across the u.k., and has not just been in london. >> atoll for london is, as is often the case, about providing something for the next generation, about legacy. that is the hardest thing to achieve, isn't it? >> it is. what has happened, the transformation of the east end of london, has been breathtaking. you have new housing, new schools, new health facilities, sports facilities. i think that will be the jewel in the crown of legacy. a huge amount is happening within schools across the country. many projects, getting young people involved in sports. i think it will have a very positive legacy to tell. >> we have not quite gone to the games yet. just working out a time line from london was awarded the games back in 2005. if you converted that into a 100 meter race, we would now be four meters from the finish line. that is how frightening it is. >> hongkong legislative council is meeting for a vote of confidence on the outgoing leader. taking a closer look at what is behind the vote in february, details emerged in hong kong media of a luxury trip to macau on a businessmen's yacht that

morgan london manipulating the c.d.s. market altering people's perceptions of risk in the credit markets we saw the same thing with the libel rate altering people's perceptions of risk in the in the credit markets now clearly bank of england the u.s. federal reserve bank the central bank of europe they don't want people to perceive there could be any risk but they don't want people to perceive there's only inflation so they keep interest rates near zero percent that's part propaganda meanwhile energy and food are going through all time highs now people say well what's the difference if they're manipulate the price of the upside of the downside they're still making money the difference is that at the end of the day they're flooding these markets with currency and causing massive inflation and loss of purchasing power and negative real interest rates and lending to people like in athens who are blowing their brains out thank you blight master you murder her you put a bullet the guy's head clive ok now when you take so to fi

midday here in london. a former foreign secretary faces legal action over claims he was involved in the rendition of at terror suspects to muammar gaddafi. now one of libya's most senior military commander wants to know if he signed papers that led to his forced transfer to libya where he claims he was tortured back in 2004. the british government then and now has consistently said it has not been complacent and torture. here is our security correspondent, brent gardner.-- frank gardner. >> jack straw is the latest in the libyan attacks from muammar gaddafi. he was responsible for the britain's intelligence service. it is alleged he signed off on a secret opposition to deliver papers to muammar gaddafi's jail. after last year's nato bombing of libya, ransacked government offices revealed letters sent by ted british intelligence to the libyan intelligence one referred to this libyan commander. back in 2004, they believed he was an al qaeda operative, which he denies. he said there were dragged back to libya

for london this year something something interesting i just came from london there was just three days ago four days ago i would perform. a very long order a beautiful world of parts. and a famous director feel very good so that was very recently and my next return visit to london is in may it will be totally dedicated to russian composer stormin scheme yugoslavia's keys give me the most famous composer of thank you century and maybe one of the absolutely most important positions of the century and i am always on the road to just conduct his music everywhere in russia and america and europe as a in the lead that will be the striving ski season what about the olympics will you be performing in london during the games well my hope is the world view of some of the civil rights that i will be there myself in the closing ceremony and i think we will all hope for fantastic games on a personal russia all the world so you. you are pretty. active i mean socially politically recently recently you he were. put his presidential campaign why did you decide to to to give your popularity your name to

. >> i am in london. the headlines. the man accused of masterminding 9/11 are to appear before a military tribunal. at least seven people are killed following an explosion at a theater in the somali capital. >> the united states is prepared to ease sanctions against burma following recent political reforms. why are babies dying in vietnam from a disease that is mostly harmless in the developed world? it is 9:00 in the morning. >> it is two o'clock in the morning here in london. broadcast interview is an america and around the world, this is new de -- broadcasting to viewers in america and around the world, this is newsday. hello and welcome. the alleged mastermind of the september of 11 attacks, khalid sheikh mohammed, and four of his conspirators had been sent to trial. the five men being held at guantanamo bay have been charged with terrorism, hijacking, and murder. they will be tried by special military tribunal and could face the death pen from washington, here is of a correspondent. >> these five men are accused of

>> we have a mayor of london who pays his taxes. [shouting] so nothing from him about unemployment, nothing about the rich needing to pay their taxes, nothing about ken livingstone's responsibility be asked about the budget. this budget cuts taxes for 24 million people. this budget cuts corporation taxes. this budget may britain competitive. he talks about my last month. let's have a look at his last month. he lost the election, that was great. [shouting] i have to say he has given one person a job opportunity. george galloway. [laughter] >> he lost the bradford election. he showed complete weakness when it came to the united trade union and the fuel stride. he has a mayor of london they won't pay his taxes. that's his last though. as ever, completely hopeless. >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, he talks about the fuel price. i am not going to take any lecture on industrial relations. [shouting] i'm not going to take any in lecture on industrial relations from a government and a prime minister that causes panic at the pump. [shouting] and

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one obviously is the result in london. the other is to make sure we build a high-performance system in this country. >> that is the real challenge, keeping this going. time and time again we see them have great games, and then delete -- diddley squat. >> attempt to improve our medal haul in rio. six to eight years. >> it becomes very assertive egotistical, the olympics. what are we doing? what is britain doing? the way in which these gains were one, what are we doing to justify it? >> if we won the olympics, murray would try to inspire young people all over the world. -- we would try to in spiraea people all over the world. they provide 50 million pounds in providing support. programs hour for that country. we have now reached well over 12 million children. we are very pleased with the progress that is made. our intention is to continue that work. >> good luck. thank you very much indeed. from the west of london, here. the olympics take place in the east. what is it like out there? you a chance to give us a tour. >> the we

london. the british ministry of defense is considering placing surface to air missiles on residential buildings people in east london the receive leaflets saying their rooftops could be used to deploy their weapons during the olympic games this summer residence so the concern about the safety of the system could become a target for official stress the missiles are a last resort which would only be used in case of an extreme terrorist threat london based investigative journalist paul ashmore told me earlier maschmeyer should say told me earlier that those living within five kilometers of the missiles should look to the skies for fear of sudden death. i don't think they're trying to be secretive about it i think they're trying to stop it happening in the first the but it's all part of a mountain of hysteria i think that sort of sweep in london a bit but you've got this huge. and there is this sort of looming nine eleven threat about it i mean it's just because everybody realizes that it's a ter

of the london symphony orchestra so what are you preparing for this year since something interesting i just came from london there was just three days ago four days ago we perform to a very long over a beautiful bit of a kind of argument. and if it was correct feel very good so that was very recently on my next to return visit to london is in may it will be totally dedicated to russian composer stravinsky yugoslavians he is arguably the most famous composer of thank you century yeah maybe one of the absolutely most important musicians of the century and i am always on the road to just conduct his music everywhere in russia in america and europe are so late in the lead there will be the starving ski season so what about the olympics will you be performing in london during the games where my orchestra will be involved some of the seven august i will give them myself for the closing ceremony and i think we will all hope for fantastic games and i personally hope also rushed. all the world so you hear you are pretty. active i mean socially politically recently recently you you. endorsed p

the atmosphere, like a bit you don't normally get in london. >> even stoic londoners are getting a littlexcited. >> it's going to be absolute chaos. it's going to be fun. >> the covers are coming off and things ready, taking shape now. so it's good. >> reporter: there are final tests to be done, and final qualifying rounds to be won. final touches to the huge bell that will ring in the opening ceremony. and some 8,000 torch bearers to rehearse. britain's royal olympic ambassadors, william, kate and harry, will cheer them on as they run through the grounds of buckingham palace. and the sporting royals will do their bit to help inspire a new generation of britons to go for medal glory. >> we'll help out as much as we can. >> reporter: british police and defense forces are coordinating the biggest-ever peacetime security operation. on the streets, in the air, and on the water. but you'll still be able to ask a london bobby the way. >> i'm very confident that we'll be able to make sure that it's not just a safe prelolympics, b fantastically fun as well. >> reporter: if the new cable car over

. >> on kashner madera in london. our headlines this hour -- amid political uncertainty, share prices in europe are falling. and what lies behind the escalation of violence in the south. >> the in quest starts into the death of a british mi officer, whose body was found to have bought in a sports bag. it is 9:00 a.m. here in singapore. >> and it is 2:00 a.m. in london, broadcasting to viewers from pbs in america and around the world. this is newsday. hello and welcome. share prices have fallen around the world after the narrow victory of the socialist candidate in the first round of the french presidential election. the collapse of the dutch government has added to fears that the countries at the heart of europe might struggle to implement further austerity measures. here is a government report from paris. >> pres. sarkozy fighting for his political life today, while financial markets tumbled, spooked in part by political uncertainty in france. he was beaten in the first round of voting, and is drilling in the crucial

>> we have a mayor of london who pays his taxes. [shouting] so nothing from him about unemployment, nothing about the rich needing to pay their taxes, nothing about ken livingstone's responsibility be asked about the budget. this budget cuts taxes for 24 million people. this budget cuts corporation taxes. this budget may britain competitive. he talks about my last month. let's have a look at his last month. he lost the election, that was great. [shouting] i have to say he has given one person a job opportunity. george galloway. [laughter] >> he lost the bradford election. he showed complete weakness when it came to the united trade union and the fuel stride. he has a mayor of london they won't pay his taxes. that's his last though. as ever, completely hopeless. >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, he talks about the fuel price. i am not going to take any lecture on industrial relations. [shouting] i'm not going to take any in lecture on industrial relations from a government and a prime minister that causes panic at the pump. [shouting] and

wasn't involved in the murder of the former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. as the violence in syria continues unabated neighboring lebanon has seized a shipment of smuggled weapons destined for syrian rebels the cash apparently came from libya which is backing the opponents of president assad this comes as the rebels step up their assault on government forces saturday saw the first insurgent attack from the sea a day after a suicide bombing killed at least nine people in the capital russia says the opposition is seeking to scuttle the un brokered cease fire as the world body steps up its observer mission to syria frankly the rector of the n.g.o.s americans concern for middle east. yes thinks the latest on the smuggling effort was an attempt at regime change. great suspicion is that these are arms that were left over from libya the craft was loaded their worst would be fifteen containers but it turned out there were already in fact three that were filled w

well it's true actually i don't care much about mr sarkozy or london at all and i think. the reason for this shows your socialist victory is more or less you know i think you could accuse misako c. for that because he's been quite bad for france and i have to say that i'm quite happy for my pen and successor front and i think it's a good thing i've had my doubts over the years when it comes to front not you know but i think that marion le pen actually has started some kind of change within the party and i think that's good because france needs is needing a democratic you know nationalistic party and i think that the change that marie le pen has initiated within the party is very good and i think that if she continues this process i'm quite sure that could be a future president of france which is something good if you ask me ok entries what do you think about that i mean it's interesting i mean we look at these two candidates are going in the runoff but everyone's looking at le pen and the right and you know i'm in this is one of the reasons why i wanted to do this program

to cross talk the elections in france i'm joined by robert oulds in london he is director of the bruges group also in london we have andrei stop he is the managing director at the european policy information center and in stockholm we go to richard he is a member of the swedish parliament for the sweden democrats all right gentlemen this is cross-eyed that means you can jump in anytime you want and rays in london first i'd like to go to you a lot of people said that after the first round of the presidential election in france that the choices were dismal but and whoever wins france still loses how do you feel about that. yes that's probably that's probably a good call i mean if sarkozy very unlikely but it's because he does win the second round we have to keep in mind that in the first round of the elections three quarters of french voters actually voted against sarkozy so that in itself is an indictment and if what is new looks like very likely or launch will come in we will get a whole new shake up in the way europe is likely to pursue solving the eurozone crisis alone has indicated t

. >> i am in london. the headlines this hour. >> the united states of america says it is prepare todd ease sanctions against burma following easing of political reforms. standing trial, the men accused of masterminding 9/11 are to appear for a military tribunal. >> at least seven people are killed following an explosion at a theater in the somali capital, mogadishu. and $26 million for a bowl, another record at a hong kong auction. >> it is 11:00 in the morning here in singapore. >> and it is 4:00 in the morning here in london. broadcasting around the world, this is news day. >> the u.s. secretary of state has announced that the obama administration is prepared to ease sanctions against burma. hillary clinton said some travel restrictions would be relaxed. this comes days after elections in which the party won support. >> there is a new dawn in burma. cavs after elections saw the opposition gain a large number of seats, the united states announced it would ease sanctions. >> we are prepared to take steps

morgan in the london whale trader exam exhibit b. being wells fargo and the latest ruling on their mortgage abuse is my question do these punishment that we've seen go far enough we talk a lot about prosecutions on the show i want to ask karl denninger if this latest punitive ruling which gave him no damages that we're pretty happy for wells fargo is an example of a punishment that goes far enough or no dice again he's trader and author of leverage how cheap money will just break the world so carl before the break we were talking about this was a ruling which was as you said the disputed damages were significant i think was it three point one million i don't remember exactly what they were maybe it was because it was basically ten times the amount of the firm that had been sought for it which is starting to get into the category of that. and that's what you need to do if you're going to deter conduct because if you just make someone give back what he took on justly then it becomes a business decision because they can say well i can g

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today, they hang in london's tate gallery. walking to the exhibition, you might be distracted by objects that seem to modern war appeared to be at least art deco era. forward thinking victorian artists emerged the economical ambitions of 18th-century cottage's style furniture with the asymmetrical design elements of japanese art that was introduced to london in 1862. >> so you come out with these very beautiful and sleek design worms that the artist combined -- a design forms. very modern. our visitors are really surprised that so many of the works at a very modern feel to them. >> they believe that no object needed to be considered worthless or low class. each thing, existing in its own place, was the best thing for its place. and what first seems to be idle showiness, shows the richness of today and yesterday. >> it is exciting to have a project you have worked on for so long coming in know, come to your own museum. and museum curators are among the luckiest professionals, because we get to share with tens of thousands of pe

across the father of the former security officer alexander litvinenko who died in london of radioactive poisoning tells r.t. he was responsible for his son's murder. you're watching r t a very warm welcome to. france talks tough and either europe tackles in legal immigration or paris pulls out of the travels that according to president nicolas sarkozy stance has already caused a stir among some members with belgium saying french electoral concerns are now playing a bigger role there so because he is facing a hard fight in the presidential runoff vote a week on sunday. reports. they say it's better to travel than to arrive but for european unity the ride has been bumpy to say the least and where could it be headed. the eurozone will implode a considerable number of economist admit when the french of foreign that the eurozone is already dead it will collapse. so says the candidate who surprised france by securing almost a fifth of the votes in round one of their presidential race all the other candidates without exception regard the european union as part of the solution or is the main so

all kinds of cute little london charms on it. where's the tower of london and the torture chamber?n't we? >> sara. >> yes, we do. the kentucky derby is right around the corner. just like last year, we want to see your original designs of your hats. go to our website, klgandhoda.com to post your picture. right now through mex monday, april 23rd. you are fweting the chance possibly to win a trip to the kentucky derby. so get crazy and creative. >> thank you. >> great, thank you. big show. >>> up next -- >> the one and only, julie andrews here with her daughter emma watson hamilton. they're having a mother/daughter moment. isn't that sweet? so sweet. right after this. for the cameras. onday... sounds like a mini-wheats day to me! and becka's science fair is on the 8th. she's presenting the solar system. hey i've got just the whole grain fiber to help keep her full so she can stay focused. um...you rock. she'll be ready to rock. right here! [ female announcer ] make your kids big days, mini-wheats days. packed with fiber and nearly a day's worth of whole grains kellogg's frosted mini-w

i love it. >> london has changed, as every city has. you certainly will not have any of those bankers wearing bowler hats and numberless. more to the point, london out is tremendously diverse. paris is becoming in admitting that it is more a diversity, and there's a little line for me quite hidden away the says i'm very much a parisian or i'm interested in parisian women, but not quite sure that i ever met a parisian woman. what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is that my education, i have been looking at old movies that i love. we speak about the reputation of the parisian, which was supposed to dress very well. i think that, you know, in france, the eccentricity -- for me, eccentricity is very chic and it is what i love. it is so much about the good taste, which paralyzed. it is still a city where everybody meets profession, sure, but it is sad that you did not seek only may be in the young people, but you do not see when people are in the rain, let's say, in society, like having the joy to address. like you have to be like the col

soldiers fighting pirates in the horn of africa, and t minus 100 days until the summer olympics, and london says everything is on >> the "los angeles times" newspaper has released a photograph showing u.s. serviceman posing with the bodies of dead afghan suicide bombers. heavy criticism. >> they overshadow a nato meeting in brussels designed to map out what role the alliance will play in afghanistan once foreign troops are gone. we will have more analysis from brussels and washington in a moment, but our coverage begins with what came out of the meeting in brussels. >> speaking to media at the meeting, the nato secretary general was quite clear on this point -- nato will remain committed to afghanistan beyond 2014, not as a fighting force, but to train and assist. >> it is in the interest of the whole international community to see strong and highly capable afghan security forces take full responsibility for security. >> the price tag of a mission to assist in afghanistan's army and police forces could cost around $4 billion a year, says nato. that is less than the cost of keeping combat tr

she's director of waging peace also in london we have i'll johnson he is director at viewpoint africa and an award winning journalist on african affairs and in nairobi we go to wolf christian p.s. he is a fellow at the international conversion center bond all right folks this is cross-eyed that means you can jump in anytime on a live if i go to you first in london south sudan got its independence over a half a year ago i guess not much has been resolved as a matter fact a closer you look at this situation between these two countries there's a lot of unresolved issues is this where the conflict is coming from or is it just a continuation of the civil war that ended in two thousand and five. well the civil war came to an end with the comprehensive peace agreement that was signed in two thousand and five and the problem with the referendum and the which was held last year which allowed the south to vote on whether or not its citizens would like independence that all went ahead smoothly but the problem with it was that it didn't resolve many of the issues that are still being fought over

officer alexander litvinenko in london remains a permanent fixture in relations between russia and the u.k. and while diplomas struggle to start a door it's the man living in this tiny italian crowd whose shocking revelations could bring the two sides closer together six years after his son was killed seventy three year old while the litvinenko says it's time to speak out because i should be used as a witness alexander died in my arms he wrote important information on a tissue as he died because. you understand through my gesture. the room was bugged he didn't want anybody to hear and what was on the tissue when the he wrote to the murder was and the rest are reveal it only in court as up with will the u.k. like the truth. it will live the court is objective. and russia. even more. the only accusation up to now from alexander litvinenko was that putin ordered the poisoning when you're. this statement revealed after he died it never existed until the very last moment i was there and sasha believed he would recover also he hardly spoke any english and the letter was written in impeccable

. >> missiles could be placed in a crowded london neighborhood during the summer olympic games. the british ministry of defense and distributed leaflets to the densely populated neighborhood in east london. they notify residents of the possibility

lockdown london is necessary to protect the games.otal number of security officials they'll deploy, well, david security so tight that number is a secret. >> nick schifrin from london, thanks to you. >>> we'll turn now to the race for press in "your voice, your vote" a year ago that daring raid, tense moments inside the white house as they watched the operation to get osama bin laden unfold. s.e.a.l. team six landing at that compound in pakistan finding and killing bin laden and now a year later president obama fighting to keep his job and not surprisingly team obama pointing to that moment and so i want to bring in our senior washington editor rick klein tonight. ridge, you saw this obama campaign ad using former president bill clinton. i wanted to get your reaction to a clip. >> suppose the navy s.e.a.l.s hadn't been bin laden. suppose they had been captured or killed. the downside would have been horrible for him but he reasoned, i cannot in good conscience do nothing. >> mitt romney saying a couple of years baaing we shouldn't be

one saudi woman might be eligible. -- the london olympics. the first female saudi athlete to compete in the u.s. olympics was in singapore in 2010 and claimed a bronze medal. yet, the head of the saudi olympic committee says, "i do not approve of saudi female participation in the olympics at the moment." it could be that there simply are not enough women of a standard. some say there's hardly any sport today for school-aged girls. >> back in the 1980's in my time when i was a kid, we used to play volleyball, basketball, badminton, whatever -- so many types of sports. more than i can count. gymnastics, a robust, everything you can think about. the is in saudi arabia were more progressive 4 female's back then in many respects -- things in saudi arabia or more progressive for females. >> divorce laws make it almost impossible for women to apply. after a divorce, the father gets custody of children over the age of six. i found women who were widowed or had been abandoned by their husbands, virtual prisoners in their own homes, unable even to atte

to wait because of course was great friends with tony blair he's great friends with the people in london we could talk about a vision that makes sense or we could talk about this a lot more indeed we could talk about it all night i'm sure but i'm afraid we're out of time actually returns a very good of you on the line from london image appreciate it thank you governor. from the top world news stories for you now telephone government to kill ten policemen in an attack on a remote checkpoint in western afghanistan the militants first strangle the guard for that opening fire on security offices and elsewhere a suicide bomber struck a bazaar in the northeast it killed two people wounded sixteen others violence appears to be increasing following the harsh afghan winter jur in which there is usually a reduction in fighting. marley's rebels have declared a cease fire after seizing the three main towns in the north they want their own state to move affectively the country into rebels took advantage of the chaos in the wake of the military coup sparked by the president's handling of the insurgenc

there has been another long night at a london's heathrow airport. this is one of the busiest in the world. arriving passengers waited for three hours to clear immigration. the immigration minister will appear before the u.k. parliamentary select committee to answer questions about these delays. leo on the line. he arrived at 9:00 p.m. on friday evening. it is seven minutes past two. 07 hours since your right to presumably, you are out of heathrow. what was it like inside? >> it was madness. the reason why it stood out because i came here a few weeks back. today when i came back from germany, i was like, not again. what is happening? just keeps -- the line keeps going on. >> did anyone explain why you had to wait so long? >> they had the helper's that had the turquoise bands and they said that they were here to help. what they really try to do is to create new lines. then if you get the new pr announcements, things about stringent immigration controls. it is really not a case of them doing that. >> the next time that you go into london, will you use