treasuries very attractive keeping the interest rates and hence the mortgage rates pretty low but by contrast being twelve percent annually for your mortgage here in russia means that if you why say a three hundred fifty thousand dollars apartment which is the average for moscow by the touch by the time you're done paying your twenty year loan you would have paid three times that much more than one million dollars so the million dollar question really is are you going to be able to sell it for that amount definitely something to think about before. into the more i'm not going to plunge my rent is due and i'm just going to keep focusing on the. thank you. very informative. move on then after a hectic christmas period most postmen are putting their feet up but russian ones though they are busy running around to post boxes of all lined shoppers russians have been keeping their fingers firmly on the buy bottom sucking up bargains in foreign stores making the most of the january sales of broad tanya the story wraps up for us. european sales are sluggish as consumers are tightening their b

hence, why some are making fortunes here so they can get their hands on precious oil. sell the refined product anywhere. it is, alas, a global market and these refineries sell to the highest bidder. they put it on ships to markets that are priced off the more expensive brent crude and they can make more money than they could selling it here. all this domestic oil ends up doing next to nothing to bring down the price of gasoline. seven years ago we were a net importer of gasoline and now a net exporter. if that gasoline could be kept here, we can lower the price at the pump. how can you demand that? listen, guys, you can't send it overseas? how can it be moved from the gulf to the east or the west when we don't have the pipeline to transport it? most of the shale oil is super light, but much of the gulf refinery capacity was handling heavy canadian crude, because they didn't believe that the keystone pipeline would be a political issue. they didn't believe that any president would want to stop the pipeline if it could make us more energy independent. those were two impo

people would get drunk and, hence, there were people that wanted to ban the apple. i looked further, and i found that there were other plants similarly that today you would say that's incredible that people would have problems with tomatoes, that it was a witch's fruit or potatoes that weren't in the bible, so we should have problems with it. and then, obviously, now coffee. and coffee was fascinating because there were points, um, great origin myths of coffee and then eventually going throughout the islamic world, and there were questions to the health of it, the religious legality of it, and there were times where coffee was banned, coffeehouses or were shut down sometimes for health reasons, but also for political reasons. they were sites of sedition and sites of political discourse. but so i saw that this coffee was another plant with an alkaloid as its principal, active ingredient, the calf fee of the coffee -- caffeine of the coffee that was something that went through these cycles of experimentation and then prohibition and then, obviously, acceptance. there'

treasuries very attractive keeping the interest rates and hence the mortgage rates pretty low but by contrast being twelve percent annually for your mortgage here in russia means that if you why say a three hundred fifty thousand dollars apartment which is the average for moscow by the touch by the time you're done paying your twenty year loan you would have paid three times that much more than one million dollars so the million dollar question really is are you going to be able to sell it for that amount definitely something to think about before. into the more i'm not going to plunge my rent this year and i'm just going to keep focusing on. thank you scott for us there for informative. move on then after a hectic christmas period most postmen are putting their feet up but russian ones though they are busy running around to post boxes of all life shoppers russians have been keeping their fingers firmly on the buy button sucking up bargains in foreign stores making the most of the january sales abroad tanya has the story wraps up for us. european sales are sluggish as consumers are t

hence the wide travel for example of john paul ii, hence the great teaching of benedict xvi. his major legacy. >> they're very different at least in their style and in their i guess pastor abilities in some way, although not very different philosophically. >> this has been a really unsuccessful papacy and the greatest single act of his papacy is that our church is in real trouble and i am not able to cope with the trouble that we're in. i think there are some of the cardinals that are hoping that the next pope that they elect will convene a vatican 3, something that will set the church on a new course, reach out to the modern world, instead of what has happened under john paul ii as well in terms of the theology and benedict which has been a look backwards in terms of what the theology means, what the role of the male celibate priesthood in particular is, which has caused such terrible troubles for the church. but both of these popes had a view that the great problem of the world today was moral relativism. and their the theology moved to address the problems of moral relativ

hence the title of "esquire's" interview with him. quote, the man who killed osama bin laden -- dot dot dot -- is screwed. when he leaves after 16 years in the navy, his body filled with scar tissue, tendinitis, blown disc, here is what he gets from his employer and a grateful nation. nothing. no pension and health care for his wife and kids, no protection for himself and his family. once the story was published there was some controversy about whether "esquire" made a factual error when they described his benefits. it turns out he is entitled to benefits for five years, but none for his family. they clarified that. like many vets, he will have to wait at least eight months to have his disability claims adjudicated. the national wait time nationally is more than nine months. the center for investigative reporting analyzed the wait times for 58 veterans affairs offices across the country. they made this interactive map with the data that they found. what they discovered was that many vets are waiting way longer than that nine-month nat

hence measurements show that the growth rate of eight grandchild increases with the amount of time that the grandmother stands to get food for the kid. while older and together men no longer have the strength needed to spear a lion, and the men bay still be useful in their old age at following animal tracks and capturing slow or small prey. a lifetime experience of aldermen means that they know much more than a younger man about the habits of each species of prey animal and how best to hunt that animal. that value of the experience of older people in traditional society has also been confirmed from modern farming societies. among 19th century canadian farmers and 19th century finnish farmers, each decade that a grandmother survives past age 50 was correlated with two extra grandchildren of that grandmother eventually surviving because of the grandmother's contribution to the resources while still alive. another traditional use less of older people consists of babysitting their grandchildren, thereby freeing up their adult children, the parents of those grandchildren, to go hunting -- hu

to history i should add here in russia investors didn't seem to find too many reasons for optimism hence the indices wore a lower they ended this week's session in the red roughly a third of a percent each for both of my sex and the r.t.s. but the russian ruble managed to strengthen to both currencies of as you're seeing here the euro was pretty much flat to the dollar. and russia's flag ship airline araf lot this week fiercely criticized the united nations for failing to produce a reliable regional jet air flight claims the company's latest midrange passenger plane was superjet one hundred which many hoped would revive russia's aviation sector is not up to scratch business artie's katie explains. yes that's right the aircraft is used to rowing through the skies but now creating an uproar and that's because when it comes to aircraft reliability is paramount and that is exactly why air flow out of concern right now now in the first serious attempt to analyze the reliability of these models ten of them tested inadequate eight percent of air felt relief and sequoia accounted for forty perce

and pamplona where the video came out from, 6 degrees for your high so hence the snow in the evening hours. moving over to the american continent here, we're talking about very big winter storm to be in store for your weekend in the northeast. a couple of systems are involved with this. one is moving towards the east. this is over the great lakes region now bringing wet precipitation and occasion thunderstorms. towards the southeast, another system providing quite another -- quite some amount of thunderstorms, as well. traveling along the atlantic coast in to the weekend by saturday morning, this will be merging and becoming a potent system and battering these areas. we already have blizzard warnings and watches across the regions and includes boston, too, and winter storm advisers in the great lakes region, as well. now, this will be previding about 30 to 60 centimeters of snowfall including manhattan of new york and added with that wind gusts of 120 kilometers per hour and both combined bringing you blizzard conditions. that means low visibility to about zero in some areas. a lot o

. >> hence the special drink we have. >> it will change by tomorrow. >> exactly.ehe weather don't get used to it. things change. >> you guys, we have some bizarre hotels. we want to direct you up to the big screen because you'll be able to see them better here. but these are some of the strangest and craziest hotel ideas. and since this is president's day weekend a lot of people will be going away. the first pick is called the sheep wagon in nebraska. so you could actually say that you stayed -- >> that's a hotel room. got a bathroom. it's got the whole magilla. shower and everything. >> does it really have a bathroom though? >> yes. >> deluxe mattress. >> they're heated. >> all right. what's that cost you per night? >> i don't know. >> like $79 or something like that? >> in finland you can enjoy your life, your vacation in an igloo. >> now, that looks pretty cool. >> yeah. not private. all glass. >> but not many people around, either. >> would you guys like an upside down room? this is in berlin. >> that's the igloo still. >> here's the upside down room. your bed

hence, the 15 stars and the 15 stripes. >> this special flag is only flown here and at maryland's fort mchenry, birthplace of "the star spangled banner." >> the barracks was established to defend the nation's capital, and it's because this is the oldest post of the corps, because most of our history comes from this place from the 19th century, we started holding parades to show people what we're all about. >> good evening, ladies. welcome to marine barracks, washington. >> every friday evening over the summer, the public is invited to visit the post to watch the evening parade. >> what's really nice about marine barracks, washington, is that we treat all of our guests with the utmost respect. they receive all military courtesies, customs... >> welcome to the barracks. have a great night. >> whether you're 5 years old or 85 years old, officer, enlisted, we welcome everyone aboard equally, and we try to show them the hospitality that they would get anywhere when you invite people to your home. >> need any assistance? main gate, 4 south. actually, it's going to be right here, ladies. >> t

of lobbying because companies use them to transmit their demands from their their perspectives and hence all of these are heavily dependent on industry funding. several people are sponsoring it microsoft is one of them and maybe can reason as he said presently do it mike yourself is one of the why not. i have had think tanks in brussels that were directly from the by the oil industry and that were working to sort out about sweaters or such a thing as climate change and whether it's important for governments to have access to it you seem to emissions. or. you can set up research institutes to provide you with. research that kind of strengthens your position. you can launch message p.r. campaigns and flood the media with your information. what also happens is setting up fake n.g.o.s as happened in the big battle about the software patents law suddenly there were these advertisements from an enduro that's said it was. percent ing small and medium sized companies but the financial backers of this n.g. over microsoft and disappear. in the end it's all about money in the ocracy it's one person

of lobbying because companies used them to transmit their demands from their their perspectives and hence all of these are heavily dependent on industry funding. several people are sponsoring it microsoft is one of american business is presently new at microsoft is one of the why not. will have had think tanks in the process that were directly from the by the oil industry and that were working to sort out about whether there is such a thing as climate change and whether it's important for governments to act is to reduce c o two emissions. you can set up research institutes to provide you with. research that's kind of strengthens your position. you can launch message p.r. campaigns and flood the media with your information. what also happens is setting up fake n.g.o.s as happened in the big battle about the software patents law suddenly there were these advertisements from an enduro that's said it was representing small and medium sized companies puts the financial backers of this and she hopes for microsoft and disappear. and then it's all about money in the it's one person one vote but i

tavis: all these actors are special, hence the nominations. robert deniro is clearly in a different category. what will you take away, if you and he would never work together again, you made some magic here. what will you take away from this experience, having had this moment with mr. dinero? >> is just such a blessing to know the man. he is a very quiet, soulful man. he really was our teacher on the set. he set the tone of seriousness. he loved his craft. the man has not been nominated in over 20 something years. he has not won in over 30 years. he still loves every bit of his work. he brings every bit of focus to it, and we all learn from that. whether he is just running in from the dancing in the third act, he would go outside with chris tucker and do pushups and start talking to chris tucker in character. we all learned from that. he taught us that just being present, even if your silent, can indicate so much emotion. a director should never make the mistake of underestimating that. i love the tone he set on the set, and i will carry that

currency basket and when it comes to russia equities here were trading in sympathy with global war says hence the gains as you're seeing here. budget cuts and austerity measures they all seem to make europeans so focused on money they're now scrutinizing the salaries of top e.u. officials in fact the staff in the e.u. council is on strike over how much money some e.u. leaders make and were curious to so here goes germany's chancellor angela merkel has a monthly salary of about twenty one thousand in the euros which for one thousand euros is her pay as a member of the german parliament president of the european commission whose own old growth is earning about twenty five thousand euros a month these figures might not actually seem like anything outrageous but the strike takes place against a value drop of and to succeed in salary cuts for many a lower ranking european public servants. russia's billionaire alexander lebedev and his son you've gainey have won the license to operate a new television station in london it will be it will base its contents on the stories from the newspapers the even

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hence, hello. >> is it easier to have somebody to bounce things off of? >> of course, there is a synergy to it. there's a built-in editing process. somebody waiting to react to it. absolutely. >> dave, most of your career, you wrote the peter pan books with ridley. how do you like working with others? >> i love it. i enjoy it but you can bounce it off. when riding alone, what goes through -- when you are writing alone, you sit and think you are a fraud. anyone who writes comedy knows that feeling peter i am not funny. i do not have skills. i used of all the jokes. that is kind of how you start your day. sometimes that is how you end your day. >> sometimes that is the entire day. [laughter] >> you look at the window of people going to work in have jobs and know what they're going to do that day. you feel so envious. but then you think, but i would have to wear something besides my underwear. so i will stay here and keep trying to write jokes. >> also, you can wear somebody else's underwear. getting started in a comedy. [laughter] >> having a background in

prosecutors do not want him released on bail, hence the premeditated murder charge. his defense attorneys will say this was all a tragic accident and he should be released on bail. >> what about the victim's family? any of her family members in court today at all? >> reporter: not from what we understand. we hear that pistorius' brother and long-time coach are both in court this morning. but steenkamp's family is said to be in her hometown of port elizabeth. her funeral is today, and we understand that they are there rather than in the courtroom. >> kelly cobiella, thank you very much. >>> back in this country now, a strong storm system threatening blizzard-like conditions is pushing into the upper midwest. and a winter storm watch is posted this morning in kansas and nebraska. there are windchill advisories in minnesota and the dakotas. in parts of minnesota, driving conditions are so bad, the snowplows were kept off the road. at least two traffic deaths are blamed on the heavy snow and whiteout conditions. >>> meanwhile, a line of strong storms moved through south

district did is unfair, unjust and entirely effects the lives of tina and the rest of the teachers hence the quality of their lives and teacher and are affected. a single mother of two children who are going to college and taking care of her children, taking care of her dad. you know, you guys are barking on the wrong tree. we want tina's name cleared and rescinded now and we want to be sure that you give her back full benefit and salary back and all of the teachers on the chopping block right now. thank you. [ applause ] >> my name is amel degusman and i am the president of the heritage foundation and an educational and archive heritage in our community, i'm a graduate of george washington high school of 1965. and i have seen many things happen at that time. we were talking about a district that was predominantly white teachers. there were no philippine teachers and i was one of those tracked and i think that i was put in a lower track. and so, i went through a school where i was not encouraged to go on this college, and i did. a actually went on to city and uc berkeley. the reason that

of lobbying because companies use them to transmit their demands and their their perspectives and hence all of these are heavily dependent on industry funding. simple response microsoft is one of american business is present in europe microsoft is one of them why not. have had think tanks in brussels that were directly funded by the oil industry and that were working to sort out about whether there is such a thing as climate change and whether it's important for governments to act is to reduce c o two emissions. you can set up research institutes to provide you with. research that's kind of strengthens your position. you can launch message p.r. campaigns and flood the media with your information. what also happens is setting up fake n.g.o.s as happened in the big battle about the software patents law suddenly there were these advertisements from an enduro that's said it was representing small and medium sized companies puts the financial backers of this and she over microsoft and disappear. in the end it's all about money in the it's one person one vote but in the brussels baseness it's

so, hence if a city agency wants a specific carpet, they have to ask for that specific carpet which means it's not necessarily in the book, which means that me as a contractor, we normally have to submit a [speaker not understood] price, which usually reduces my margin, because my margins are usually set by a coefficient that i have in the book. and the [speaker not understood] price actually lowers my price that i'm actually reimbursed by the city for that. so, actually having nonpre-price gives the city what they prefer at a lower margin. and i think that's important enough it's not reflected in the audit. number two, i think there's a point made that the selection process of using joc contractors is arbitrary. and i think understanding how the joc program works, it's a performance based contract. either you perform or you don't. if you perform, you get more work. and i think that's real important to understand. number two, there's another point about the low bid and how they're selected and whether there should be some type of pre-qualification. i think the fact that joc is a performan

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fact they're benefiting tremendously from all the turmoil in the eurozone be because the dollar and hence the us treasuries are considered a safe asset therefore keeping the interest rates and the mortgage rates in the united states pretty low while by contrast in russia by an apartment for say three hundred and fifty thousand dollars which is about the average for moscow and paying eleven to twelve percent lower. mortgage means that by the time you'd done with your twenty year loan you would have paid three times as much more than one million dollars for you and the million dollar question is are you going to be able to sell it for that much well as definitely something to think about before you make the plunge yeah listen i'm going to stick to rent right now. so that's how to thank you very much indeed. moving on after a hectic christmas period most priced men are putting their feet up not russian ones though they're busy running around to post boxes of online shoppers russians have been keeping their fingers firmly on the buy button bargains in foreign stores making the most of the jan

moral as reflected in the law issue i mentioned the magna carter the question i have is two years hence when we are celebrating the eight hundredth anniversary of the magna carter which poses the extreme restraints on the king of england gutsy barons doing that will it be an inquest will it be a funeral what will it be will it be a celebration that we stood up and said look people have rights people cannot be summarily interned or executed without due process of law and so what we have here is extra extra judicial and people sort of you want to say well. you know well extrajudicial killing is murder and that's what we're doing in places like yemen and somalia and other places where we don of course well we are not at war that's pure and simple now the fact that those people don't look like us. is that america do we not really care because they don't look at it and because we never see it on t.v. screens i don't think that's america i think we have to reform and face up to what we're doing and realize that no person not no american but no person under the fifth amendment shall be deprive

and, hence, the opportunities this are really quite substantial, although everybody knows that these markets are quite volatile. the developed markets are more in a recovery mode. i'm thinking of europe bottoming some tomb later this year, and japan now aggressively easing with a new monetary policy under a new government likely to see a-- finally see a real acceleration of their growth. so it's some good stories out there. >> tom: you sound very optimistic when it comes to alei couple of big economies there that have been down in the dumps in europe for the better part of a couple of years. and, obviously, japan has been down for the better part almost a generation now. e.f.a. is theer tcki single of an exchange tradck fund that follows these areas. what are your hopes for this for a longer holding prld? >> well, i think that the first positive reaction here is likely to be a recovery in the market values of some of the major groups-- major investment groups in europe as people see that their recession is likely to bottom out later this year, and i think a particular attraction in e

a whole protecting assets in the region many know that gets most of its energy from nuclear power hence the uranium is very very important indeed so massive economic concerns are indeed but as you also mentioned we've called the french led multinational intervention going in mali now boots on the ground in nigeria where it's certainly getting a lot of reaction from critics around the world at the moment certainly has been if you ask france they've pointed to the incident that happened last month in eastern algeria when islam ists took over a gas plant there eventually leading to forty eight people being killed thirty seven of those foreign workers france's predicting that more islamist retaliation to french presence in africa is likely and they say they want to prevent a tragic situation like this from happening again but then again is the world's fifth largest producer of uranium a product that is vital to the french economy in fact it's estimated that nearly all or at least seventy five percent of france's electric infrastructure is dependent on nuclear power given this it makes sense