and a way in which for example of violence in iraq was in response to our presence in iraq as well as secretary of divisions and other things but we were at the center of unrest and violence and the aftermath of saddam hussein. we were not in the center, not at the center in any of these other places that the revolution or the unrest, the turmoil is driven by a popular response to a set of economic and political structural challenges and inequalities and justice perceived that has been around for decades and have now it's been a nonlinear shift in the environment. people said my gosh it could happen. and so, that we are relevant to the equation. our relationship to the regimes are relevant. it's not the driving factor which is why i think he tried to position ourselves and make clear the set of principles and with the narrative is and that is why the president spoke so eloquently about that ten days ago in bahrain. on march 12, today's before they crossed into bahrain and that was interpreted that we were giving a green light for the saudi as to the contrary. we were there to push the

in 1616.rchers discovered traces of the drug on a pipe at shakespeare's home. >>> time now 6:57. sal, what do you see in the commute? >>> very nice. right now traffic, dave, is not quite a midsummer night's dream. go out and take a look at westbound highway 4. traffic moving along westbound. but little slow this morning not only in antioch but also in concord and on 680 heading south. westbound bay bridge the traffic is moving along pretty well until you reach the toll plaza and in the south bay we have slow traffic on northbound 17. but the rest of the south bay looks good. now let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. our very late season system is coming in as advertised. rain has made it up towards the north bay and it will be moderate to heavy there and very close to san francisco. it's moving into marin county and then move into san francisco. and then everyone else might take late morning or early afternoon before it makes it south bay. >>> coming up next on mornings on 2, a warning for pe

the in the vote in the u.n. security council that might have done something to stop it but right now it's moving forward primarily with the brits and the french in control the u.s. providing very crucial support but from behind i don't think that there is anywhere near the same level of commitment in washington to this short war that's going on now for three months in in libya as there is to the long standing now ten year old war in afghanistan thanks so much for giving us your time here in our to live from washington. institute for policy studies thank you. other news now the former prime minister of ukraine has gone on trial for abusing power during a term in office in two thousand and nine units a mission to secure the gas deal with russia which is claimed to robbed the ukrainian economy of millions of dollars she's dismissed the cases fabricated but faces up to ten years in jail if convicted. is in care for. the atmosphere inside the courtroom and around the court building is absolutely electrifying around f

in their country in a way that helps us overall strategically in the region? >> i think as we succeed in afghanistan, and think pakistan will face some real strategic choices in terms of what they want to end up when this comes to a successful conclusion? i think the real question for them is what role will they played politically in helping get to a political endgame in afghanistan that is where key decisions while i am absolutely have a huge impact not only on the relationship with afghanistan, but also their the relationship of us long-term. >> mr. larsen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thanks for sticking around and helping us out to understand the president's announcement last night. admiral mullen come in your cv said we're going to continue to build a strategic target ship with afghanistan, one based not on the military footprint but a mutual friendship. i think if there's something lacking in the president's speech last night was further defining what that relationship is going to look like. i wrote a letter to you, secretary flournoy a few weeks back on

look, in the book i describe how i have been in mosques from coast to coast in america and in europe.'ve been in the mosques. i interviewed the emaums. i'm on the ground, firsthand observations and experiences. i have to tell you far too many times in american mosques, and by the way, it's estimated some 80% of the mosques have saudi funding behind them. that's problematic. saudi arabia is the globalist center. 15 hijackers, yet they fund and build mosques coast to coast even though we can't build a church in saudi arabia. i've been in the mosques and the literature in many mosques in the country literally stamped on the back says made in saudi arabia. it comes from muslim brotherhood linked groups. we'll talk about that. this is right in the mofngs, and you talk to them, fred, and not in all cases, but in many cases they can't tell you they recognize israel's right to exist and can't condemn hamas and hezbollah as terrorist groups and say this is bad for america. this is a common strain in mosques in the country, and real quick, i interviewed a former member of iran's revolutionary g

in fact, most will end in failure. the key to being a successful inknow rate issor, says len baker, is knowing how to fail efficiently. >> the innovation process is inevitably hard to predict and very, very failure-prone. as a result, you need to make quick mistakes, you need to do efficient experiments so that you can profit by those mistakes so you can learn by those mistakes. >> so, you'd prefer to find entrepreneurs that had failures in the past? >> well, i don't -- yeah. we actually don't like serial entrepreneurs because sometimes serial entrepreneurs are a little too comfortable with failure. i mean, failure needs to be painful but not too painful. >> successful innovations ultimately hinge on the people who are in charge, baker says. there are certain personality traits that are most important to him when he's looking for the next mark zuckerberg. >> the two things that i think we've sort of distilled down assist characteristics we look for are, first of all, high energy level. people who have sort of got the p

is at the moment in trying to achieve peace in the region in the know that he is trying to save himself as an honest broker is there the possibility that the united states could veto the establishment of a palestinian state and still the general assembly would recognize this. mission of the palestinian state was already announcing them to make the eight by yasser arafat and nothing different so this can happen again and again we're not getting anything to the palestinians a what can. what it can achieve is the continuation of the delegitimization of the state of israel and this is something that i think can be avoided only through bilateral talks do you have faith that netanyahu is serious about peace i have faith in him because for the last two years when i served my country is the israeli ambassador to the united nations a saw i watch very clearly not only what he said in the belly landing in first speech which was two states for two countries but also the way that he acted in freezing for ten months building in the settlements which no can no government did ever before why then do we

against what they believe are terrorist are groups in operations in yemen where this yemen in the yemeni yemeni people fit into all of this well it's obvious that the u.s. are very much what did you know or what happened in that very important stretching area and for sure they would like to see somebody who's in charge there who could continue the operation which which. has given to the west and i think the opposition and in your region would give the. united states that. they will cooperate perhaps better than the last as regards fighting terrorism and with any other you know. towards the stability of the region you know if i go to you in tel aviv where do you stand in all of this here the devil that you know that's we've heard on this program here i mean what about what's going on in yemen and i'd like to spread it out with syria too i mean how does and i'm not asking you to speak for the state of israel but i mean how do you think the israelis see what's going on here i mean the devil you know is better than when you don't know. well that's a reference of course to bashar us of the de

in a long-term deficit is made worse by dramatic changes in demographics in this country in the cbo willnt this out. our population is aging. 50 million more americans will be over 65 in the next decade. the ratio of workers to retirees is one to two to one in the next 40 years, meaning fewer wage earners to support and cost of retirees. get its projected by cbo to rise 4% or as much as 187% of gdp by 2035. this is simply unsustainable. a long-term balance deficit reduction is absolutely necessary. the president's fiscal commission are symbols, alan simpson commission and the bipartisan policy matters, both strongly acknowledge the need to do both cutting spending and raising revenue. the democrats proposed budget for fiscal 2012 tackles the deficit responsibly by both spending cuts and revenue increases. these include reductions from elimination of duplicate of spending, fraud, waste and abuse are streamlining government to make it more efficient and eliminating those that don't work well protect the nose in e nation. it includes the implementation of health care reform to save $1.2 tri

in the north bay we are still in the low 50s. 53 in napa. mid-50s in the east bay.tures this afternoon will warm considerably compared to where we are right now. we might put 20 degrees on the thermometer in some spots. we're looking for mid-60's in san francisco, warmer in oakland. we will get to the low 70's in san jose, 72 degrees expected for your afternoon high. in some spots it will be down right warm. here is your 7 day forecast, which are calling for conditions to stay nice and warm. temperatures getting into the upper 70's, in some places, the '80s. >> interstate 580, we mentioned in our last report that there was a truck of leaking and i know a fluid, it was a fuel, it was not a career as a liquid. 1 gal. of fuel spills, none of it got into the roadway. there will not be any lane closures or further problems. there are no other hot spots. we will start our bridge check on the bay bridge toll plaza. there was hardly any backup, now there is no backup westbound. a great ride to the bay bridge. on the san mateo bridge, it is pretty well so far this morning. t

their continued need in our in our national interests. i believe such a presence is necessary, as secretary gates has argued. in afghanistan, the main question is the size and scope of the drawdown. i would agree with secretary gates that any drawdown should be modest celesta maximize our ability to lock in the gains of our troops during the next fighting season. in libya, there are signs that muammar gaddafi may be starting to crack. the odds of a stop remained far too high. i believe u.s. treasury to be to reduce those odds as much as possible and quickly force muammar gaddafi to leave power. another significant challenge department defense pa -- secretary gates has made some courageous decisions to get major weapons to kermit project's contractor is similar focus is brought to of the defense department chooses to buy billions of dollars in services to maintain the highest degree of readiness. as best in this budget a farmer, it will be important to continue to limit weapons programs that are over cost, behind schedule, and not providin

it was published in studies and philosophy and politics in economics in 1967. so i found the exact right person for the job. i will just also for those of you who know the constitution of liberty, one the big differences between this volume and the other volume, instead of end notes, there's footnotes. you can look down and see everything. believe me, you could read the end notes as a volume in itself. now you have that stuff right down at the bottom of the page. it's a magnificent volume. i thank you for your contributions. so it's a little hard looking at the archiveal record to figure out when he decided to write "the constitution of liberty." there are a few hints. i will mention and then often a conjecture. the one letter in 1953 when he says i'm beginning to have definite plans for the positive compliment to the road toker serfdom which people have been asking me to do. who are the people? maybe people in the mount pillar. another would be people like aldon hansen, and mccain. hansen wrote a review in the atlantic of "the road to serfdom" where he talks a

came in.to a welcome at a crosswalk i'm people about to remind you we're talking about africa and its future. ok and robert i want to go back to you in london right before we went to the break we were down discussion flared up about the values gap that like the people term that some people like to use i mean it's been brought up that you know the west likes to say that it likes to to support democracy and civil society no i've already heard on this program the west is really back with some very vicious very vicious the dictators have been overthrown lately so i you know one has to wonder or a war or understand why african countries will look to china because there are no strings attached or very few strings attached go ahead. well i mean the west baggs democracies but it's not always the top priority and certainly if you're talking in the middle east where you have the issues of oil and you have the issues of israel it tends not to be the top priority quite often stability is preferred china i

i've lived in chicago and boston and los angeles and new york, here in d.c., in atlanta, in the sudan. i've done business all over the world. i've had some remarkable experiences, improbable ones in the eyes of many. i've argued in the supreme court, i've hitchhiked from cairo to khartoum, i've counseled two presidents, identify served as the first black -- i've served as the first black governor of massachusetts on my first time running for office. but as i reflect on each of these experiences, each has its roots in the lessons i try to write about in this book. these lessons have given me a sense of the possible, and that has made all the difference. i write in the book about the transition from the south side of chicago to milton academy, about the experience of trying to bridge these very different worlds where each one seemed to demand that you reject the other as the price of acceptance in the one. and how important it was for me to understand, ultimately, that that was a false choice. i write about the way the old ladies in big hats in church back home taught me to see that fai

it is different in whatever country you're in. and someone going from khartoum to gehman, pretending to be again and he would be like someone from alabama going to thailand and thinking they are going to sit in. it's not going to happen. also i'm sorry, but they look different. not to the uninitiated, but the racism that we somehow think africacome as a country or continent? yeah, you can send someone from khartoum to somalia and the fed interest rate. here we have this absurd situation and it undermines everything. the zoo in this room who are red old doctrine of the the cold war, we cozied up to and supported less than pleasant dictatorships in our war against communism. i'm afraid we're back to the same thing now. your question, where does that leave the icc? >> icf moving forward in terms of the prosecution and also in terms of accountability. what can we expect in that region? >> a problem is if we actually do vote for article xvi, then basically we are saying that we are giving carte blanche to anybody to do anything they wa

in belgrade in zagreb and in. the majority of the accused by this tribunal for me just like there are serbs do you consider this fair. because we know that that also that not only serves the muslims cravats lots of lots of ethnic groups participated in the war but the sometimes it looks like the the tribunals is the only for serbs no i am not agree with this view because it's very easy serbs populations twice more than in creation and twice more in most in the car and herzegovina and many times more than in slovenia. do you think that general clark could not reach who is in syria do you think that he'll get a fair trial in the hague. i hope. i hope that he will have a fair trial i'm sure that he will have he has. good look it's. now he's free to think about his future it's in the his interest. question the arrest calamity church it is considered to be a door opener for serbia do you think then that now that this arrest will pave the way for serbia into the e.u. yes i'm sure but it's not the last problem to belgrad

in tokyo. i'm catherine kobayashi. >>> tokyo electric power company resumed the operation to cool damaged reactors at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant on tuesday, but it says it found minor water leaks in a newly installed cooling system. tepco said it traced the leak to a joint connecting plastic hoses near a pump injecting water. it did not check the possibility of a water leak before starting the system on monday. tepco's so-called circulating injection cooling operation is designed to decontaminate radioactive waste water in the reactor and turbine buildings and then use the treated water to cool the reactors. it says 14 tons of recycled water and two tons of freshwater have been injected into the reactors per hour. the utility says it will continue to inject water while watching out for more leaks. >>> the japanese government has decided to help fukushima prefecture conduct health surveys of its residents with estimates on the spread of radioactive substances from the fukushima daiichi

in michigan or any other state in this country. but i asked them how are things going, and let me just tell you that as a result of the e-mail t but we sent out, we have moreesn than 400 responding to that say e-mail, and what they had to sar was poignant sometimes these stories were so powerful it wasa almost hard to read more of in a and the messages i received from vermont and suspect similar this messages coming from every state in this country is that people are finding it hard to get jobs, now working for lower wages than they used to. we are seeing older workers whog have depleted their life savings and they are worried about how they are going to retire, what r unable to work and who is going to take care of them. we hear from young adults in their 20s and 30s who are deeplt in debt from college loans and t they don't know how theyho arelo going to pay offan those loans.l we hear from people of all agesr all walks of life from every corner of vermont who send thei, stories, and let me just read at few of them to make the po

in the in offering all kinds of deals and offering offering loans which can be repaid in commodities and so on so they're being very smart about what what what it is but i'm i'm less convinced i mean i think the point is quite right that robert makes that that there is a room for negotiation but i'm surprised at how few african governments have actually use that leverage in negotiating i think angola certainly certainly has one or two other countries might have but it in general it is not been the case and in fact they are strongly dissuaded from that doing so by by they are alliance with the big corporations and they're there and the u.s. and european governments as well as the japanese government agenda if i go to you in washington it's very interesting point to our do african governments have enough leverage actually to be able to negotiate a deal to their advantage or are they continuously continuously at a disadvantage when it comes visibly foreign investors and i mean east or west. well african governments have tremendous leverage to negotiate obviously they are in control of t

we will go up to 79 in fairfield. 79 in santa rosa, 61 in san francisco. 66 in richmond.own south we will see temperatures again in the 60s and # 0s. a mix of 60s and 70s for the peninsula. 72 for san jose and 75 in the loan reading in antioch. not a whole lot going on. clouds moving town the north. we will see the systems drop down along the coastline to tuesday. we are in the summer. we are talking about an unseasonably strong system that will rain to california and the bay area. you can see into the 1:11 hour, we have rain pushing out to the way area. this is unusual for this time of year. an unseasonal cold storm and quite a bit of moisture. we will see a little bit of rain as of right now, but still several days off. this weekend, fog this morning. temperatures in the 60s and 70s this afternoon. warming up sunday and monday. a chance of rain in the north bay tuesday afternoon. bushing into the bay area to wednesday morning, temperatures will cool as a result. little rebounds will come in the end of next week. >>> it is 8:17 right now. a new survey shows americans are

the bay area, in san jose in 2010, in oakland in 2005, and in san rafael in both 1997 and 1998, leaksin found to be caused by weld problems. testing methods that pg&e use to test their safety lines also coming into question. so state regulators have a lot to do with this new load of documents that pg&e just released. but get this. even though when they all are lined up, the documents are about 75 feet tall, still not its entirety. still not what regulators have asked for. and pg&e says they are still looking for more documents. grace and frank? >> another 25 or 30 feet perhaps. >> reporter: yeah. i mean, i don't know -- -- how do you even start to go through that? it's just -- it really is a mess. >> it is. anne makovec is in san bruno. thank you. >>> in just a few hours we are going to get an update from doctors at san francisco general hospital on the condition of injured giants fan bryan stow. the santa cruz man has been in critical condition since he was attacked outside of dodger stadium. in the meantime, the prime suspect in the beating has been sent back to prison on a parole v

because we trust in god, in our neighbors, and not in government.ns still have that same spirit. [cheers and applause] but government keeps trying to erase that spirit, because government thinks it knows better. government thinks it knows better how to spend our money. government thinks they know how to make a better life for us. they think they create jobs. they even think they can make as healthier. but that is not the case. we have to recapture the founders' vision of a constitutionally conservative government if we are to secure the promise for the future. i am also here because waterloo laid the roots of my own life in politics. i never thought i would be in public life. i grew up in iowa. my grandparents are buried here. i remember how sad i was the day my mother told me we were going to leave ottawa when i was in the sixth great, because this part of iowa was all i had ever known. i remember telling my mother that we cannot possibly move to minnesota, because we had not even bid to the state capitol in in the morning yet. [laughter] when we l

in september lies in eighty in a soviet leader book in praise of him after alice aeration attempts and he spent i mean chris amount of time and as his health deteriorated over the coming years finally living in some retirement he died in this actual bad in the twenty first of january ninety twenty four. after the instant the complex was renamed linsky the state officially became a museum in one nine hundred thirty eight and was a place of pilgrimage for service citizens right up to the fall of the iron curtain from viewing his death mask here to visiting his red square we're talking about historians tourists all modern day communists the epic achievements of lenin still has a cult following and all the places connected with his life and legacy are steps amazing as the journey that was not his life was a beautiful building well unfortunately that's what time we have on this week's program i'll see you again at the same time next week so until then for me and the rest of the crew from london's spectacular capture by. lose. lose. it's just. it's just so. if it's. come up. wealthy british

these people have gathered in the west of tripoli to bury those killed in. striking code until even government officials a bomb landed on a private compound and flattened fifteen people including three key aides this conflict has to come to an end immediately which is very unlikely to happen anytime soon while nato has already claimed to your curation to protect civilians must go on with clashes continuing in benghazi and nato intensify in its bombardment of tripoli both eastern and western parts of the country are perilous to say and people are dying on both sides of the frontline many on the ground fear that when the democracy the west talks about will finally come here they will not be enough people left to experience it. r.t. reporting from western libya. with the nato intervention in libya stalemate and savaged civilian casualties mounting the u.s. is coming under fire on a different front washington's undermanned drone strikes are being blasted for fostering not writing global terrorism people are growing weary of increasing numbers of big. hearts he t

"terror in the balance" came out in 2007.imate change justice" and "the executive unbound" both came out in 2010. back to your calls, tweets and e-mails. we will start with sarasota, florida. >> caller: my name is candace. good afternoon, professor posner. my question is, international law ideas about sharia law coming into the united states and which would trump which. how would you imagine sharia law and international law and the united states constitutional law? thank you very much. >> guest: scheuer. sharia law doesn't have any legal standing in the united states. so the only law of course the courts will enforce indian estates is law that's enacted by legislatures, and the common law, the, a judge made law. the result of millions of judicial opinions year after year after year, interpreting previous traditional opinions. it's kind of customary law. sharia law is never quite -- either legislation or in common law adjudication. now, you know, i think is a bit of a controversy floating around. i forget the source of the con

the us and we're interested in emerging markets for example in europe we're interested in turkey in poland and we will look at assets in these countries you will be according to our preliminary plan by twenty fourteen we should gain five percent of net profit on the international markets however i don't think we'll be able to cope with that as we change our priorities to date we aim for a better competitive level you know country most likely we'll be able to increase our expansion strategy of the twenty fourteen to twenty fifteen but today our domestic market is our main priority. same was burbank russia's largest lender was included in the list of the world's twenty eight strongest banks ranked by bloomberg markets magazine it's the only russian bank ever to appear in the raising while most of the places are occupied by lenders from canada and singapore the list involves banks with assets worth more than one hundred billion dollars the small share of bad credits and high work efficiency counted as the difference between incomes and losses. secular go to the markets this oil prices

way in the federal system to get a reduction in your sentence. a significant reduction is if you cooperate with the united states government some have argued mr bush needs to be on captain america's team however captain america is being accused of playing dirty and illegally to remove the air cargo business man from thailand according to documents released by wiki leaks all levels of washington top to bottom mounted political pressure against bangkok to gain custody of boot in a us cable dated august thirteenth two thousand and nine us president barack obama was urged to call thailand's prime minister directly about boot the us attorney general and state department were encouraged to call the thai ambassador highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration commitment to thailand and the us ambassador in bangkok urged the thai government to issue a public statement of disappointment at the judge's ruling not to extradite boot america is the world's most powerful nation but it's not more powerful than the world unfortunately the way things

in syria and then bahrain. well if you treat the propaganda seriously then of course there is a split when you greenlight saudi arabia to go into bahrain and kilt human beings in order to get their support for going into libya supposedly to save human beings you're dealing with ocracy from the get go we we switch sides we give each are we stopped army educator to begin arming and fighting on the side of the of the desired opposition and in every other country in the region including bahrain we're continuing to arm and support a dictator are our policy if it were about support for democracy and human rights we would begin with unilaterally c.c. to support and arm these dictators across the board now not when the next one falls or a cia friendly opposition arises and. lets their take i mean are there certain wars that are the just wars and the right wars there are certain wars that are just wars and right we're saying to you you know when you look at what happened to us in the wake of nine eleven there was the re

in cuba. you have any information on that? be not what we now is that we can talk about it in early may he adequately defined as an indie operation. in june he cannot publicly and said he had a public abscessed strain. he has not appeared for some weeks now. >> he has not treated in his twitter account for some weeks. >> his sons jocular, but in fact he's the very act it tweeter and it's interesting he is, fine. >> i don't know if that's a good atf. >> are we hope in the up decision? and of the opposition is growing in venezuela. are we assisting the process and venezuelan? >> thank you for the question. since 2002 dict is provided to court to encourage development to settle society and democratic practices. much of what was done in recent years has focused on getting out the vote, protect the vote in these kinds of activities to ensure the maximum number of people can vote in free and fair conditions. it is important to know we do this in an ecumenical way. it's not designed to approach any p

low to mid-90s in the east bay valley. near 90 in north bay valley. in south bay.e mid-80s around fremont, palo alto. your lunchtime temperatures in oakland, san francisco, mid-to-upper 70s. half moon bay, 69. focus in on half moon bay. only 72 at 4:00. mid-80s around san francisco and oakland. low to mid-90s for the rest of the bay and north bay valley. upper 90s to near 10in east bay valley at 4:00. temperatures will hit the coast. cooling temperatures will tomorrow and around the bay. they move inland thursday. by saturday, sunday, monday, temperatures are back where they should be. good morning. >> good morning. so there is one accident reported in san jose northbound 280 at 880. but it doesn't look like it is blocking any lanes. we have a live shot right here of that interchange. we can see the traffic is thering well. as you make your way out of the downtown area. that's northbound 280. on highway 17, out of the santa cruz mountains, there is roadwork scheduled to be block a lane in each direction. between summit road and bear creek road until 6:00 this morni

in a few hours, they'll be locked up in a cell in central bangkok. and it's a privilege many are risking their lives for this, a different sort of photo op. king jong ill, north korea's elusive dictator, in china a few weeks ago for hugs and handshakes. at home however, his people are starving to death. the u.n. says six million need urgent assistance, while the dear leader enjoyed the sites. a u.s. diplomatic team landed in north korea, there to consider pleas for emergency food aid. the e.u. has a team in the country this week. many north koreans can't wait. they know their neighbors south korea will accept them and support them with a settlement grant, but they have to get there first. people traffickers move them across the border into china, then down towards laos. they risk their lives. they'll be sent back if they're caught. the final challenge-- crossing the mekong river into thailand. one thing they don't have worry about is how to pay for the trip. a trafficker told us why. >> ( translated ): the traffickers charge about $5,000 each, but th

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with confidence in our cause, with faith in our fellow citizens and with hope in our hearts, let us go about the work of extending the promise of america. for this generation of the next. may god bless our troops and may god bless the united states of america. stay in his speech that ran just about 12.5 minutes the person from the strum of the white house announcing plans to withdraw 10,000 u.s. troops by the end of this year and 30,000 by next summer. our phone lines are open to 025-85-3885 is the line for republicans in (202)585-3886 for democrats. if you are an independent the number to call his (202)585-3887. we will get your calls and comments in just a moment. the president tomorrow traveling to ft. drum, home of the tenth mountain division. many of those soldiers coming back from afghanistan also on capitol hill tomorrow we will learn more about plans with general david petraeus as the next cia director and secretary of state hillary clinton traveling on capitol hill. joining us live on the phone, thank you for being with us. let me begin by asking you about another timetable th

bases in the middle east. it's fired 14 missiles. iran is locked in the stand off in the west. it conducts games several times a year to show off the military capability. >>> former governor rod blagojevich faces up to 15 years in prisons after jury convicted him on 17 of 20 corruption charges. >> i frankly am stunned. there is not much left to say, other than we want to get home to our little girls and sort things out. >> this was the second time that blagojevich was tried on the charges. the first trial ended with the jury deadlocked on all but one count of lying to the f.b.i. yesterday, the jury convicted blagojevich on a range of corruption charges, including trying to sell president barack obama's vacated senate seat. >>> thousands of people evacuated los alamos, new mexico, as a fast-growing wildfire heads to the up to and the sprawling nuclear laboratory. the organized shot show the los alamos nuclear lab and the fire raging nearby. officials say the hazardous and the radioactive materials are being protected. the 44,000-acre fire began sunday. 12,000 residents have been

in fort r.t. washington d.c. . now as the general slides over to the cia the nature of war seems to be shifting with him the u.s. president says the troop pullout from afghanistan was possible because the taliban's momentum has waned despite calls from top military brass for a more gradual drawdown and former cia officer jack rice says that washington's confused its enemies in the country. i think that the department of defense and the white house are probably mischaracterizing how this is successful if you will one of the problems is that somehow the u.s. has broken the taliban or separated the taliban from al qaeda well the fact is is that the taliban and kind of were separate organizations from the beginning and to simply characterize them as bad guys as all the same guy was one of the biggest mistakes that the united states ever met i think you are going to see more instability and when i talk to people in other parts of the country they look at president karzai as a crook they see him as some

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in fact in this c.r. approved by the house this year, we diverted between $85 million and $100 million in files from the patent office. and that is the reason why the combill is defect tive. and if we are moving to a first to file system, there has to be robust protection for prior user rights, including prior use irrights in the grace period that exists under current law. sadly, those protections are missing in this bill. the manager's amendment talks about discsures only. it is a shame that other prior art, such as trade secrets and the like would not receive the same protection. so i would urge that the bill, unfortunately, cannot be supported. i intend to oppose it, as well as the manager's amendment. and i would yield now to the distinguished ranking member of the i.p. subcommittee, the honorable mel was such time as he may consume. was was i thank the gentlelady -- >> i'm the ranking member of the subcommittee on intellectual property on judiciary and i too, supported on reporting the bill to the ho

what happened in egypt. what happened in bahrain. what happed in libya and what's happening in syria. >> well, change is welcome. >> rose: change is welcome? >> change is welcome and if more democratic, more progressive, if you will, regimes which are more responsive to the will of the people are going to come... are gog toe the result of ose processes and those countries th i think the world will benefit. and the arab countries, the arab world will benefit as well. >> rose: but it's okay with the russian government if qaddafi remains in power. it's okay with the russian government if bashar assad remains in power. notwithstanding whatever deeds they have done. >> well, first of all, it's not for moscow, paris, or washington to determine who is going to stay in power, who is legitimate or not legitimate. we do not believe that colonel qaddafi has a long-term political future in libya. that change seems to be in a train which eventually would produce a political system where colonel qaddafi will not be part of that political system. >

at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, couldn't resist dropping in once in a while at

despite some improvements in the economic situation in belarus that we've seen in the past seven days we can still feel here in minsk the country disposed to become trees being gripped by the hard financial storm oil now there are still empty shelves in stores around the country especially those who are meant for the imported goods there are still people queuing up at the currency exchange offices willing to buy just about any currency preferably u.s. dollars or euros now over the last month we've seen some crazy scenes in stores around the country with people who treat just trying anything afraid that some of the goods my disappear from the shelves on the shelves of the stores people attacking the currency exchange offices because of the faith in the bill russell has decreased greatly ever since of the country first but the financial torah moral now there are many reasons according to experts behind this financial crisis some say this is because of the lame economic policies of the past decade some say this is because the current president going to try to increase the salaries of the

revolutionary life many thanks to my guest today in the studio here with me in london and in washington thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time remember crosstalk.

in none of his writings does he discuss this eerie in its political dimensions in more detail than in the constitutional redmond. to discuss this book were privileged to have with us this afternoon, three people who are intimately committed with hayek's work. professor bruce caldwell, mr. george soros and professor richard epstein. our first speaker is recent caldwell, currently professor of economics at duke university and direct her at the center for the history of political economy. he said editor of hayek's works of which this edition of "after words" is the volume published. caldwell himself is edited for hayek's most important works in5 the series among the new additions, he's also the author of an important study of hayek's thought, hayek's challenge an intellectual biography. all of us who appreciate hayek's contributions of the economic and social that to professor caldwell for having undertaken the editorship of the collective works. >> thank you for the very kind introduction. i'm going to talk a little today about how hayek came to write but i want to first recognize ronal

in. the country accusing viktor bit of our dealing now finds itself a political arm twisting come october an american jury will decide picked up a future want to pay our political pressure at surfside by the u.s. army evidently the arena for nine artsy. just on in quarter past the hour here in moscow now let's check out some other headlines now from around the world al qaeda has appointed a new leader egyptian our hearing who was osama bin laden's deputy now leads the terrorist organization a statement from the group said it would continue its fight against the u.s. and israel al-zawahiri is a thought to have been the operational mastermind of the nine eleven attacks and warned last week the bin laden would terrify. the united states from beyond the grave. a strong blast has struck nigeria's police headquarters in the country's capital it's left at least two people dead when he says reports seeing bodies at the scene and cars on fire sending a thick plume of smoke into the sky police say

more in loan guarantees and on top of that another billion in debt cancellation while french president nicolas sarkozy has committed the g eight to providing up to ten billion dollars in direct aid it's a commitment the west says it's making to help each actions get back on the feet united states and the west are trying to reduce the damage caused by the revolutions v are. considerable financial contributions. economy and the perfect ways through the i.m.f. which is heavily influenced by the united states for. many many years the i.m.f. has been considered as an orm of american foreign. policy. to a regime that is unstable. would could be considered is a waste of money on something. is very shaky what's more it comes with particular strings attached. and that the deal could in fact spell trouble over the years if. a tree. in the already lyrics aired the worst trouble or even look at themselves zero zero country. is this already. written or equilibration really no way. what most egyptians fear is that the money will get used up long before it reaches the pockets believing it's likely to

syria in germany in bahrain. yes of course that is that's a legitimate question the difference is that in libya we are operating on the basis of a un mandate and with strong support from contras in the region actually and number of countries in the region contribute actively to our operation to these regions we are in libya. what do you say to critics who aren't convinced that nato and goal is to protect civilians and that in fact is a regime change. we have been very open about our military objectives. to compete in attacks against civilians withdrawal of gadhafi forces and humanitarian access these are all military objectives and we will continue until they are met. in parallel there is a political track defined by the international community. recently the group including the russian president called on that afi true leave power. and. these two tracks are separate a military price track and a political track but having said that i think it's hard to imagine a complete end to attacks against civilians in libya a

in indonesia g.'s available in the ground shirts or media who tell the rich culture the photo to turn to to leave millennium hotel in china you can seal it censored. her told the kind of initial marco resort hotel. would result in my calls. to tell mcconnell riviera hotel in the congo central hotel mccown. the u.s. house of representatives has voted down a measure giving president barack obama the authority to continue american military action in libya. while yet they adopted a resolution that criticize this president obama on his policies i'll be back with more in just a few moments. classified documents reveal the u.k. was happy to hand over terror suspects from iraq to the u.s. with little regard to what will be waiting for them in secret prisons. mourning the euro the fate of the common currency is in serious doubt as europe agrees another plane to greece which is the country to get behind savage spending cuts. the former prime minister of ukraine goes on trial for abuse of power that cost their c

i had no desire to get involved in the war in a cause here in such a war where brothers were killing brothers so i decided to stay away from georgia for a time there were. those who were displeased with the first president gathered to openly demand his resignation the nine hundred ninety two standoff between protesters and the regime erupt into street fighting involving all tillery and tanks. gamsakhurdia had to for. the country. does it with george's second president the experience political heavyweight. perestroika soon after he took office he lifted the opposition political parties and allowed independent media. after i went into business in one nine hundred ninety three i launched a project called. over ten years i turned a small studio in the provincial town of into a leading national broadcaster. to t.v. channel rushed at the country's new leaders including president eduard shevardnadze and was focused on runaway corruption. corruption in the economic sphere was enormous off the shevardnadze came to power but on the other hand businessmen learned new skills in tune with modern