>>reporter: resource rich indonesia has been successful. in the first quarter of 2010, it reported a 41% increase in foreign direct investment to nearly $4 billion. >>wirjawan: i think people are quickly learning by virtue of what has transpired in last 15 to 18 months things that were happening in the u.s. are now happening in europe that there are alternative opportunities. and i think many of the muslim nations >>reporter: with oil and gas revenues soaring to an estimated $420 billion in 2010...gulf states have begun to recognize the potential. >>ghurair: we would have never thought of doing business in indonesia. but we have started coal mining in indonesia. maybe five years ago we would not have done it. >>reporter: the message at the forum was clear: muslim nations are gearing for economic resurgence... reviving the spirit and success of the ancient trade routes created by muslim merchants. >>the underlying philosophy of the world islamic economic foundation is to build bridges through business... a belief that greater interaction and

. >>> a film company in indonesia is shooting a movie about president obama's early years. the film will tell the story of mr. obama's childhood in jakarta. the president lived there with his mother and his indonesian stepfather between the ages of 6 and 10. they say it's not intended to make a political statement but tell the story of a boy oes childhood. the 12-year-old boy who will play the young barack obama was born in mexico but has lived in indonesia since the age of 2. >> i feel like it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be able to play such an important character, especially one of the most powerful men of the world right now. >> the movie will open in indonesia next month at the same time that president obama is expected to visit the country. timely. >> timing is everything. that's our broadcast for now. >> we hope

sumatra, indonesia. this has just happened.ting any news so far about a tsunami warning or the like. when we get more information we'll pass that along. a 6.6 quake there in indonesia. >>> police in new mexico didn't think they were going to have much trouble finding two thieves who broke into the new mexico court of appealing last month. they spent about two hours in the building lurking around, waved to the security cameras at one point. police say they took thousands of dollars in stolen good but left behind a lot of evidence including fingerprints. >>> in georgia a close call for hikers who got tracked in a rain swollen river above a 30 foot water fall. they hung on for their lives until they could be pulled to safety. >>> tonight the phoenix suns host game two of their western conference semifinal against the san antonio spurs. but the suns will not be wearing their usual home uniforms. the team's owner says his players will wear los suns on their jerseys to honor the latino community in arizona on this sicinco de mayo. th

from the group of non-aligned and other states, algeria, brazil, colombia, another, egypt, indonesia,, , libya, mexico, morocco, nepal, nigeria, new guinea, sri lanka, your guy, and venezuela, and china. may i take that the conference is to approve this? it is so desired. i should now proceed to the appointment of the members of the provincial committee. rule 3 of the rules of procedure provides the addition to the election of the chairman and the two vice-chairmen, the conference shall appoint six members of the provincial committee on the proposal of the president of the conference. accordingly, i propose the following members of the provincial committee. -- prudential committee, the czech republic, republic of moldova, and uganda -- we still need two more. for now will take it that you will accept the other's. if there is no objection, may i take it the conference agrees to this proposal? thank you. in accordance with established practice, the report of the prudential committee will be submitted to the conference. after the documents have been properly examined. i would now like to

jakarta, and indonesia, that wasn't home. that was a sojourn. even hawaii to some extent -- he wasn't going back there. there was nothing for him there. the congressman for honolulu. that was not going to happen. south side of chicago, not chicago, the south side of chicago, that was home. he also found a church is there which is very important and jeremiah wright is an essential figure in that early time for him. >> and he found michelle. >> and he finds michelle obama. he did an internship at a law firm and there was michelle obama who had preceded him at harvard law. she was about the same age. but because he had been an organizer, they weren't together at harvard law. and he was knocked out by her. she not so fast. >> she keeps him grounded. when the world is going crazy and the world seems to rise up and greet him wherever he goes. she's always saying things like i hope at some point he does something to earn all of these accolades. [laughter] >> you know -- >> but as you describe it, part of the chemistry in their relationship. >> right. t

jakarta and indonesia, that wasn't home, that was a soldier. even hawaii to some extent. he wasn't going back there. there's nothing for him there. is he going to be the, from honolulu? that isn't going to happen. chicago, the south side of chicago, that was home. he also found a church there which is important in jeremiah wright is in the central figure in that early time frame. >> and he found michelle obama. >> and he told michelle when he did an internship at a law firm and there was michelle obama who preceded him at harvard law, about the same age but because he had been an organizer they were not together at harvard law and he was knocked out by her. she, not so fast. [laughter] >> she keeps him grounded when the world is going crazy and the world seems to rise up and greet him wherever he goes she's always saying things like i hope at some point he does something to earn all of these accolades. but a day's as you describe part of the chemistry in the relationship. >> she is the observer and the one punctuating his not considerable self regarding certain times but

and he knows about of the wealth in indonesia. and she argues that was called the market, minority, wherever they go, they do extremely well. and then you have hundreds, a couple hundred million indonesians not doing well. the market dominant does will in the free market but once you bring this american-style one man one vote democracy, the people come indigenous people, the ethic my choice, the indonesians rise up and say take it from them. and handed to the whites in south africa, overseas chinese in indonesia and malaysia. it's happened in nigeria. it's happened to the europeans and the low lands of bolivia. and this seems to me, this tremendous movement of and no nationalism on the part of people, it's going to care the world apart. they say the e.u., and european union, you get the u.n., the new world order, all these things whether people are coming together. and this is tearing it apart, carrying nations and continents apart. and it is my view that the darker forces are the stronger forces. and the darker forces, quite fran

in indonesia, in russia, in some midsize power such as ukraine, vietnam, at some point probably a united korea, if those countries thoroughly, firmly embrace a democratic market capitalist model, then the international system norms will be democratic market and capitalism. what happens in those countries, brazil i would add to that, of course -- what happens in those countries is far, far more important than what happens in bolivia, botswana or in bosnia, and countries of that size. that's where the victory of this battle of ideas will be won or lost. dr. halper has written a very important book. i've described it as certainly one of the most important books on china and the u.s./china relationship in the past decade. he has done a great service with that. it's already getting a good deal of attention. a number of book reviews. it deserves to get a lot more. and we're very happy here at the cato institute to provide the first book forum here in washington to start the discussion about u.s. policy toward china needs to be in the coming decades. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, ted. [ap

and in indonesia, stock are down 3% right now. asian markets are following wall street's big drop yesterday as the dow fell nearly 400 points and the knack and s&p also had huge losses. self reasons contributessed to the slide including a disappointing jobless report and economic fears in europe. stock markets in europe also posted big drops yesterday and are opening down this morning. u.s. futures are up slightly. >>> fairfax county schools now have their spending plan. the school board has approved a budge that cuts some jobs and most summer school programs. there are also some new fees that students will have to pay. sherry ly is in fairfax breaking it all down for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. these are tough times and the fair fact county school board has had to make some tough decisions to balance next year's budget. in the end, they had to make some deep cuts and they will begin charging students for some things that used to be free. the board meeting went well into the night before finally passing the $2. #

and typicaaly, in indonesia, for examplee when -- wed a -phighly functional national government in indonesiat we had to do that could make decisions and that was competent in getting lots of things done. it also happened in the capital ccty where ll the ministries were, and there was massive loss of life of the people wwo loss of life of the people wwo would normally do the response. so i'm very proud of the response. i ran that office 20 years ago first job in international work. but i want to talk a ittle bit about nnt the rellef responss, if you ask questions i would be glad o do it but more about the condition of the haittan because i think the worst thing this. and live in a disney world assessment of what we're dealing with. weeare dealing with one of the worst governed countries in the world. one of the worst governed %pcou america. haiti.3 230,000 people died in haiti, p00 died in chile. what's the difference? the difffrence is the chillen, along witt the coasta reeken government areethe two best run governments latin america, so functional, good gooernment, you helppthee do their wo

the current round of climate negotiations were launched about 2 1/2 years ago in bali and indonesia. the u.s. and china were in many ways center why the international community felt it necessary to kick off the negotiations. the existing international architecture for addressing climate change in the form of the kyoto protocol had two absences. the first was the united states. the largest emitter in the developed world. which over time it's becoming increasingly politically untenable for other developed countries who are in the kyoto protocol, like europe, australia, japan and russia to be in the kyoto protocol if the u.s. is not. they only had emission reduction for developing countries. and in the decade between when the kyoto protocol was signed and the bali conference in indonesia, they made it clear any long-term solution to this problem could not be a developed country's solution alone. so in indonesia the international community buoyed in a rise in both scientific convictions surrounding climate change a week before the bali conference started as you remember al gore and the g

. >> going to farms in africa and central and south america, indonesia. >> reporter: such a lucrativehis simple goal. >> it tairses like a good cup of coffee. >> right. it has a great finish. >> reporter: david martin, fox news. >>> more privacy concerns tonight after a report that facebook, myspace and other social networking sites are sharing your information. "the wall street journal" claims the sites were sharing information with advertisers when users clicked on ads on their profile pages. the data sharing was first noted by researchers last august, but the journal says the sites didn't stop the practice until the paper contacted them about it. both "the wall street journal" and myspace are other thanked by fox 5's parent company -- are owned by fox 5's parent company. >>> you've been talking about this rain and the changes. >> you'll want to have the umbrellas landy. hopefully -- handy. hopefully we can get through most of tomorrow dry. it will come in tomorrow. it looks like it's going to stick around for sunday and monday too if you care about that. most of us probably just fo

>> for instance, there was one in indonesia where the standards and regulations in that environment are not the same standards and regulations that we deploy here. not every country, not every environment is operating with the same practices and procedures. >> woodruff: kert davies, with greater regulation, greater safety measures, can... i mean, is there a point we could get to in this country where off- shore drilling could be considered feasible? >> well, we are drilling a lot in the gulf of mexico. there are thousands of rigs out there. what's been proposed recently is expanding that to the sensitive west coast of florida which has been off limits for many years and to east coast states stretching all the way up to virginia. what that means is that this risk of catastrophic damage is extended to many more states and, for example, if there was an oil spill like this off virginia which, god forbid would happen, but obama is now permitting drilling to go forward as proposed, it would extend to the beaches of new jersey by now. it would be hitting the beaches of delaware and maryland an

the country was going the way of mexico in 95 and korea, malaysia, indonesia and thailand, russia, brazil, turkey, argentina, pakistan, ukraine, uruguay, brazil again, the dominican republic. so we have frequency that was actually kind of scary. and then also this kind of crisis in many advancing economies. they occur much more frequently than people think. so they are not just events but their unfortunately often. and secondly they are becoming much more barely. if you think about the damage that is caused by financial crisis, the recessions falling employment, falling incomes. distraction of well. housing welcome stockbroker well. and usually the fiscal cost of cleaning up the financial crisis tend to be huge in terms of building a financial institution or fiscal status needed to avoid a severe economic downturn. so not only that are occurring much more frequently than the pass, they are more building, damaging and the cost of cleaning up the mess is significant. that's what one understanding economic and financial crisis, and two, trying to prevent them as becoming a really important t

because every day around the world in places like china, india, brazil, indonesia and vietnam, people leave the grinding poverty that has trapped their families for centuries and they have them -- they have become connected to today's global economy. they go to work for the low wages in factories. and i know the massive challenge that presents to our businesses here. and asia to america, from eastern europe to southern africa, nations of manufacturers are taking their first step in their journey to prosperity. nd as they become richer, they will become nations of consumers, just as we did after our industrial revolution. the middle classes or merging and in developing countries they are expected to treble by 2033 that as 1200 million people who will want to buy the things that we can sell to them. modern medicines and brande goods. aircraft engines, high-tech machinery, green vehicles, and renewable energy. computer software, television programs, oil and gas expertise. psions insurance advertising, accountancy, and legal services. british goods and services, made in britain, exported

stapleton roy -- who then was our ambassador in indonesia, and i think he's just about at the end of that tour -- is one of the brightest people on china. i think both sandy berger and jim steinberg, at the national security council now, have a very good understanding of what the issues are. they've educated themselves. i think the clinton administration, unfortunately, is kind of still in a -- just a stabilization policy with china and has not taken any great political risks since '95, '96. i may -- i may be proved wrong if they get a wto agreement with china and bring china into the world trade organization, but it's been mostly stabilization. and president clinton hasn't risked his own political profile by really developing a close relationship with a -- with a chinese leader. jim sasser, who's just come back from our -- from our embassy there, a former senator from tennessee, a very good head on china. leonard woodcock, the old political war horse of the united auto workers who really made the deal on normalization, steady as a -- as a rock on china. and henry kissinger, decided

the current round of climate negotiations launched two 1/2 years ago in indonesia and the u.s.andan china were the center of why the international community felt it necessary to kick off. the existing international architecture with the kyotoge protocol had to absences the first was the united states which overtime has become increasingly politicallyntri untenable to continue to be in the kyoto protocol and itan only had mission reduction commitments for developed countries and in the decade between when the kyoto protocol was signed and the ball the conference it made it clear in a long-termt solution to this problemogra could not be a developed country solution of loan. so in addition buoyed by aid the convictions for climate change and awareness of the beforenferne week the bally conference started out clore won the nobel peace prize and kickedize a off the negotiations to conclude in copenhagen. the two years between broadway and copenhagen thern international community saw encouragingat movement morale was developed in been in australia the labor party won and that brought

in from countries such as korea, south korea, from india, from thailand, from malaysia come from indonesia, from australia, from japan, from taiwan and everywhere else. trade is a multilateral in so many ways that it is hard to think of how you do something by laterally, and yet much of what has been the focus in all this has been bilateral. and that i think has been a big mistake, both for the obvious reasons that is not going to go and it is not a bilateral problem, but also it's been very ineffective and it is indeed because of issues that were raised in earlier sessions, chinese nationalism, chinese decision, the chinese once again are likely to react and say hard to believe that indeed this is something the u.s. is pushing us in because the u.s. is unhappy with china's economic success that's i think they're a whole friday of reasons it is not the way to go. trade is not a bilateral thing. the history of economic sanctions in the world isateral failure after failure after failure, but even wanted to ver small countries do go along because they become the onto route before it takes ver

en indonesia comenzÓ la filmaciÓn de una pelÍcula sobre la infancia del presidente barak obama. a ver cÓmo amanecen los estados unidos y las temperaturas, las mÁximas aquÍ en el continente. >> tiene su nube y llueve por Áreas. 62 en san francisco. mientras tanto, parcialmente solaedo en los Ángeles, vamos a ver lluvias para los lagos, los grandes lagos especialmente chicago, va a tener hoy bastante lluvia y no va a ser una cosa de grandÍsima pero sí van a sentir las lluvias. y nueva york va a gozar entre 66 y 0 grados de temperatura. y tambiÉn 86 en washington. 81 en atlanta, 88 en miami, caliente, caliente como cuando calienta el sol. y ahora vamos con ana marÍa y nuestro invitado paco! Échate pa ca! ♪ >> bueno, ha llegado el momento de Échate pa ca. eso, eso. muy bien. pues amigos les cuento... es que tenemos horas platicando aquÍ. >> tenemos un chisme terrible aquÍ ya. >> es bueno para la pelota y le encanta el chisme, tambiÉn. pero no, es muy bueno quÉ buena onda que estÉs aquÍ con nosotros. les platico que despuÉs de las declaraciones de don francisco presenta. que fueron m

now, i want to quickly pull out the jakarta market in indonesia. we are watching this market get hit today. why? because of a change n le form. it has tendered the finance minister's resignation after being tapped to become a manager at the world bank. >>> we have japan closed today for a public holiday, so gentleman japanese trade, yuan trade. dollar/yen, 94.63. euro/dollar continues to hover at one-year lows, 1.2977. the euro is slightly picking up right now, sterling/dollar by 1.5159. euro/sterling, 0.8558. a lot could change, ross, depending on the adp report. >> we'll get a view ahead of that and what is going on with europe. nick parsons, thanks for joining us. a great deal of risk aversion yesterday. the stock markets have bounced off their lows in europe. what's going on here? is this greek medicine not working or are we still dealing with the technical ramifications of the debt downgrade of greece to junk and banks and investors having to get rid of it as a result? >> i think when investors look at the situation, they say there are three w

so we've got basically asia, china, india, indonesia, all doing extraordinarily well. brazil, latin america, very strong, record numbers there. and then you move over to the middle east, pretty well south africa, because of the strength of mining, and russia, same strength of mining. so globally, the commodities and oil and gas markets, which are being heavily driven by this, you know, growth in the very populist asian countries, particularly china and india. >> let's talk a little bit about the debt crisis in europe. one thing that the business council is most concerned about long term in the united states is solving the federal deficit issues. what's going on in europe right now? is it all about government spending and deficits? talk to me about what the business council believes it needs to do to help change the conversation domestically here in the united states, so we actually do make progress on the deficit, and can we make progress on it without a crisis? that's what we seem to -- makes us move. >> a great point. let me first go back to the business council. it'

the undersecretary for global affairs is on route to indonesia where she will engage this week with governmentofficials, non- governmental organizations, in a range of security issues for political, economic security, to environmental, human rights, and other issues, the range of which the united nations and indonesia can cooperate. this evening, george mitchell departs for the next round of proximity talks he leaves the united states tonight and will have meetings with palestinian officials on wednesday and israeli officials on thursday. also in the region, an assistant

if we looked around the world that have capitalism, indonesia, russia, lots of other places -- and thatovernment is intervening substantially. they are imposing lots of control that makes it more difficult for individuals to make their own decisions and to break out at the controls that are fostered by government. host: the gulf oil spill. guest: it is interesting. i do not have a good answer for that. i think the thing to think about is why do companies engaged in behavior that takes a risk in huge cost? partially because they're not on the hook to pay for it, or at least not all of it. most corporations have limited liability. if things go badly, if they fail, the individual owners, the people who make the decisions to drill in the deep water, their homes, competition they have received in the past are not at risk. that is not necessarily a great system. a different system is when the company wants to engage in risky behavior, they have to put a bunch of money into a bank account verified by third parties and is there until such time as the activity stops. if pat -- if it has gone on

commemorate the fall of the iron curtain followed by working visits with the legislatures of mongolia and indonesia. but unfortunately our delay -- or our arrival in beaut pest was -- budapest was delayed twice by a vote on a major bill here and then weather. by the time we were finally bound for mongolia we had nearly exhausted our air space. we faced the prospect of having to divert our mission and forgo the mongolian parliament. working literally through the night, he somehow managed to persuade an official of the u.s. embassy in beijing to roust a chinese official at his personal residence on a weekend and call in a favor to get us the clearance we needed. that's an he can dote that says a lot about the major -- anecdote that says a lot about the major. he's just been an indispensable member of the house liaison office and he leaves some very large shoes to fill. now, in recognition of his service and leadership potential, he's been assigned to what could only be described as a hardship ballot in argentina where he will attend a command and staff program at the naval war college there. as he de

jose fernandez is traveling to indonesia and japan to engage with the private sector as well as governmentnd state department mission to build support for opening markets as part of president obama's export initiative. the u.s. coordinator for international community's and information policy is leading a delegation from the state department, the national telecommunications administration, to the u.s. communications technologies roundtable and bilateral talks with the russian ministry of communications in moscow. this is the first round table since 2004. regarding the deepwater horizon oil spill, we receive two additional offers of assistance, which we are grateful for from the united arab emirates and russia. turning to iraq, we condemn what has occurred in iraq today. these will not undermine the confidence in the iraqi people have demonstrated in their government and security forces. the iraqi people overwhelmingly reject violence as a way to address their differences. we express condolences for the families of all of the victims. u.s. personnel were directly accounted for. finally, we j

rather was an american doctor raised in iran and the esident was raised at least in his young life in indonesia. she is also in charge of the office of public engagement. a lot of the public out of reach. in charge of relations with the business community, which becomes part of the issue thai deal with in the book. but she has a better sense of any of them of how the obamas, both the president and first lady, to react in any situation. she can almost tell you in an uncanny way what their response will be. it's good you started working on this in november of 2008 and finished it in march 2010. what is the importance of having a book about the first year of a president? guest: the last book i wrote -- "the dining moment: fdr's final days." i was researching that roosevelt's debut was critical and understanding him and why his presidency worked, and of course, it was a very eventl 100 days when the economy was in shambles, 25% unemployment, the decks of the depression, and i wanted to understand how roosevelt lifted us up. so i sensed by november of 2008 that this was going to beot the same, not a

maria is enriched to indonesia, where she will engage with organizations on a range of human security issues from political, economic, and water security to environment, human rights, and anti-traffic issues. george mitchell departs for the next round of proximity talks. he leaves the united states tonight to of meetings with palestinian officials on wednesday and israeli officials on thursday also, -- on thursday. also, the assistant secretary met with officials including al maliki and the foreign ministers. the assistant secretary for economic energy and business affairs is in brazil today and tomorrow. he will give the keynote address of the society of the council of america because 2010 sao paulo conference on tuesday. he will also meet with key business leaders. our ambassador for global aid is in tanzania. he is meeting with representatives of the government's presenting the guidelines for prevention of hiv and meeting with representatives of donor organizations to discuss the hiv aids epidemic. we also took note of the crash of flight in afghanistan today. there were 38 passeng

president obama grew up in hawaii and indonesia. his sister is half indonesian and his brother law is canadian and has maintained close ties throughout his life. president obama has a deep understanding of our community and many milestones celebrated may be attributed to his commitment to our community. he has made significant outreach efforts to re-establishment of the white house initiative on asian pacific american islanders to coordinate multiagency efforts to ensure data collection and access to services for these communities. the president's cabinet includes three asian americans, as was mentioned by congresswoman chu. the energy secretary, the leader of the liver more labs in berkley. well suited for the job, well trained. commerce secretary, governor gary locke of seattle, washington. and veterans affair secretary general eric shin secretariee, a man -- shinseke, and has earned awards and the president has nominated asian americans at all levels of the federal bench. . we are lacking much in the denew mexico nation of these

was an american doctor raised in iran and the president was raised at least in his young life in indonesia. she is also in charge of the fice of public engagement. a lot of the public out of reach. in charge of relations with the business community, which becomes part of the issue that i deal with in the book. but she has a better sense of any of them of how the obamas, both the president and first lady, to react in any situation. she can almost tell you in an uncanny way what their response will be. it's good you started working on this in november of 2008 and finished it in march 2010. what is the importance of having a book about the first year of a president? guest: the last book i wrote -- "the defining moment: fdr's final days." i was researching that roosevelt's debut was critical and understanding him and why his presidency worked, and of course, it was a very eventful 100 days when the economy was in shambles, 25% unemployment, the decks of the depression, and i wanted to understand how roosevelt lifted us up. so i sensed by november of 2008 that this was going to be not the same,

i was upstairs had a breakfast this morning with some leaders from indonesia and they had a fascinating question. why are american companies going so many other places around the world are not coming here? and i said why are foreign countries investing in so many places around the united date and you're not? and what can you do to help your cells attract business? and i thought about the governors and what they do everyday to encourage people, encourage companies, not only to come to their state and stay in their state, but to succeed in their state. they help businesses get started. they promote their growth and advocate for good public policies. and they can bring the private and public tears together differently shared goals, coordinate actions and to solve the challenges that american business space. the chambers represented here today to all those things, exceptionally well on our behalf. what unites all of us is a shared belief in the power and principles of free enterprise. together were pursuing an urgent goal, getting our economy back on its feet and on a path that sustain grow

didn't realize it, the chinese controlled an enormous amount of the wealth in the philippines, and in indonesiae argues that what is called the market-dominant minority, like the overseas chinese, wherever you have free markets they do. extremely well. and then you have a couple hundred indonesians not doing so well. once you bring this american style one man, one vote democracy, the peoples -- the indigenous people -- the ethnic majority, indonesians, they rise up and say, they got all the wealth, let's take it from them. happened to the whites in south africa, it's appeared to the ebo in nye jeera, -- nigeria, happening in bolivia, and this tremendous movement of ethnonationallallism on the part of people i think is going tear the world apart, and you ask yourself, what are the stronger movements? some say the e.u., the european union, the u.n., the new world order, all these things where the people are coming together, and this is tearing it apart, tearing nations and continents apart, and it's my view that the darker forces are the stronger forces, and the darker forces, quite frankly, that

i was upstairs at a breakfast this morning with some leaders from indonesia.y had a fascinating question. why are american companies going so many other places around the world? and not coming here? and i said, why are foreign countries investing in so many countries around the countries and you're not? and what can do you to help yourself attract business? and i thought about the governors. and what they do every day to encourage people, encourage companies not only to come to their state and stay in their state but to succeed in their state. they help businesses get started. they promote their growth. and advocate for good public policies and they can bring the private and public sectors together to formulate shared goals, coordinated actions and to solve the challenges that american business faces. the chambers represented here today do all those things exceptionally well on our behalf. what unites all of us is a shared belief in the power and principles of free enterprise. together, we're pursuing an urgent goal. getting our economy back on its feet and on

qaeda has suffered from disaif he can shon due to indiscriminate targeting in saudi arabia, iraq, indonesia and any other number of countries. the number of conservative clerics who are speaking out against the organization has increased and that is very, very good news indeed. despite these setbacks to the core leadership, what we might call the broader threat is becoming widely distributed and more ethnicically diversified among affiliates and those inspired by the a. q. message. we saw that with the attempted bombing. this incident demonstrated that one affiliate, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula have the will and capability to launch a strike targeting the united states at home. we have every expectation we will hear more. we have learned something else important this year. the assumption that americans have some special immunity to al qaeda's ideology has been dispelled. while our problem remains remains significantly less, several high profile cases have demonstrated that we need to remain vigilant. five americans from virginia were arrested in pakistan on suspicion of terrorist ties

and indonesia are out there. we have all of these positive bilateral relations.none of this was actually translating to the international commission actually tasked with coming up with a climate change agreement. for two years they were completely mired in debates over both content and form. there are a lot of reasons why international negotiations have struggled. at the core, the most important issue is in the difficulty of translating political will into an actual treaty. that has to do with the legacy of climate institutions and agreements that were left with uncertainty about the future. you have three positions in the negotiations that are difficult to reconcile. you have the developed countries that are part of the kyoto protocol, who cannot continue to be in that framework without the united states. you have the united states, who under the obama administration are willing to, not signed the kyoto protocol, but the part of a new, binding international agreement. and, they are willing to allow for differentiation between what developed countries do and deve

freedom of navigation challenges -- i think they were called "fun challenges" -- against china, indonesia, the maldives, the philippines -- all of whom are party to this treaty. since it was brought into force, the u.s. has conducted hundreds of these freedom of navigation operations against scores of nations that are parties to the treaty. in short, a significant number of current treaty members assert claims that already violate the treaty's terms. you have to internalize this as part of your top u.s. of whether a treeuld come into where the members who have ratified it as part of their law, they already do not and never intended to when the signed or ratified the treaty today are not doing it now appeared to have to ask your -- they're not doing it now. you have to ask yourself if you want to be part of that treaty. violation of their treaty. others make excessive claims regarding the breath of their territorial waters. -- the bread to -- the breadth of their territorial waters. it is bad enough that the navy has to regularly conduct these freedom of navigation operations for the purpo

i was upstairs had a breakfast this morning with some leaders from indonesia and they had a fascinating question. why are american companies going so many other places around the world are not coming here? and i said why are foreign countries investing in so many places around the united date and you're not? and what can you do to help your cells attract business? and i thought about the governors and what they do everyday to encourage people, encourage companies, not only to come to their state and stay in their state, but to succeed in their state. they help businesses get started. they promote their growth and advocate for good public policies. and they can bring the private and public tears together differently shared goals, coordinate actions and to solve the challenges that american business space. the chambers represented here today to all those things, exceptionally well on our behalf. what unites all of us is a shared belief in the power and principles of free urgent goal, getting our economy back on its feet and on a path that sustain growth. jobs are priority one, but when it