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think of a single one who has been american in any way who has been put on trial in either iraq or afghanistan and they're just arresting people putting them on trial. in iraq we actually had treated me in the iraqi government called the status of forces agreement in which the u.s. agreed it would rather rapidly in the u.s. requests that u.s. forces are essentially immune from iraqi legal process and afghanistan we don't have any agreement at all to be there at all and so the fact that no one's being arrested there said this in print sorry to interrupt the agreement you said it's u.s. forces we're talking about private contractors are you talk are you putting them in the same category. yes that's right country i'm sorry contractors are in the same category as regular u.s. military forces and the right security contractor or no private contractor of any kind you know rak is subject to the iraqi legal system that's surrounding it if you time out in a state and there's no formal agreement at all so the fact is that nobody has been prosecuted for any crime that i'm aware of and he tried to sue the

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these 8 and 9-year-olds all have a parent who has done multiple tours in iraq or afghanistan. so guess what they like best about the women's team? >> they don't give up. >> reporter: it's their hallmark says espn analyst judy fuady, a member of the 1999 team. >> to show courage and the will to persevere when everything is against you will be their legacy if they can win this game on sunday. >> reporter: but the americans have already achieved one big victory. they're regarded not just as world class women's players, but world class soccer players, period. >> the women are now being appreciated for their skill as athletes. >> reporter: skills they hope will bring home the cup. nbc news, frankfurt. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. see you tomorrow morning on "today" and right back here tomorrow evening. "today" and right back here tomorrow evening. good night. captions paid for by nbc-universal television

almost anyone is on the frontline now if you are in a place like iraq or afghanistan. >> guest: surprisingly women are often on a college for serving those rules because there were no combat roles for women and whether that is because of current policy or just because women are suddenly finding that because of the way that the wars are, they are being put in his place but i think there is a role for women in this capacity that they are finding you know, that policymakers find it very useful such as being interrogator translators are serving and civil affairs or being in the female engagement team which aids in helping the indigenous women and children in order to communicate with them. >> host: in other words when we go into afghanistan we going to the villages and we are trying to win the hearts and minds of the afghan people. we find that women sometimes are more effective than going in and talking to the women. of course guys can't go in and talk to them but they are more effective going into the villages and talking to them and getting good information about where the taliban is or who i

would say that is the front line almost any place is a front line if you were in a place like iraq or afghanistan. >> guest: yeah, and surprisingly, you know, women are often not acknowledge for serving those rules because there is no combat role for the women, and whether that's because of current policy, or just because the women are suddenly finding that because of the way that the war -- they are being put in that place, but i think there is a role for women in this capacity that they are finding, you know, that policy makers in the military findings are very useful such as being an interrogator translators or serving civil affairs or being in the female engagement team, which aids in helping the indigenous women and children in order to communicate with that. >> host: in other words when we go into afghanistan we go into the villages and are trying to win the hearts and minds of the afghan people we find that women sometimes are more effective going and talking to the women. of course the guys can't talk to them but they are more effective going to the villages and getting a good information

once known as blackwater is back in court this time though it's not over alleged killings in iraq or afghanistan but over claims that build washington too much for its services or two former employees accuse it of claiming more than one hundred million dollars in bogus expenses the company which is now known as provide small. more scenarios for the u.s. in afghanistan than anyone else and has been implicated in a number of scandals and its contractors were accused of gunning down seventeen and on civilians in baghdad in two thousand and seven for which no one has been punished but the company is due an even bigger role in afghanistan the u.s. about to double its private army to replace departing troops meanwhile the un wants tighter control over mercenaries to protect human rights. and i took our reports it's more convenient for the u.s. to use hard guns since their actions slip under the radar this iraqi man son nine year old allie khilnani was shot dead by private american war contractors four years ago his brain fell to the ground between my feet on the same day dozens of other innocent iraqi

what his legacy is he should spend just one day with a grieving family in the united states in iraq or afghanistan or in pakistan who has lost a loved one in these wars for profit so stephen let me go t. you do you think that there was a change for gates as he went through this job over the years oh there really wasn't any change at all. to go on but he had a very you know to be so you know we want to you have. any position of power to you with them and they really had a little because what you have is completely is. how it was structured. if and when it comes to war and peace america has a permanent war agenda i wrote three major articles to try to hold america's criminal war agenda. with the. military keynesianism on steroids and i just floated out of the look you didn't use to go to the business of america is war that's what america's business is it was the. it was the. for around still it was here only gates will be here under another and noticed think tank the things. we look at pieces moving around we've got we've got an era moving from the white house to the cia to the pentagon we've been.

her pretense of resistance than we've seen on iraq or afghanistan in the several years and a large part of that is republicans who just hate obama more than they hate peace or justice but but it's it's significant it's a sign of life out of congress and maybe maybe that gives corporate reporters the you know of the room to operate and to begin to question that's an interesting take i want to talk a little bit about the reason why nato went in and the reason why the u.s. why the humanitarian mission and where that stands now russian foreign minister sergei lavrov was the here in our teeth studios and he was doing an interview for both of russia the radio station and this is what he said about the toll of the airstrikes on civilians i want to play that their strokes themselves girl will get you're going through. some residential what those have been few and it's a cause of concern because the main goal of the resolution is not to shoot they're against was the reason for the civilian population it's exactly the protection of the civilians and the civilians suffering boards through go throu

wars in iraq and afghanistan of cost and it starts to pale in comparison how about the recent reports that it cost twenty point two billion dollars a year just for air conditioning in iraq or afghanistan or the twenty two point nine billion dollars a year the pentagon spends just on battling rust and you start realizing if we want to we could find the resources to devote or at least enough buyers of our debt to devote those resources there so what role could america play in this worldwide necessity of green tech and why do we choose not to join me to discuss this is david roberts senior staff writer at risk or a day where first thoughts on this report of one point nine trillion dollars a year where they say over the next forty years that sounds like a huge estimate like a lot of money or not that much. concern like a lot if you just take it so you show your true amber what it's global and over to it doesn't just mean government it's about all this is about all taxpayers on. your part of it or marshalling private capital to make those investments and that's the means to change the rules because there are those of us so we need to spend. any chance of that actually happening

issues and of why did he still be so many of his no would grow from iraq or afghanistan he was no leader all i hear from you and from germany. south korea from italy and there were sixty five years ago we'll hear a very strategic reason for being in these countries all the way or growth would never happen for maybe all of them this is the strategic reasons cheery but it gives you a very important country there's a lot of oil in the past be an area where russia is competing with with america and america wants every way garbage can gear it using afghanistan as a pipeline for incident system to build able yeah they've built with a war but it's also a living being spirit area targeting russia so if you can show. even at the definition between combat troops and support troops now do you think though the afghan forces already really going to be able to take control clearly they will still need some help from those support troops not the combat troops because there are reports though from areas of the country that there are areas of stability which should in fact be a sign for hope and indeed i

of why did he stole he so many of our rights his know would grow from iraq or afghanistan there was no we grow from japan from germany. south korea from italy and there were sixty five years ago we'll hear a very strategic reason for being in these countries all the way or grow whatever happens or maybe all of them is if the strategic reasons change but it again is there is a very important votary there's a lot of oil in the caspian area or russia is competing with with america and america once every way got a game here it's using afghanistan as a quite well i. system to be able to be a living build that you know have been built with a war but it's also a land based aircraft carrier targeting russia targeting show. stephen that the definition between combat troops and support troops now do you think though the afghan forces really going to be able to take control clearly they will still need some help from those support troops not the combat troops because there are reports though from areas of the country that there are areas of stability which should in fact be a sign for hope and in

los gatos honored hometown troops who are either still fighting in iraq or afghanistan or have returnedome. this is a ceremony that was hosted earlier today at los gatos high school. >> usually everybody's talking during the whole program and enjoying the orchestra, the san jose wind similar pony. when they read the 67 names you can hear a pin drop on the lawn. there's a lot of respect in the town of los gatos. >> it's always on their mind that they're over there. they've been there for quite a while. but you have to realize that the u.s. military is strong and i think they operate quite well. >> reporter: the event is in association with operation yellow ribbon, a los gatos-based group. >>> on american's 235th birthday presidential hopefuls were out in full force trying to pick up a few votes. from backyard picnics to the war zones overseas, our countrymen took this day to celebrate freedom in very different ways. nbc bay area's brian mooar has that story from washington. >> reporter: july fourth at the beach. is there any better way to celebrate america's birthday? yes, actually, ther

he wasn't talking about the dead in iraq or afghanistan there are two reasons for that. because then vietnam's there were 300 dead very few daughters were the sons of people all around the country because there was a draft and that made a huge difference. >> dma the good point* about the changes of media over that period of time because i remember recently watching wonder two years ago this my a co-author brought some videos back when he was on the cbs news and i was struck by the amount of very serious discussion of issues going on in the sound bites going on for longer and people were allowed to speak for longer and they were much more in depth and it really struck me because as a child was watching this put the amazing change of the focus. >> we have time for two more questions. >> you have mentioned it was such a remarkable difference the way those presidents responded which mrs. suni was sent to their political party but it was there a suggestion that when president medicated with what happened on the previous presidents response? >> yes. each one learns from the ot

defense budget by in essence saying, we will save money we would otherwise be spending in iraq, or afghanistan maintaining our current level of troops for the next ten years and nobody believes we'll maintain the current level of troops we have in iraq, or afghanistan, for the next ten years, so, this is phony savings, as is the claimed half trillion dollars in interest savings by not spending the trillions we weren't going to spend otherwise. alisyn: there are reports, obviously, the president invited congressional leaders, democratic and republicans, to the white house tomorrow and there are also reports out yesterday, "the new york times," that the white house has agreed to cut in entitlements. and, sounds like there may be progress, and, room to open the debate? >> there could be, but the question about the entitlement cuts is, are they real? are they likely to be realized and are they sooner rather than later? the president, we need to be on a glide path but for example the president offered, again, from my discussions with people who are knowledgeable about these discussions, between the

likely to commit acts of domestic terror were if you owned a gun, went to church or served in iraq or afghanistan. >> let's do this. there is a cartoon circulating right now apparently al-qaeda is -- has decided to produce a cartoon that teaches young kids how to become terrorists. they have sent a few frames out and we may have one on the screen in a minute. andrea, isn't this exactly what we are concerned about? al-qaeda telling muslim children that western propaganda is bad and you should grow up to be a terrorist? >> this is nothing new. they have been doing this for years. a year ago we had one of these cartoons surface. it is scary that they are trying to indoctrinate the kids to hate the u.s. they are going after the kid are three years old or four years old or five years old? come on. >> that is funny? >> what do you expect then to say in the cartoons to the kids, why don't you go to the mcdonalds. the kkk used to have cartoons and hitler did. what is new about this? >> what should they be saying to their kids? i don't know maybe a healthy message about abcs. >> you expect al-qaeda to say

between the sled and white -- left and right parameters. >> is there a model you can point to an iraq or afghanistan or anywhere where you think we can draw a lot of good inspiration that is not capital or embassy centric, but is more local and countryside in nature? >> yes, sir. there is district support teams, which are three personnel. in yemen, we have the civil military support elements. it is an interesting innovation. the people who principally minute our military, but wear civilian clothes. they're doing that human terrain mapping. it is a small program, and classified program, but i think it is what we could address some of these problems. my preference would be state department aide people. our force protection is so great, of is the, no one wants to lose a life unnecessarily. -- obviously, no one wants to lose a life unnecessarily. these are compatible goals. i do not have the responsibility of governments here, but we have a lot of lessons we have learned in iraq and afghanistan. we seem to be chronically for getting some of those elements. >> he said in yemen now, we have the foundation

is to shore up the strength and responsiveness of the state's wherever we look whether it's iraq or afghanistan to prevent pakistan from continuing to fail, the idea of the two-stage solution for israel and palestine or all within the concept of the system and if we don't have strong response things are going in the wrong direction. >> host: what i see on the ground and a travel to afghanistan is to be honest with all the power of the u.s. military you have an incredibly confident will lead military. in the and that's not enough to substitute for the government's of the afghan states and institutions provide and and pushing we just never quite get there. it's hard to find anybody -- >> guest: that's true, too. this brings us back to something like democratization and the culture in their view is going to be something where the people will have a way if you change those that are going to run their government. this is something you can't avoid. when the figures for you don't put other dictators in you can put into place the basic institutions and procedures. >> host: he turned back from these iss

shore up the strength, the responsiveness of the state wherever they look, whether with iraq or iraq today or afghanistano prevent pakistan from continuing to sell the idea of a two-state solution for israel and palestine are all within the concept of the international space system. that is, we don't have strong systems and things are going in the wrong direction. >> host: what i see on the ground when i travel often to afghanistan is to be honest with all the power of the u.s. military, we have an up credibly well-led military, but in the end that's not enough to substitute for the poor government there is and the institutions provide, and it's like, you know, we're pushing this rock uphill and we just never quite get there. i'm sure you wouldn't disagree and it's hard to find anybody to defend president karzai's government. >> guest: that's true too. it brings us back to democratization and that procedure and it will be their own culture, but it's going to be something where the people will have a way to control, change those who are going to run their government, and this is something you can't avoid.

but that is where we can put everybody out there they can train in more like circumstances of iraq or afghanistan. you are living out there and you just got married in bought a house and your husband leaves you a letter to say if i die open this up. i will not say what that said. they should read the book but did you ever open the letter? >> not until iraq but i felt like opening at many times but i kept it because i once did to have something to look forward to if i needed it so as a less days last type of resort it is the bedrock holding me so it was a nice gesture on his part that i would be following him soon after. >> host: you are still with her husband and everything is good in has worked out. o.k.. . . . . there's a certain level of assistance that you feel of their life down there but i'm not looking at them in the eyes staring at them face-to-face, so at the same time you feel like you can see the big picture okay i know that unit is about to call for fire with their artillery on her forces on the marines coming down the road. so it's my job to protect them. so i felt very much througho

national guardsman is just one of tens of thousands of national guardsman who has deployed to iraq or afghanistan, but they are not the only ones of carrying the burden of military service. >> we so often hear people say, support the troops. we don't often hear them say, we support the families of the troops. is part of this making that awareness? >> yes. the military families are serving, as well. >> reporter: the cost of that service from the emotional anxiety of having a loved one at war to relocation and job changes, to home upkeep is what first lady, michelle obama, and dr. biden want people it know about. >> we went around the country for about two years and listened and heard about the problems and some of the things that we could do. >> whether you're a business leader -- >> reporter: in april they teamed up -- >> each of us can show our appreciation for everything these families do. >> reporter: to promote a white house initiative called joining forces. >> people don't know that someone in their neighborhood, their school, their church is deployed. here is a single mom or a single dad wh

in my opinion, none of those overseas in iraq or afghanistan or anywhere else should also have to fight illegal action by the people back home just to keep a roof over the home -- the heads of their loved ones. and, by the way, they have already been admitted to by the banks. to conduct a thorough, thorough, bipartisan investigation into these systemic abuses. initially, we had positive signs. on february 11, we adopted the committee's oversight plan, the blueprint, in designated priorities. as part of that plan, we voted unanimously to investigate, and i quote, the wrongful foreclosures and other abuses by the mortgage industry. we also looked at a bipartisan hearing in her heart wrenching testimony of disabled veterans who suffered abuses at the hands of a mortgage servicing company, including illegally eviction. the committee has done nothing. i send them myself. i asked the chairman to invite jpmorgan to testify about their illegal foreclosures against service members, but they declined. to refuse to provide even a single response of document, not a single syllable, i asked the chai

we are not talking about iraq or afghanistan. that's how investigates are describing a soda bomb found at a marin city bus stop. jade hernandez joins us now to tell us this is not the first case in the area. >> reporter: no, pam, you're right and it seems innocent enough but someone is filling soda bottles like these with a concoction which explodes when anyone picks them up. one of these bottle bombs was found right here at the marin city bus stop yesterday afternoon. we just watched a sheriff's deputy pull up to this bus stop, get out of the car and then speed off. it appears he didn't want to comment on camera but fellow deputies found a bottle bomb just before 2:00 yesterday afternoon and no one was hurt but what could have happened is what worries county authorities. inside a bottle, rocks apparently placed inside to act as shrapnel, the mixture of fluid resulted in a gaseous buildup and then an explosion. back in may novato police warned residents about these types of devices. the school district even sent out an e-mail war

. >> reporter: these 8 and 9 year olds all have a parent that have done multiple tours in iraq or afghanistan they like best about the women's team. >> they don't give up. >> reporter: it's their hallmark says espn analyst, a member of the '99 team. >> to show this courage and this feistiness and this will to just persevere when everything is against you will be, i think, their legacy, if they can win this game on sunday. >> reporter: but the americans have already achieved a big victory. they're regarded than more just world class women soccer players, world class soccer players, period. >> the women are now being appreciated for what they wanted to be appreciated all along. simply their skill as athletes. >> reporter: skills, they hope, will bring home the cup. now, this morning the team has gotten encouragement, tweets of encouragement from justin timberlake and lance armstrong and today a white house delegation arrived here led by dr. jill biden and including chelsea clinton and they met with family members of the team to let them know how proud their country is and how much the country i

american lives, how do we cover-- and does it make us any safer because even stabilizing iraq or stabilizing afghanistan doesn't make it a country where terror attacks cannotting plotted against the united states. in democracies, terror attacks are plotted against the united states. so isn't our whole strategy, as you and my people would say wrong? don't we have to change our strategy in huge ways? >> no, i don't think so. i don't think we should -- >> really. i that you you were going to go with me on that one. i thought i had you on that one. >> let me call michele bachman first and get my talking points from the likely next-- that was excellent. that was very good. >> jon: thank you. >> it's unusual. >> jon: it's not just the clips they show on fox. we actually do a whole program? >> is that right? >> jon: we do a whole program. >> you did well. you did well. i want to say you did well on fox news sunday and i think you have a possible future at fox news. >> jon: that's very kind of you. >> i think a few more tests -- >> jon: stop it. but i'm being serious-- >> we -- >> we can't do it. >> we can't bu

unforgivable to tap the phone of a murdered school girl or phone of relatives of troops killed in iraq or afghanistannd murdoch would not have tolerated it. >> when you think about -- i'm sorry about that. when you think about what one done and the depesble things that were done, do you think he made the right call of canceling it, it's done? >> it's a difficult call because as you said it's an old, historic paper, that has a great history, but has committed abuses in the past like all tabloids do, but also exposed a lot of fraud and misdeeds, most recently exposed corruption in the pakistani cricket team which was an important story. it's very sad and it's sad for the 200 people who work there, frightful for them. many of them will be given jobs in other news of murdoch's papers in london. he probably will create a new sunday paper called "the sun on sunday" to go along with his daily paper "the sun" which is another tabloid in britain. >> mr. shawcross, some were wondering, i was reading a lot of articles on this, if rupert murdoch was at all responsible, maybe in a trickled down effect, of kind of

we're told that by military officials that he'd never been deployed to either iraq or afghanistan, andhad applied for conscience shs objective status, saying he was a muslim. >> thank you very much, pete williams, i know you'll keep us updated. >>> a lot going on in washington, d.c., clearly, including the ongoing news conference with the gop freshmen. we have the senators also taking to the floor, and there you have the chamber, where we are going to be seeing a vote a little later on today, and we're going to be hearing from john boehner early in the afternoon, so this could be an extremely consequential day in this debt fight in washington. keep it here on msnbc. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people l

medal of honor, and he is only the second living service member to receive one for service in iraq or afghanistan. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: next tonight, an assassination in afghanistan takes the life of the president's half-brother. >> ahmed wali karzai had survived previous attempts on his life but today a family friend finally did what others could not. the provincial governor said karzai was receiving deaths in the city when a long time associate shot him point blank. a moment later, the awe silient was killed by guards. he laid mortally wounded in the head and chest. soldiers board his body and that of his killers to the morgue. it fell to his half brother, esident karzai to confinger the killing at a joint news conferences with french president sarkozy. >> this morning, my younger brother ahmed wali karzai has been murdered in his house, this is the life of the afghan people and inside houses of the afghan people, we have all suffered from the same kind of pain. >> the taliban claimed responsibility for the assassination, afghan officials sa

service members killed in iraq or afghanistan, and it's the first time since we began this segment thatmark the loss of any forces in the u.s. conflict. we'll be right back. rk the loss of any forces in the u.s. conflict. we'll be right back. anananannouncer ] this...is the network. a living, breathing intelligence that's helping drive the future of business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ >>> that's our program for today. be sure to watch "world news tonight" for all of the latest on the debt ceiling negotiations, remember, follow us any time on twitter, facebook and abcnews.com. for all of us in washington, thank you for watching and we'll see you again next week. >>> republicans in the white house have reached a tentative deal to end the debt ceiling crisis. and the attorney representing shane bower and josh fatel he expects an iranian court to issue a verdic

in my opinion none of our troops fighting overseas in iraq or afghanistan or anywhere else should also have to fight their banks back home just to keep a roof over their heads of their loved ones. and by the way a number of these actions have already been admitted to live the banks. over the past six months i have urged this committee to conduct a thorough, thorough bipartisan investigation of the systemic abuses. initially we had positive signs. on february 11 we formally adopted the committee's oversight plan, the blueprint for our investigative priorities. as part of that plan we voted unanimously to investigate, and i quote wrongful foreclosures and other abuses by mortgage servicing companies and of quote. we also held a bipartisan meeting in baltimore where we heard heartwrenching testimony from a disabled veteran who suffered abuses at the hands of a mortgage servicing company including an illegal eviction. it is a hearing of the testimony that the committee has done nothing. i asked the chairman to join me in sending document requests to the top 10 mortgage servicers, but he de

americans faith isn't just counterterrorism strikes. >> is there a model you can point to in iraq or afghanistan, or efforts anywhere, where you think we can draw a lot of good inspiration that's not capital or embassy centric, but it's more kind of local and countryside a major? >> i worked at a provincial reconstruction team in afghanistan for a year. that is limited but there's also a district support team which are three-person elements in afghanistan. but in yemen with something called civil military support elements which are interesting innovation. the people who principally man i believe are the military but they wear civilian clothes. a lot of what they're doing is we're doing that humanity work in human terrain mapping. it's a very small program. and unclassified program. i think that's the way we might be able to address some of these problems. my preference would be state department and aig people, but our force protection concerns are so great. no one wants to lose an american life i message him. you can have a policy, holistic long-term strategy in an industry that is on order to p

put up some patriotism and signs in your yard to talk about your son or daughter serving in iraq or afghanistan>> this city in louisiana says that you can put a sign on your front lawn saying go rebels! go tigers! if those are the mascots of your baseball or basketball or football teams but put a sign up there saying "god bless my son" who is defending freedom in iraq or afghanistan and you can't do it. that is discrimination based on the content of the sign. if the government wants to prohibit all signs because of aesthetics, that's an issue but it's fair. but for the government to say we like some messages and we don't like other messages, the first amendment prohibits government from making that decision. you own the front lawn, you decide what message goes there. >> it's the city that says these signs are offensesive. these aren't. >> it's the city permitting the homeowners association to do it so the homeowners association is using the power of the city to regulate the speech of those who own homes in that association. >> now, if you're lucky enough out here, outside the fox newschannel, y

unforgivable to tap the phone of a murdered schoolgirl or the phones of relatives of troops killed in iraq or afghanistan-- >> i'm soer are. i when you think about what was done and the despicable things done, do you think he made the right call of just canceling it? it's done? >> it's a very difficult call because it's a very old historic paper which has a very great history, though it has committed abuses in the past like all tabloids do, but it's also exposed a lot of fraud and misdeeds, most recently it exposed corruption in the pakistani cricket team which was an important story. it's very sad. it's sad for also for the 200 people who work there, frightful for them. many of them will be given jobs in other news of murdock's papers in london. and he probably will have a new sunday paper calling "the sun" on paper to go along with the daily paper in britain. >> some were wondering, i was reading a lot of articles on this, if rupert murdock was at all responsible, maybe in a trickle down effect of kind of creating an atmosphere where people will be willing to do anything to get that story. who creates

and for those who believe that military approaches...whether in libya, or afghanistan, or iraq, or not so secret 'secret' war in yemen, somehow can solve this problem; they are making a serious mistake. all the war in the world is only going to exacerbate this hunger crisis. of course what we need is farmers that in a stable environment can plant high yield crops and get the support that they need to earn their livelihoods and help feed their populations. we need a different approach; peace will come through sustainable development; and this is the absolutely the most vitalrealisation that we need to make in the world. >>reporter: still to come on world business... >>from a war torn country on the brink of starvation to stellar success, we look at the rise of vietnam >>and competitive climbing is not hanging around in its quest to attract new fans. >>scaling new heights... and the rest in just a moment on world business... >>25 years ago vietnam started reforms to move the country from a planned economy to a socialist oriented market economy. reforms that have transformed both the coun

host: how would deal with a situation like 9/11 or the war in iraq or afghanistan are terrorism? what if there is unforeseen event that would force government to spend more money than it takes an? guest: the legislation would have to be written to be including situations when we get like that. i am no expert on the u.s. economy so i want to put that disclaimer out there right now. but we are spending more than we're taking in and it is not sustainable. we cannot continue down this path. when you have the medicare board of trustees coming out in the month of may and releasing a report that says, if medicare is not reformed in 2024, it will be bankrupt, it is irresponsible for washington not to do anything about their when you know you are facing this problem. we need to deal with that. we need to do some entitlement reform across the board. we cannot balance the u.s. budget by cutting discretionary spending. host: i realize that this is still coming together so the information continues to evolve. but based on what we hear this morning, it is a $1.4 trillion increase in the debt l

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