we go to meteorologist ivan cabrera standing by at the cnn international weather center.ow bad is it looking, ivan? >> it's bad. not as bad as it could have been, as you heard. we were getting close to 15 meters. we are peaking today at 14 meters and the levees are being put to the test. st. george is where the river rolls through here. the levee is barely holing on. the record crest, 13.4 meters setback in 2010. we have reached 14.87. it's still slowly rising. we'll continue to see that approaching 14 meters today. we're at 13.87. we're approaching 14 by later on today. i think we'll be in much better shape. 10% of the cotton crop wiped out. this was going to be a record harvest so far this year. the reason the cotton crop was hit so severely this year was because, again, the flooding here has been the worst they've seen in 35 years. this is moree here. we're taking you into new south wales. this is where the cotton crop is going on. the floodwaters have been incredible. you can see them from space, an amazing picture here. from 21 january. there we are to 6 february. 45

check in with ivan at the cnn weather center, ivan, the latest on flooding in australia as well. >> we'llget to both stories here. i tell you what, three inches can certainly shut down atlanta's airport. we don't have the equipment here to remove or deice the planes, but heathrow certainly does there. i'm sure they're going to be checking their plan accordingly. you get snow. this is not too, too, unusual. it has been incredibly cold. temperatures have been anywhere from 25 plus degrees below zero. it has been an arctic blast that has been continuing to take over europe. you have cold air that's been in place, we know that. we have these storms in the eastern mediterranean. the balkans have been hit severely. let's set the stage for this next storm because we are not done. what you're seeing here is going to be repeated and please close your ears if you're watching us over in the balkans here. you are digging out from what you're seeing there, upwards of a meter of snow. that translates to 39 inches. we're talking three feet here that they are buried under across portions of the balkans h

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enabled the united states to claim moral leadership in the world in the first place with milosevic gone ivan marriage now spends his time advising activists abroad never. since i've been traveling the world and teaching people how to get rid of their pesky dictators so you come up with these three easy steps so you too can get in on the action and laugh your way to freedom the video was made by students at the school of authentic journalism in mexico for narco news t.v. but ivan has helped develop a video game called a force more powerful in which players can practice scenarios like organizing mass protests and overthrowing dictators today are poor is called canvas and with the help of the internet their methods and symbols are exploited the world over from the color revolutions in georgia and ukraine to venezuela and the arab spring uprisings in egypt william engdahl has written for over thirty years about washington secret geopolitics he's convinced that canvas is not acting alone the instigators of those so-called spontaneous protest twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth have

year-old ivan newman of waldorf, maryland. two men are being charged with murder. left handy harris disappeared last september. his body was found at the bottom of a well in fort washington last week. police expect more arrests to come as the investigation continues. >>> ate man who chose to go to trial rather than tell on his friend is now convicted of murder. reginald rogers was found guilty in the death of calvin woodland, jr. rogers thought he had a deal to plead guilty to a lesser charge but the judge refused to accept it unless he revealed who his alleged accomplice was. he refused and police have never identified a second suspect. >>> planned parenthood is getting a lot of support right now because it comes after the charity susan g. komen for the cure cut grants to planned parenthood. virginia congressman jim moran publicly asked komen to reverse

but ivan has helped develop a video game called a force more powerful which players can practice scenarios like organizing mass protests and overthrowing dictators today outdoors called canvas and with the help of the internet their methods and symbols are exploited the world over from the color revolutions in georgia and ukraine to venezuela and the arab spring uprisings in egypt william engdahl has written for over thirty years about washington secret geopolitics he's convinced the canvas is not acting alone the instigators of those so-called spontaneous protest was twitter revolts in cairo and tunisia and so forth have all been pretty organized and should you assume some of the people leaders of the protests have been trained in belgrade in serbia by old poor activists financed by the russian people. this thing has the state department and u.s. intelligence all over it three easy steps and that's all it takes to overthrow your very own government so this revolution become a commodity a product that could be branded populist mass produced an export of all across the globe well just like

thanks, ivan. >>> homs, a city under siege. here firsthand accounts of the government crackdown from those living and suffering through it. that is tonight 10:30 p.m. eastern. >>> the cia website is back up and run this morning after the hacking group known as anonymous took it down yesterday. haeshgs also claim they crashed the state of alabama website. hackers got access to the personal data of tens of thousands of people in al, including social security numbers and criminal records. >>> icy roads near flints, michigan, have caused a massive pileup. a local sheriff's office says it has reports of at least 100 accidents on local highways. the road is still open, though. drivers are being told it may be best to go around. we have no reports of any serious injuries from any of these crashes. >>> snow in the northeast in the ohio valley in the south is feeling chill, as well. let's bring in meteorologist reynolds wolf. reynolds, a lot of people here in atlanta got up this morning and felt a little chill. >> of course. a lot of pe

ivan visited a section of the town controlled by the opposition.rter: the uprising here has been going on for 11 months. more than 6,000 people have been killed in the government crackdown here. but today neither a torrential freezing rain, neither the threat of tanks parked just a mile and a half away could stop hundreds of people from turning out in what has become a weekly ritual of defiance. a freezing winter rain hasn't stopped hundreds of people from gathering here in the town square for a weekly show of defiance against the regime of syrian president bashar al assad. this is a ritual that's been performed week after week for months in opposition-controlled town. this is one of the opposition activists. why do you do this every friday? >> we do this, in this town, to send message. bashar al assad army shelling the building every day in homs, all area in syria. just send message by cnn channel. please, please help us. please, stop killing. please, talk with russia. stop killing us. >> reporter: the syrian army has a base just five minutes' dri

product that could be branded popish to mass produce an export out all across the globe one just like ivan is video this too of course is a spoof but the game of regime change is quite real and it's unintended consequences can be downright dangerous. for the american taxpayer i think who's getting. the short end of the bargain because they're there bankrolling people that are going around the world fomenting astroturf revolutions that are eventually backfiring and they're backfiring all over the place and once the people find out who was behind this their anger turns. to the american government and the american people once your bus service is great you can be good. and easy recipe but the aftermath may be the hardest to see captain of our t. washington. up next this is news with us. twenty five minutes past eight am where you are watching business on our t.v. the current period of profound economic change has some take talking about the new world order but who will be the winners and the losers marco troil they had of brazil based think tank the center for business diplomacy gives us his f

commodity a product to be branded mass produced an export of all across the globe well just like ivan's video this too of course is a spoof but the game of regime change is quite real and its unintended consequences can be downright dangerous. for the american taxpayer i think who's getting. the short end of the bargain because there are there are bankrolling people that are going around the world for minting astroturf revolutions that are eventually backfiring and they're backfiring all over the place and once the people find out who was behind this their anger turns to the american government can do you where can people sense your bus service you can be good. and easy recipe but the aftermath may be the hardest you see catherine of our washington. up next here on our to the latest from the world business with natasha stay with us. hello are you watching the business program on r t russia's gazprom has acknowledged that it temporarily reduced gas supplies to european consumers the company said it had to cut deliveries by as much as ten percent for more details i'm now joined by ups on

i have cnn's ivan watson and jim clancy joining me. ivan, i want to begin with you in istanbul. i'll get to you, jim, i know you definitely knew marie very well. ivan, you met her a few times. you were also just recently in syria, days ago in syria. what did you see? tell me about the shelling. >> i was in a different part of the country that wasn't being pummelled the way that the city of homs is under such fierce bombardment. we were hearing periodic clashes and hearing heavy arms, and there were periodic bombardments of villages in the area. very intense, according to our sources in iblib province in the last few hours. certainly much more terrifying the scenes we've seen in homs where, according to marie colvin herself, in her last interview with anderson cooper last night, she said, every house in her neighborhood in homs had been damaged by artillery. and if you consider the amount of civilians living in that densely populated community, it's just terrifying what's been taking place there. >> yeah, she's covered many, many complicates around the wor -- conflicts around the

let's first hear ivan talk about aleppo and why this is significant. so many analysts over the last few months, ivan, said once bloodshed hits the city of damascus, that means things have changed. have they? >> reporter: we have not seen violence this that town which is not the stronghold of the opposition. most of the violence has been focused on those towns and cities where people have dared to say no to the regime of assad. believe it or not, aleppo has not been one of those centers. aleppo had this violence while homs is still facing siege-like conditions where hundreds of people were killed last week. in hundreds of cities across the state, we saw waves of protest. the theme of these protests, holla, were the russians are killing our children. why are syrian opposition activists saying that? well, they are accusing russia of providing the syrian government with the diplomatic cover of intensifying its attacks against the syrian opposition just over the course of the last week. and an important american voice is added to that. the u.s. ambassador t

ivan watson and his crew are now in the region.revolt. this is a rebellion of farmers, of carpenters, of high school teachers. entire communities, villages and towns and stretches of northern syria that tell us they have not seen presence of central syrian government authority in months. >> ivan watson. today alone, at least 65 people were killed in syria. that is according to an activist group. >>> a fight really developing here in washington state over where one man who murdered his two young sons should be buried. i'm talking about josh powell. his family wants to bury beside the sons killed when he blew up their home with them inside two sundays ago. but a crimestoppers group has bought the burial plots on either side of the sons to stop the family from doing so. the boys were buried saturdayto. >> i can't see this happening. i just hope that you know, it goes away quickly. >> it's unacceptable to have him anywhere near these boys and their mother. >> i feel it's in the best interests of the city and both parties if they file t

in english, that means war. >> ivan watson is joining us now from northern syria.you can the french president, nicolas sarko sarkozy, urging syria's opposition to come together here. he says that revolution can only be brought from the inside. the activists do they think that they can accomplish that from the inside on the ground where you are? >> they are certainly trying to, suzanne, but their resources are limited because these are local activists, these are villages, this is the country side in many case that have risen up, but they are still facing overwhelming military power on the part of the syrian security forces and though there are more weapons now in the hands of the rebels, if you will, they still don't stand any chance against syrian tanks and potential threat of syrian air power. they are calling for some kind of help, desperately calling for help from the outside world. >> ivan, character they are so overwhelmed, outnumbered by government forces, what keeps them going here? what makes them think that they can actually turn things around there? >> i

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tonight police have a second person under arrest in the murder of an alexandria activist. 20-year-old ivan newman of waldorf is the latest to be charged with killing lenny harris. matt jablow spoke with harris' wife this afternoon and he has the latest on the investigation into her husband's murder. >> it's like surreal. reporter: four months after she last saw her husband of 19 years. >> i said i love you. have a good day. he said you, too and i kissed him. that was it. reporter: seven days after his body was discovered at the bottom of a well in prince george's county. >> i can't really describe that kind of pain. reporter: debra harris says she still can't believe that her beloved lenny is gone. >> it was like a piece of your heart was torn. reporter: 53-year-old lenny harris, a popular community activist and small business owner from alexandria, was found shot to death in ft. washington exactly one week ago. >> we are actively working on multiple leads. reporter: this afternoon pong police announced the arrest of the second suspect in the case, 20-year-old ivan newman of charles county

you heard ivan., no gauze, no antibiotics. >> it's signif if i can'tly worse since bashar al assad unleashed the full force of his military army on homs, on places we visited with the monitors. when the monitors were there, the army wasn't shelling these towns. they weren't using thanks, they weren't firing mortars into the civilian area. that's begun in the last week or so. all these injuries, when we were there, there were perhaps 20 or 30 people being killed a day. today the numbers are up in the hundreds. >> you were in the capital city of damascus. how strong of support does the regime have in that capital stet? >> about 20 to 30% of the population support al assad. there's 10% of the secretary that the president is from. about 10% christian, and the message that assad tells his people is you're only going to be safe under me. the sunni majority, if they get power, you will be forced out of homes and buildings. >> he is opening up himself up for possible prosecution for hate crimes against human

ivan cabrera as always, many thanks for that.n cabrera, keeping us up to date with bitterly cold temperatures, particularly in eastern europe. >>> let's bring you up to date with the markets before we say good-bye in five minutes time. let's talk to you about m & a activity coming back on the cards to, let's say, change the subject from the issues we've been talking about in greece. after news last week that two companies were planning a -- that's helping to lift the ftse as you can see to the tune of about 1%. the other european markets off their interday's highs. greece has managed to pass the austerity measure, question is will it be good enough for the troika and good enough to get the next chunk of bailout money, manis manisha? >> big questions, right, nina? >>> over here, we've had muted gains across the asian markets. there have been high hopes here. corporate news for the markets to get their heads around, particularly in japan, tepco, tokyo electric power company, full-year net loss of $8 billion for the fiscal year. the

let's get the details from meteorologist ivan cabrera. he's standing by at the cnn weather center for us today. good morning to you, ivan presumably crops suffering from the frost, and that could affect things a few months down the line. >> absolutely. travelers have been affected. as you well know we've lost lives in europe as a result of just the bitter cold and livelihoods will be impacted as well as a result of the frigid temperatures. not so much the snow. i'll explain in a second here. the temperatures are what we're afraid of as far as the significant impact on european agriculture. it has been bitterly cold, seeing temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees below zero, an unbelievable range of temperatures and they continue to be well below average, 5 to 10 degrees below average. we're back to normal across the west. it's the central and eastern part of europe that we're concerned with here, particularly the wheat crop that's been impacted from france to poland here. citrus also has been impacted across the mediterranean. in the easte

and women are better at it than men. >> why is that, ivan?sed on a survey we did of 12,000 business professionals and found out that women were more likely to be collaborative, to be relational and men were more likely to be transactional, hi, my name's ivan, what's your business? >> hoda, your point, the word networking scares us. schmoozing and -- >> yeah. phony. >> yeah. in essence it's about meeting people and finding a genuine connection, learning something about this group of people, you know, whether you check in on linkedin, whatever that is, so you know something about them so it feels natural. if it feels more natural to you, it will to them. >> are men not treating women well? the way we teased, we said you won't believe story. >> absolutely. we had open-ended questions and a thousand responses. three women in a row said i hate networking events. men hit on you, it's like a dating service. then the fourth one, the guy, says i love the networking events. a great way to pick up chicks. on behalf of men everywhere, i'd like to apologi

prince george's county police arrested a second suspect identified as ivan newman. aged 20. linwood johnson, in his 40's, was arrested earlier this week. neither of the two were seen on the video where a man used lenwood harris's credit card. >> a montgomery county teacher and coach is on administrative leave after police arrested him for having sex with a teenager on the track team. scott spear was echoed at a richard montgomery high school and was a teacher at julius west middle school. shocked students and parents. jummy olabanji has reaction. >> that's right. police say that the student that he allegedly had sex with was one of the students at the middle school. then she was a student at richard montgomery many also coached her on the track team. a lot of students and parents tell us he was very well-liked and they don't understand why this happened. montgomery county police say the 47-year-old scott spear was arrested early thursday morning at julius west middle school. he was a teacher there and was a well-known coach at richard montgomery high school where for several

let's go to ivan cabrera at the cnn international weather center.d morning. >> good morning, good to see you. we've already had in zuric some moderate delays, but the bigger delays are in munich. this is not a widespread event affecting many airports. the last of the airports that are affected are seeing some problems here with takeoffs and landings as a result of very heavy snowfall. look at the surge of moisture coming in from the north. that, of course, is being cold air and we've got a lot of snow going on here as we check in with the wall here of the alps. that's where it will be snowing significantly here, but southern germany right now the bullseye with the heaviest of the snow, also switzerland getting in on snow as well. this will wind down later this evening. for the time being, we'll still have issues i think at the airports there, not just because of the snow, but we have wind coming in with the surge as well. so, you combine the wind, combine the snow and you get the visibility reduction here and that will be a problem for the airports,

ivan, how bad are things looking now?> big storm heading out of australia crossing the tasmin sea. we've been following this the last couple of days, and now it's crashing into new zealand. both north and south islands have to deal with this rainfall and strong winds. look at this, almost a hurricane here. of course, it's not. but we are looking at a significant storm system. gales not out of the question, especially for the west-facing coastlines here of the islands, over the next 24 hours, and then the heavy rain will commence and continue over the next 48 hours. some of the tallies could be upwards of 200, i'm thinking even perhaps 250 millimeters, not out of the question here. watch our wind map here. you see that center of circulation just crashing in almost like a hurricane there. we're going to see very gusty winds along the coast as well heading into the next 48 hours. so we are preparing and bracing ourselves as we mark this somber anniversary here in christchurch and all of new zealand for this, strong winds, ag

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