about the dangers of conflict reporting, and the imprisonment of journalists, we are joined by robert mahoney, the deputy director of the committee to protect journalists. robert, thank you so much for joining us. every year you folks take a snapshot in the month of december, a picture of many things, including the number of journalists in prison at that moment. what does the picture tell you this year? >> well this year, it's the second worst year on record with more than 200 journalists in jail. so governments are continuing to use imprisonment as a way of censoring journalists and silencing critics. >> i remember the worst year was last year, correct? >> yes, a few journalists have been released, and that's due in part to the advocacy of groups like the committee to protect journalists and other journalists putting pressure on governments, but the trend is still for a very high. >> any time there's a list, who is number one on the list, as imprisoning the most. and why do you think that is? >> well, the top journal of journalists is turkey. a lot of people are surprised by that, turkey is

kim waugh mahoney is becoming more powerful among kim jones runs close aides. china's white skin don't. he has now been seen in for some time but the report says. she is only withholding engagements she's the sister of late leader kim jong il the report concludes that child's immediate entourage has not been affected by the purge. it says kim jong hoon continues to have a firm grip on power. intelligence officials believe there is korea may launch provocations against the south or carry out another nuclear test they say these threats are not imminent i eye. more than twenty thousand people until kill a healthy head of japan's imperial family mark a milestone in perak e g till has turned eighty years old he appeared on the balcony of the imperial palace three times on monday morning and wave to well wishers family members accompanied him spokespersons for the imperial household agency say about twenty four thousand people visited the palace in the morning the emperor address the crowd in refer to the computing reconstruction of the areas hit by the two thousand

. >> i want to report that both commissioner caan and i meet r with commissioner mahoney and went over the lack of compliance with the officers and we moot with officer brown and went over our interim rules. we're down to very, very if you patrol specialize two handfuls and trying to bring the program into contains and who owns what beat and what beat is still active. this has come up because a serious lack of compliance and that's not good for public safety or trust and the patrols are 0 unique. officer brown is amp - we'll meet with the lead patrol person and have this on calendar in the beginning of march and the rule changes are knowing who's working in the appropriate uniforms to that other compliance to who owns the beat and so there's no confusion change the uniforms inform to the same ones the sheriff's department is wearing and thank you, officer brown >> so march 5 we're looking at those rules and potentially adapting them. i do want to second that officer brown is excellent very excellent and prepared and doing her best to bring the patrol into a compliance. there's a limit

. >> i want to report that both commissioner caan and i meet r with commissioner mahoney and went over the lack of compliance with the officers and we moot with officer brown and went over our interim rules. we're down to very, very if you

and finally the iranian president said mahoney has offered his congratulations to his country scientists to suggest listening to a life among the states of the second time in the city got it yet. it's a demonstration of the powder is what it comes to the laurie to western and regional nations. already consigned by the islamic republic's new conditions although my view during periods of the monkey which is called a frog and has now returned to canada. he was reported that he said the next round of the ugly today we to abuse its fortunate to stay tuned to the spike. anti cartel placenta like tentacles and alma safely today. and to have this bag to carry a statement on state via captain home that bringing town sits on the french capital. also coming up set of racing in european cinema in bananas. and then ducking back into the life in korea and friends that i sat and slot money not the two sides and was fine. the steady steam of hype and incredible any tea character i select a busty did yesterday the scene the delay and stephen fry many of the sexes and tom says that honesty if i kept the h

this is the highest level russian delegation to visit iraq since president hassan mahoney to power. thinking of a human right that has that too and we'll significant diplomatic movement of december a month in power from talks in geneva and november. the new administration can do on a green eyed the brains of curved part of its nuclear program. it was pertinent and relieved from the international sanctions which have severely hampered the country's economy already know that a group of international inspectors has been allowed to visit her on blonde at getting iran which is at the center of suspicions about iran's meant it's cool having a nuclear program is aimed at shut down the alt weekly six months according to the geneva deal i think is that lincoln will be keen to hold things together was foreign minister has already won the last senate decides to introduce a new sanctions and this is something that is now moving has cost america. all diplomatic achievement already reached between the swans will be done and this is a very dangerous they love are all precious girl with a good thin

twenty fifth the undisputed star of the u n's annual assembly in ron's new reformist president kason mahoney paving the way for what would be in the end telephone conversation with his us counterpart the first of its kind since before the overthrow of the shaw barack obama audi has staked his position on the idea that he can. up to improve relations with the rest of the world. and so far he's been saying a lot of direct links. and the question now is can he follow through you know the way that the iranian system works. he's not the only decision maker. he's not even the ultimate decision maker. the ultimate decision maker of course the bronze supreme leader ayatollah khomeini eight. in the increase for the key there was a deal signed in geneva. got the better of him well i'm not sure that we know that there was a deal to continue talking and eventually reach a deal. what they wanted to do with the americans wanted to do rather urgently was to stop the nuclear program of iran in its tracks because every day. they were moving closer and closer to a level of enrichment and quantity than its ura

joining me now, to answer some of your questions, michael mahoney, senior vice president of consumer at gohealth, a private company that helps people sign up for insurance. michael weinberg, senior policy advisor to the bay area council, and obec roy, senior fellow at the manhattan institute. good to see awe you will gentlemen this morning. >> thank you. >> nice to see you. arthel: we'll let you field the questions. i'll go with you, michael, go with you first here is something from at scooter smith. he says, i operate a small business. what will be the tax rate applied to employer-funded health care premiums in 2014? >> well it really depends. employers have it a little bit harder than anybody else. they have to understand if they're a small employer or not. are you above or below 50 employees. one of the biggest things for small businesses was pushout of a requirement to offer insurance until next year. so i say just to start there. understand if you should offering insurance to your employees in the first place, if you're forced to do so. arthel: if anyone wants to chime in, let m

. >> terry mahoney, comcast business for business. solicitor olson, let me just say that i'm very struck by your integrity, that you evolved, my perception of you has evolved over the years. justice ginsburg, you have always been one of my favorites, semiperfy. my question, please don't take this as endorsement ever policy i asked about but would term limits for the supreme court, an eight teen-year term limit, give each presidential term two nominations. thank you. >> it's a good question but it's highly hypothetical because article three of the constitution says that the judges shall hold their offices during good behavior. and on the whole, federal judges have been a well-based lot. [laughing] >> is that because everybody's watching? >> but i think the original idea is to make sure that the judges were going to be independent. the framers did two things. one gave us life tenure. and two, provided that our salaries can not be diminished while we hold office. most places in the world, i would have been gone years ago because the reti

we have reverend shank, reverend mahoney, and we haven't met yet. how are you?eal reason for the season. we call it christ mass on capitol hill because we like to tell the real story. but there is more than that. our rights to exercise our free speech, our god-given constitutionally first amendment protected rights are like muscles. if you don't use them, you lose them. we say if you can stage this kind of christmas display in front of the united states supreme court, in front of the dome of the u.s. capitol, then you can do it anywhere in america. so it's really a two-fold message. >> speak of anywhere in america, you've got something here that people don't probably realize. but you were sharing this with us a moment ago. >> sure. we're experiencing nativity scenes being removed from communities. we found a creative way to address that and that is individual citizens can get permits. we did, faith in action, christian defense coalition and the holy family, we went and got a permit to have this beautiful display in front of the supreme court. >> reverend, you're

and joining us right now from the discover conference in barcelona is carl mahoney.have an announcement today with hp where you're talking about a deal, a partnership that's created the first of its kind early warning system for threatened species. that sounds like a really huge problem. and i'm just wondering, is this for real? >> it is absolutely for real. and good morning, becky, great to be back on the show. thank you for having me. we are tremendously excited about this project. i think you often hear about big data. and sometimes it's hard to really put it into reality. and so what this project is and this partnership that we've done with conservation international on the earth project is to set up cameras and thousands of different trap locations throughout primarily rain forest regions in africa and south america. we're collecting not only imagery data, but also combining that with information about climate change, temperatures, humidity. and trying to, number one, set a baseline for where we are. our ceo meg always says, if you can't measure it, you can't fi