(lisbon) mm-hmm. (engine starts) (patrick) yeah, where are you going?rshift clicks) (car alert chimes) do you really want to have this conversation? (seat belts click) you ready for some, uh, theological talk here? (grunts) i don't really want to have that conversation. i thought you wanted to feel better and not worse. yeah, i'm gonna recline and have a little sleep. okay. nighty-night. you go to night-night. (speaks indistinctly) >>> just ahead, the republican ticket taking its message across the battleground states, and dangerous trees coming down in virginia. what's the impact on traffic? next. siri, what's my day look like? [siri] another busy day today. are you serious? [siri] yes i'm not allowed to be frivolous. ah ok, move my 4 o'clock today to tomorrow. change my 11am to 2. [siri] ok marty, i scheduled it for today. is that rick? where's rick? [siri] here's rick. oh, no that's not rick. now, how's the traffic headed downtown? [siri] here's the traffic. ah, it's terrible, terrible! driver, driver! cut across, cut across, we'll never make it down

and instead it was a cable from lisbon, and so little after nine on a monday morning this guy walked out of the water carrying a light weight nylon lined that was the first link between land and sea. and so that hold the line on the beach and the bulldozer started, brought her out to the special ship and then a bulldozer to pull the cable end, and it was floated on these, these orange buoys. you can see the english engineers looking on. and then once the cable was in place, the guy in the wetsuit was a spanish underwater construction worker, like a pirate with a big hoop earrings, walked back into the surf with a big knife and start cutting the buoys off, and the cable, the buoys would pop up out of the water and the cable would drop and this kid would chase them down. he would do that the whole way, the whole columba out to the ship, and then they gave him a glass of juice and the cookie and he jumped back in and swam back, then he had a cigarette when he got back to the beach. but that was the first piece that put the cable in place. and then once this sort of came ashore they had

off then between classic port cities from new york to lisbon to hong kong, to singapore, to mombasa. it is always tracing the same path, the historic trade routes. i wanted to see one of these cables being built. which was, would serve a rare historical moment. there hasn't been a new transatlantic kabl built in 10 years. there will be one next summer. but, this is my friend simon cooper, who i have never actually met. we only sort of communicated by telephone and through his videoconferencing link. he works, he switched jobs, he worked until recently for top deck communications, which is the communications wing of tata the big industrial conglomerate based, big indian industrial conglomerate which is based in singapore. the undersea cable industry is dominated almost entirely by englishmen and they're all 42 because they all started with the beginning of the boom about 20 years ago. and he has this incredibly expansive geographic imagination. he says things like this. and tata was born out of when they bought a network out of bankruptcy, a link across the atlantic and a link across

future trips are to beijing, liz been -- lisbon. we will teach kids about the world. before we get started, we have a brief word from someone who is key in making things happen for women on a federal level. she has sent a person here to read a statement from her. that is our illustrious leader in congress, nancy pelosi. she will read a brief statement from nancy pelosi. [applause] >> she will assist she could have been here to celebrate with everyone today. business has kept her in washington. she asked me to share with her -- share with the overstatement. on international women's day, we marked progress made for women and the work still to be done. we celebrate equality, and shine a light on the dark corners were inequality remains. we honor the suffragettes and reached for the ballots and stand with the women around the world still denied the fundamental right to participate in their democracy. the past year has painted a mixed portrait of both hope and struggle for the world's women in. three women won the nobel peace prize, yet millions of mothers and daughters re

by noon more than thirty sail boats have left the port of lisbon the second part of the race is short little more than two hundred nautical miles may will need to make up for the time she lost in the first place before she reaches the spanish port of kids is the crew unfurls mears sails all three thousand square metres all. over all of the boats in this prestigious class of ships mia has the greatest claim to victory her rivals pale in comparison to the number of wins she has racked up over the years she also boasts a skilful crew. strictly speaking these races are a side project from the russian ship is primarily for training purposes cadets of them a car of academy a would be captains of the russian merchant fleet if they learn how to set sail climb the rigging and timing knots in the age of nuclear vessels such skills seems useful for speaking latin. and where you. would get your any seaman must have practice as well as theory besides they need to have certain character traits epaulets as well as sailors are sent to other sail boats because these people need to make the right decis

time in ringing the changes axing several senior players like readings pavel pogrebnyak and sporting lisbon is my love in the process. i've chosen players based on their current form but also with an eye on the future taking into account their age because for those who are not picked i will continue to keep tabs on them and although i admire them i have to make a final decision. on that one of the main complaints by fans and critics alike was how quickly the level of commitment faded during the euros but capello has already drafted in some new young players in order to begin rebuilding the passion he so demands from his players. it's always been a privilege to play for my country regardless of whether it was for the youth team or the under twenty one's i love my country and i'm always ready to play because sometimes things don't go your way but i've always been motivated to the marks of. the team may have failed but most of the flak was directed at none other than russia's captain andrea shannon but rather than seek out somebody new capello has decided to put faith in the arsenal london for

further to the west, 40, lisbon at 44. london, partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid to low 20s throughout the remainder of your week. that's a look at your world forecast. >> robert speta, thanks, from all of us here at nhk world, thanks very much for joining us. have a great day wherever you are.

lisbon at 33, london as well at 22. across much of the northern portions of the uk, i might be experiencing rain showers with cloud cover through the weekend. as far as the paralympics doesn't look like any rain will be on tap for you. eastern europe, much more cooler for you. stockholm with a high of 17 and moscow with 14 on your saturday. here is a look at the extended forecast. >>> as we've been reporting a magnitude 7.9 earthquake has occurred in the pacific ocean off the east coast of the philippines. at 12:47 utc on friday. there is a possibility of an ocean-wide destructive tsunami in the pacific ocean. the u.s. geological survey and the pacific tsunami warning center have issued a tsunami warning for the following regions -- the east coast of the philippines, the north coast of irianjia, the north coast of papua new guinea, the mariana islands, palau, micronesia and the marshall islands. a tsunami warning is in effect for japan. people staying in coastal areas in the region are advised to move to higher ground a

to so sylvia r t brussels financial inspectors are in lisbon reviewing how well the country's following tough staring measures and evaluating the state of its battered economy in may portugal became the third european country forced into taking a bailout this one worth seventy eight billion years many experts doubt the country will be able to repay its debts with a interest rate on its ten year bond now over nine percent forty is euro piero it's a virus as the bailout system is being in a vicious circle. our deficits targets our. targets will not be achieved and for a very simple reason that the medicine that. we have given to the party is the economy itself the fuel to the economy is contracting so there is much less tax collection than what we had before so mainly because of a huge go on tax collection the portuguese government is again. and balanced budget which was after all the main point of having the money from the from the troika i think there is an intention on the part of mainly berlin and the barriers to have greece as the sole example of the medicine not working so in order

arms expenditure huge increase and expansion of nato and from the lisbon treaty a huge requirement on all nato member states to spend a great deal on nato supplied arms yet at the same time the majority of nato countries there are involved in afghanistan have small numbers and always drawing it's going to be britain and the usa that's left there till the end i'm sorry during buys not through the military expenditure in europe is nine hundred or nine it went down dramatically after twenty five percent your british. got about eight percent you know this is not unlikely her expenditure. greg i'm sure we have a great story and john before we go to the regular guy did the united states accounts for about seventy five percent of nato nato is a military budget and they do united states for me and my taxpayers are the ones that are subsidizing european defense so again this is this is why european defense has been able to go down but the american empire the american national security state which is not good for us or anybody else has been going sky high for this is that this isn't about i don

and the international monetary fund inspectors are in lisbon to assess the country's performance at the moment but portugal has fallen short on budget targets as its margin its deepest recession since the nine hundred seventy s. it's now talk to portuguese euro m.p. route to vote is it so do you think your country will get the next tranche of its seventy eight billion euro bailout. well that's actually a political decision not an economic one so. i was on to the season of of the leaders in early in brussels and front. so that's a question that i cannot answer the question that i can't vouch for is whether it's on track to. to fulfill the targets that it has promised to the troika or that the troika has demanded of fortran and the answer to this is a clear no our deficits targets our. target targets will not be achieved and for a very simple reason that the medicine that. we have given to the portuguese of the economy itself the fuel to the economy is contracting so there is much less tax collection than what we had before so mainly because of a huge gap on. the portuguese government is

are in portugal to rule if the country has tied into its belt enough to receive more cash in may lisbon was forced into seeking seventy eight billion euros worth of rescue but portuguese. says the bailout system is trapping the nations in a vicious circle. our deficits targets our target targets will not be achieved and for a very simple reason that the medicine that. we have given to the party is the economy is soft if you take the economy is contracting so there is much less tax collection than what we had before so mainly because of a huge crowd on tax collection the portuguese government is again. and balanced budget which was after all the main point of having the money from that from the troika i think that there is an invasion on part of mainly berlin and paris to have greece as the sole example of the medicine not working so in order to achieve that it is very important to portray portugal else a country that is not that is unlike reese ireland as a country that is and like greece and everybody else as countries that are and like greece sort of say the problem that the greek pro

walking down the street in lisbon, people said, vino, vino show. >> the vino show. studs are in. >> studs are everywhere. we saw them on the spring runways and fall runways and they've really made a comeback. we have some pictures. this is katy perry with her versace runway dress. and valentino, they have beautiful stuff. their bags which are usually refined and lady-like. we have jada picket smith and diane kruger and her studded flats, that parisian look. that's what's different about studs right now. not the biker look of the '80s. they're put on lace and brocades, very subtle feminine looks. but, of course, the easiest way to jump in on a trend is with accessories. when you go to a store, it's really hard to find something that's not studded. here are my tips. these are affordable. that's the extreme here. >> why did you put them next to me? >> look for something that is either in a traditional shape or a neutral color. black, beige, navy. that balances out the edge. if you get a hot pink bag with studs, it's too much. you can add a little on the shoe. you'll se

i did -- i've been to kazakhstan, lisbon, seoul, south korea. i've been doing comedy tours. down, talking to people. >> asking questions, mixing it up. >> jimmy: will you take phone calls? >> no because we can't do it live on the internet. we do it sometimes the day before. i hope we can do phone calls. >> jimmy: why don't you go on twitter, say, now i'm taking phone calls. >> i am on twitter. >> jimmy: but you put a thing on twitter and say, hey, i've got seth macfarland in the studio, call me right now. >> i could do that. >> jimmy: you see that, larry. [ applause ] i should be helping you produce this show. i like it when you announce the city and the -- you know, i like that. i want to hear that. >> you -- you're good. >> jimmy: very, very clever, yeah. i know a lot of times when an athlete will retire, you wind up back in the house. everyone's disturbed. i know your kids are teenagers now. >> my kids are 13 and 12. one is back from img baseball camp in bradenton, florida, where a lot of major leaguers went. the other is at baseball camp at byu in provo. the 13-year-old,

at the lisbon summit in 2010, we established a timeline for transition. the afghans are taking on responsibility for security and taking the lead now for some 75% of the population. security forces will reach their full strength soon. at the conference in december last year, afghan leaders presented the outlines of a strategy to ensure afghanistan stability beyond the troop drawdown. the international committee committed to supporting afghanistan from 2015 to 2024. in may of this year, the strategic partnership agreement was signed. secretary clinton's announcement that the president and designated afghanistan a major non-nato ally -- the international committee committed to providing the afghan security forces, the support and funds they need for systemic. the government recognize that nato and its partners have a crucial role to play and invited nato to continue their support after the mission concludes at the end of 2014. the international community gathered in tokyo to further define the concept of mutual accountability and a share economic assistance