, too. he agreed to lead a new interim unity government curve of the west bank and -- for both the west bank and gaza. >> we want to implement what is related to the election. and this, regardless of all the hurdles we are surrounded by. >> we are serious about helping old loans in order to achieve reconciliation. >> palestinians have been crying out for years. the division has been bitter and sometimes violent. a year after winning elections in 2006, fighting erupted with them being forced from gaza. mr. abbas says he wants that to change with elections held later

nearly every man has won.conflicts often boil over into violent confrontations with fatal consequences. yemen's vast desert sun also become a haven for al-qaeda. membership in the militant group is growing here. a southern separatist movement is boycotting the elections and has threatened attacks during voting. there is only one candidate in this election, so the outcome is clear. but it remains to be seen what yemen's new president can do about his country's entrenched problems. >> well, we're very happy to be joined by eight in middle east expert in the studio to talk about yemen and its future -- to be joined by a middle east expert. this is a brokered deal, this presidential vote. is it the beginning of a government representative democracy in yemen? >> well, perhaps, because there are a true in elections planned within two years. at least the current government will be a little bit more representative than the last one. the big problem though is that members of the old elite, of the saleh family, still co

no institution that has not profit institution that has religious principles that we violated has to pay for or directly offer the services but women have access to the kinds of care they are entitled to. we think that is the right approach. >> chris: let's turn to the budget. you officially release it tomorrow but you we already know the broad outlines and let's go through them. cut the deficitly more than $3 trillion. half comes from spending cuts. half, more than $1.5 trillion from new taxes on corporations and the wealthy. to entitlements.al changes here is how congressman paul ryan describes it. >> seems as if the president is doing little more than class envy and the status quo which is the greatest threat it our health security and retirement security and natural security and economic security. >> chris: question, isn't this the same plan the president proposed in september that congress has already rejected? >> this. >> well, this is a plan similar. we put out a detailed plan for $4 trillion not $3 trillion the deficit reduction because it is built on the trillion dollars of

while in contrast contador has little sympathy from the world anti-doping agency its president john has branded contador a cheat and says the court ruling was a clear warning to cyclists. the simple fact is that anyone who has a prohibited substance in their system. is h. it. it's as simple as that the only argument then comes as to what was the method what was the nature of how that prohibited substance got into the system. but your cheat effectively the moment you got that substance in there and that analysis disclosed and tested this was a very comprehensive way bike as well another major legal battle in sport is looming this time to help medal hopefuls an artery in shape represent russia at this summer's london olympics the pentathlete was born in lithuania but has obtained a russian passport a lot of her native country has now banned her from can pay more. just a week after turn in twenty four and with multiple world cup wins under her belt do not are you shy to should be a shoo in for the fast approaching london games or so you would think because for these modern pentathlon to se

people this has nothing to do with their rights it has nothing to do with the killing of innocent people eccentric cetera this is all about geo political change in the region you take syria down and it's a boon for israel maybe but certainly for other countries where hezbollah is weakened in the next target the great prize of the mall is a rand that's what it's all about isn't it. yeah well that's. a point of view again has no connection with reality but whatever you want to explain explain yourself why you say that you dismiss your view and you don't owe anyone who are rising up. as i started to say before you interrupted everyone can see that the syrian people are rising up and risking their lives day after day week after week month after month thousands of people all over the country tens of thousands of people so you think it should be a military intervention should there be a military intervention in scorning quote stop this you know i'm not calling for i don't think there should be and i don't think there needs to be i think the. force of the people in syria will the regime sooner

the question has to be asked. given that the team which was not expected to win one against its bitter rival -- had been made preparations? the question then arises -- what did the egyptian authorities do? i come reading reports out of egypt that people went in with knives and so on. what did they do to make sure this game would be saved? what we saw on television and in pictures is fans running across to impress on their rivals they had won the match. what the authorities do to make sure that did not happen -- what did authorities do to make sure that did not happen, and to prevent this collapse? in the past, football has been used as a political metaphor. we have seen that in serbia and other places. this would not be the first place. >> when you look at the pictures we have been looking at of fans pouring onto the pitch, but are astonishing. as somebody who watches soccer matches and has since soccer violence before, what do you read into this? i see what looks like an absence of riot police and official contro

somalia has not been a functioning state. there has not been the rule of law. there has not been proper government or a proper level of those four people, so we have to put in place all of those building blocks. the somalia people are starting to do that, and the aim is to help them do just that. >> those efforts are already taking place in the u.k. mr. cameron knows they are making real progress -- to make progress in somalia, the people themselves need to be engaged at home and abroad. >> the reason security forces have storm of prison who in bali, setting fires and throwing rocks at guards. the violence apparently broke out of prison following the stabbing of men in may. our correspondent told us the latest. -- following the stabbing of an inmate'. >> 12 australian citizens are being held on drug charges. he has told made the australian citizens have confirmed what happened last night, at least what he has been told by officials, is that a riot broke out among six inmates. we believe the riot was the result of a stabbing over the weekend. unidentified gay me

he has more. when the thermometer hit minus twenty seven degrees celsius last week lou got very frightened homeless and with a child to care for she feared they would both freeze to death until she found the public eating sand in a key of park look at the. schools were closed because of the trees and i had no way to take my daughter i was scared at first went to a train station to get but we were kicked out things got we found this heated tent but there were many ukrainians who were not so lucky at least one hundred thirty five people are reported to have died because of freeze related injuries within only a week several thousand were hospitalized and have been on high alert upgrading the weather conditions to natural disaster status. the situation is serious but it is controllable the emergency ministry has set up thirty two hundred heating centers nationwide to. come here and turn this more than ninety five thousand people turned. the strong siberian cycle on hit many countries on the continent

anyone who has followed the practices that pg&e has a engaged in i think has reason to be concerned. this is about giving consumers and ratepayers the choice. that is one of the integral pieces and components of community choice aggregation. that is why the board and mayors in the past have been supportive of it, and i hope that's support continues out of room to hundred. i just want to make that note, and i will keep you informed of those conversations. colleagues, any other comments or questions? this is an information item, so madam clerk, if you could please call item 6. >> would you like to continue that matter -- commissioner campos: yes, if we could continue that item to the call of the chair. we continue that item to the call of the chair without objection. >> item 6, study on the voting process, including rent joyce voting joycerank choice -- including rank choice voting for local offices in the city and county. commissioner campos: this is an item requested we put on the agenda as an information item that may perhaps turned into an action item. lafco conducts studies on a n

wolfgang has his work cut out for him. even if you do not win anything, you will not have to go home hungry. bbc news. >> very appetizing, indeed. have a look at these pictures. they are from brazil. they are trying to find out why this helicopter disintegrates after it lands. this footage was taken by the fire department. the copter is shaking of vigorously. officials believe, there is an official term for this, it is brown resonance. it is when the road aaa -- ground resonance. it is when the blade continues and causes unbalancing. >> you have been watching newsday. >> i am in london. a reminder of our main news. kofi annan has been appointed as a special envoy to syria. he will represent the un and the arab league. an organization says his mission comes at a critical time for the people of syria and bringing an end to all violence. there were many more deaths as the syrian army continued its onslaught against the opposition strongholds. there will be a meeting in tunisia. they will call for an immediate cease-fire. than

germany has grown quite rapidly but has a large current account has a current deficit, gdp. of competence lost between germany and vis-a-vis the rest of the world. does your plan beyond structural reforms, which take a long time to work, actually deal with >> can i take the second question -- please do. >> second question first. yes, the answer is unambiguously yes. italian entrepreneurs and top managers in this room will probably confirm italy has a sizable worsening of competitiveness. and that explains, to a large extent, why italy for the last 12 or 15 years has had an average rate of growth about one-half that of the euro area not of the bricks of the euro area. structural play in the long-term, yes and no, because coming out of the bank of italy the estimates i gave earlier, some affects of structural reform can come up quickly. i think the direction of policy has really to look at total factor productivity as you economists would call it, which means that a lot of work has been done in the field of the labor market, in order to facilitate increases in productivity the

has not been done.asked for one in 2002 and got the same response. there is a pattern at this -- of this particular property owner. we would like to work with him on this issue because there is not much time. if we cannot gain access to see what is done -- you also have in your package, clearly, there was peeling paint. i will show you some colored photographs. this is what the inspectors sought from the adjacent property. we cannot be going to an adjacent property, and will not be able to do that, to see the entire property. we need to be able to see the garage, look at the back of the building to see the egress. into that area to see the back, to see whether or not there is any additional peeling paint. we have not gotten access. with respect to that, we believe the hearing officer was correct in making sure an order was issued, so we could encourage the property owner to work with us. we try to give him as much information as possible. we would disagree with his clarification of the issue. commission

britain has to confront its problems.hat is the clear message from the rating agency today. >> spain was especially hard hit by the downgrades. the country's credit rating was cut two notches. mitty's justified the move, saying there's no guarantee the structural reforms will bear fruit. in madrid, defended the government's costs. >> i think the government is making an apparent effort to try to fix the situation, which is very bad. and credit agencies are lowering the ratings, but that is unrelated. >> ratings agency standard and poor's took a tougher line last month. it cut the credit ratings of nine european countries, stripping both france and austria of their prized aaa status. the third largest ratings agency, fitch, followed suit, cutting ratings for five european economies. >> of course, those downgrades have been given the market's plenty to think about. but trading in did pretty flat on tuesday in frankfurt. here is more. i am sorry, we seemed to have lost and -- no, we have got him after all. >> the ratings agen

but i think this is of off the mark the issue has moved on the issue of relations with iran has moved on considerably from the strict strict starting point of its nuclear ambitions. no what were side issues have become the central issue that is the economic warfare being being and entered into against the. the ratcheting up of sanctions which in a certain word a certain point the quantitative element becomes a qualitatively different relationship and becomes an exercise of existential threat to iran that we're approaching that point and the the the issue of its nuclear ambitions or how the plot has been proven has fallen to a subsidiary position i can see that coming out in in a dispute between the the pentagon will be and the department of defense and the state department because there is a significant. more significantly more. restrained pentagon under under present leadership under panetta as opposed to the war the who are you hawkish. position of the state department and the foreign policy community supporting the state department ok patrick a final to you it seems to me that isra

that has led to the end of the iraq war has led to pro-democracy rallies and uprisings all over the world and i think it's much deserved that he he receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets at the why should he obama has done very little for peace even though he promised it and obama is also taking credit for ending the iraq war when actually that's not the truth and the iraqi government did not want to allow legal immunity for u.s. troops after january first and the reason that they did the last immunity is because of what they saw in the cables and the videos showing civilian deaths that were being covered up in the corruption by the u.s. government. and that brings us up to date here on r t for moral going to our website r.t. dot com i do actually without data our top stories. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand severe problem is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos that to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of

how he has -- what he has done.s policies have done, how he has helped the american people and he has got to make sure the progressives, some of whom have got a little bit off the high of the first term, some of them he has not pleased as much. the progressives need to get out the vote. he needs to get out the left vote. >> bill: i got nothing out of that. >> come on. >> help me, america. look, the fact that he is under water in so many key states, it's not good for an incumbent president. but he is going to raise about a billion dollars so he will have a lot of resources. he will be able to get out. he has the power of encouple incumbency. the problem for obama as incumbent president most politically toxic element for any candidate running for president especially the president is the unemployment number. the election for him. >> bill: going down, monday canchts of course the broader economy because we are seeing anemic economic growth. >> bill: if the unemployment is going down, stock market did well in january. i

he has a jury out waiting. you may get called away but we're hope you're able to stay for the panel. finally, we have sheldon siegel. and sheldon siegel is a corporate lawyer who has written a series -- i think seven books now, a fictional criminal defense attorney named mike daley who actually lives here in san francisco. and he's written a series of

has set it for what it has to do in terms of to be able to reform its finances to be able to pay back some of the debts that it that has been largely caused by issues to do with the euro itself and the problem that the euro creates and how it makes the greek economy competitive so basically greece cannot survive while it is in the euro and the more austerity measures which are being forced upon it will just hurt the greek economy even further wages have been cut thirty percent on average in greece pensions are being carved people are finding it very hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures in the problems caused by the euro what they're doing at the moment is just throwing more money at the problem and really putting back the day when greece will have to deform will have to leave the euro. coming your way here in r t innocence lost in afghanistan find out why the latest airstrike has left afghanistan as president and damning foreign troops. and separate that's why israel is stopping thousands of palestinians from living here israeli families. civil society in ru

>> there has been a media. lots of stories appearing in the north to prius the media. -- north korea state media. he is being very visible. watching him in that ceremony, he did look very comfortable in his new role. there was one point in which he received a standing ovation. a long standing ovation from the party officials. he stayed in his seat and he turned and motioned for them to sit down. he does look very comfortable. it is impossible to know, how much power and influence he has over the statement. -- those statesmen. >> how are people saying this from where you are? >> in south korea, people view it the way they feel a lot of state offense, an edge of competition. -- view it the way they beat you a lot of state defense -- they view a lot of state events, and edge of trepidation. >> you have been watching newsday. >> the president of honduras has suspended the officials in charge of the national prison system after a fire in a jail that killed three and 50 inmates. this is bbc news. >> make sense of int

he has a chronic condition. he has a political anemia. he has a hard time exciting people. he doesn't know how to touch the buttons for conservatives, and when he tries too hard he looks inauthentic. santorum is not an ideal candidate. >> not at all. >> he has an acute condition, i think, which is kind of a culture war fever. he seems to enjoy those debates, culture war debates a little too much. it scares people. people don't like aggressors in the culture war. it's hard, though, for romney to exploit that. it's hard to come in and criticize his social conservative can views in the republican primary. >> woodruff: you mean during this period. >> this period. he can do it through proxies. he can raise questions about his electability. but of course barack obama won't have any problems attacking the views on contraception or women's rights issues or gay rights issues. it creates a dynamic i think if i were barack obama i would want to face santorum, but it's hard for romney to make those attacks about electability. >> one of the things about santorum that has gone uninoid, j

she has committed no crime.ely 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

people of the countries they're making law for we've got a system of law and order in this country has worked for many many years for the seats or the mother why do we need brussels to tell us what we can and cannot do the answer is we don't so therefore british law for british people those who aren't calling for the u.k. to pull out of the european convention on human rights altogether are demanding reforms to stop strides making decisions on what should be sovereign issues the court has to be more focused on fundamental civil and political rights not interfering in the daily lives. and in the ministration of the criminal justice system in the member states of the council of europe without reforms there's a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater as nations pull out of the human rights court undermining it leaving those in countries with weak human rights protections entirely vulnerable. r.t. . r.t. is coming to you live from moscow now the pakistani army has met with nato and afghan forces in an effort to improve coordination along the pakistan afghanistan border the talks c

all qaida has indorse the rebels fighting in syria under president assad syria has been a secular state some analysts argue that one of the reasons why al qaeda supports the violent uprising in syria is that in the last secular environment it's easier to recruit new terrorists if the government holds that you'll be looking forward to just a very long period of complete disintegration and they will be able to attract more and more fanatical recruits look at the civil war in iraq in two thousand and six and seven it was absolutely appalling the calls to arm fighting groups in syria sound even more alarming given the u.s. history of arming radicals afghanistan one example that it was a placing itself in alliance with the mujahideen including osama bin laden and these people who now of course it is lately been deploring as fanatical fanatical enemies that the united states said these these alliances. totally cynical and totally opportunistic there's not a shred of good will. but despite the hawks outcry the obama administration is taking a more cautious stance with regards to syria we don't

the region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than follow sort of unity approaches or stall or slides in how we want to rid this region in our view. not only completely illegal and awful and have north radiation to be used in within the domains of international law but even more importantly there counterproductive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one strike leads to getting you target number one or target number three today you're creating five more targets or ten more targets. militancy that it would be. in for good that it gives to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks. and you can watch my full interview in about fifteen minutes right here on art. britain could soon start using chemical weapons for domestic law enforcement a group of experts from the national academy of sciences believes the government intends to develop nerve agents for the police to use against

has he made that statement?well, he didn't say that as president of the united states he would be against contraception, but he has said that personally he thinks it is a violation, that it is not in a woman's interest, that it is -- that sex should be done for procreation and that contraception should not be used? >> who cares? why is this going to have anything to do -- >> because presidents -- presidents have a lot to say about social policy. you just discussed president obama and the health care policy. >> but do you honestly think that if senator santorum becomes president, that we're going to get rid of contraceptives? >> what i think doesn't matter. what the women voters and men voters around the country think. i'm just asking about the politics of this and his viability in a general election campaign. >> well, i'm amazed that some of the approaches that come up. i think the media has created this extremist idea. i walked into a country club and said, you've got to get behind this guy rick santorum, he's

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this director has already made a film and she is showing at the berlinale which has german and frenchhe film is french but the money was more from germany and france -- than in france. it was really hard to find money in france for this project. i do not know why. maybe they did not like the subject. >> her film tells the story of a paris journalist investigating prostitution. >> the film was financed with 500,000 euro from the media foundation. in return, the director had to build part of the movie in cologne, these hotels scenes. very few would get produced without help from the states. governments are keen to bolster their local film shooting. it has advantages and disadvantages. >> i'm always finding pleasure in it, but it is complicated. then they would countries each want to say something. for the director, for the producers, for everyone. >> she has a way to go to move their project from studio to screen, raising between $2.40 dollars million euro. >> there marking in anniversary. >> british and american planes fired bombs in dresden in 1945 and the casualties were huge. >> and

has already spent at least one hundred twenty seven dollars. i haven't spent one hundred twenty seven dollars although i really like this communicated with my friends with overseas friends but i think this little bit of overestimation. facebook definitely has that much from each customer over excitement then perhaps just i would call this a pure is. still a social a p or rather than a purely investment a pure this is a distinction facebook wants to be more in the spotlight it wants to be more talked about this is the reason it wants to go public. we. investment people are especially in these hard times a more down to earth we've tried to be a more skeptical because the time teaches us to solve for so far we haven't been seeing the huge inflow or real proceeds this is what makes us cautious and makes us believe that facebook is not definitely worth one hundred billion dollars i can read employee to. i think perhaps it's bad timing when you say at the moment investors are cautious is it a case of bad timing how do you see to conclude the ip going

has the latest now from new york. russia says it won't accept even a hint of an embargo on arms embargo when it comes to syria and its reasoning for this is pretty simple it says firstly that the weapons an arms for that russia provides to syria cannot be used against demonstrators thus don't influence anything that goes on inside syria and when it comes to this conflict now secondly russia says that it is only following its legal obligations its following its international contracts with syria and it's not breaching any international laws at all and most importantly it says that the lessons of libya need to be large because when an arms embargo was put in place on libya what ended up happening was government forces were embargoed but the opposition groups continued to receive openly arms from abroad and this is something that they don't want to see in syria and russia says it's time for the west to stop pretending like armed groups don't exist over there. it would seem logical that if there is a conflict let's not su

believes the embargo has been forced upon europe. what we're seeing here is not a decision that comes actually from european countries to spain never wanted to survive go to to prove to be put in place this is something that comes externally from the united states pressure on the european union so it calls into question spain's tanami. foreign policy decisions i mean it's not just the spray neutrally also greece imports lots of oil from from iran it could be hard hitting away that would bring them bankrupt in the coming future that would be a complete disaster for the european union and for the euro and that can happen because of these political move your opinion actually had a very good relationship in terms of the economy and trade with iran it was literally been in the last twenty years the connection of that has been lost after the iranian revolution and the situation was improving until we can introduce a new tension that has been in my view to a great extent artificially created. on the first anniversary of the ousting of presi

he has been an mp in germany for over 20 years. he carries a presidential air about him, and he is not averse to moralizing, it must be said. >> all right, as always, thank you very much. the timing of this resignation is horrible for the german chancellor, and joe merkel -- angela merkel. a domestic problem is distracting her from dealing with the eurozone debt crisis. >> she postponed a trip to rome where she was to hold talks on the crisis with italian prime minister mario monti. >> the resignation is a blow to chancellor merkel, who had hand- picked christian wulff for the post in 2010. >> with his resignation, german president wulff has placed his office, his service to the people of our country above his own conviction that he acted in accordance with the law. i explicitly respect this move. >> the chancellor told the opposition she would seek a presidential candidate by consensus and syrian-backed >> we want to lead talks in the situation with the aim of finding a common candidate to propose for the next election of the germ

he has a national organizatn. it seems like the republican establishment is largely embraced him in this race. so it's logical to assume that he, you know, he continues to be a weak frontrunner and he may be the nominee of the party. we're prepared for that. he certainly projects himself that way. we'll be prepared for that debate. >> woodruff: and in terms of framing the campaign at this point going forward, your major challenge is what? >> well, look. we're going to project a positive vision for how we move forward as a country and rebuild not just regain the jobs we've lost but rebuild an economy in which the middle class is growing and not shrinking, in which people who work hard can get ahead. in which people can look forward to a better future for their kids. that's how we measure progress in the economy. there will be a very distinct difference between the way we approach it and the way the folks on the other side do and particularly governor romney who seems to believe if we just go back to what we were do

he also has a very favorable schedule he's you know like a football team that has a bunch of patsies waiting in front of them he's got nevada which he did very well and four years ago that has a high mormon population that we would expect him to win and he's looking at michigan this month which is a state that his father was governor of and he's got the organization to do well in some of these caucus states ron paul obviously will target the caucus states and try to do well in those but you know as the other guests have said anything can happen this year the last thing you want to do is go out and try to predict this but mitt certainly has a lot of momentum heading into these february contests between for your political to. run the conservative enough for you. no absolutely not i don't even consider romney a conservative i consider him a moderate slash liberal who is running as a conservative which many tea party people have experienced in two thousand and ten and here's the problem that romney is going to face that he's never even grass any of the grassroots movement out there he ha

these are the images cobol has been seeing from the streets of canada after. china operations are all today. i think medion says the u.s. and nato countries are the support of syria's opposition fighters is driving the nation into an all out civil war. decision time for greece its creditors debate whether our phones will sink or swim as the population rages against the props made to secure the bailout. and on the path to war are wanted on washington warned israel against attacking iraq's nuclear sites urging more time to let sanctions do their job. thanks for being with us five o'clock here in moscow on care and with your headlines the u.s. and its allies are pushing syria into civil war backing the armed opposition there is what the chinese state newspaper says beijing join moscow's efforts to bring about a political settlement in the crisis torn country where the top chinese diplomat recently visiting damascus maria financial reports from syria. fifty kilometers northwest of damascus lebanon just over the border once and relaxed luxury mountain resort the to

jamie has joined me. it's fair to say this is a glimmer of growth in the euro zone today. >> we'd jump upon any bit of good news coming from the euro zone thinking it could give us any kind of change. uniformly, most of the news coming from the euro zone is that. the service sector has gone from contracting to growth or very small amount of growth, which makes something of a difference. however, in the euro zone there is a huge disparity. in germany it still seems to be growing fast. but in the periphery economies like italy and spain and portugal, greece, and ireland, a large difference between them and germany. figures coming out of the u.s. on jobs later today. expect to see 150,000 jobs being created over last month in the u.s. this is in stark contrast to the european figures. >> very positive to see this as been stabilization of the euro zone private-sector economy as a whole. we saw this in the manufacturing & service members. both of them are looking at stabilization, not signalling substantial gr