amount of positive support and encouragement of me to contest the leadership of the australian labor party party. i have many more calls still to make. the overall argument to me is that they regard me as the best prospect to lead the australian labor party successfully to the next elections, to save the australian labor party at those elections and to save the country from the ravages of an avid government. >> the leadership contest is on monday. does gillard or rudd have the numbers? >> it's hard to say at the moment. i think julia gillard is the favorite. but it depends on the size of her victory and more importantly the size of kevin rudd's loss. if he is totally decimated to get the handful of votes, well then it's curtain for him and back to the back benches but if he gets in the 30's or 40's number of votes from his back bench m.p. supporters, then that's a different matter. he could still go back to the back benches but from there he could continue the sniping and still try to undermine julia gillard. this is all about kevin rudd and the future of the labor party, the future of aus

the australian prime minister, julia gillard, has said the government labor party could face questions over its leadership. in syria, the intense bombardment of civilian areas continues. two foreign journalists are among the dead. the former philippines president, gloria arroyo, has pleaded not guilty to alleges election rigging. she was president for almost a decade. she was arrested last november after leaving the philippines for medical treatment. the former president's court appearance was rigged. quite this is the beginning. it could take several years to process. the last trial took six years. >> according to the court, the trial will begin on the 19th of april. what our legal analyst telling you? how long do they think this whole procedure will last? >> it is anybody's guests, to be honest. some are saying it could take several years. mrs. arroyo has very good lawyers, the same lawyers that joseph had. trials in the philippines take a long time. it could take another couple of years. this is the beginning of a very long process. >> indeed, a very long process. you have the trial

he has been suspended by the parliamentary labor party. the health secretary says his department is urgently pursuing allegations that some abortion clinics have agreed to terminate pregnancies on the grounds of the sex of the child. the police are also being consulted. emanating a pregnancy on the basis of gender was morally wrong. the number of people coming to live in the u.k., minus the number leaving, remains at record levels. the migration was to under 50,000. it is 15,000 up on the same period the previous year. >> this is newsday. >> these are the headlines. there is growing pressure on syria to call a cease-fire to allow aid to reach people. >> australia's former foreign minister, kevin rudd, has confirmed he will stand against gillard to become the prime minister. let's return to syria. we have been to towns around a city to find out what life is like for members of the opposition forces. >> it is an anthem for a revolution. huddled in a safe house in northern syria, lightly armed fighters sing for freedom. they of a lead by a mi

he says the labor party will lose the next election unless he is returned to the top job -- labour party >> things have to change. it is no secret that our government has a lot of work to do if it is to regain confidence of the australian people. rightly or wrongly, julia has lost the trust of the australian people, and starting on monday i want to start restoring that trust. >> kevin rudd. in response, australian prime minister julia gillard told a news conference that a leader should be chosen on strength of character. >> the choice the nation faces and my parliamentary colleagues face on monday is a choice as to who has got the character, the temperament, the strength to deliver on behalf of the australian people. this is not celebrity big brother. it is about working out who can lead the nation, who has got the ability to get things done. >> australia's princeton julia gillard. staying in australia, a fourth in quest into the death of a baby girl who disappeared in the australian outback more than 30 years ago. the girl's mother, lindy chamberlain-creighton, insist that the baby was

failed to realise and they were there are reasonable the there are good representatives of the labor party and of the scottish national party which are both more or less socialist parties and have woken up to the fact that they've run out of other people's money and that if they're trying to make this issue about self-determination for the scottish people about who's going to more effectively fleece a to give money to be what i what i would wish they would both be talking about that is completely new and this is an issue of scottish you know and i know the way he's going about but don't anyone have what about the people of scotland right now why why is neither of you talking about things that could bring more self-determination to the scottish people right now like letting them elect police boards the health boards have direct votes on self government. actually there are no a letter is like they'll have this is going to tell you where i want to william to jump in go ahead william in london go ahead ok the key issue i think is growth i mean what we need to collectively as a group of politic

a ballot has been set for the leadership within the ruling labor party for monday next week. the prime minister believes she can win and win handsomely. it's a dangerous, risky ploy for her. >> hugh, how do the numbers look? this has been a festinger problem for kevin rudd. he never really quite got over being shafted. >> reporter: well, kevin rudd was an enormous hero of center left politics in australia he swept to power in 2007 after a dozen years of conservative rule. he was immediately popular. he was, in fact, the most popular australian prime minister in history for a period. however, there were problems underneath the surface. ministers and senior public servants who were working with him describe terrible tantrums, a sense of kai os, a micro manager who didn't consult with anyone, insisted in being involved if every area of policy to the point where decisions weren't being made, dysfunctional leader, to such a degree that in the end julia gillard had to step up and take control of circumstances here, take control of the government and lead a challenge that she won in

. >> on the assumption that he does challenge gillard for the leadership of the labor party and ultimatelyor the premiership there, how would that play with the electorate, and how would it play with members of the labor party who have been responsible for voting him in or otherwise as leader? >> reporter: julia gillard, the prime minister, is unpopular in the electorate, and kevin rudd has always retained a certain shine out with the public at large, not with his political colleagues. this all comes to a head, as many said it had to come to. it was becoming completely dysfunctional for the government. the prime minister has announced -- she hasn't formally announced it, but her people have announced there will be a ballot. a special meeting of all members of parliament and senators, and she'll bring on the vote on the leadership on monday. there are reports those in that grouping are very solidly behind the prime minister. so she believes she will get that vote, and that will end his ambitions once and for all. >> hugh, i gather there's a video on youtube of kevin rudd issuing some fairly

she now faces a tough task of uniting a fractured labor party.ve this report. >> reporter: for a second time, again, surrounded by a loving family, kevin rudd has had to concede defeat to julia gillard. >> i congratulate julia on her strong win today. >> reporter: the prime minister emerged from the leadership ballot today as she predicted. it wasn't even close. >> the ballot has now taken place. julia gillard has won the ballot 71 votes to 31. >> reporter: the ballot box might as well have been a coffin. the result was so emphatic kevin rudd was left a full 40 votes adrift. >> the leadership question is now determined. >> i accept fully the verdict of the caucus and i dedicate myself to working fully for her re-election as the prime minister of australia. >> reporter: his public campaign since quitting as foreign minister last week counted for nothing. all the promise and history, the glory days of 2007 now never to return. the worst defeat by a labor leadership contender in 45 years. >> absolutely. we must. >> reporter: this time, no tears from

battle for power in australia -- the former prime minister has sparked a crisis in the governing labor party by challenging the current prime minister and party leader, julia gillard, who called a vote on monday on who should lead the party into next year's elections. >> doctors in austria say the dutch prince, who remains in a coma after being buried in an avalanche while skiing, may never regained consciousness. doctors say the son of the dutch queen suffered severe brain damage. his heart had stopped beating for almost 50 minutes before he was readmitted. he was skiing outside the mark trail's last week when he was caught in the avalanche. >> coming up after the break, it is a place that is both beautiful and perilous. we report on the search for hostages in the remote borderlands between ethiopia and eritrea. >> all right. we will be right back. stay with us. dw on the internet with a new address and a completely revamped online presence. journalistic quality in 30 languages -- insightful, diverse, and in multimedia format. visit us at dw.de. >> welcome back, everyone. last month, a germ

responsibility. 69 of its victims were amongst the hundreds of people gathered on the island for the annual labor party youth camp. he thinks their political party has failed norway. he has strong views against multi-cultural is of and immigration to europe. today, he demanded is freedom and told the court he deserves a medal of honor. his fifth hearing since his arrest was controversial shown live on norwegian television. many norwegians are furious that was allowed to happen. for others, there was relief finally seeing him. >> it was very important for him to see that he cannot hurt me anymore. he is not dangerous the way that he was on july 22. he was very arrogant, and that was hard for me. i do not think he regrets what he has done. >> it was very important to me because i needed to get closure. he is never able to do anything like that again. >> i have a lot of mixed emotions inside me. i came out with a totally new image of him. he was turned into someone who is not dangerous. >> psychiatric tests have found him to be legally insane. if insanity is confirmed, he will be confined to a mental hosp

. >> now, we take you to australia because the governing labor party is in turmoil after the resignation of kevin rudd. he was previously the prime minister. there is speculation he is planning to challenge the current leader, julia gillard. kevin rudd outlined the reasons for him stepping down. >> the truth is i can only serve as foreign minister if i have the confidence of the prime minister and her senior ministers. in recent days, a number of men have publicly attacked my integrity and therefore my fitness to serve as the minister in the government. when challenged today on these attacks, the prime minister chose not to repudiate them. i can only reluctantly concluded that she therefore shares these views. >> kevin rudd talking about his job. another job has been on the line. not yours. >> absolutely. your children are fans of chelsea. should he stay or go? >> i think they should give him more time. >> chelsea lost last night against napoli. were talking about how this was going to be a big game. they did lose. some that defensive errors. is he going to stay or go? it is a big decisi

>> because they were the first labor party? >> yes, african-americans up until this time were the most loyal republicans. kind of didn't matter, the republicans were the party of whom? lincoln. the democrats were the party of the copper heads who opposed the civil war and reconstruction. so this was an enormous transformation that begins in 1934, in 1936, and to this day. there has not been a single presidential election in which african-americans voted other than democratic and really from the '60s on, it's 90%. they're the strongest element today of the democratic coalition, but they were a new element of the democratic coalition that franklin roosevelt put together. that's one element. who else? we've talked about some of them. >> labor. >> labor becomes a very important element, particularly as labor union membership is rising throughout the '30s and into the '40s. labor becomes in many ways the backbone of the democratic party and a lot of the story of the decline of the democratic party in the late 20th and 21st century ha

former leader kevin roth told reporters on friday that he will challenge the prime minister in a labor party vote next monday. he said the labor led government has a lot of work to do if it is to regain the confidence of the australian people that he is ready to start restoring that trust. he was forced from office in june 2010 when gillard led a party revolt. she named him as a foreign minister, but he resigned on wednesday. gillard announced the showdown to put an end to the divisive conflict. votes will be cast by all labor legislatures. polls show roth is more popular with the public. japan's auto production surged in january going up nearly 19% from a year earlier. the own country's eight car makers say they produce a total of 799,000 vehicles in the latest reporting month marking the fourth straight monthly increase. they boosted output to make up for the declining costs by last year's earthquake and tsunami. honda production shot up 42%. mitsubishi motor was the only car maker that showed a production decline in the month. japanese and u.s. negotiators are trying to figure out a way f

former leader kevin roth told reporters on friday that he will challenge the prime minister in a labor party vote next monday. he said the labor led government has a lot of work to do if it is to regain the confidence of the australian people that he is ready to start restoring that trust. he was forced from office in june 2010 when gillard led a party revolt. she named him as a foreign minister, but he resigned on wednesday. gillard announced the showdown to put an end to the divisive conflict. votes will be cast by all labor legislatures. polls show roth is more popular with the public. japan's auto production surged in january going up nearly 19% from a year earlier. the own kuhn tri's eight car makers say they produce a total of 799,000 vehicles in the latest reporting month marking the fourth straight monthly increase. they boosted output to make up for the declining costs by last year's earthquake and tsunami. honda production shot up 42%. mitsubishi motor was the only car maker that showed a production decline in the month. japanese and u.s. negotiators are trying to figure out a way

australian prime minister has defeated her predecessor and rival for leadership of the governing labor party. she won more than 2/3 of the votes cast by members of parliament. he has made no secret of wanting his old job back. after the vote, he pledged his full support to her. police in ohio say one student has died after being shot at a high school canteen. four others were injured in the town of chardon near cleveland. the gunman opened fire in the cafeteria before being chased by a teacher and giving himself up. he is in police custody. pakistan's security forces of torn down the compound where osama bin laden was killed by american forces. bulldozers working under floodlights smashed through the concrete structure. the operation began after dark on saturday and went on through the night. in afghanistan, a suicide car bomber ran his vehicle into the gates of the nato base in the east of the country killing at least nine people. the taliban said the attack was revenge for the u.s. burning copies of the quran. the inadvertent act has sparked six days of violence. it has raised questions ab

that's why i've decided to contest the leadership of the australian labor party. the ballots and the focus of the us a tr australian labor party on monday. >> reporter: earlier in the day mr. rudd arrived back from the united states where he told reporters he had been shocked by the personal attacks leveled against him by the prime minister and some senior cabinet members. for her part, julie gillard says her record of implementing tough reforms speaks for itself and that she should be re-elected to party leader. >> the choice that the nation faces and my parliamentary colleagues face on monday is a choice who has the character, the temperament, the strength to deliver on behalf of the us a trail ian people. this isn't is celebrity big brother. it is about working out who can lead the nation. who has got the ability to get things done. >> reporter: over the weekend both of these candidates will, no doubt, be working the phones to try and drum up support. so far reports say that julia gillard has the numbers to be re-elected on monday. back over to you. >> that was

rubber bullets at crowds of protesters the demonstrations were against the current president of the labor party running for a third term as head of state constitution and two stretches in office but a court cleared him to run again and took office before the term limit was put in place these four people have died in the protests since the unrest began last month . pope benedict has appointed twenty two new cardinals at the vatican the main role of the elite club of catholic figureheads is to advise the current pope and choose a successor almost a quarter of cardinals and now from italy decreasing the chance that the next pope could be from another country a situation in israel accusations of violence ceremonies the clouded by embarrassing leaks of internal documents alleging corruption among top clerics. friends and family gathered in newark new jersey to say the last goodbyes to pop icon whitney houston the funeral services being held at the church where she sang in the choir as a child fans started to pay their respects on friday leaving flowers and balloons on the church steps the six time g

will you allow the people of scotland to vote on whether to stay in the european union and ask our labor party fred why not let the people of scotland vote on that and why not let the people of the united kingdom as a whole vote on that why should laws be made in brussels that apply to people in the united kingdom or in scotland if it's independent when the people of scotland in the united kingdom have never consented to surrender their sovereignty to a bunch of bureaucrats in brussels ok i can if you want to go you want to answer one of those questions or both is a completely separate to be i mean some of the things that have been mentioned here are complete annoyances in l.a. to police i've been in politics for three years six to view the sixteen and i was in the late to do it was in of and i've never had a single person come to me ask me for a lot to beating forward you seem to think i should be a focus of a political party i joined the s.n.p. because i want to go on to an equal nation among all of the c.n.a. to nations on an equal police and the european union in terms of related health bo

barry gardiner a member of the opposition labor party so western states including the u.k. openly supporting the syrian opposition at this point demanding president assad step down of course russia and china accuse the countries of taking sides in the internal conflict what would you say to this. well look i think if you look back just a year ago to when the libyan conflict broke out. at that stage i was against intervention in libya. and i spoke with you on number of occasions on russian t.v. to make that very clear. i think that if we want to have no intervention in syria there must be a much stronger voice coming from russia in support of the democratic reforms that are needed in that country speaking out against the torture and the extermination of civilians that has clearly been going on. and i think that is the way to allow the country to resolve its own problems looking to the arab league and that's one of the things that russia was very strong on in the libyan conflict first broke out to say that this is something the arab league that the immediate neighbors should

the crew members will be stuck in over the next forty five days point out what's course of the labor party dot com. is. the official altie application. from the. video on demand. old girls. and. now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. the u.s. announcement that its combat operations in afghanistan would end earlier than expected has stirred up confusion among afghan officials who say that it could be a disaster for the whole transition plan american defense secretary leon panetta said the country wants to switch to a role of supporting and training their core forces before the end of next year war correspondent and author eric margolis thinks that the upcoming election is the main motive for the decision. first of all pressure from up this year's elections poll shows sixty percent of american voters are fed up with the war in afghanistan or against that. price is approaching true dump dollars a time when washington's very hard cash is cutting budgets and obama wants to be leander john now mcgregor party member he was he's presidency brown student states and this is a very importa

the labor party back benches are desperate it shall. >> who is the real winner there? i'm wondering, regardless whether julia fwil ard or kevin rudd wins, maybe the real winner is abbott who may come out from behind, be able to clinch an early election since the public is just completely disenfranchised with this tit for tat move. >> even on monday, they're not really sure who is going to win. the point is when you look at it from a broader perspective, australia has been really at the mercy of the international market so when rudd was prime minister he benefited from a cheap australian dollar and the fact that china was growing very strongly after the 2008 crisis that helped his inkcumbency. when gillard came in, it slowed the economy somewhat and there were some policy moves, the tax on energy consumption that didn't go down too well. the labor party is fighting against that perception that they haven't gotten the leadership in laplace to save tt momentum that they enjoyed in the early years of the are rudd administration. >> what will happen to the carbon tax, the m

the governing labor party will vote on monday. rudd says ms. gill lard can't win the next election. we'll have more on that story in just a moment. i'm zain verjee. "world business today." >>> good morning. from cnn london, i'm nina dos santos. this is "world business today." these are the top stories on friday, february the 24th. greece's debt burden has been lightened but its debt holders are about to see the value of their bonds drop. >>> the u.s. takes on organized crime in japan imposing sanctions on high ranking members of the yakazu. what does google know about you? new privacy policies make it harder to keep your information under wraps these days. >>> first up, to our top story today. today is the daze day that greece finally unveils its proposal to swap existing government debt with new bonds worthless than half the value of those previously issued. greece's creditors are bracing themselves for a hit of some 53.5% on just the face value of the investments that they hold, however, the actual loss here that'll be implied will be closer to 70%. this is largely because the new

i know the labor party is against all welfare reform. i think they are making a mass of mistake in doing so. >> what about putting an end to the terrible violence in syria? >> frankly, russia and china set themselves against the arab opinion and world opinion and passing what would have been a strong and good u.n. resolution, and that the my right honorable friend the foreign secretary was right to push for that resolution. and britain will be paying a big part in this. there is engaging with the opposition groups both inside and outside syria, bringing together the strongest possible international alliance through a contact group, so we can coordinate our alliance with respect to getting rid of this regime, and making sure that we continue with the sanctions and that the bloodshed in syria is absolutely appalling. i think the russians have to look at their consciences and look at what they have done, but the rest of the world will keep on fighting as hard as we can to give the syrian people a chance to decide their own future. >> mr. sp

on his facebook page, this labor party politician writes, this is the translation, according to "the new york times," the dutch ambassador has no comment on the scandalous charge from santorum about our country. how is it possible? i have directed a question to the foreign minister and have called on him to take a public stance. this can't be real. one thing for americans to look at the 2012 field and say, seriously, this can't be real. now we have the rest of the world looking at our 2012 candidates and saying, dude, this can't be real. joining us now is eric mountain. the u.s. correspondent for the dutch rtl evening news. thank you very much for being here and helping us figure this out. >> sure. >> before we talk about what this means and the big picture, for the benefit of our viewers, i hope you won't mind if i could ask you yes or no questions to clarify what mr. santorum said about the country. he said 10% of the deaths in the netherlands are a result of euthanasia. >> not true. >> 5% of all deaths in the country are people being euthanized involuntary. >> totally not true. >>