nbc's kyra simmons has the latest on his puzzling disappearance. >> reporter: missing, the poster saysaustin bice disappeared more than a week ago, his family desperate for news. the san diego student was in spain as part of an exchange program. his father has flown to the country to help the search near the madrid nightclub where his son was last seen in the early hours of the morning. >> i just want the say thank you for you all being here. it's hard or the me to talk about it, but thank you. >> reporter: the 22-year-old left america to look for more experiences. he was writing a blog about his adventures. it talks about school and life in spain. it should be a fun night, he says. that was the evening he vanished. >> the friends decided to go into the discotheque. it was a little late. he decided to go back home, and he decided that he was going to walk home. and that was the last time that he was seen, heading north. >> reporter: he had been drinking and was on his own. he had been in spain for just a few months. >> translator: he was very calm, very sociable one of his new spanish

you know if i was here in egypt in the kyra and met the president mubarak i've met him through as him and suddenly i could imagine that something will happen in cairo well let's say a closer look now at the life of one of the most controversial arab leaders in reported by spotlights and i did mean. khadafi came to power in one thousand six to nine after leading a group of military officers to only through the monarchy in a bloodless coup for some it drew parallels between the then twenty seven year old leader of the libyan revolution and to give or for this point a charismatic passion to change the world confessions his own political philosophy of islamic socialism in his green book and quoting the word juma he really i mean in government by the masses to underline that libya was go in its own way he sinned would give up all his governmental posts to stress libya was governed by the people but he was the country's defacto leader suppressing all kinds of dissent the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's one marked by conduct his extensive financial support for world terrorism and te

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many people here don't believe that kyra protests will significantly alter their life prospects for them freedom comes for their beliefs to feed their families but for now it remains far from certain the business is growing very slow at the moment we have a must like five four seven percent of the clients and most of them are coming from middle east none coming from europe it's not that they don't support their revolution they're just the first to discover it's bittersweet taste and to realize that revolutionary intoxication is almost always followed by had a that's not going to artsy cairo as the wave of anti-government revolt rocks the arab world it's unclear how and when the uprisings will end across the ocean our own resident in new york got a snapshot of opinion on the ongoing protests. in all the insurrections revolutions and uprisings in the middle east catch you off guard this week let's talk about that are you surprised i'm not surprised i am. one of the i'm going ramallah i was seven weeks ago and by the way. i reported. the political situation in the middle east was very very

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of this country and many of the international community and certainly here on the ground say that kyra's acted rashly with very short sightedness in making this decision the questions that are being asked all that if gadhafi does remain in power how will france behave with the. the regime in the future essentially how the international community that has denounced him paid and negotiate with him on the flip side of the coin if gadhafi had to go it's not very clear who would be the new leadership here many people fearing that they will be some kind of a leadership vacuum because we need to remember that the opposition remains disjointed they are equipped and they certainly are ill prepared to take over the running of this country. stay with us see we'll of course bring you more on the developing situation in japan the latest headlines are coming up in just a few moments.

many people here don't believe that kyra protests will significantly alter their life prospects for them freedom costs with their ability to feed their families that for now remains far from certain the business is growing very slow at the moment we have almost like five four seven percent of the clients and most of them are coming from middle east none coming from europe it's not that they don't support their revolution they're just the first to discover it's bittersweet taste and to realize that revolutionary intoxication is almost always followed by a headache it's not like an artsy cairo we come from the russian capital a little later in the program ortiz close up to shows you a different side to one of the all the cities in russia. how people spice things up in the winter sports put yellow slobo on the map for the top tourist destinations have all the details for you in just a couple of minutes. but first fifty eight years after his death servant leader joseph stalin remains one of the most controversial political figures in history aboard an odd lies by some in his despised and sco

many people here don't believe that kyra protests will significantly alter their life prospects for down freedom costs for their ability to feed their families that for now remains far from certain the business is growing let us know at the moment we have almost like five four seven percent of the clients and most of them not coming from middle east not coming from europe it's not that they don't support their revolution they're just the first to discover it's bittersweet taste and to realize that revolutionary intoxication is almost always followed by a headache some of the artsy cairo later in the program will be in new york to gauge reaction to the protests. were people heard we've moved to action. the president lauren harvest find out how people are viewing the protests from the other side of the atlantic. plus we race away to jaroslav to see how locals of this time old russian town tackle extreme sports. he was brazen idolized by some despised by others joseph stalin was called the father of the nation who brought the country through the war but locked away in labor camps the heroes

six birdies on the day elsewhere lee westwood hopes of regaining the number one ranking from martin kyra they did operate this way so five englishman is stifled. shot of the day meanwhile came from jimmie walker who is holding his approach on the golf wall for their very beautiful eagle and water is twelve shots off the pace opposite the section. aisle saying stay side and then before long beach charlotte having the block as the full stray defeat on saturday night the blazers were coming all these women second man someone pulled ahead in the second floor to wesley matthews makes it forty two thirty five probably high b.r. the ball cancer returned the leader in the second home but for a long planned to only eleven zero run into control of the game off to that marcus aldridge stop scoring with twenty six points for the blazers held by his dunkerley in the fourth quarter holding threes the lead to sixteen points on the bench held on to win by twenty who are holding charlotte to their lowest total of six to ninety six. and went to sports lindsey vonn has clinched the second world cup title o

did you worry about putting emma in and not kyra?20 years? >> i was worried but i explained to kyra, i'll talk about you at the end and emma is just a popular name right now. she was fine with it. i think she has claimed that she named poppy. >> this is your first children's book. why now? >> i have wanted to do it for years. after having the children and spending hours and hours reading to them seeing the joy and love they get out of reading and the books i thought, i have to do one for them. >> yeah, yeah. >> we were saying on the break we couldn't believe vancouver has been a year now. it was scary to look back. >> we need a reunion. >> the girls night out was the highlight of the trip. we went out, you and me and natalie. >> that was my one night out. people think we were out every night like that. >> we gave you a name. hoochie yamaguchi because of your behavior. >> what was your name? >> i can't remember. >> miss vancougar. >> that was appropriate. we had a great time. i want people to know a portion of proceeds from the book b

when he put me when he put kyra for my name on his t.v. show and glenn beck and i know each other we're in the same business we've been around you know we've known each other for a lot of years. spelled with one hand in at least three quarters of the hate mail i got identified me as a jew and as far as i can tell most of the people in his giant conspiracy thing are jewish i mean what's going on with this guy yeah i think it comes from he often adopts his conspiracy theories from even farther to the right from the right wing fringe and a lot of the theories if they're not explicitly anti semitic have included overtones i mean his his one of his got in trouble recently of course is an exposé so to speak of george soros which he basically was rehashing a bunch of tropes about anti semitic. about semitic financier's so i think that pace and people are talking also about how dangerous he is compared to a lot of other talk shows i mean there was a there have been people arrested who were going to carry out violence because of something listen to

typical of a very nice rhetoric of democracy freedom and you can only go so far as it does in a program kyra but there's also this rhetoric here you know you know about reaching across the world to our muslim brother and that in this case sort of highlights out of this example of american not even being able to respect other americans who happen to be muslim who live in this country what do you think about that. well everything that's happening in america right now for just our structure the curse of the american and whatever that might be doesn't respect general american citizenry whatsoever i mean look at the car swerves it's being waged financially right now by government and financial powers right which is really it's a sign of the times and it's time to imagine that we're living in a world where the nation state has become secondary to financial interest was and comes to relieve our people across the river across the globe are going to where we played against typical threats we can no longer binds rhetoric we must look at the actuality or rigo systems of what they profess to be democrac

have to say to play devil's advocate i mean this is america we live in a democracy we have rights kyra protected by the constitution and justice can't be systematic in america because we have laws to protect against that is not the case i believe you and you know that's why we have the second amendment and that's why our primary responsibility for personal safety and security falls on the individual now if i go around to citizens and businesses and i say hey i'm going to protect you you know they're going to put me in jail for extortion but cities have municipalities can go around saying we're going to put a law that we're going to put a group of individuals to protect you and that's called law enforcement we have no choice regarding the police officers that are out there in the way they handle themselves so if you believe that this is in fact happening here you've documented these cases of police brutality and yet we have laws are supposed to protect us against this is the whole concept of the usa congress the ally. well you know we're seeing the decline in america as the decline in t

kyra simmons is live with the latest. >> reporter: good morning.ere. all the same prince william has left his bride to be to make wedding plans opver the weekend while he's carrying out the royal duties that they will soon perform together. this weekend prince william is in australia to meet victims of the recent cyclone. in just six weeks, a visit such as this will see two royals in attendance. perhaps they were planning the big day. his choice of footwear a rousing some comments. no fashion faux pas when he walks into westminster abbey.ro some comments. no fashion faux pas when he walks into westminster abbey. the tension already building. >> it's tremendously exciting and it will be a wonderful occasionally. >> reporter: an occasionally marked by an array of memorabilia. there are even unofficial dolls for those who want to do more than just watch the ceremony and a special beer called kiss me kate to toast the couple. they have asked for not for wedding presents but for donations to charity. >> for them to step up and say we want to use this op