it had been dubbed london-istan, the hidden word of london's homegrown islamic extremists. they are a tiny minority of britain's 1.6 million muslims but they have no trouble getting their voices heard. >> one day you will conquer rome. one day you will conquer the white house. >> choudry is the public face of islamic extremist in london. his group disbanded before the british government could outlaw it under new anti-terrorism laws but that hasn't shut choudry up. >> whoever insults the prophet mohammad deserves capital punishment. >> that was his inflammatory rhetoric just days after pope benedict's controversial speech about islam. >> pope benedict you will pay. >> pope benedict you will pay. >> the mujahedin are on their way. >> british catholics looked on in disbelief. >> they can stand outside our church and abuse us and our religion and people we hold dear with impunity. >> the simple question to the christians are do you condemn what the pope said? do you condemn the pope? >> what he says. >> so you don't. >> if any of us were to amble up to the mosque at regents par

amy kellogg in london. i'm sure many of our viewers have been through -- actually, let's listen to sky. they're live on scene. >> taking off. you may well hear one taking off hyped me shortly. a statement was issued confirming what we know. there was an incident on board this evening, that the police were called, but they're very keen to stress the airport and the terminals here remain open and that so far, all flights have been running to schedule apart from this one flight. that plane itself has been moved away from the main part of the airport to a safe distance, we're told. it will stay there. there is the flight itself may take off should the all clear be given by the police a little later. >> it's our understanding that flights from east coast of the united states, the new yorks, charlottes, miamis of the world, atlanta, those flights into heathrow are not disrupted. but achy kellogg, our correspondent in london, many of us have been through that airport. security there is astoundingly well organized

it's been dubbed london-astan. the hidden world of london's home grown islamic extremists. they are a tiny minority, but they have no trouble getting their voices heard. >> one day you will concur rome. one day. one day you will concur the white house. >> reporter: anjim chowdry is the face of islamic extremism in britain. his group disbanded before the british government could outlaw it under its new anti-terrorism rules. but that hasn't shut chowdry up. >> deserves capital punishment. >> reporter: that was chowdry's inflammatory rhetoric just days after pope benedict's controversial speech about islam. >> pope benedict you will pay. >> reporter: outside westminister cathedral, british catholics looked on in disbelief. >> they can stand outside our church and abuse us, and abuse our religion and people we hold dear with absolute impunity. >> do you condemn what the pope said? do you condemn the pope? >> what he said -- >> yes or no, do you condemn the pope? >> if any of us was to go up to the mosque and say anything in regards to alla or mohammed or what have you, we would

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is done in london is a means by which we ensure that there is creation of jobs in london and we are always looking at what we can do to create more jobs in this capital city. >> tell my right honorable friend cancer treats have been eliminated during to nhs doctors and nurses receiving support. because of excellent use of surviving cancer they are more prone to health problems. any practicalsley what can my right honorable friend can ensure to get this advice in health? >> the mcmillan work is something that is very special in our country and very much appreciated. i believe that the advances that we are making in cancer care particularly if people are detected early and particularly if people are able to go through the screening process it means lots of lives that would have been lost will be saved. there is after-care and there is considerable after-care necessary even after a many years and i'm determined that we continue to support it. i would have to say, though, the best way that we can help deal with the cancer problems in our country is to make sure we do not lose the two-week guar

that's the conference in london, to bring the afghan women to london to speak directly to their cultureng, ok, i am a white woman here from canada, for example, let's talk about what your country should look like. absolutely not. it is who are leaders in your community and what do you want to say.ñ host: let's hear from chaz. caller: hi, first time caller. i remember certain culture norms that we devastated and heavilily so. y -- happily so. slavery and women's voting. what is behind these question when people are concerned about the religious right. afghan or iraqi. but don't give a hoot about their political rights. so really i asked everyone who is concerned about the cultural norms of other people and exploit people like yourselves, and myself. what is really behind your question? because my particular background is latin american, my parents are from cuba. ountry, they e from cuba. didn't want to participate in those politics. but i visited others there and in latin america, and they are making a change. and the so-called patriarial power structure was in real power. and power is d

done in london are a means by which we ensure that jobs are created in london.we are always thinking about what we can do to create more jobs in this capital city. >> andrew dismore. >> cancer treatment waits have been effectively eliminated for my constituents because our nhs doctors and nurses have met exacting cancer care targets. today, macmillan cancer support reported that because more people are surviving cancer -- which is excellent news they are more prone to health problems when their treatment ends, and need practical advice. what can my right honorable friend do to ensure that they receive that advice and help? >> the macmillan work is something that is very special in our country, and very much appreciated. i believe that because of the advances that we are making in cancer care, particularly if cancer is detected early and people are able to go through the screening process, many lives that would otherwise be lost are being saved. i appreciate that considerable aftercare is necessary even after many years, and i am determined that we will continue

join our three-hour conversation live from london. sunday february 7 at noon eastern on "book tv "he's "in depth" on c-span2. >> and howard baker, tom daschle and bob dole has a task force which will be led by pete domenici of new mexico and alice rivlin who served during the clinton administration. their announcement from yesterdas ines. we sw wt out ahoe i >> it is a pleasure to welcome you here today.

prague, budapest, and vienna -- he made no mention of -- london, brussels, paris, or berlin. it stretches from the atlantic. i am strongly in favor of the free movement of people within the 12 countries which make up this area. i have no confidence in the presumed superior wisdom of the commission in brussels as compared with the judgment of this elected house of commons. >> hear hear. >> recent events have reinforced that view. if we look forward to the day, as i do, when others can share

because, yeah we're raising taxes, which is terrible and the other countries are more screwed up and london arbitrary tax on bankers is -- makes our taxes look like we're the most capitalist country in the world and in some ways we are not because we are doing things well but others are worse and as long as we're competitive, use the texas and california analogy with other major companies we are fine and can raise our taxes 5% as long as they do 10% and the take away for obama and the administration, don't go higher than the others and you'll be in? our corporate tax rate is second to japan, one of the highest corporate tax rates out there. >> america has the lowest tax total collected as a percent of gdp of any mainly economy in the world. >> when they talk about changing the structure, many individuals and businesses are already preparing for 2010 tax season and will be ugly. >> whatever it's worth i sit on the board of a multinational company and happen to have a modicum of knowledge about this, if you allow me. multinational companies are very aware of the tax, rob, you are wrong about

you're looking at a map of london heathrow airport.are getting news from our sister network, sky news, that armed guards went onto a plane. it had been taxiing down for dubai. they removed one suspect. he was cuffed, according to witnesses. there was bomb sniffing dogs put on that plane. it's an emritz airliner. we don't know the results of that search. however, the people on board the plane have been taken off the plane, another part of the airport. just happening. we're getting more news. this comes at tense times as security has increased at airports all around the world since the christmas day bombing attempt on the airliner bound for detroit. we're waiting for more information. again, london heathrow airport. at least one man has been taken off, cuffed by armed guards. we'll follow up from our sister network, sky news. >>> now, the latest from the political grapevine. some republican congressional leaders apparently had no idea gop chairman michael steele had written a book about the party's future until they saw him on tv promoti

first of all, the london meeting will not be a conference.t think what is -- that is what is needed. some 5 billion pounds was pledged at the london conference and 2006. a small portion of that has been ini] part,ç because of concerns about how the money would be spent. there are other issues raised. 40 percent of it has been assigned an 81% allocated -- a small percentage has actually been spent. in terms of his attempt to send me to yemen, i cannot quite promise them that. my hon. friend, the minister of --u! will be on ça wrecky toçn çnext month. the conclusions of the london çmeeting in inappropriate way. >> mr. speaker, may we welcome on behalf of the opposition, the calling of the conference in london on january 28. agreed that yemen as a fragile state, rather than a failed state. it matters to british security. thereo7k are three setsç of questions. on the closure ofçç the embas, is the confidentç that the rigt level of consular support can be given to british citizens and officialsç in yemen? in the event of further closures

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that do not require a visa to come to the united states and they're going to be coming from airports london, paris, madrid, frankfort, brussels, rome, copenhagen. you have countries in asia that have had terrorist cells, al qaeda cells like sydney, australia, had several sets of rest. they fly nonstop into l.a. toronto 18 in 2006 direct access to the u.s. -- >> tom, are these all part -- these are all going to be added? that was part of my next question then. if the tsa alluded to that partial list of countries where 100% of the passengers traveling through will have to go through enhanced screenings. are you saying these countries you're mentioning, you're talking about asia and europe, is that going to -- everyone? >> tsa hasn't said that those countries and airports are going to be included. they're talking about other countries of interest. >> do you think it will be updated? >> i'm just saying those are only a fraction of the countries that have people that pose a threat, and what about the u.s. airports? we haven't talked about the five virginians that went to pakistan. we had subject

the kabul conference which will be -- to the conference of london. we have to go -- implementation of -- in kabul and that will be in the but peace -- domestication -- the occasion which will be -- by president karzai in a few weeks. this conference we will invite -- from different parts of the country, the -- of afghan society. to come together and discuss the issue of how we have to make -- how we can make peace with each other because this is our issue, issue of afghan. the listing -- they are the -- leadership of taliban. they are eight years in kabul. number four of the five, which was requested two years ago. and the united nations, we -- for the listing of the -- of the government, the taliban leadership and we are happy that they did it. we have to talk to the -- all the citizens of afghanistan that they are -- part of al qaeda and they are to respect and accept our constitution, human rights, from my point of view, woman rights and absolute gender equality. >> speaking of women's rights, question for mr. spanta and mr. miliband. i was approa

according to london's "telegraph" divorce lawyers say the site is tempting people to cheat. a law firm now cites 1 in 5 divorces in facebook. >>> time for sports and an end to the regular seon. here's ducis rodgers at espn news. >> good morning, i'm ducis rodgers with this espn news update. a lot of drama heading into the final week of the nfl season. the jets with the bengals. the jets clinch a play offberth with a victory. brad smith under center. option right, 32 yards for the touchdown. mark sanchez and the jets are headed to the playoffs with a 37-0 victory. they'll face cincinnati again in week onen saturday. >>> ravens and raiders with the win. the ravens have a playoff spot. willis mcgahee up the middle. and a 73-yard touchdown as mcgaughey takes it to the house. worth another look. mcgaughey just moves eugene out of the way. mcgaughey with three touchdowns on the day. ravens w 21-13, they'll face new england on the playoffs on sunday. >>> chris johnson came into the titans/seahawks with his eye on the record. the sixth running back in nfl history to reach that mark.

president karzai is going to this london-afghanistan conference at the end of this month.he international donors of troops and money were hoping that he would come with a new team with plans and, in fact, progress already underway in making this a more competent and effective government. what are they going to see now? >> afghan people parliament of afghanistan is serious about seeing reform being implemented in afghanistan. i think this is the kind of message that they would like to here. >> warner: mr. ambassador, thank you. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> ifill: next, a remarkable dancer, and the remarkable company she helped build. jeffrey brown has our story. ♪. >> brown: from the beginning 51 years ago the alvin ailey american dance theater has been a celebration of african- american culture and black dancers and choreographers who found few opportunities elsewhere to work. ♪ on a recent night at the city center theater in new york, the celebration continued. now focused on the woman who has long been the face of the company, judith jamison, dancer, choreographer and a

>> i found her in the london telephone book. 1919. i wrote her a letter and then i telephoned her and she very grudgingly said that i could come and visit her. no notes, i was not allowed to take notes. immediately after our conversation, i rushed to the first cafe that i could find and wrote down everything that she had said and i had said. i'm not sure i can equal truman capote in this regard. it is something that biographers and writers have to do sometimes. it is not uncommon to be told that you cannot take notes. any writer worth his salt, even by the person that said you cannot take notes, knows that you will make use of that conversation. >> how long did you spend with her? >> i spent a couple of hours with her the first time. i went back for a second visit and spent a little longer with her. >> what did she tell you about the marriage and about the man? >> she was very tight lipped. she told about herself and her background. she told me how they met and how they went to switzerland. she spent quite a bit of time stonewalling m

we have also in london and in berlin and in other places. but to remove this gap between the reality and division, that's is our job -- that is our job, up to act together and through the struggle of a better life and democratization worldwide, including afghanistan. i am absolutely against this. democracy is only four european countries. human rights, freedom of speech is the universal right for all humanity. but the realization of that, when the time and strategy. that will be painful. i can tell you from my own experience that is exactly as i demonstrated in my country. i was 14 years old. that is 42 years and still i am looking for the removal of equal problems. we have to work together. but despite all the difficulties compared to the other constitutions in the region, it is a different constitution. we are the only constitution in the region -- we are the only country that has adapted the universal human rights declaration as part of our rights. our commitments to this universal declaration of human rights, which includes also gender e

. >> topping it is terrorism, and we have several reports this morning, sonia gallego in london, but viviana hurtado with new security rules. >> designed to focus on those who pose the largest threat. >> reporter: at another sign at the nation's airports, travelers were delayed sunday evening for at least two hours at the airport after a man walked the wrong way in a security exit. >> the public just has no confidence anymore in the ability of government to provide a safe environment which travelers can fly. >> reporter: there will be extra screening for passengers with passports from or who have traveled from nations that the u.s. sees suspect such as yemen. the a additional screening also for those who fly from what the government decide are like tehran. >> i suspect they will broaden the definitions. >> reporter: but critics say these heightened security measures still won't detect the bomb materials such as sewn into the underwear of umar farouk abdulmutallab. the system failed but insists an obvious terror plot wasn't missed. >> there was no smoking gun if will you, that said th

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the last afghan conference in london in 2006 had several ambitious objectives most of which have never been met. most agree the conference should focus on realistic goals that can be delivered focusing on improve governance and reinvigorating former taliban members. will the government have regular reviews of the progress made including the conference proposed in a few months time. >> of course we are looking to ensure how we can play our part to make sure in afghanistan we have the right military action to tackle terrorism but we support -- the armed forces and have economic development and political development but i would have thought he would have taken the opportunity to support the work that is going on tomorrow to support that. [talking over each other] >> immediately after this question on my right, i will visit president cause i -- hamid karzai. there is no need to make political points. afghanistan will no doubt be addressed by president obama in his state of the union address tonight but he is also expected to talk about reforms for the regulation of the banking system and n

the audience in the offices, and that play be people who in the past play have had trouble going to london to westminster. but i should find it useful to tap into it by watching on television or online. >> i should have made that clear. what people see here in the united states is just a very small portion of what you do. >> that's right. primary question is different than the rest. it does give you a flavor of the -- of the competitive nature of parliamentary debate. and the way two sides line up against each other in a kind of face-off. and -- the -- it is different from most of the european parliaments most of which ra are in hemi cycles and a speaker play read a speech. and usually it is a small number of people. the -- the commons is -- is, has very different style to that. about you're in the -- here in the united states, the house wept on -- went on television before the united states senate. some said at that point in time it was because the house was on television that the senate finally went on television. in your case, the house of lords was already on television. is that correc

because all of a sudden everybody knew we in innovation and i was invited to make films in london and switzerland and the animation film director but the people and prague could add travel and at -- at all and those who could not go back i had a pass for and i could fly and i was confused because i would see in london tomatoes then i would go to prague and sa can i have a pound of tomatoes and nobody would have those in april. it was creating problems and i remember coming to the bar in is iraq is like the wild west for somebody said i am buying drinks for everybody not just that guy over there. you may be? yes, i mean you why you call me that? because you have a czechoslovakia passport. i said i am an artist. >> you serve the government over there. i did not know what to say. i said let's step outside because that is what they say in the movies. [laughter] and a guy was very big and he was a dentist waiting for citizenship and he was afraid that if he stepped outside he would get in trouble and would not get citizenship. and some people said he is not bad but i am just saying it was

i had left london town and the home that is quiet and wriggle.urned into a tortoise. and as for my peers, makes the just of the. after 10000 miles the galapagos isles, but i fear that this place will result in disgrace when i use it to further my theory. and i scramble ashore and the sea lions were and i hear the tempestuous figure, i glance up in a tree and what do i see? seven gyms and an anglican vicar. it's not hard to tell they're all mad as hell and i ask what's the source of your fury? its silence in court for i am your judge and your jury. with a barristers mufi declares, i'm on trial and tells me the source of his action. you cannot escape for you said man is an ape and my clients demand satisfaction to prove my office at the he calls his first witness. the birds turned into a snail and the coils becomes an iguana. the judge is perplexed, i say don't be perplexed. his honors is quiet, the court will not buy, you must tell the truth of creation. your neck is in a news and you're off to eternal damnation. i have given up hope, the chimp st

so they say, find out from film from england that my wife starts calling london.was in english actor but it was done in seattle. so she got director of the film in seattle. and he said we thought nobody would notice that the actor is left-handed. [laughter] >> that i was facing this dilemma because i thought i could leave it there and nobody quite knows if he was or wasn't there but i thought if some child today, like you will groping use this book as reference, he knew he was left-handed. so i started to erase the pain from the left him but by this time the paper was getting so thin that now if you look at it he is holding nothing. [laughter] >> because it's not because i wanted to stay away like to be middle of the road, but it's because i just couldn't draw anything anymore because you can see through the paper. darwin is writing original species with no pen. [laughter] >> so that's if you want to be an illustrated but now i'm computer, we would change in no time. this is like research. this is just a long time ago. children are still very funny that she is smi

>> the london conference is right upon us. we are walking arm in arm with the karzai administration. we are coordinating with regard to election reform and i think we are of the same mind. that should be a part of something in the near future. we're recording with the karzai administration as to when these parliamentary elections are held. i do know from talking with the president that he wants to follow the constitution and he wants to give the afghan people an opportunity to vote and to have an accurate vote count with regard to the parliament. >> when you said we are in a good position to win it 2010, i wonder about your thoughts -- >> this is a press conference about afghanistan and pakistan. it is a wonderful thing about our system. the american people have an opportunity to vote every two years. they have an opportunity to express their opinion about this stewardship of this administration and its majority. >> when you're talking about the deficit of trust, it sounded like you had not convinced of pakistan people that yo

you and she introduced us that same night to an english man called james stevens who used to be in london and he had created and funded a home for lampert children of the slums, and this man [inaudible] but had no more money for his home which he had called resurrection, and he was about to close an island of hope in the heart of the worst health. we were so impressed we gave him the $50,000 we made him an extravagant promises. we said to him james, you will never close your home. then we flew back to paris. i wrote a newspaper saying you know, if we are only 5,000 to send every year $300 for this home which saves lipper children in the worst place on the face of this plan that, we can really do something extraordinary. we are living in the time of nuclear at the time of triumph on the sixth floor of a building without an elevator when we saw our concierge when morning comes saying i don't know what is happening. there is a postal van in front of the building with nine postal bags full of mail for you. what should we do? thank god my wife is from a family of eight sisters. so we were able

there's a london conference, and of later on this month and this person would have to address the londone to convince these donors that would be there in london that he could better organized and account for the assistance coming into afghanistan. host: a couple more calls for you, flynt township in michigan, democrats line, go ahead. caller: i just heard you talking about a pipeline running across afghanistan. i have heard before that there was a person on their that denied the existence of the pipeline. why would they deny the existence of the pipeline, which i heard them do? and you admit that the pipeline does exist. and since you have been so honest on the pipeline, we also have to be honest with the fact that we have bin laden cornered by tora bora and -- at tora bora in the caves and we shifted our direction to iraq, so they let bin laden go. guest: i want to be clear about the pipeline. the pipeline does not now exist, but plans to build the pipeline have been in people's minds and even on pieces of paper for years and years, probably 20 or 30 years. these plans to bring natural

mark phillips, cbs news, london. >> glor: funerals were held today for two the cia employees killed in last month's attack on a base in afghanistan, the attackers brought agency secrets out in the open, to the dismay of former insiders. kimberly dozier has more tonight. >> reporter: family and friends gathered in massachusetts today to remember harold brown, one of seven cia employees killed by a suicide bombing in afghanistan on december 30th. with rare openness, the central intelligence agency has allowed five of the victims to be mourned publicly, a decision that angered some former officers like michael sawyer, i always think it is better not to tell a very intelligent, very observant enemy much of anything. >> others identified include security contractor dane bressy, agent employee elizabeth hanson, security officer and former policeman scott roberson and cia security officer and former navy seal, jeremy weiss. they have been gathered at forward operating base chapman on the afghan border to meet a spy. they thought he would provide information on top al qaeda and taliban leaders

he was then the young crusading editor of the sunday times of london.some of you know him now, his memoir has just come out and harry came to speak at my college and he said that american journalists have gotten away from the great old narrative traditions of journalists so without any pretense of humility, i sent off my sugarcane stories from the times picayune to him in london and in virtually didn't hear anything, never heard anything back. .. he was really, really fan, really tall, always tightly coiled, so much so that he looked like a figure in an animated cartoon your. he would unfurl himself in various ways. i was sent by harry as and while i was there in london to a town called dundee scotland. he was under the theory that terri had that i was an american, this was night teen 73 and since i was an american i was like woodward and bernstein would suddenly become famous, uncovering watergate. this is not true because one of the things about writing about people the way ideal is that you do it because you tend to like people. this is great for wri

we have also in london, we have in berlin and other places. to remove this gap between the reality and the invasion, that is our job to act together through the -- and a better life including afghanistan. i am absolutely against that eurocentric. that democracy is only four european countries. human-rights, freedom of speech is the universal right for all humanity. the realization of that, we need time and strategy. that will be painful. i can tell you from my own experiences that it is exactly as i demonstrated. in my country, i was 14 years old and this is 42 years and i am still lacking for the removal of the problems. now, we have to work together but despite all the difficulties, the constitution of afghanistan compared to the other constitutions in the region is very progressive. we're the only country in the region that i inform you -- we are the only country that adapted the international law, the human rights declaration as part of our national right. this is part of our commitment to the universal declaration of human rights which in

>> now, from london, "prime minister's questions," from the british house of commons. british prime minister gordon brown began this week's question time by pledging uk humanitarian aid to haiti, following the earthquake there on tuesday. the prime minister answered questions on whether he will appear before the iraq war inquiry. >> order. questions for the prime minister. bill wiggin. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> before listing my engagements, i know that the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to captain daniel read, from 11 explosive ordnance disposal regiment, royal logistic corps. he died in afghanistan on monday, undertaking the dangerous work of protecting his fellow soldiers and civilians from explosive devices. the courage and selflessness of this work is truly breathtaking. his sacrifice will not be forgotten, and we send our sincere condolences to his family and friends. i know that the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute also to rupert hamer, who lost his life in afghanistan while reporting from the front line, and to his col

i live ten years in london. i grew up ten years in london, ten years in new york. lived in key west for a while and various, central california and i came up here and people are like you know the days when you said rural seclusion for a writer and his rural coming up wearing a shirt like leo tolstoy is really not wear this hat. i mean with modern communications you can wake up in the morning and read every newspaper on the planet. it is very different. i mean we have in petrolia, in the winter we have power outages and all the rest of it but you know these days, personally i don't think-- so that you have a dsl line. you have every image in the world and to many are available to you. i ambien san francisco and five hours if i feel like it, if i have meetings i can fly around so that is where i am at and what i am doing. it is an ideal circumstance for me. >> that is done by my friend the artists, steve rogers, the massacre on the real. there's a lot of stage work around here. down in high relief about a terrible massacre, basically sponsored by the united states on

. >> secretary of state hillary clinton attended a conference on yemen in london today. she said human needs to implement a number of reforms to help curtail terrorism. an update on that conference is next on c-span2. after that we will hear from haiti's ambassador to the u.s. on relief efforts following the earthquake two weeks ago. and later a conversation with former u.s. ambassador to iraq and afghanistan, ryan crocker. in the nation's capital and across the country listen to c-span radio. in washington at 90.1 132 it's also a free application for your iphone. c-span retial, covering washington like no other. >>> representatives from 20 countries met earlier to discuss security in him in. following their meeting, british foreign secretary david miller band, secretary of state hillary clinton and the indian and foreign minister held a joint news conference. the leaders talked about restoring economic stability to the country and working together to fight terrorism in the region. this is about 30 minutes. >> -- my colleague of the foreign minister of him and and my col

well, nbc's top aspell's in london with the latest.tell us what it's been like there in europe? >> reporter: hi, alex. europe's cold snap is the worst in 30 years and we've seen snow closing roads and airports across the continent as icy blizzards from the arctic bring freezing temperatures and misery to millions. in britain, normally mild winters are just a memory, as schools close and millions stay home from work. local councils have used up so much gravel on the icy roads, they've run out of supplies, leaving thousands of secondary roads and sidewalks untreated, turning them into sheets of black ice. eurostar, the train service which links britain to france under the channel, is running on reduced services. in sweden, temperatures dropped 40 degrees below zero, putting a strain on energy supplies. heavy snowfall in the czech republic has prompted the government to ban trucks from its roads. spain reports thick snow in cat leona, and heavy rains in italy have risen concerns over water levels. venice is facing exceptionally heavy tide

us, and that's when it was thought of as a ridiculous goal when ten men went into a print shop in london in 1787, and they had decided that the slave trade was immoral. and in one man's lifetime those ten men changed the whole culture of slave trade. they wanted to end the slave trade in england, and you can read this story if you were to read bury the chains. it's a book by adam hockchild, and he tells the story of how a small group of men can change an entire culture and a society's way of thinking about things. and that's what we have in our lap now, and they didn't have the internet, they didn't have telephones and television. we have the ability, now, to make the change if we really want to do it. and i know that all of you here know that we have a problem with climate. you can't have been sitting here for the last day and a half and not know that the climate is a problem and that we are engaged in the solutions. the most recent studies from the 1500 scientists with the ippc -- said that global co2 emissions are increasing faster than previously anticipate thed. summertime arctic ic

we'll hear from one of the survivors and celebrations in london and around the world. when the new year and the new decade. first on may news this morning a review of airport security has been ordered by the prime minister after the failed. detroit. plane plot which he's described as a wakeup call right here on the downing street website gordon brown says the u.k. will move quickly in its fight against terror a full body scanners will now be considered as part of the new measure. the new decade is starting as the last began with al qaeda. creating a climate of fear that right. the prime minister is why they could be no complacency in dealing with the failed detroit attack he says the national terrorism. very great country. title from a tional perspective. terrorists to stop them movement and procedures. now being carried out to look. port in the next few days. new physical security measures. also seem inevitable rumor for root abdulmutallab. explosives went undetected through dutch and nigerian airports. and gordon brown says new techniques will be examined in cooperat

. >> we met in london. we met at a club called zanzibar.e time, i was finishing graduate school. i had a started working at nbc news. >> where is home? >> san francisco. >> what is your relationship? >> well, we are married and we work together and make films together and we write books together so it is a very close relationship. >> what other books have you written? >> this is our first together. i wrote a book called "out of control." it was about covert operations. >> where were you from originally? >> i was from ireland. >> amended to leave there? >> life was interesting. in the early years, we did not have a car or a telephone and so we went everywhere by force. -- by horse. we communicated by telegram. it is a perfectly viable way to live. i left there when i was 17 and went to london. >> how many books and documentary'ies have you done since 1991? >> three or four books. >> your daughters are about to him or seven. >> one of them is an actress. people would have seen her on "house." she also does movies. another daughter is a lawyer

. >> we met in london years ago. we met at a club called zanzibar actually in london. >> what were you doing? >> i was at the time i was finishing graduate school over there at soas which was the school of oriental and african studies. i was also had just started working at "nbc news." >> where's home originally? >> san francisco. >> and what is your relationship? >> well, we're married and we work together we make films together for "pbs frontline" and we write books together. so it's a very close relationship. >> what other books have you written? >> this is our first together. but i wrote a book called "out of control" which was about the reagan administration activities in central america. it was about covert operations down there. andrew wrote a book called "the threat" which was about the soviet military. >> where were you from originally? >> i was from ireland. i grew up in ireland. my father's scottish but-- >> where in ireland? >> county cork, east cork. >> and what was life like growing there and when did y

the men were arrested on suspicion of making a bomb threat and are in jail in london. it happened last night as the plane got ready to take off from heathrow airport. all the passengers were taken off the plane while police searched it with bomb-sniffing dogs. they found nothing suspicious. heathrow remained open during the incident. >>> the togo national soccer team has withdrawn from the african cup of nations tournament. the team pulled out of the games this morning in the wake of that devastating attack that killed at least two people when gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying the team to the tournament. it happened on the border between angola and republic of congo. so far there's no claim of responsibility for the attack. >>> some humane society workers have started carrying weapons. but it's not the animals they fear. in lawrence, kansas, workers who investigate animal abuse have started carrying concealed guns at work. and they say the real risk, angry pet owners who aren't taking care of their animals. >> they're usually not very happy to see us. they don't thi

can you assure the public there is no specific threat against london this week? >> can i say what the nature of the alert is so that everybody is clear? when we raise the word from substantial to severe we need a terrorist attack is highly likely that we also say it is not expected to be imminent. i obviously go on the advice given to me by the secretary because it is his announcement of the joint terrorism adviser center. i have to tell you taking into account a number of factors not one factor, not a single potential fact we take into account a number of factors and we are returning the security to the situation it was from july, 2007 when we had the edge of the terrorist attack in london to july, 2008 and i have to reassure people in my statement last wednesday which perhaps something we wish to look at a bit more carefully in light of the announcement on friday it made it absolutely clear that of course there is a threat from terrorist groups who want to do damage to the country that have also made it clear what measures we were taking as a matter of urgency

the men were arresteon threat and are in jail in london right now. the incident happened last night as the plane was get rairport. all the passengers were taken off the plane while police searched it with bomb-sniffing dogs. they found nothing suspicious. the airport remained open during the incident. >>> the christmas airline bombing attempt suspect has pleaded not guilty to all charges. umar farouk abdulmutallab appeared in court in detroit yesterday. it lasted about four minutes, the hearing. he is facing six federal charges including an attempt to blow up a plane and an attempt to use weapons of mass destruction. that charge could get him life in prison if he's convicted. his defense didn't challenge the government's request to keep him in pretrial custody. his next court date has not been set yet. >>> it appears some muslims wanted to make a case that this case has nothing to do with their faith. about 50 of them held a rally outside the courthouse in downtown detroit. they tried to show that terrorists don't represent islam. they chanted "we ar