>> basically, it's interesting living in istanbul, we had ahmadinejad visiting a couple of weeks ago and ahmadinejad visited before. he was in tehran last month. he got a special meeting with the supreme leader who doesn't give these meetings very easily. last time was with putin. ahmadinejad keeps on coming to istanbul because part of the standard diplomatic protocol is to visit and ahmadinejad might have an issue with a staunchly secular founder of a republic in which religion has no place. now the fact that they are doing this repeatedly is interesting in itself. and aside from that you have all the economic cooperation that has been vastly flowering in the past few years. we have seen recently that perhaps the sale of the 10 unmanned vehicles are going from israel to turkey and that relationship might be edging back on track again. certainly what there appears to be doing is lines in an intelligent. we have thrust and influence with these actors that you don't necessarily agree with that you don't have so they will listen to us. on the other hand, this plays very well with the mu

then i went to iran were either in person, and now, i am trying to learn turkish in istanbul.the whole idea behind journalism is to -- well, we're basically no longer in the age of the old foreign correspondent, who would parachute in somewhere, live life in a world of lesser are in an exotic capital and basically get the job done by his local contacts. local contacts are absolutely crucial today, more so than ever, but certainly, the budget that used to allow that kind of lifestyle no longer exists. so for someone who is by cultural -- bicultural and more greek and english, it has been a real challenge trying to follow this path of journalism, which basically involves learning foreign languages, understanding foreign culture, and only then trying to write about them. hopefully, i would cover a culture with slightly more sensibility than would have happened if i did not speak the language. this posits a problem on both sides. on one side, you have countries that are not particularly acquainted with this idea of the u.s. media industry having gone there unbelievable tunnels in

. -- at istanbul. >> a question at the back? >> hi. i with the state department. we have put together a very robust food security request to congress from the state department at usaid. we are holding our breath until december to see what comes out of it. there has been a lot of discussion and looking at what we are going to do with the funding, depending on how much we get back and put forth an agricultural request for many countries outside of some- saharan africa. my question to you, in a budget- constrained environment, where d.c. our global priorities, outside of sub-sahara africa? -- were d.c. our global priorities? -- where odo you see our global priorities? >> i will take one more. there is a gentleman. >> thank you. russian tv. i have two questions. considering the situation, are there any threats to the united states, china and russia? the second question is why food prices went highwall housing and oil prices go down during the crisis -- while housing and oil prices go down during the crisis? >> let me give our panelists a chance to respond. then we wil