the army base includes the headquarters of michigan in northern ireland -- mi-5 in northern ireland,coincide with the transfer of powers from western after to the assembly. another milestone in the peace process. dissident republicans were hoping to disrupted but they failed. >> order, order -- >> american samoa plant in new northern ireland justice minister was elected, the first time in 38 years. >> this is a significant day for northern ireland. a step forward in the peace process, the political process, and in ensuring the institutions which had been in place are formally -- firmly affixed. >> back in 1972, northern ireland seemed to be falling apart. that is why policing and justice powers were taken off local politicians, in spite of their protests. 38 years later, so much has changed in northern ireland. rather than power is being taken away, they have now been given back. it is a vote of confidence in politicians here, as they battled to rid northern ireland of the shadow of violence. marcus and senate, bbc news, a belfast. >> sudan's election commission asked extended voting

ireland is ceo and chief designer.hat percentage of your customer knows or cares that kathy ireland was this famous s.i. model? >> our customer doesn't care that i modelled in "sports illustrated." it's more about what i was able to learn and gain from that experience than just seeing a picture of me. >> she looks beautiful there. >> i like this one where she is closed mouth than this one. >> in its storied history, the cover has catapulted women into stardom. so a lot rides on the decision for 2010. >> let me see what you did for this. >> terry mcdonell makes the final call. >> people call me up when this issue comes out. everybody's got an opinion. if it's too risque, i might hear from this wholesaler. a little too racy, i might hear from the library association. a lot of things can happen there. >> so can you fail? >> completely. >> we're just trying to figure out something different than past years. >> is this the most pressure during the year that you feel for a cover? >> no, no. this is probably the most fun. >>

ireland had a much bigger boom and bust and a much bigger bust.its national income has caught -- fallen 20% since 2007, 1/5 of its economy wiped out. like britain, ireland has a record budget deficit of nearly 12% of national income. the difference is that here, the government already has had to take painful steps to bring borrowing under control. this person is a paramedic for the dublin fire brigade. with higher taxes and public sector wage cuts, his take-home pay has fallen nearly 1/5 in the past year, and he sees a broader impact of the crisis every day. >> it is terrible, people could not cope anymore. we see the effects it has on people emotionally, psychologically, with suicides, attempted suicides. >> if you have not seen a greek- style rights on the streets. the prime minister has earned respect for sticking with the job even after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in december. i asked whether he had any advice for the uk >> there are no easy solutions. the bulk of the government is transfer payments. you cannot get away with that. i

to germany and the profits will land in ireland. it seems crazy to assert that the company that does that is evil. then we would take away the opportunity for the u.s. firms to compete in germany. there would probably lose. right now, there are multinationals because they are allowed to avoid u.s. taxation. the way that you attract business to the u.s. is to make it so that you do not have to go to ireland to go through germany. if you wonder why there are so many unemployed people, it is amazing that they would say something like that. >> i think that what the president said it is just old- fashioned mercantilism. there is some confusion as to what multinational companies do. i could take a plant while most multinationals owned the intangibles. if the intangible goes up, a lot of economists suggest that there is some strong comparative said. i guess i question the intellectual underpinning of the speech. >> this is a political statement. it is not an economic or business statement. as it was designed to deal with certain constituen

patrick is the one responsible for driving lobbyists out of ireland. but you all know sam patrick was credited with banishing snakes from ireland but you guys know the truth, sometimes. there were never any snakes in ireland. saint patrick just made that up. that explained why he is the patron saint of fox news. [applause] look. if [laughter] it is not all lost. tonight, i am here with a group of distinguished irish- americans -- ken salazar, walter sorenstein. you even have a great irish artist, joe wong. [laughter] these guys do not get it. i apologize for bringing this up but i know you are all aware of the fact that this dinner is viewed as the less prestigious of the two dinners, this in the white house correspondents' dinner. i understand. in the minds of all of you here, you know this dinner is just as worthwhile. i know a lot of you find it hard to understand why you gets second billing. welcome to my world. [laughter] [applause] i had a choice between speaking to this dinner for the white house correspondents -- speaking at this dinner or the

actually an event that was driven by the volcano and the ash that is settling over europe and england, ireland, and some of the northern tier european countries. normally we take them to lan constitutional -- landstuhl, and it is designed around the medical reality that survival and taking the best care of our soldiers possible needs to have an intermediate stop where they are properly stabilized and

awaiting going back to dublin, ireland, and we don't know how long. >> reporter: some of the airports in scottland have reopened. the cloud is threatening to delay the funeral for the president of poland because some lead aroma's i not be able to get -- leaders may not be able to get there. and now injured soldiers from afghanistan and iraq have to be flown directly to washington. from the ground you cannot see the cloud causing the trouble but they are not taking any chances. it's extremely abrasive volcanic glass. when sucked in an aircraft's engine it melts and gums up essential moving parts which can lead to failure. >> it's a phenomena beyond the control of everybody. >> reporter: but the cost of so many cancellations is quickly adding up. the airline industry says it's losing more than $200 million a

he did not elaborate, but soon afterward the vatican accepted the resignations of bishops in ireland and belgium because of the scandal. last weekend, during a visit to malta, benedict met privately with victims of clerical sex abuse and, with them, he prayed and wept. the continuing crisis in the church has left millions of american catholics sad, angry, and wondering what can be done to resolve it. we want to talk about that with margaret steinfels, former editor in chief of "commonweal" magazine, now co-director of the center on religion and culture at fordham university. she joins us from new york how do you describe the range of reactions among the u.s. catholic laity? >> i think that many people are

after she arrived on a plane from ireland. the colorado mom is now charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. julie kurtz is live with more on this >> reporter: authorities aren't telling us where her son is when she landed in philadelphia yesterday she landed with her 6-year-old son. we know that she arrived in philadelphia and was immediately taken into custody. she faces conspiracy charges. she has a hearing next wednesday. ramirez's mother the boy's grandmother has been talking to the media since ramirez was arrested. there she with her son. since she was arrested in ireland she said ramirez converted to islam last easter, a year ago. married a muslim man she met online. the biological father of the 6-year-old out of the picture in mexico according to the grandmother. the new indictment released friday charges that larose, jihad jane and pauline ramirez traveled separately to europe to support muslim holy war. the court papers say larose was in europe first and then invited ramirez to join her at a

one of several people detained in ireland nor plot to kill cartoonist.harged with conspiracy to commit terrorism. this woman la rose already facing charges in the case. she is the one used the internet screen name jihad jane. according to prosecutors, the two women knew each other, they had worked with a grouch muslim extremists based in ireland. julie joins us from the washington newsroom. >> hi, harris. attorneys with the u.s. attorney's office in philadelphia would not tell us whether ramirez is now cooperating cooperating with authorities in cass. we know jamie flew from ireland to philadelphia with her 6-year-old son knowing she would be arrested as soon as she landed. the 31-year-old mom is ho is reportedly pregnant remains in custody and her son is now in child protective custody in philly. federal prosecutors accuse ramirez of plotting on line to attend a terror training camp along with 46-year-old colleen la rose known as jihad jane who is from pennsylvania. la rose pleaded not guilty last month in a philadelphia court to recruiting islamist mil

why ireland? why spain? these issues have yet to be fully sorted out. we're not clear how the neck nymph is going to work with the euro class. are we going to have to have some sort of summit? can they do it on the phone? can finance ministers sort this out? a number of big questions still need to be resolved. i would guess that the imf is likely to come through with money a little bit more likely. and remember that greece has got an $8 billion debt roll that it needs to do on the 19th. so that number is going to be quite critical. the imf is likely to come through and say that it probably has aid on hand a little bit sooner than the eu has. but just maybe a little bit of a sense of perspective here. we're going to be talking a little bit later on, and he pointed out beautifully the fact that the u.s. is going to be selling more debt this week than greece needs to keep it going for an entire year. a sense of perspective maybe about what we're talking about here. >> $118 billion in two, five and seven-year notes. we have a fear that one point, u.s. aucti

i would like to say that in the letter to the catholics of ireland, the pope does speak in probably the strongest language i've seen about the failures of the bishops as leaders of the church, as shepherds of the church to address the problem in an appropriate and effective way. i think that needs to be said. as far as the pope's own involvement as an archbishop, as a cardinal in germany, i think that's what you're referring to. >> warner: the germany case and the one involving the priest in milwaukee. >> we have remember, i think, in all fairness that we tend to judge situations that happened 20, 30, 40 years ago by our knowledge of today and our standards of today. i don't know that that's always altogether fair. the pope acted as cardinal archbishop in a way that was normal for the hierarchy of his day. we look at it with hindsight and say, well, he should have done this and he should have done that. you have to understand , when someone is in charge of a very large diocese as archbishop ratzinger was, cardinal ratzinger was at that time, it's very natural and normal that they would

last month authorities in ireland detained ramirez and six others linked to la rose and the alleged slot to kill a swedish cartoonist whose drawings had off offended many members. la rose was to bring a man that she met online and marry him. ramirez is scheduled to appear in court on wednesday for a detention prison. she faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. >>> the lawyer for ramirez says she came back from ireland on her own, suggesting there could be a deal with prosecutors. >>> and in iraq, a shocking tack. 25 villagers shot execution style. many tortured before being killed. others were found alive in handcuffs. this all happened in the sunni neighborhood. it looks like an aqaeda revenge attack. they say insurgents are taking advantage of the elections last month. so far, 25 suspects have been arrested. >>> finally some relieve in rhode island as flood waters continue to drop. the river is expected to fall below flood stage tomorrow night at 6:00. that's two hours sooner than predictions. people are now cleaning up from the worse floodi there in 200 years. adding to the pr

if you look what's happening in europe and what they allow the banks to do and the case of ireland or of the united kingdom the united kingdom became one bank, became had a balance sheet 1.5 times the size of the u.k. economy. in ireland of the three biggest banks together had balance sheets to times the size of the irish economy. in iceland well iceland how could we become like iceland? iceland the banks became 11 to 13 times the size of the country. i think the banks are getting bigger. next time they fail, there is nothing i can assure you in economics orval law or physics that says the amount of offsetting impetus to can provide the economy through monetary policy or for fiscal policy will match the negative sharp targeting from the collapse of the financial system. in 1930 if the federal government had wanted to do a sensible what we regard as a sensible fiscal policy and a fiscal stimulus because they were having a major problem they look to this estimate that the federal government could have done a fiscal story was of 1% of gdp because the government was much smaller than now.

in ireland, an ape abuse victim's group hung children's shoes outside one cathedral.n britain, thousands signed a petition opposing the pope's upcoming visit in september. there's criticism from inside the church, as well. today, the most senior catholics in scotland and ireland used their easter homilies to admit the church committed serious sins. >> there is now no hiding place for abusers in the church. >> crimes against children have indeed been committed, and any catholics who are aware of such claims and did not act to report them bring shame on us all. >> reporter: anyone listening very carefully to the pope's annual message for a similar apology or a reference to the scandal, but it wasn't there. since his letter last month to irish catholics, the pope has not commented at all. dan? >> jim sciutto, thank you. >>> president obama and his family went to easter services at a historically black church in washington today. it was their first trip to a church since january. so, it got a lot of attention. here's yunji de nies. >> reporter: the first family celebrated

in ireland the biggest three banks together a balance sheets two times the size of the irish economy.in iceland -- well, iceland, how could we possibly become like iceland? they became between 11 and 13 times the size of the country. our biggest banks are getting bigger. the next time they'll there is nothing i can assure you in economics or law or physics that says the amount of offsetting the bids is you can provide to the economy through monetary policy or to fiscal policy will roughly match the negative shock you are getting from the collapse of the financial system. in 1930 if the federal government had wanted to do is sensible what we now regard a sensible fiscal policy and fiscal stimulus because they're having a major problem among the historic news -- they said they could have done is go stimulus of 1 percent of gdp because the government was much smaller, that wouldn't have made a difference. we did 40 percent -- we increase over several years our debt to gdp 40%. the next time it will be 80. the next time we may not have that capacity to increase our debts. the federal rese

ireland is a mall place and world is small place. >> mike: ire land a beautiful place. in march of last year, we loved it, loved the people, loved the culture and loved the music of ireland. now the irish tenors, you were one of the original founding members of the irish ten dors. you go -- tenors. you go all over the world and sing. >> we're fortunate, particularly in the united states and canada, you have 40 million extraction and 41 others to be irish. that great help. we have world of music to cover. irish music goes on for centuries. if you think of what the irish people have been through in the years they wrote it song and story. we're carrying on the tradition. we're fortunate. >> mike: there is a great passion in irish music. there is a tune, i'm sure you've been asked to sing it a million times and you should know you're not going to be able to come here and not have me ask you to sing the most familiar irish song that americans love and irish people love, on your cd that all of our audience will get a copy of, by the way. [ applause ] how could we have you hea

the archbishop of canterbury criticized the way the catholic church has dealt with the crisis in ireland>> an institution so deeply bound into the life of the society, suddenly becoming, suddenly losing all credibility. and that's not just a problem for the church. it is a problem for everybody in ireland. >> reporter: that brought a swipt response from dublin's catholic archbishop working to heal the pain of widespread abuse in church institutions. >> it's very damaging to those who are trying to restore credibility to be simply, you know, wiped off with a general comment like that. >> reporter: tonight, the archbishop of canterbury apologized saying in a statement he did not mean to criticize or attack the catholic church. meanwhile in vatican city, officials spent the day trying to repair the damage done friday night by the pope's preacher. his comparison of the attacks on the pope to the persecution of jews provoked outrage in jerusalem. >> there are other ces of raceanism the world, but i don't think this is one of them. >> reporter: and new york. >> i thought it just shows the dept

she had moved to a school in ireland to a school her mom taught in also in ireland.st school. her parents have separated. and her mom had decided to take her to the school. she missed her father very much. she was not that happy at that point. she had her own baggage at that time. >> reporter: emotional baggage? >> emotional baggage, yeah. >> reporter: then came the torment from her new american classmates. prosecutors say the bullies called her an irish who are, a slut and a stupid expletive. they even followed her home. >> they were incredibly vicious to her. >> reporter: even in death? >> even in death. >> reporter: days after she hanged herself the school bullies attended a school dance laughing and having fun. one of them wrote this this on facebook. it was her own fault. >> who is addressing the security of the innocent children? >> reporter: now parents are angry. where, they ask, were school officials? how did they miss the warning signs. a recent school board meeting got so heated -- >> go outside on the street. >> reporter: one parent was hauled out by poli

. >> i hope that what happened in northern ireland will be repeated. >> under him, the party has oncegain become a natural part of a parliament. >> i have never pretended to be a great house of commons man, but i can pay in the house the greatest compliment i can by saying that from the first to the last i never stopped fearing it. i felt it as much as 10 years ago and every bit as acute. it is in that spirit that respect is contained. the second thing i would like to say is about politics. to all of my colleagues from all political parties, sometimes people who are engaged in politics stand tall bearded although -- stand tall. this is still at the arena that sets the heart beating a little faster. it is still on vacation the place -- on occasion the place where noble causes are pursued. i wish everyone well, and that is where i will end. [applause] [applause] >> after those jubilant themes it was back here. tony blair said there well before is setting off for buckingham palace to hand in his resignation to the queen. later that day, he ceased to be a prime minister. >> gordon brown w

now abuse scandals in germany, austria, switzerland and ireland. that's certainly going to make it much harder to get the catholics to come back to the church. >> as you say, there already was an enormous amount of secularization, in the catholic south of europe particularly, where the church attendance is radically declined. of course it will make it worse. but the americans experienced this eight years ago, it exploded eight years ago and it has recovered. it was a long painful process, there was a lot of stumbles at the beginning, but once it adopted a zero tolerance, it hasn't suffered a permanent wound. the same is happening in europe. you have a dock k domino effect. the mod is the american one. you have to have disclosure, confession, atonement and reparations. it will cost the church a lot and be a difficult and painful process. it's already starting in austria, where they are already in the process of confession, atonement and revelation. the model is set. they need to follow it in europe. it will be a wrenching time, but in the end, fred

i think one is the situation in ireland. where the report on the archdiocese of dublin triggered a lot of attention not only in ireland but in europe then i think throughout the world. the second frankly i think is a certain media bias. i don't want to scapegoat anybody or have a conspiracy theory but i do think that the american media in particular has been... the question has been driven by information given by the plaintiffs' attorneys who are looking for ways to involve the pope somehow in a court process or something like that. i think that's bound to be futile. nevertheless i think that has driven a fair amount of the media coverage if i may say so. >> warner: do you think some of the media are out to get the pope or the church? >> the media likes a good story but i think that by reasonable standards i think they have not been fair in giving a balanced picture in context. >> warner: what is that picture? what is that context that isn't being reported? >> i haven't seen any reporting much attention given to what the uni

pubs in limit rick, ireland are open on good friday for the first time.usands of visitors and they don't want them to show up in ireland and pubs are closed. i want to explain the pin i'm wearing and you may have seen them on other anchors. today is world you tichl day. it's the fastest growing disability in the united states. 1 out of 110 children and 1 out of every 70 boys is affected by some disorder on the autism spectrum and my 6-year-old nephew has autism. for the families of any autistic children, what we want is to see more children into the cause and the treatment of this disorder. it's just to call more attention to the problem. that wraps up this hour for me. i'm contessa brewer and i hope you have a great easter weekend. the dylan ratigan show is next. new head & shoulders hair endurance for men is designed to help restore your scalp's health... for hair that's fuller and thicker looking -- guaranteed. we're part of nature, and as we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. it's a selfish thing to want to protect nature. i never intended to be a

the latest forecast is always at your fingertips at wbaltv.com trea. >> pass from a volcano in ireland -- iceland has stranded airline passengers for a second day. some passengers spent the night at the airport in tokyo. australia has cancelled all flights to europe. but can it eruptions in southern iceland that began wednesday has started the interruption. >> hoping for the best, british airways told these travelers that their tickets can be adjusted for a future flight. bad news for this man who is anxious to see his newborn nephew. the city -- >> i would like to be there with everybody. it would be nice to be with everyone. >> these people have been waiting for days to catch a flight to heathrow. >> it is an act of god and i think the airlines are doing what they can do. we have to be patient. until this volcano simmers down, we do not really know if it will be days or hopefully, not any longer. >> what can it -- volcanic ash that can jam airline engines. >> i was in the navy for four years and i walked the deck to make sure that all the little pieces of anything, because if somethi

and an american woman detained last month in ireland, for alleged delay plotting to kill a swedish cartoonist was arrested again today, in philadelphia. jamie paul lynn ramirez, joan as jihad jamie is accused of terrorism related conspiracy in colorado and concern over possible domestic terrorism has authorities paying attention, to the kind of odd communications many public officials get, once in a while. and national correspondent steve centanni has the latest example. >> reporter: in state capitals across the country police are investigating letters manned their governors -- demanding their governors leave office within three days or be removed. at least two states beefed up security, even though they say they are not overly worried. the louisiana governor, bobby jindal got the letter, but the police spokesman in baton rouge said not a credible threat to the governor or the people of louisiana and jennifer granholm got the letter five days ago which renders the three day deadline in the letter meaningless and the fbi warned the governors the letters were come and to turn them over to polic

question is on education, and area where there are devolve powers in scotland, wales, and northern ireland. this is a secondary school student from north london. >> i found the system -- often education for its own sake is sacrificed. we're over examined and under taught. what will party leaders do to improve education? >> i want to see education improve as it has done of the last few years. we need teachers with better qualifications. we need young people with the aspirations to succeed, and we need to give people the chance to start education early. that is why they have been able to go to 18. education will be part-time or full-time until the age of 18. as far as grades are concerned, i believe in the highest standards. i believe we do not -- if we do not search for the highest standards, we do not get the best pupils. we have to look of the different types of exams, but i think it is important to realize we're in a new world where we are competing with asia and america and europe, and our young people have to have the qualifications to be able to meet the best of the world. that is wha

some restrictions are still in place in parts of britain, ireland and france where the ash cloud fromerts say the incident could cause the airlines 1.7 billion dollars. >>> any reports that the remains of haleigh cummings have been found are false. that word came just a few moments ago from florida's putnam county sheriff's department. officers spent three days, as you remember, searching the st. john's river and didn't find 5-year-old haleigh's body. they did findal gator claws and teeth and multiple animal bones. flora hollers, the stepmother of misty croslin is certain haleigh ended up in that river. croslin and her brother tommy have both implicated their cousin joe overstreet in haleigh's disappearance. she blames him for leaving haleigh in the care of misty the night she disappeared. >> do you think ron cummings, haleigh's dad is completely innocent and has nothing to do with any of this or does he know more than what he's saying? >> no, ma'am. i do think he knows more. >> you do think ron cummings knows more? >> the fact of him leaving those kids with her and her still hounding

we addressed education and northern ireland. there was a manifesto of a new labor. we believed it. we had to define not only our case for government, but the way we would govern. over time, that? they did. it's a it was answered. -- over time, that question faded. it was answered. but the conservative party looks like the old tory party. or, they are not certain which way to go. either is not a good solution. in some ways they have gone right when they should have gone center. on the economy, they seem to be buffeted this way and that. they are more concerned with where they think the country should be then on where public opinion might be. it is bad enough trying to form an alternative to the mainstream conservatives. that really isn't start -- smart. being at first to goodwill in such a spectacular fashion will not be a good beginning. they are spending vast amounts of political energy and capital, and for what? the feeling i get is that this is always -- this is a sop on the tory party. what does that say about the tory party? either way, britain will pay the price, as it did be

this scandal throughout the continent in ireland, netherlands, germany, italy, france, it has really root. people have been wanting to hear from the pope. the vatican in the past month has pointed reporters to the letter that the pope sent to the church in ireland in may because it has been racked by scandal. but that wasn't enough. they wanted to hear directly from the pope. today he started down that road telling his audience in st. peters square about his meeting with abuse victims in malta over the week and promising action. the question now is what action will the pope take. there's a lot of victims' groups and critics of the catholic church who think that the pope should adopt the norms of the u.s. church. that is the zero tolerance policy that the u.s. bishops put in place back in 2002 for any priests who has abused a child sexually. that policy basically says if you are convicted, you will be removed from public ministry and you could be stripped of your priestly duties. it's a very harsh penalty. that's what critics say they would like to see the broader church adopt. >> nbc

isn't ireland the model for these sue therouthern european problems? >> i think some of these problems are much pr serious for the likes of greece and portugal and also spain. look at the irish stock market. it's done welcome paired to peripheral stock markets. as long as the prefry is cutting fiscally, that is not only has ireland, but also spain and portugal cutting spending and raises taxes, that this lives the periphery of europe in a deflationary -- >> that's where i was going. the model here is brutal. these guys could be in a downturn for the rest of my lifetime. that's not going to help the euro. the euro zone. the currency. anybody. they're not privatizing. they're not cutting business tax rates. they're not really making the spending cuts. >> i think in the big picture, i think you're right. underlying this debt and deficit issues is a whole much trickier set of issues. these kinds of physical measures aren't necessarily the same as boosting competitiveness. >> andy, what is the lesson here about spending beyond your means going forward? are

ireland looks better. ireland has made tough budget cuts but the southern european tier, i don't hear much going on there, italy, portugal, spain, plus greece. that would deep on the bank debt problem. >> there's no question contagion is a real problem but portugal announces they will reopen two issues. we have to wait and see how that goes. this really has been confined this week, in particular, to greece. greece and nothing but greece. you've had yields now, as i said, you know, you can buy yields, two-year greek yields 7.5 times what two-year points are yielding. emerging market clients, i know this is greece, what they wanted, but emerging market clients have to take a look at this. once they get a feel the situation is stabilized. >> you bet greece does not default. michael, what do you bet? >> i think at some point the imf will have to come in. i don't think that germany will count a bailout because it could be challenged in the german courts under constitutional law. >> and you're going to look at t

question of this evening, it's also a policy area that's devolved in scotland, wales and northern ireland. alan shaw is a train driver from accrington. your question, sir. >> thank you, alastair. gentlemen. when are each individual party going to introduce a fairer system to care for the elderly when it is required, especially those who have worked and contributed towards the country's economy, without the need for them to sell and dispose of their assets? and what are your policies? thank you for asking this question. i think it is an absolutely vital question. i think it is so unfair that, today, you can have people who have warts hard all of their lives, they say, they pay their mortgages, they have done all of their things, and yet, when they go into residential care, and they have to pay all of that money, and maybe their neighborhood did not save and maybe did thing is a different way, they get the whole thing for free, and i think that is not fair. this is a huge budget deficit, but by gordon brown, so we cannot make it carefree. i do not think we can afford that, but all we can do

will be a debate between the northern island four main parties next tuesday on b b c one northern irelandinally we will hear from yucat and the greens after this debate. here's another question -- all the politicians aware they have become removed from the real people and why don't you remember that you are there to serve us not ignore us. ? >> the only reason i can into politics was because i saw what was happening in my local community and i had the good fortune of being a member of parliament for the people i grew up with. the reason i want to be in politics is to create jobs. when it comes to immigration, i want to see a situation where we increase the number of jobs that people trained as we lower the numbers of people coming into this country. that is why we abandon unskilled workers from outside europe to from coming to britain. that is also why we are cutting the numbers of simi-skilled and skilled workers the comment. we have a list of occupations we now want to preserve for people in britain and not for people coming from abroad. we are training on people -- our people so that a

his recent apology to catholics in ireland for another scandal there has not quieted the criticism. >r far too late to be coming out with a letter like this. it should have actually come out a long long time ago. >> reporter: these latest developments have brought fresh attention to a story that is quite familiar to american catholics where sex abuse scandals have attracted national media attention since 2002. we asked a number of catholics in the denver area from the devout to the critical what they think of the way the vatican has handled the issue and whether or not it's affected their faith. she believes that the pope personally covered up abuse cases and the entire church leadership shares the blame. >> i think the system is corrupt. not in the people who go to church. i'm in the church as people. but in the hierarchy. i think the hierarchy is corrupt because they have covered this up. and to just dismiss any charges and just have no concern about children at all is beyond my comprehension. it is totally beyond my comprehension. >> reporter: she wants the church to open the recor

. >> gleason is in madrid hoping to make it back to ireland before his bank account runs dry. >> every day it is more and more. >> these tired travelers were some of the first to return home to the states. the stranded passengers arriving at jfk in new york monday night from amsterdam. >> when we were going up people were slapping clapping. because they realized we were the first plane to leave europe. so i said i am not clapping until we hit new york soil. and that's when i clapped. i was like, yeah. >> euro control, european air traffic agency out of brussels announced it expects 50 to 60 percent of the flights over europe to operate today. and predicts it will improve in the next few days. in a surprise move late, britain civil aviation authority determined the trouble spots no longer hung over the south of england. lifted the flight ban at the major hubs and that quickly planes were landing. troubles are far from over. all eyes on the volume contain know. at heathrow airport. mike tobin. fox news. >> last december, cyber attack on google may have hit the password system. a source c

ryan air based in dublin, ireland, is considering $1.50 to use the bathroom. that is messed up. the airline called it their cost saving measure. they are going to install a coin operated door. the pay to pee plane is planned for flights due to last less than an hour. >>> oil hit a 18-month higher. $87, the highest level since 2008 when crude was at $89 a barrel. prices are up 5% from last week and more than 70% from this time last year. analysts say an expected increase in demand contributed to the increase. >>> police found a woman dead in a car inside a lake and have charged her husband with murder. we have that story. . >> reporter: a tragic end to the case of missing mom, toha. her lifeless body is found in a car submerged in a lake adding to the horror and mystery, a bag covered her head. her husband made a tearful plea for her return. [ crying ]. >> please come home. . >> reporter: notice how quickly he composed himself. police tell us he pushed to make that televised plea. all along detectives were suspicious of his entire performance. >> his body language and actions wer

he did not elaborate, but soon afterward the vatican accepted the resignations of bishops in ireland and belgium because of the scandal. last weekend, during a visit to malta, benedict met privately with victims of clerical sex abuse and, with them, he prayed and wept. the continuing crisis in the church has left millions of american catholics sad, angry, and wondering what can be done to resolve it. we want to talk about that with margaret steinfels, former editor in chief of "commonweal" magazine, now co-director of the center on religion and culture at fordham university. she joins us from new york how do you describe the range of reactions among the u.s. catholic laity? >> i think that many people are surprised that this has come back on the tv screen and the newspapers. american catholics went through this a couple times before, most recently in 2002, and i would say that at this point there is among many people a sort of battle fatigue-- "why hasn't this been dealt with?" >> abernethy: has it increased divisions among catholics here or increased divisions between the laity here

radio interview that, because of the scandal the that, because of the scandal, the catholic church in ireland was "losing all credibility." many irish and british catholics were deeply angered by the remarks. williams' office said, "the archbishop had no intention of criticizing or offending the roman catholic church as a whole." meanwhile, the vatican named archbishop jose gomez to head the los angeles archdiocese when cardinal roger mahony retires next february. archbishop gomez currently leads the san antonio archdiocese. he is a member of the conservative catholic organization opus dei. the move to los angeles puts the mexican-born archbishop in line to become the first hispanic cardinal in the u.s. hispanics make up about a third of american catholics and about 70% of the los angeles archdiocese. religious groups were among those praising new milestones in the effort to control nuclear weapons. in prague, president barack obama and russian president dmitry medvedev signed the first major nuclear arms reduction treaty in two decades. the signing came just days before obama hosts a major n

shortly after she moved from ireland to massachusetts with her family to be closer to relatives. >> there was a lot of bullying. >> a lot of people would taunt and tease her, call her names. >> reporter: within weeks, the 15-year-old freshman with the contagious laugh allegedly became the target of a group of so-called mean girls. jealous she was dating the captain of the football team, who was also among the charged. >> they don't see it as, i'm doing bullying, that's not what they see. they see, i'm the leader in this school. no one gets to challenge that. >> reporter: rosalyn weissman, author of "queen bees and wannabes," works closely with schools on anti-bullying programs. >> if you hook up with a guy that i used to hang out with, by any way -- by any way that you assert in any kind of way any kind of social power, i have the absolute right to take it away from you. >> reporter: prosecutors say prince was taunted 24/7, from facebook to phone calls to the hallways of school, where her books were literally knocked out of her hands. >> relentless activity directed toward phoebe designed

ireland, iceland, great britain is on the brink, too.o we're talking about a substantial amount of -- some of those are non-euro countries. but that europe in general is having a severe meltdown due to again excessive spending. and it's biting them really hard right now. >> what's the potential -- i mean, obviously we don't have jurisdiction to intrude to the euro or the european union. but i'm dealing on financial matters on a regular basis now because we're trying to do our regulatory reform consistently with the e.u. and the united states being on equal footing. this is rather shocking that suddenly someone can discover $75 billion of new debt that was really unrealized just three or four weeks ago. and it is true when you talk about spain, portugal, italy and in ireland, if you throw them all in, the one commonality they seem to have is that they violated the rule for entry in the euro union and that is -- they were all over 60% in debt as opposed to the other countries that were far more stable and were in the union originally. i gu

no particular order, britain, ireland, france, denmark, norway, sweden, finland, belgium, poland anderscoring how serious the problem is, the romstein u.s. air force base in germany at this hour, has been shut down because of the volcanic cloud. martha: wow. how long does it take for it to dissipate? i mean, you know, how long will it be a problem in the skies? >> one industry insider told me it is essentially a moving target. in britain, air traffic control officials say the airports will remain shut down until at least 1:00 a.m. saturday morning and this is a problem that many believe is going to persist for the next several days and possibly the next several months, on and off and it all depends on the weather and the jetstream and this is something that is changing, really, minute by minute, hour-to-hour, they are watching this cloud of ash, martha, as it moves in a southeasterly direction and it changes and disperses in a different way and minute-to-minute the situation is changing quickly. i'll let you know, that today, a number of airports were open in france as well as irelan

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while ireland and parts of germany are still restricted, others countries are coming back online after six days of no flights. not knowing what the future of this volcano may bring. we begin our coverage with dawna friesen at london heathrow airport. >> reporter: good evening, brian. here at heathrow for a while now the only sound you could hear was the sound of birds singing. tonight the familiar roar of aircraft engines is back. europe has begun flying again after the airlines put immense pressure on the authorities to let them get back to business. europe has finally become flying again. the first flight onto heathrow airport for six days touched down, a british airways flight from vancouver. >> everybody on board was cheering and clapping when we landed. >> very high spirits. >> reporter: earlier today, across europe, the skies were busy. about 50% of the usual 28,000 flights made it. for the lucky first passengers, it was a relief. >> i think we are just a little nervous that we are the first flight flying out and hope we make it back to the united states san francisco okay. >> re

in ireland the biggest three banks together has balance sheet to times the size of the irish economy. in iceland, well, i slid, how could we possibly become like iceland? iceland, the banks began doing in lebanon and 13 times the size of the country. our biggest banks are getting bigger. next time they fail, there is nothing, i can assure you, in economics or law or physics that says the amount of offsetting impetus you can provide to the economy through monetary policy or through fiscal policy will roughly match the negative shock you are getting from the collapse of the financial system. in 1930, if the federal government had wanted to do a sensible what we now regard as sensible fiscally and fiscal sinners because they're having a major problem, the historians look, the federal government could have done a fiscal stiffness of 1% of gdp. the government was more, much more than a. that would make any difference. we did 40% -- we increase over several years out of debt to gdp 40%. next time it will go to 80. next up we may not have the capacity to increase our debt. the federal reserv