residents of maine can order drugs from maine and from overseas. this has prompted a lawsuit. >> reporter: the battle between the state of maine and the pharmaceutical industry started in portland when the city found a way to cut its health care costs. by the time the battle ends the whole country might feel the effects. if maine wins it could get a lot easier for americans time port cheaper prescription drugs. if the pharmaceutical companies wins importing drugs could be harder than ever. one side in the battle is made up of employers and employees. they say they are fighting for the right to spend less on health care. how much money does this save the company every year >> about $400,000. that's our savings per year. >> reporter: the other side includes maine's farm sichts and retailers and the pharmaceutical industry. they say they are fighting to protect the safety of consumers who might be tempted to try imported prescription drugs. >> the problem is that these medicines aren't safe. >> reporter: the battle started in 2004 when portland offere

voters, i mean constituents in main. jobs and the economy is very important. yes, we do have down employment rate, it's been going down. but it doesn't mean people are not getting jobs. it means they're not collecting unemployment. so we have a lot of issues here in maine that we need to focus on, and that's why i decided for governor. it concerns me the direction we're being led by the current administration and i look forward to talking to the voters about the issues. >> when you said that you were hearing that your sexual orientation was becoming an issue, not by your choice but that other people were starting to talk about it because were you running for governor, do you know that that was being done by people who were trying to use it against you? people trying to say it was a bad thing and a reason not to vote for you? >> i have no idea who's doing it, whether it was an individual or organization. all i know is that there is speculation out there that i was gay. and i wanted to be out front, be honest, yes, i am, b

voters, i mean constituents in main. jobs and the economy is very important. yes, we do have down employment rate, it's been going down. but it doesn't mean people are not getting jobs. it means they're not collecting unemployment. so we have a lot of issues here in maine that we need to focus on, and that's why i decided for governor. it concerns me the direction we're being led by the current administration and i look forward to talking to the voters about the issues. >> when you said that you were hearing that your sexual orientation was becoming an issue, not by your choice but that other people were starting to talk about it because were you running for governor, do you know that that was being done by people who were trying to use it against you? people trying to say it was a bad thing and a reason not to vote for you? >> i have no idea who's doing it, whether it was an individual or organization. all i know is that there is speculation out there that i was gay. and i wanted to be out front, be honest, yes, i am, b

they could be 6- or 8-inch mains, but being 100 years old, they actually may be 2-inch mains. and they reduce the amount of volume of water that's available to us. johnson: there were a number of things that we have had to do in order to get the system back up to an acceptable standard. replacing mains and valves and fire hydrants and other components of the system to ensure that it operates properly. egan: we consider both the underground infrastructure and the above ground assets to be a part of the critical infrastructure of the city. johnson: and if the infrastructure is not there to actually deliver that water in the volume and the quality that's necessary, then communities simply can't exist. man: infrastructure is vital to the american economy. water, after all, is an essential ingredient in hundreds of thousands of everyday products. narrator: agriculture and industry use roughly 80% of the water consumed in the united states. water is the basis for manufacturing many goods and provides the ability to clean and sterilize everything from computer chips to the surgical i

mcgill is the deputies of the upper chamber made more than two hundred brand new amendments to the main financial document basically these amendments are related to the expenditures for social services. the senators decided to pay attention to the projects to address regional issues including plays domestic orders industry schools road construction and health facilities have come the funds for paid maternity leave are also included in the budget for the first time some of the possibility of losing it. proposals of the two hundred and seventy one billion team d in different directions which require funding were suggested by the senate deputies more than forty percent of all expenditures or provided exclusively for the social sector. some of the stool. so this girl but she showed us what is it is not nice people puppets out of alignment. i would like to once again express my gratitude to the deputies in the center of the parliament for constructive great in fruitful work i want to assure you that all of the matters related to the budget legislation that improvement fiscal discipline issue

how her store is helping main street in great barrington, massachusetts. a community that's finding unique ways to get customers to shop local on small business saturday. that and more coming up next on "your business." ♪ ♪ >> announcer: small businesses are revitalizing the economy and american express open is here to help. that's why we're proud to present "your business" on msnbc. >>> hi there everyone. i'm jj ramberg and welcome to your business. the show that champions entrepreneurship by giving you tips and advice to help your small business grow. now, we've all heard of work life balance. for actress and entrepreneur karen allen, finding that balance when her son was growing up was the key to allowing her to cultivate her love of designing knit wear and eventually led to opening her own store. karen allen fiber arts in great barrington, massachusetts. but now that her son is grown, she's had to figure out how to find a work/work balance again as she continues her career as a busy working actress and director, as well as a small business owner. >> it

in parliament the sentiment and mccain is the sequel troika of men visiting town was brought by the main opposition city to pontiac which wants to overturn the government's austerity policies. greece's prime minister accused the opposition of being trapped in a dead end. he said the country is moving ahead and is leaving behind the ear of crises but you keep on fighting from within your party. cities is indeed an accused the government of producing some people to search and to top each with a huge lead. it is thus a deal policies have destroyed the country he told the prime minister. the majority of the peoplesoft but i did just that people pay a visit to supplement it. outside parliament opposition supporters demonstrated against further austerity measures. tell us that did damage to government by reducing its maturity to just fall off to expel one of its undergo make this event in with the opposition. i record in athens says. able to get the tip of my kids on the shot of tough negotiations with the troika which highlights the great gap between athens and its foreign credit as the greek

losing height rapidly as it came in to land early indications suggest that cockpit errors were the main cause of the crash possibly technical problems with the jet too because an airport will stay closed for at least another two hours the jet itself is a boeing seven three seven five hundred series we think it a bit in use for twenty three years until tonight. those we continue with the big stories of the week in between it all as we get more details we'll of course keep you posted on the rolling news we're covering as well . a crash in. well let's talk about syria now syria could be free of most of its chemical arsenal by the end of the year if another country turns that willing to take it on the ambitions deadline was set by the international chemical watchdog as part of a road which also says all toxic stockpiles must be destroyed by the end of next june but the biggest problem now a lack of volunteers to take on the delicate task of eliminating more than a thousand tons of highly poisonous materials norway was first to give no its refusal was mirrored by albania which source a serie

you know easy banks are the main reason bad banking system is the main reason that triggered the banks part of the whole. as responsibility including the us computing. counting who's. of course also a rating agency. of course you know the anti bank and non-banks and the naive belief that we where you know were real there was automatic correction of the market the theory of efficiency of markets was also paul all these. old. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we. covered. in the final. and the rest. will be. the headline of the world's chemical watchdog for the elimination of syria's chemical arsenal but what country will host the destruction of the. remains. during time. gets a decade behind bars for leaking private security documents but there are claims he was led to do so by the f.b.i. . may be no homecoming for. the authorities come under pressure to admit that the areas around the crippled nuclear plant may never be. but we will have more news in an hour's time here on our t.v. it's breaking the sad with martin stay with us. for the.

it is the main challenge here today and it's not going to be an easy task. more about these challenges wobbly taking zach featuring insecurity in the snow. well the main challenge will be to try to regain control of the borders without endangering the life of the lord of the local population that is regularly crossing borders especially between algeria on monday the media. but these places were these awesome rightist groups and it is also a concern for these jihadist groups are active in money in india and also the traffickers that the smoke all sorts of things to north africa. so this is the main challenge and to be effective and to be creative will be on table today. new ways to fight to these traffic and his vine and groups. there will be also programs of development for local communities training of for instance an indian policeman and also other and sharing intelligence between the countries that are sometimes start in the arena rivalries for instance algeria and morocco are ancient rivals in the region we sent a diplomatic crisis is not facilitating th

and, first of all, i'd like to thank my colleague from maine, the senior senator from maine, senator susan collins, for the important work that she's been doing on the employment nondiscrimination act. i would also like to thank my colleagues for supporting an thapld that was brought forward -- an amendment that was brought forward recently and passed by this body, the portman-ayotte-heller-hatch-mc cain amendment. i firmly believe that people should be judged based upon the quality of their work. discrimination has no place in the workplace. in my home state of new hampshire, we have a long bipartisan tradition of working to advance commonsense policies, and new hampshire already has in place a state law preventing discrimination based on sexual orientation. i appreciate that the employment nondiscrimination act is legislation that is important in terms of who we are, our values, making sure that people are only judged based on the quality of work in the workplace. i also appreciate that the legislation on the floor right now includes important protections for religious institutions

you know you seem banks are the main reason bad banking system is the main reason that triggered the banks. of the whole. entire board as response including the us computing. to the accounting rules. of course also all the rating agencies of course you know the anti bank and non-banks and the naive belief that we where you know were real there was no matter. of the market themselves the theory of efficiency of markets was also part of the school's. language. choose the consensus get to. choose the opinions that immigrate. choose the stories to. choose the access to. breaking news on r t a boeing seven thirty seven passenger plane has crashed in the russian city of during an attempted landing all fifty people on board including two children have died and it is not known what caused the tragic accident investigators are looking at a range of reasons including pilot error weather conditions and technical issues as well. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team sean thomas let's get right to our top stories monday has been declared a day of mourning in russia'

as the main defense or of israel and as specially the main defense or of saudi arabia was our cause it was more guns are. no longer is more so i would you know you go to continue the bargaining let's say this sunni shia are going to be. the european power who defends the sunni countries i but tell you what it's all the idea that france was just given the role of a bond to cope at the talks allowing washington to actually take the lead that. i'm thinking they have different ideas france was not very happy with what happened in the russian us deal the chemical weapons in. syria he wanted like saudi arabia committed to the solution and said here and in the bargain about the nuclear program. it is most probable they won't do. to cope with the differences between their position and the russian american positions getting some gains from that you're going in. to but good for them and for the saudis but their situation and also we're hearing that they're talking that only about a temporary deal before a more plan and agreement can be reached that is this why france described as as a fool's dal

banks are the main reason the bad banking system is. main reason that triggered the banks. of the whole. board as response including the computing. rooms. of all soldiers of the rating agency is of course the bank and non-banks and the naive belief that we were real there was. one of the market the theory of efficiency of markets was also part of the school's. pleasure to have you with us here today i'm sure. welcome back to the kaiser report imax keyser time now to go to new york and speak with one of the quote fifteen most dangerous people in the world according to one survey mr cody wilson he's the founder and director of defense distributed a nonprofit organization that develops and publish as open source gun design so-called wiki weapons suitable for three d. printing the firm became internationally known and twenty thirteen when it published the plans for the liberate are a functioning pistol that could be reproduced with a three d. printer cody welcome to the kaiser report it's a pleasure ma'am it's going to. look forward to this i'd like to yes great to have you on

if you want to shut off the power you shut off the little guys first than the main. when you throw a switch there is the arch. like water when water flows in an old house any you shut it off quick you get the hammer effect? that's like electricity. is it safe to do it if you smell natural gas? show of hands. >> nobody has their hands up. it's not safe to flicking any switches if you smell natural gas. how about if there is smoke coming out of an outlet. if you shut this off in an area where there is no gas, good idea. >> just about anything can be a hazardous material, cleaners, solvants, hair products anything can be hazardous. they are every where. the only time they are hazardous if they are misused our there is a disaster. do you see these in san francisco? that's probably propane. we have a port. in an industrial area. it identified where they are stored. are there hazardous storage places in this air? no. are there a dry cleaners? yes. who remembers grand auto. they have solvants, cleaners, octane boosters. it's great until there is a natural disaster. where do

did you know he banks are the main reason bad banking system is the main reason that triggered the banks. of the hole and the ball as responsibility including the computer. rooms. of course also all the rating agencies of course the bank and non-banks. the naive belief that we were you know were real there was. actually of the market the theory of efficiency of markets was also a useful. story others refused to. change. the old picture. from a strictly. breaking news on r t a boeing seven three seven passenger jet has crashed a night in russia and when attempting to land killing all fifty on board the pilot there are technical problems and weather conditions are cited as the most possible causes of what went so badly wrong. for good even if you're just joining us my name is kevin o. in the south international live from moscow normally of course we bring you the weekly a roundup of the big stories of the last seven days on a sunday night but tonight we're spending the first fifteen minutes this program to talk about the really unfortunate news tonight this comes through from.

we're here on main street in nyack, new york. with the kick off to the holidays so close they have their marketing and promotional plans in high gear. they are banding together to spread the word about 30th, small business saturday. we were here just a few weeks ago to talk to some of the retailers and what we found again and again is that the community here goes out of their way to support local stores, even though there are plenty of malls and big box stores nearby. this is nyack, new york. for a village of one square mile it packs in a lot of culture and small town charm. we're 25 miles north of new york city right on the hudson river. three miles away from here is one of the biggest shopping malls in the entire country. what are retailers doing especially as the holiday shopping season kicks off to come here instead of there. the mall is so close. one of the biggest malls in the entire country. when it's holiday shopping time how do you entice people to come here instead of here. >> one thing we have that the mall doesn't is

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it is a main point of entry for syrian refugees. local officials here expect more syrupians to arrive in the coming days as fighting intentionfies in kalamoon. ar sel is a logistics had you been for syrian rebels. it is their only remaining lifeline along the lebanon-syrian border. this mainly sunni border town supports the opposition and lebanon's shia armed group has sent fighters to support the syrian regime. >> hezbollah has joined the battle in syria. the problem is if the syrian obvio opposition decides to retaliate against the syria, it will have negative repercussions in the country. >> officials here are warning that they could be facing the beginning of a humanitarian agency. these new rivals have added more pressure on a current tree which hasn't been able to cope with the refugee crisis. it could get worse now that the battle in the densely populated region has begun al jazeera,ar sel, eastern lebanon. ar sel, eastern lebanon. voting is underway. it is a contest with major implications for the country which has turned ch

laws in maine maine, massachusets, and rhode island ban stores from opening on thanksgiving. those are the headlines america tonight is next, and for all of us here on al jazeera america new york, we want to wish you a happy thank giving and happy hanukkah. enjoy the holiday weekend. hello, and welcome to this special holiday edition of "america tonight." since thanksgiving brings to mind the origins of this country. to begin, we look to the star spangled banner, america's most famous flag is safely tucked away at the smithsonian museum here in washington. be 200 years ago it was first raised over and our determination as a young nation to succeed. ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪. >> it's a song as familiar to americans as a babies lull by. how did it become such a part of the fabric of america? >> the anthem gets the flag more publicity, and the flag makes the anthem more famous. >> so we are standing on a reconstruction of the gun impact that was here. >> this is the power of place, here is the thing, people love the anthem, they love the grab, what they nee

we're here on main street in niac, new york, where merchants are getting ready for small business saturday. with a kickoff to the holiday season so close, they have their marketing and promotion plans in high gear. they're banding together to spread the world about november 30th, small-business saturday, where they'll be doing everything from offering extended business hours to special discounts. we were here a few weeks ago to talk to some of the retailers. what we found again and again is the community here goes out of their way to support local stores. even though there are plenty of malls and big box stores nearby. this is niac, new york. for a village of one square mile, it packs in a lot of culture in small town charm. 25 miles north of new york city, on the hudson river, but about three miles away from here is one of the biggest shopping malls in the entire country. so what are retailers doing? especially as the holiday shopping season kicks off, to get people to come here instead of there? >> jenn laird white, the mayor of the spectacular village of nyack. >> the mall is here, one

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they should say the bond buying scheme the quantitative easing did not help main street and the fact that the fed continues to push this line that it's helping main street when he realized after years of bond buying for on behalf of the fed he realized that in fact it was only helping wall street now he knows that the fed may have created and spent over four trillion dollars for a total return of as little as point two five percent of g.d.p. i.e. a mere forty billion dollar bump in u.s. economic output for four trillion dollars well this is gets back to what we were saying last week eighteen billion dollars of debt for a one dollar g.d.p. or trillions of dollars of quantitative easing for a minuscule amount of g.d.p. being as it were and so this is the mathematics of the economics just simply don't add up and as we've been saying on the show for years the quantitative easing programs are purely meant to bail out banks or as and to keep solvent banks that should be declared insolvent and to keep whole bankers that should be what's the word vivisected i mean you don't want to allow in

he is a spokesperson for the main opposition group. from new york, saudi political affairs analysts, and nancy soderberg, former u.s u.s. ambassador to the united nations. where are things at in syria? you still have family in the country. update us. >> yes, the united nations just said today that more than nine million would equal to 40% of the population, they are in desperate need. add more numbers of catastrophe to the country which means they may lose second hen education of displaced people. this is the humanitarian catastrophe. it is considered as one of the wars in this century. which more important we don't see that in the international community, to put its efforts. we still see actions the international community dealing as a business rather than focusing on finding an end to the conflict in syria. >> president assad's force versus gained ground against the rebels. what is the significance of that? >> it's two steps forward and one step back for this regime. it's not moving. it's not going anywhere. it has essentially licens

in november they bombed the dive ski warehouses which is it was the main storage place for all the food in the city people eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. the third night it was incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct hit on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them with dead. dramas that can't be ignored to the. stories others refused to notice. faces changing the world lights now. a full picture of today's you log on to others from around the globe. looking. to. it's a big journey. one hundred twenty three days. through to the other cities and. really fourteen people. or six. in a record setting trip by land air. and others made. olympic torch relay. on our. welcome back to worlds apart what we're discussing the past present and possibly future of the global revolutionary movement with it have cost our son and problem of the cuban scientists fidel castro. just before we went to break we were talking about the revolutionary experience of different countries and more often these days you use

the main thing is the they say let's put open this between both countries people to people relations let the people come lately americans come now the only judge what do in cuba with the cuban that go abroad let your own people to come i think that is democracy don't give lectures to the other and do the same for yourself you mentioned the trade embargo in one country that also suffered a great deal from the american sanctions is iran and those sanctions center around the countries intention to build its new claire at a g. and a stray and i know you are a nuclear physicist this may be an issue very close to your heart back in the eighty's i believe in part on constructing its first nuclear plant but then your father sad that you were no longer interested in new care industry do you think you may change is its mind on the use of peaceful nuclear energy. well it's a long course and i wanted to comment that by part they want to put an embargo to iran will be very wise to understand the why they don't put in embargoed to israel which is the only two nuclear power in the in the region and

they also discussed the main directions of cooperation between kazakhstan and united nations when fernando has been in a position on high for mr president about the preparations for the elections presidential elections will be held in april next year. we discussed the problems from the standpoint of regional interest neighboring countries including certain threats posed by terrorists in drug dealers. i was very glad to hear the cars extent ready to help pass the torch is due to presume it was most appropriate photos to an eternity still feel the medical business. the gdp growth has extent stands at five point eight percent the ministry of economy and budget planning unit block the site reports. be sure that this growth will reach six percent as it was projected to stand aside it also reported about the implementation of the president's instructions the president gave the instruction to check all in industrial programs. today mr josiah purported that the inspection was completed he also spoke about what has been done based on the inspection results. most of southern end of a virginia the pr

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relations saying the bond buying scheme the quantitative easing did not help main street and in fact the fed continues to push this line that it's helping main street when he realized after years of bond buying for on behalf of the fed he realized that in fact it was only helping wall street now he knows that the fed may have created and spent over four trillion dollars for a total return of as little as point two five percent of g.d.p. i ate a mere forty billion dollar bump in u.s. economic output for four trillion dollars well this is gets back to what we were saying last week eighteen billion dollars of debt for a one dollar g.d.p. or trillions of dollars of quantitative easing for a minuscule amount of g.d.p. being as it were and so this is the mathematics of the economics just simply don't add up and as we've been saying on the show for years the quantitative easing programs are purely meant to bail out banks or as and to keep solvent banks that should be declared insolvent and to keep whole bankers that should be. what's the word vivisected i mean he's out on a wild in a sectio

in the town that you do business in. >> 30-year main street veteran, who owns a gift shop that sellsmerican made crafts is worried about the impending project. >> people like this town because it's not a cookie cutter town. it has a distinct feeling, and it's very kind of organic and a little funky, and i don't know what's going to happen when that changes. >> and while some merchants already have a contingency plan -- >> i have really tried to pull our business more on to the internet, so that will help weather the storm. >> some, like adrian cohen, will just play it by ear. >> we'll just wing it. that's our usual contingency plan, i guess meditate and ask for help and figure out as we go, day by day. >> during construction, one unconventional idea that might encourage customers to continue shopping local is their own circulating currency, berkshires, an experiment launched in 2006, most small businesses in the area accept berk shares since it keeps money moving locally and gives customers who use them a 5% discount. >> it behooves you to go ahead and spend it in the community after