katty, you first. if romney has the issues, why can't he grab the wheel and say i'm going to talk about my exer per tease and obama's going have to listen? >> that person has so much control over the news cycle and all the trappings of the presidency he can use effectively to be the bigger voice in the rupe. chris: who runs the show? >> both do. i mean, that's the problem with this question is that we're going to have -- chris: i love tough questions. >> it's not a tough question. you just didn't give us the third option. chris: what is this third option? >> sometimes obama will. and sometimes romney. did i almost say reagan -- romney will. >> >> chris: my sense for a while he's going to be talking about his jobs plan. at some point romney's going to have to come out with a jobs plan. >> of course. there are a lot of gaps that need to be filled with his policy but i agree with kelly overall. this is why it's hard to run against and incumbent president, particularly one while he is policies may not be p

. >> katty, you have it right. that's the proper way of thinking about it. 15 long months now of the syrian rebellion. the syrian people wait -- waited for the reign of mercy. they did not receive it. they waited for the democracies to come. they waited for the cavalry to come. they waited for the united states to make a decision and 9 the united states hid behind the united nations security council and now we find ourselves in this desperate moment. i am very dubious, by the way, about this whole story about the prominence of al qaeda. but if they are there, it is the responsibility really borne by the democracies. >> fouad, i have just -- you have just returned from turkey. you've been to the refugee camps along the border. did you find in turkey any willingness from syria's neighbor to actually do something about what is happening across the border? >> you know, katty, the refugee camps are the true home and story of the syrian rebel yons. -- rebellions. the answer to whether turkey is ready to do the proper thi

reporting from washington, i am katty kay. say no to austerity. french voters choose change. they have had enough cuts. and in greece, the ballots tell a similar tale. the crisis is back on their doorstep. >> they have to find a solution. otherwise, we will be facing exit from the euro. >> the polls are also open in syria, where the opposition claims it is all a sham. and moves over disneyland. the newest tourist attraction around with a theme you just will not find anywhere around. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and elsewhere around the globe. changes across europe tonight, with french president nicolas sarkozy the biggest casualty. after winning the sunday vote, the socialist franÇois hollande has enjoyed his first full day as the president-elect. having promised more growth and less spending cuts, he now has to deliver. we have this report. >> the president elect, and arriving at socialist headquarters this morning to begin the transition to power. the work has begun it for a new government, and time is short. >> i have to prepare. i told you we were ready. now,

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to bbc's katty kay goes where oil is fuelling growth but also raising environmental concerns. >> oh,anada, the breathtaking view of the rocky mountains. there is something wholesome, pristine, and pure about this country's image, but here is the canon that you might not think of, and dirty, industrial, focused on profit. welcome to the world's newest petros state and a changing company. today, they have oil, and lots of it. it is here in northern alberta, and as people around the world want ever more oil to fuel their cars and fly their airplanes, they have decided to develop these at breakneck speed. the reserves are huge, the size of florida, and digging up the sand then separating out the oil is complicated and deans previously to be too expensive, but new technology has brought the cost down, and profits are up, and this attracts investors and workers from around the world. >> this is where the work is. this is where the money is. >> she is a long way from home. she came here from the philippines initially as a nanny but was quickly drawn to oil. now, this tiny woman drives a mon

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last night, katty kay, he was in town for the event which mika and i hosted since 1927. the crowds were maddening. it was colin powell said the average age went down about 30 years. what the organizers of this event couldn't imagine, maybe you can explain it to us. why is it that over the past few years we have awarded the -- the awards to george h.w. bush, bono, bill clinton and the stars of all-stars yet last night, for some reason, still in 2012, british royalty gets a greater reception? it's a cultural phenomenon. what is it in america that causes that? >> it's as if we cut the ties with mommy's aprons, but we haven't really. there's a real affection and resurgence of it. we were in london. look at the crowds of people that came from america to witness that. >> right. >> the whole royal family is on a high at the moment. this is a brand that is doing well at the moment in britain and in the states as well. after the death of diana, there was a lull. there wasn't a figure for americans to latch on to. >> before diana's death, there was a nastiness. >> yeah. there was

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reporting from washington, i am katty kay. under pressure from the democratic base and his own vice president, u.s. president barack obama comes out in favor of gay marriage. >> it is importance for me to say that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> syria, a cease-fire now caught up in violence. a bomb explodes. and providing the soundtrack to america's favorite pastime. this may be your best bet to getting your song played. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. in a seismic political shift, barack obama today became the first american president to openly endorsing-sex marriage. he had been under -- openly endorse same-sex marriage. he had been under pressure after his vice-president joe biden said he was absolutely comfortable with a marriage. >> over the course of several years, as i have talked to friends and family and neighbors, when i think about members of my own staff who are incredibly committed and in monogamous same sex relationships, raising kids together. when i

reporting from washington, i am katty kay. women and children shot at close range in syria, as western powers get more details of the massacre in houla. they were expelling syrian diplomats. >> international pressure on the regime. this is oppression. >> he will be the republican to take on barack obama. tonight, we chart mitt romney's journey on the long campaign trail. and why bother with two wheels when one is just fine? we go into the crazy world of extreme unicycling. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the world. 10 western nations today took the coordinated step of expelling syrian diplomats. the unusual move came in response to more gruesome revelations about the syrian government's massacre of women and children in houla yesterday. the killings are called a tipping point, but there is little indication as to what comes next. we start our coverage tonight. >> syrian shelling of heavily populated areas of houla was only part of the killing of civilians that is such an outrage. the u.n. says that the

i am katty kay. ratko mladic, one of the world's most wanted men goes on trial in the hague. president assad goes on russian tv to defend the syrian president, calling his opponents terrorists. beijing basked in the olympic spotlight four years ago. today, the legacy of those games is controversial. >> china promised the games would transform the lives of ordinary people here. four years on, there are serious doubts as to whether anything has changed at all. >> welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and also around the globe. the man who once held the terrified residents of sarajevo in the palm of his and stood in a dark -- stood in the hague today, accused of 11 counts of genocide and war crimes. it was a war that killed 100,000 people. it has taken almost 20 years to bring him to trial. the bbc reported from the conflict in bosnia. we were in the court today. >> living came to seek justice on behalf of the dead. ratko mladic has evaded the court for 20 years. he has aged visibly, but he seems no less defiant, no less sure that he did no wrong. mladic commanded the bosnian

i'm katty kay. deviling into the mind of osama bin laden, letters released from his compound reveal the frustrations of the al qaeda leader. the fate of china's blind dissident is in limbo. american officials tried to help him. have they now failed? and the new rush for treasure in california. it's not gold, but another which has people hunting for rocks. >> it's so important to science. it's fragile. it won't survive very long. it's such an extraordinary meteorite. this is literally "stardust." >> welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and last also around the world. he was focused on attacking america until the very end. papers seized from osama bin laden's hideout in pakistan are now released to the public show the al qaeda leader was frustrated at the disfunction in his terrorist network and concerned about losing movement and support for his cause. he believed that assassinating president barack obama would restore faith in al qaeda. our first report is from our security correspondent frank g

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and katty kay said, you americans would make terrible socialists because you are so driven by work, you'veot this thing in you that we englishmen and europeans don't have. that makes america america. and i think that ad cuts against the grain. >> you used the word "character." our character, john wayne, rugged individualism. and it's we will overcome, and yes the government is there. but we feel weak in that. you look at that and you don't feel proud in that. and so to mike's point, when you dig into it, it was really an us versus them, black versus white. so the overall take away is a little unfair. but in reality, nobody, even a progressive guy like myself, wants to see america portrayed that way. >> that's just it. a lot of america may be soft, but we don't embrace it. we don't want to brag about the fact that we're soft. and we saw that in the sort of rather abrupt turn at the end of the president's remarks in afghanistan the other day, where he talked about renewing the american spirit. >> right. and willie, even if we're lying to ourselves about being rugged individuals -- >> oh, yes