now in about ten minutes time follow aussies james brown he heads to the very heart of siberia but before all of that was the business desperate now and we hear that the construction of the gas pipeline has reached an important milestone that's right alice the second branch of the pipelines finally coming ashore in russia the whole project has to be completed by twenty twelve and i will give you details in the program in just a moment for us to our main story the global cost of wheat has reached the highest price in twenty three months due to the worst drought in nearly forty years if you from the commodities markets is similar to the retailers jack poor john the c.e.o. of the index futures group says the large grain reserves in russia and the united states will help mitigate the crisis. i think that you know you've got a combination of two economies that are very well versed in making sure that their supplies are intact over the course of say the winter months and quite frankly i think good the russian economy was prepared for this that the russian government was prepared for this i know

that was my university, checking out be the king, and james brown, a cream.inding out how they were able to penetrate people's hearts. with their music. once you do that, something happens to their eyes. they become brighter. they start crying, they do not know why. they start dancing. it is like when a woman gives birth. =mmfirst, she cries and then she laughs. later on, she dances. and that, to me, is the beauty of what san francisco is about. >> one final question, and we are going to link it to your music today. such a rich legacy that you are giving us. you mentioned to me that you are working on a new album. could you share what is coming up? >> i love to dream when i am awake. kand so i had this dream of working with india arie and yo- yo ma to do the george harrison saw; and "-- song. this is the definitive way to do this. we are all in it together, we do not leave anybody out. t conviction, i am one of the few people that you can recognize by one note. god gave me that universal tone, and that is what we want to implement in all the songs. thank you.

so we back at the top of the hour with more updates coming up next though in our special series james brown continues he's journey across russia the time he's in the southern region. no i'll be the first to admit to making films and traveling around russia is a great way to earn a living. on the road can get a little tiring so when i heard that there was an area of the country where rest and relaxation is the number one priority would seem to take place to visit. the stabber pool region in the north caucasus is home to the cool cajun mineral waters results a series of wells and spawns that have been soothing the aches and pains of russians for over two hundred years million people come here on holiday each year and when you take a walk through some of its beautiful cities it's not difficult to see why. aren't is certainly the order of the day here artists paint and sell their works in the town center while the most strenuous activity you're likely to see is a hard fought game of chess and just in case you do accidentally over exert yourself relief is just a short walk away. really is the li

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and coming up in the next hour tease james brown goes deeper into russia discovering the southern style the polynesian in our special series. how. the late ninety's were selling. that's coming next hour here in our team for that latest business news with daniel bushell in just a few moments. hungry for the full story we've got it's. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. welcome to business the russian guests completed a historic voyage this week through the northern city of rude behavior on the ship the baltic oh it's cool to but two of the world's most powerful nuclear ice breakers so from the northwest a perfect in the north east from there all travel almost to asia where they were coaching over is in the ports of perfect to find out what all the excitement is about. russia is keen to open up the north and sea routes from europe to asia the passage could cut ten thousand kilometers or so more compared to journeys that go via this to its canal and the engine ocean russia's biggest private gas producer no attack is acting as a pos find out it wants to o

thirty minutes time now to explore a new town in russia sit down relax and let our very own guy james brown take you want to tour around one of siberia's oldest cities discover tomsk next year in our city. in southeastern russia around three and a half thousand kilometers from moscow. it's a city with a striving student an academic population and it's got a reputation for giving visitors a friendly welcome. i was ready to experience it for myself. and your hotel has a message for you to make yourself at home but there are literally dozens of little monuments like this. appropriately enough. i'm going to go for a walk just. found it over four hundred years ago one of subareas oldest cities but this is also a very modern town with a real passion for. a leg.

dot com now it's time to explore a new corner of russia and this time our very own to a guy james brown takes us three thousand five hundred kilometers away from moscow to one of siberia's oldest cities so it's thirty minute tour around tomsk is about . in southeastern russia around three thousand kilometers from moscow. it's a city with destroying student and academic population and it's got a reputation for giving visitors a friendly welcome. i was ready to experience it for myself. and your hotel has a message for you to make yourself at home but there are literally dozens of little monuments like this.

later tonight i'll tease to a guy james brown heads to southeast rusher in our quest to discover the world's biggest country this time he's off on one of these off to one of siberia's oldest cities but with a modern perspective a real passion for art. just . setting sewer tomsk in just over an hour's time we're on our tape for that though we explore the identity of the european union and how it's changed over the past few years and ten minutes time after the thursday night business next from charlotte. hello welcome to the business program hey on our russia is imposing a temporary ban on crane exports primus appears in says the measure is a necessary to help farmers in the country and prevent the cost of food rising. due to the abnormally high temperatures and the courage drought i think we should impose a temporary ban on the export of green and its derivatives from russia we do have enough reserves point five million tons we need to guard against domestic prescribers is. the prime minister goes on to say that grain from state reserves so we distributed to the regions to help allevi

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on the way in just a few minutes you can follow james brown his adventures in the city off the top of paul but first have a back with every cap on our top story just. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations or rule today. you will shrink also the line from the russian capital is going to i'm going to have the. security forces step out of that fence and russia's north caucuses coming and doesn't match the militants and intensified and to tear a client down but one of these men also died in the latest gun because. some of his own america remembers more than eight hundred victims of hurricane katrina but there's still widespread homelessness in the city of new orleans despite her construction efforts. and deposit celebrates to get a sense of russia have recognized it as an independent state with a new nation looking for.

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lot of letters from readers saying that they had never really thought they would be interested in james brownbut that was interested as a. if you are not picking your own books to review, where do you go? >> i read all the national newspapers. there are certain magazines across my desk for today that i looked at. >> do you have a place that does the best job? >> oh, nothing particularly stands out. i am not oblivious about these things. i almost never looked up the atlantic website. >> as an editor of the book review, how much to you have to say about what in some up in the magazine? if you do not like what it would your has done, what do you do about that? >> i either cut out the parts i like. wan occasionally, it will say things that i don't think are quite right for the sum of detract from what they're saying -- they somewhat detract from what they are saying. i do not think i have ever had a writer complain about that, as long as i explained to them why. >> sometimes i think that i want to learn about the book and i learned about the reviewer. what makes a good review? >> my attitude is t

>> yes, loosely, and we celebrate james brown, jackie wilson, otis redding, and i just celebrated thet era. >> you sure do. if you are the truth show business performer and also the nicholas brothers because you do this thing on your leg. in, out, my goodness! and do you hurt yourself? >> it is so much fun. this music is so inspiring you to set to die in as 110 percent every night and the audience is with us, and >> it is so much fun, singing, powerful dancing and a lot of emotion carhoand your characters so much emotion and he is the songwriter. and our heart goes out to the character what has it been like for you? >> it has been absolutely a blessing is been so great this is my first professional production. nothing short of a blessing, and i even learned greats like from chester. and he is! it is true. >> it has been humbling. i just enjoy it. >> you work hard and you'll be doing as the rest of your life with her talent. you sing, dance, and to a huge amount of real acting in this. and you work with michael jackson? >> i performed for michael jackson and gary, indiana. and in a cel

lot of letters from readers saying that they had never really thought they would be interested in james brownbut that was interested as a. -- that was an interesting essay you ran. if you are not picking your own -- >> if you're not picking your own books to review, where do you go? where is the best place to find other reviewers? >> i read all the national newspapers. there are certain magazines across my desk for today that i -- the cross my desk routinely that i looked at. >> do you have a place that does the best job? >> oh, nothing particularly stands out. they all have their view and their virtues and defects. i am not oblivious about these -- on a verse about the use -- on never rest -- on the taurus -- omnivorous about these things. things. i almost never looked up the atlantic website. >> as an editor of the book review, how much to you have to say about what in some up in the magazine? if you do not like what it would your has done, what do you do about that? >> i either cut out the parts i don't like. occasionally, it will say things that i don't think are quite right for the sum o

i wanted to do a pic on james brown, the godfather of soul. i wrote a script with the late great bud shulberg about joe louis and max schmelan. >> rose: that would be a great film. >> one day i would like to do a slade epic. because that's one thing this country is still not really dealt with, slavery. and i'm talking about flat black and white americans. i mean really since roots, that's the last time. >> rose: what is it you hope with your filmmaking and your films, you are accomplishing, what is it that you want to say, what is it about. >> for me, charlie, and again thank you for having me on the show, for me it's been story stilling. because all the great filmmakers i love are storytellers. and that's what great directors do. and that's what i try to be. and you want to tell a great story and tell it in a different way. >> rose: films can change our culture and change our society. they have that kind of tangible. >> some can. but it really depends on the situation. i'll give a perfect example. earl morris's film, thin blue line that got t

. >> and he walked off the stage like james brown. >> executive director of d.c. votes.he stage. >> what's up d.c.? what's up d.c.? when i say d.c., you say vote. d.c. d.c. when i say d.c., you say vote. d.c. d.c. america, we are here to reclaim the dream that is true. but in d.c., we're still trying to achieve the dream of full democracy and voting representation. that is our message to the rest of the country. we're trying to achieve that dream. earlier this morning, we were down to the tea party and we handed out tea bags. on the tea bags it said end taxation without representation in d.c. and people took those bags. they're like, oh, yeah. end taxation without representation. and they were tea bags so the tea baggers were all excite about them. but here's the thing antithat, folks. the tea party wasn't about taxation. it was about taxation without representation. we've had us a tea party in washington, d.c. for a very long time. so we're here to demand democracy. if you have the sign hold it up. i am d.c. i demand democracy. i am d.c., i demand democracy. i am d.c. i

olympics rolls around in a couple of years with kobe bryant, an brunch james, and all the heavy which would get back involved. the brownen we get back, the u.s. soccer coach. and the hair! >> that is a lot! stay tuned. [ male announcer ] when meg whitman arrived at ebay, they had 30 people and an idea. meg's job was to make it happen. it took leadership. focus. and the ability to bring people together. meg whitman delivered. named one of america's best ceo's by harvard business review, she grew ebay 15,000 strong and made small business dreams come true. now meg has a plan to create jobs. fix sacramento. and deliver results. meg whitman. for a new california. >> who is the coach of usa soccer since the world cup? there has been a lot of speculation that bob bradley was not coming back. that is why people are in the media. and bradley signs a four year extension to coach the u.s. soccer. he is led the u.s. team to 28 record. a four year agreement will take into the 2014 world cup. bob bradley is going nowhere. and former, making some suites news. and thompson, played for the californthe bears, and now hit s interception

[applause] >> he walked off the stage like james brown. the executive director of deep sea votes.es. d.c. >> of votes. >> we are trying to reclaim a dream. that is true. we are trying to achieve the dream. earlier this morning, we went down to the tea party and we handed out teabags. on the teabags it said taxation without representation in d.c. the tee baggers were all excited about it. thing about kaputhat. the tea party wasn't about taxation. it was about taxation without representation. we have had a tea party in washington, d.c. for a very long time. i demand democracy. i am d.c. i demand democracy. give-ups' -- give it up, d.c. >> let me welcome now and bring to the podium the chairman of the d.c. city council, mr. vince kraig. grey. >> get afternoon, everybody. welcome to the historic high school from which i am a proud graduate. go forward and help people in this city. if we talk about education, let's reflect back on 47 years ago when dr. king not only talked about the differences among africans in this country, he painted the greatest division ever for us to move it forw

brown from oakland. now he's wanted for allegedly shooting another man, james wilkins last month outside a liquor store in oakland. deputies saw brown, he then ran back inside. they are not sure at this point if he has a gun. about 20 families have been forced from their homes at the apartment complex. now you may remember back in early june there was another stand off also involving a suspect from the bay area, in that case the stand off ended with the suspect being shot and killed at the scene. deputies here in sacramento say this time the stand off will not go that long. i'm david beanick now back to you. >>> new details tonight in the horrifying deaths of two south carolina toddlers. find out what the mother told police about the deaths of her two children found in their car seats submerged in a river. >>> we the see the fog out there in the distance. then another cooling trend, we'll have more on that coming up in a few minutes. >>> the tragic and horrifying deaths of two toddlers found inside a car in a south carolina river took a new turn today. police say the boy's mother has now confessed to kill

brown was wanted for the shooting death of 32-year-old james wilkin late last month. >>> there's newnformation about a deadly offer shooting. the man killed is identified as 20-year-old edgar erisondo. his mother says she called police for help because he hasn't taken his medication for depression and was drinking. burlingame police say the young man moved toward officers with a knife and one officer opened fire. the san mateo district's attorney is investigating. >>> an autopsy today revealed how a danville teenager died sunday night. police say 19-year-old justin d. young jumped on to the side of a friend's suv. the autopsy shows he was killed by falling on to the pavement then being run over. >>> a new study shows one in every five united states teenagers has lost a bit of their hearing. it found that hearing loss among 12 to 19 year olds has increased substantially in the last few years. listening to loud music through ear buds is to blame and they are urging teenager to turn down the volume on their digital players. >>> highway patrol officers are gearing up for another cell pho

brown was wanted for the shooting death of 32-year-old james wilkin late last month. >>> there's new information about a deadly offer shooting. the man killed is identified as 20-year-old edgar erisondo. his mother says she called police for help because he hasn't taken his medication for depression and was drinking. burlingame police say the young man moved toward officers with a knife and one officer opened fire. the san mateo district's attorney is investigating. >>> an autopsy today revealed how a danville teenager died sunday night. police say 19-year-old justin d. young jumped on to the side of a friend's suv. the autopsy shows he was killed by falling on to the pavement then being run over. >>> a new study shows one in every five united states teenagers has lost a bit of their hearing. it found that hearing loss among 12 to 19 year olds has increased substantially in the last few years. listening to loud music through ear buds is to blame and they are urging teenager to turn down the volume on their digital players. >>> highway patrol officers are gearing up for another cell p

>>brown: if you have a good season...good bonus money ... you could make over 50000. >>james: probably 30-40 grand a year probably, maybe some of them a bit more. >>reporter: it's early days for the series...and while the crowds are by no means huge...recent signs are promising... >>bates: we started off with nothing and we now have an average of around 7000 people come to our events. each one of our rounds and the aim is maybe we will be hitting 10, 15000 people per round over the next 2 to 3 years. >>reporter: which,may be ambitious, but perhaps not unrealistic, given the spectacle provided, by both those off the track and on....from the fastest....to the lastest... >>the record for the longest jump ever on a motorcycle is currently held by australian robbie maddison - a shade over 350 feet! >>that's it for this week's world business. thanks for watching. we'll see you again at the same time next week.

brown, would you come and lead us? come on. [applause] >> good afternoon. we are going to sing. when james weldon johnson wrote this hymn, he wrote it to tell a story. you don't see a movie until you see it all and see the conclusion. i ask everyone to stand, and if you don't have the words, we invite you to get a program. ♪ lift every voice and sing, til earth and heaven ring ring with the harmonies of liberty let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us. facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on til victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died. yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to a place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, til now we stand at last where the white gleam of our b

james middle school to help them with their garden. [applause] thank you. >> thanks sorry for the delay. i'm valerie brown with the lower hate neighborhood organization. we are here today at the neighborhood empowerment network to talk about safety on your streets. this actual workshop is what we call a 30,000 feet aerial view of what we do. the lower haight motd we created a few models for safety and some are complex and a lot of information. we are going to give you just a little bit of this today. we will talk about how to connect with the different city agencies, your supervisors, your captain at our station. the city attorney's office and beat officers or street officers. one of the things that i would like toit introduce the panel. captain from northern station. regina from the legislative aid of ross mirkarimi one of our supervisors. from the da's office. the president of our merchant's association of the lower haight. ron, a beat officer and antoine another beat officer. the city attorney was at our morning session this morning and had to leave. regina and i work with the city attorneys office and

james jeffrey will be leading the charge, the new u.s. ambassador to iraq who began work earlier this week. joel browncbs news, the white house. >>> to put the drawn down in perspective, there are fewer active duty u.s. military personnel in iraq than there are in germany and that's before another 6,000 leave iraq at the end of the month. 21 years after the fall of the berlin wall, we still have 57,000 active duty personnel in germany. japan, more than 32,000. south korea, 27,000. as for the growing force in afghanistan, that number will reach 100,000 by the end of the summer. >>> 20 million pakistanis are in danger of starvation as well as a danger of rampant spread of disease but worldwide response to the massive flood disaster has been slow. manuel gallegus on emergency moves at the united nations to save lives and the future of a nation. >> reporter: the natural disaster unfolding in pakistan is finally getting the world's attention. thousands of villages are under water. four million people are homeless. and more than a million acres of crops are destroyed. now the united nations is holding an em

little sluggish on the lower decks coming out of hostile curve on the james waved freeway inbound. 8:50 a.m. >> democrat jerry brown one in addition in regards to the bait to brown and women are scheduled to face off in three debates before the election. white house correspondents will moderate the debate going back to 1986. in san francisco they're closer to building a new have neighborhood on the abandoned site of a shipyard. last night the mayor signed into law the 700 a. redevelopment site found which includes ahoms shopping and maybe a new stadium which goes depends on. nuisances that is appropriate now that much about office space will be reserved for green technology. >> dear over to a half-million square feet in the green text sector and it seems appropriate that it takes we should discuss about. how we can redevelop and redesign and realign it to a future that is more sustainable and more prosperous. and much more healthy. >> new some call the process of the biggest economic stimulus of the city has ever seen and should increase the it tax bases by 11 billion i said billion dollars. more headlines in the l

one traffic is moving at a limit, said brown traffic is the latest free as you make your way in from iran. speaking of the city will finish off with a look at the jamesck, you can see conditions of their more company as you make your way towards the peninsula but eastbound is moving fine and you make your way to the lower deck no delays as a major way towards as a focal. >> jumping back over to weather, go outside and continue or whether team coverage more news faster yogi is alive at the scene at ocean beach. we had a full moon yes is a pretty bridge at there. >> very bright. very nice. is one of those field locations for you to be aired here in san francisco what is the teacher on of ibm. inmates there were drug getting up this early. >> absolutely, how you notice ensure its early as anybody out there? >> 1 drawers or far there were >> as a drug or the star? it >> yes. it's a good time. the vicinity of, you do not want a beginning your exercise at the height of the heat. >> good points there the very day. if you did your exercise too early in the morning or after the sun goes down. thank you. only will be out there giving us a live the beach a day

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