this is actually in an alley in luxembourg city. so when i snapped this picture basically my back was up against the wall of the alley taking it. that was very hard to find, actually. and then finally, this is a castle in france near laval. this is near the breakout when everything is going basically patton's way. he said this castle had only been captured twice before 3rd army took it. and it dated back, i think, to cardinal rischelieu fighting. i try to take people to patton's spots. i think it's great because you yourself can find yourself in the footsteps of patton. so with that, we're going to open it up to questions. i was told to remind anybody who wants to step up to the microphone to ask, and i'll do my darnedest to try to answer you. unless no one has any questions. yes, sir. testing. >> hello. >> there you go. >> in the movie, the first part of the movie, is a speech. >> yes. >> is that an accurate representation, and when and where did it occur? >> "a," it was an accurate depiction. they did edit out a lot of lines. ther

this is actually in an alley in luxembourg city. when i snapped this picture, basically my back was up against the wall of the alley taking it. that was actually very hard to find. this is a castle in france. near le val. this is during the breakout when everything's going patton's way. they said this was captured twice since the third army -- before the third army took it. it dated back, i think, to the cardinal. i try to take people to patton's spots. you, yourself, can find yourself in the footsteps of patton. with that, we're going to open it up to questions. i was told to be reminded to step up to the microphone to ask. i'll do my darnedest to try to answer you. unless no one has any questions. yes, sir? >> >> there you go. >> in the movie, the first part of the movie is a speech. >> yes. >> is that an accurate representation? and when and where did it occur? >> a, it was an accurate depiction. they did edit out a lot of lines. there was a lot of profanity in it, but along with that sort of inspirational stuff from the speech,

on wednesday, eu leaders met in luxembourg.y projected an assurance that the deal would go through. >> i am very confident with this. >> the great stock-market and the europe and were up thursday after some greek economists warned against the risks of default. >> i think it will be a disaster scenario. i do not think that the world now, as a it is, can handle a failure on this deal. >> yet again, down to the wire. a familiar scenario for greece as it waits for brussels to decide on its fate. >> let's get more analysis on this debt swap deal previously joined by a member of the european school of management and technology, an expert on the financial markets. thank you for joining us today. first, explain what is at stake. how would this bond swap for? >> the idea was that private investors, private bondholders would take a voluntary cut. the emphasis is on the word voluntary, that they would accept a deal, accept a cut of more than 50%, 53% of their holdings. instead of getting $100 per investment money back, they would only get

mother of king louis xiii of france, commissioned peter paul rubens to paint for her new home in the luxembourg palace a series of more than 30 enormous canvases. they commemorated her four-year rule as regent after the assassination of her husband henry iv until louis came of age in 1614. even though maria wasn't really the queen at all, rubens employs the full apparatus of glamour, power, and glory to proclaim the greatness of her rule. king henry is shown being carried off to heaven, yet the action rushes towards maria, whose position in the painting is higher than the king's. odd, since he's the one going to heaven. but it's in the religious paintings that rubens pulls out all the stops. his church paintings, such as the descent from the cross, served the requirements of roman catholic counter reformation ideology, inspiring faith, inducing piety. the immediacy and individuality of the figures, the use of great circling arcs in the sweeping compositions, his dazzling use of color, all contribute to the heightened emotionalism that was intended to lift the spectator out of the everyday world

britain and luxembourg oppose the tax, fearing it would put european financial markets at a disadvantage. >> we are dealing with transactions that are almost always cross border by nature. only a small group of countries have this tax, it is likely these transactions will be carried out in other countries. >> sweden also opposes the tax, which it says would harm growth. >> the financial transaction tax would be difficult to accept. i would increase a household's lending costs and increase capital for companies and increase the cost of oil per gallon. >> it would need the approval of all member states. >> on to the markets now. investors concentrated on the positive tuesday, sending blue- chip days as above psychologically important levels for the first time in several months in reaction to stronger than expected rises in german analyst and investor sentiment. the dax index rocketed higher tuesday, briefly climbed over the 7000-point level for the first time since august of last year. but it is with healthy gains, by nearly 1.4%, and finished just try of the 7000-point level. euro stocks

. >> luxembourg's prime minister called the 130 billion euro rescue a unique opportunity for agrees that should not be missed. meanwhile in berlin, chancellor angela merkel's cabinet has approved a draft law allowing germany to join the eurozone's new permit a bailout fund. germany is set to become the biggest contributor to the european stability facility. it is due to come into effect mid-year. and europe's biggest utility company posted its first-ever net loss on wednesday. the company lost 2.2 billion euros in 2011, largely because of germany's nuclear shutdown. despite that loss, it was the leading gainer among dax-listed firms in frankfurt as it share rocketed higher by 7%. overall wednesday, strong showing for equities. let's take a closer look at the markets kicking off in frankfurt were the market finished up by nearly 1.2% above the 7000-point level. well above it, in fact. across the lake on wall street, the dow jones trading slightly lower on this hour after trading site -- trading higher earlier in the session. the euro trading at a value of $1.3019. >> the latest inflation

you see a lot of their buying of greek debt and companies in luxembourg and these kinds of things and i'm very happy to say that they have a big investment in the city center project here in washington, d.c., which is a project cap it will and they've made a $700 million project so they've taken a big step into the u.s. market with this project, so we'll see how this goes, and i think whether it has whetted their appetite for more projects and it's just finding the right fit. >> and it's what matt was saying before, which is go on a website and connect. i have the luxury of having a very robust, foreign commercial service in ri riyadh and american companies are sometimes confused about how to connect and i would say go on the website and i would encourage american companies, just go on the website and it takes you trite fcs and weir in the business of connecting you and our fcs over the last year has connected more than 1,000 american companies with other counterparts in saudi arabia and it's something they do for a living and ask them not to be shy. just contact us and we'll help you

those announcements i want to make today along with the opening of pearl posted the luxembourgers, and hopefully, all of you will get a chance to have a burger if the lines are not too long. when you get it, you can either each year or join all of us at the latin dance. it starts at noon. you can walk with the ambassadors all day long, too. they get a good work out as well. those are the things we are announcing today, but there is a lot of fights. these are just milestones of things that have been in place. i want to thank all of the residents who have been here. they continue to be patient. they see the changes coming along. they are with us on all those changes, and this transformation is real. it is one that i have personally committed to. i am going to be down here and tell everybody wants to be down here locates here. congratulations, everyone. thank you very much. [applause] >> as the mayor said, it certainly takes a village to do the work we are doing, but it also requires leadership, and we are lucky to have the leadership of supervisor kim to help us. [applause] supervisor ki

countries actually implemented needed those targets set out by this pact realistically only germany luxembourg and finland agree need these targets and the rest are very having very little room to maneuver so while leaders here are saying that they're out of the crisis mode really it is very difficult to say that this in fact solves europe's crisis now here is more on that. it's been talked about for months claimed as a solution to europe's crisis. prescribe park avenue for after another two day summit this fiscal stability compact is signed sealed and delivered . most e.u. leaders have agreed to give it the go ahead and it's expected to be ratified by at least twelve years of nations this pact comes with tight budgetary rules that must be strictly adhered to. face automatic sanctions. member states must maintain a balanced budget or have a surplus keep a budget deficit of three percent or less and trying to balance a budget rule international legislation with it one year preferred within the constitution if budgetary targets are not met the guilty nation could be brought to the european court

points in the third round will be n.z. a roadie who will never face the breakpoints as he beat up in luxembourg six three six two what it hopes to improve his ranking that has dropped to thirty fourth the lowest he's been since two thousand and one. one player who will not be playing in the rest of this or indeed any other tournaments is her nando gonzalez the thirty one year old chilean is retiring and hung on as long as he could in his final battle before coming out just short against france's nicolo who seven five four six seven six gonzales reached the two thousand and seven straight and open final one of them in three or singles titles and a collection of political medals. so the cost of mansell i saw ok league where the finals of both conferences. it's have now been set and the action is from a sense of get as tough as ever before gz of the fact that all four sides finished the regular season and that's all five over in the west it will be a battle between two capitals as scott st petersburg will begin their series on home ice against in a moscow and the circumference final will feature a

opponents in the third round will be as erratic who never faced a breakpoint as he'd be jean mueller of luxembourg six three six two roddick hopes to improve his ranking that has dropped to thirty fourth the low was she's been since two thousand and one. now one player who will not be playing in the rest of this or indeed any other tournaments is fernandez gonzalez the thirty one year old chilean is retiring and hung on as long as he could in his final battle before coming up just short against france is nickel on my hood seven five four six seven six gonzales reached the two thousand and seven australian open final won eleven career singles titles and the collection off of the big medals. on to the continental ice hockey league where the finals of both conferences have now been set and the action is promising to get as self as ever before jeter the fact that all four sides finished the regular season in the top five now over in the west it will be a battle between two captains souls as skull st petersburg will begin their series of hold my sagan's in a moscow and the eastern conference final will

eisenhower said go to luxembourg city, coordinate with bradley. this is now an old folks' home. there is a little black plaque right by the door that tells you, this is patton's headquarters during the entire battle of the bulge. and i talked to one officer who told me that all the floors in there were hardwood. and there was nothing more terrifying than hearing this click, click, click, click on the wooden floors, because it meant willie, the dog, was coming down the hall, which meant patton was coming down the hall to chew you out for something. so everybody lived in terror of willie's approach. patton took this photograph on january 22nd. you can see his finger is in front of the lens. i originally thought that was his thumb. but people at the patton museum let me hold the camera. he said that he took a number of pictures of dead this day. and his only regret was that he didn't have his color camera. because this dead german's face was subject an interesting clarette pale color. something that would make us recoil, patton is relishing in. it kind of gives you an idea of where

system spain has a national health care system israel has a national health care system sweden luxembourg the united kingdom has a national health care system it's different from the rest of them in that it's genuinely socialist medicine that is to say in the u.k. or close to it in the u.k. the government actually owns the hospitals and clinics the rest of them are more like you know private clinics and things like that so there's a variety of ways to do this but they all have national health care systems ireland portugal even slovenia and here's the united states down at the bottom in terms of life expectancy and at the same time you get these guys around but we do something about the about social security because social security is going down in flames because we're about to run out of money and then infant mortality just perth thousand live births infant mortality this is incredible mexico the deaths per live births fairly high you know where you would expect this from a developing nation that has a real crisis and turkey is fairly high chile is fairly high and there's the united state

we could spend four hours on regulation but you're head of a bank in luxembourg or austria or switzerland or sweden, i don't care where. somebody walks in and say bob walks in, he says my name is bob, i'm greek, here's my greek passport and i have a furniture business in athens. there's no reason to believe he's not greek. he could pass as greek, right? anyway, and he shows he's got this business. so they think he's greek, they open an account. on the other hand, he also has an american green card or american citizenship and lives here in colorado. how's the bank supposed to know this? in a world where millions and millions of people have dual citizenships, multiple green cards and things, it's impossible because it's not just the citizenship, it's whether you're a u.s. tax person. you can't know these things. and we're putting regulatory burdens on financial institutions, just one example, of things they can't possibly know in terms of know your customer and all this other thing. so this one little provision, the regulation which they still haven't finalized, has now grown to 390 pages j

that's an area roughly the size of luxembourg.y take this moment to reflect on the last years that lie ahead of the country with so much work to be done. at this point the rebuilding appears to have been stalled by a lack of government consensus. there are other ceremonies, too, across the country, not just this one in tokyo. there are other ceremonies, our memorial services and people pausing to remember what this day means, how far they've come and how much more they need to do. there is also questions, too. there are protests against the use of nuclear power. many people now wondering what this future holds for this country when it comes to the safe use of nuclear energy. this is ofanatu, japan where they are also remembering what happened. here, as in many other coastal villages, there will be two moments of silence. there's the first one for when the earthquake hit at 2:46 p.m. local time, and then there will be another moment of silence 30, maybe 40 minutes later for when the wall of water caused by that tsunami that swept t

you are the head of a bank in luxembourg or austria or sweden or switzerland. somebody walks in, bob says i am greek. here is my passport. i have a furniture business in athens. no reason to believe he is not greek. you could pass for greeks, right? anyway, he shows he has this business. they open an account. on the other hand, he also has american citizenship and lives in colorado. how is the bank supposed to know this? in a world where millions of people have a dual citizenship, it is impossible. it is whether you are a u.s. tax person. you cannot know these things. we are putting burdens on financial institutions in terms of knowing customers and these other things. this one provision, which they have not finalized, has now grown to 390 pages for this one regulation. one item. it is not done yet. there will be 2000 places -- pages when they are done. you have a small bank in colorado. 25 people, serving the local community. home loans and auto loans. you come in with these federal regulations. a 2000 page bill. thousands and thousands of pages of regulations

you are the head of a bank in luxembourg or austria or sweden or switzerland. somebody walks in, bob says i am greek. here is my passport. i have a furniture business in athens. no reason to believe he is not greek. you could pass for greeks, right? anyway, he shows he has this business. they open an account. on the other hand, he also has american citizenship and lives in colorado. how is the bank supposed to know this? in a world where millions of people have a dual citizenship, it is impossible. it is whether you are a u.s. tax person. you cannot know these things. we are putting burdens on financial institutions in terms of knowing customers and these other things. this one provision, which they have not finalized, has now grown to 390 pages for this one regulation. one item. it is not done yet. there will be 2000 places -- pages when they are done. you have a small bank in colorado. 25 people, serving the local community. home loans and auto loans. you come in with these federal regulations. a 2000 page bill. thousands and thousands of pages of regulations

you see a lot of their buying of greek debt and companies in luxury 'em bigger and these -- luxembourgnd these kinds of things, but i'm or very happy to say they also have a very big investment in the city center project near washington, d.c. which was a project in search of capital. it's a $700 million project, so they've taken a big step into the u.s. market with this project. so we'll see how this goes. but i think it has whetted their appetite for more prompts. it's just -- projects. it's just finding the right fit. >> others? >> i would just add and echo what matt was saying before when he said go on the web seat and connect. -- web site and connect. i have the luxury of having a very robust foreign commercial service in riyadh and jetta. and as companies come in, i'm amazed that american companies are confused sometimes about how to connect. and i say just go on the web site, and i would ask you to encourage american companies -- those of you in the business -- just go on the web site, and it takes you right to fcs, and we're in the business of connecting you. and our fcs over th