the cubans: "operation merkel -- miracle." these international medical programs are not cheap, but they are paying political dividends. every country in the region, apart from the united states, has established diplomatic ties. it is a new generation of doctors singing their praises back home. health care has become a key factor in cuba's battle for hearts and minds. bbc news, havana. >> now the diplomatic repercussions of the killing of a top hamas commander reached australia on thursday. israeli ambassador has been summoned to explain why the three suspects used australian passports. dubai thinks israeli agents were involved, but israel says there is no proof. >> the dubai authorities have not released a list of 26 suspects, and three of them apparently traveled on what appeared to be fraudulent australian passports. yes trillion's have been named asoshua daniel bruce, nicole mackay, and adam corman. but they were found to be the victims of identity fraud. the working assumption is israel was involved. the israeli ambassador

angela merkel saying the same thing. the pressure is increasing. the lone holdout at the moment is china, and how they will react either to sanctions at the united nations or through unilateral sanctions from different countries, we will have to see. that our state department correspondent. the japanese transport minister has drawn criticism that the world's biggest car maker, for he says not moving fast enough to fix the faults that are plaguing millions of its cars. toyota has announced a world wide recall of another 4000 vehicles, hybrids, including the best-selling prius, for brake problems. >> another humbling admission by the world's biggest carmaker and about of apology. toyota was telling japan's government that more cars will have to be recalled. this time, it is the prius hybrid, and the problem is the brakes. the recall was worldwide. the company is already fixing about 8 million cars. toyota's president, grandson of the founder, was also saying sorry. dozens of customers have complained of a lag between the pedal being pressed and the c

what happens when angela merkel or some of the rulers of these other countries have to come in and bail out their banks once again. so you have to imagine how difficult it is for the ruler of a germany to go to their people and say we need to help bail out a european cousin here because this is bound to recourse to us. at the same time, the germans are saying well, the greek have to tighten their own belt. so it's exceedingly difficult and fraught with tension. >> couric: roben farzhad, thanks again. >> thank you, jeffrey, appreciate appreciateit.appreci. >> lehrer: again, the other major developments of the day: the president and the republicans staked out their health care ground in a televised summit that was testy at times. and the government of afghanistan officially claimed control over a key taliban stronghold. the "newshour" is always online. hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, previews what's there. hari? >> sreenivasan: on health care, you can ask three policy experts your questions about where the reform effort goes next and read our live blog reactions to the summit. all that

merkel apparently said are you saying the german people -- how am i going to tell the german people,e just raised the pension age from 65 to 67 in order that the greeks can retire at 55? so the price will be very high, austerity for several years. if you're thinking about a holiday in greece, fareed -- maybe second thoughts. >> i was thinking about the blessed montesa square, believe the political cultures was determined by their climate. is it fiscal disaster happens where the orange grows? >> there's remarkable progress in countries like spain and portugal. i think greece benefited from huge financial transfers, and frankly, they have enjoyed credit cover, if you like, in the single currency zone. they've enjoyed low interest rates and they've lived beyond their means. now is the adjustment. >> doesn't this suggest the kind of unworkable nature, one currency, but all these countries with widely different standards? >> if you don't have a fiscal union as well as a monetary union, then you get into trouble. and the really worrisome thing is that the greek economy, the greek governmen

-- greece's critical finances were dashed by merkel. spent her entire career reporting on global affairs with a particular emphasis on southeast asia and the middle east and we are going to talk to her about what we saw coming from tehran yesterday on the 31st anniversary ofç the islamist result -- revolution. we will be right bcb. >> to the and "book tv" for a three-day prison as the weekend. henry paulson talking to warren buffett. on "after words," historian and poet to prizewinner on how the atomic bomb changed the presidency and the role of the u.s. in the world. it read airs sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific, and all day monday, books on american presidents. fdr, president obama and our culture, creag shirley on ronald reagan. for the complete schedule go to book tv.org. >> his film "hillary: the movie," it was the focusçw> "washington journal" continues. host: here is robin wright

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conversations are what might merkel and others do.down than what they have now. our gris operation -- they are very idle right now. >> dr. berner, exports are one result of successfully selling american products and services throughout the world. as you point out, one out of five manufacturing jobs is tied to that. when service companies like mr. joerres' have a surplus they sell overseas, it has huge economic impact. we are looking at three pending trade agreements with colombia, panama, and south korea. we are seeing other countries ahead of us -- canada, the eu. that would put us at another competitive disadvantage. do you support those trade agreements, opening those markets for u.s. service and production companies? >> did you for your question. i support, in general, the idea that we should have free and open trade, and also the idea that it has to work both ways. when we open our markets to companies in other countries, and to other countries. we want to make sure that we have access to their markets. we want intellectual prope

the contact between me and president obama, and me and president sarkozy or chancellor merkel or other members of the g-20 have been very intense over the last period of time. but equally, because we're dealing with the financial regulations, dealing with liquidity and capital ratios for banks and everything else, the detailed work which has had to be done across the international community involving the treasury has been very extensive indeed. i think the new world is that we are part of a global economy, we are increasingly part of a global society and increasingly the leaders, whether they are the economic leaders of the political leaders, have to spend more time talking to each other about these very big problems. >> while you were doing that, and we all understand why you have to do that, is not no. 10 generating policy initiatives which do not have the evidence base which policy initiatives developed by departments do, and never 10 then feeds these out into the system in order to try and keep you in the news on domestic issues and ensure that what you are busy with the internatio

merkel said she was not sure whether the promises of support were credible.rovide clarification as to the practical measures such forms of support could take? >> i have not been following the markets because i have been working this afternoon. i am not really sure whether it is as bad as you portray it. we certainly did have a frank and open discussion. we did reach agreement fairly easily. we agreed to a text. i read the text immediately after it had met with support in the european council. the text was clear. the text expresses a political will over the coming days and some aspects will need to be put into affect -- effect. what we did here was to address a firm political result. let there be no doubt whatsoever about that. it will be enacted as it was described here. i think it is too early to judge this political will and this political text. it is too early for us to judge it just a few minutes or a few hours after it is issued. we are committed to this twofold approach, to have a responsibility on behalf of the greek government and solidarity if needed

include an insurance -- unemployed insurance benefits, cobra benefits that will be extended, build a merkel provisions for small businesses, particularly provisions on job creation, tax credits. there may be some highway trust fund language but it looks like it may be as an amendment. basically all of what people were in the state of the union speech. host: what is on tap for the house if they come back this week and leading up to the recess? guest: it is not totally clear what they will end up doing in the house. they have been sort of in a waiting pattern, waiting to see what the senate will do, particularly on jobs. the house has passed a larger bill. a lot of progressives in the democratic party went to see the larger bill passed and not see the smaller the amount -- the democrats would like to do a series of smaller bills so they can point to the different steps they have done to create jobs. host: a lot of staffers were not in the building because the federal government was shut down, but what do you hear about reaction from this idea of having a bipartisan health care summit and tryi

that he listens to them very carefully at the same time he feels that their view of the world is too merkel and static and its income on changing view of racial discrimination and segregation and one point he describes listening to a speech by the former stokely carmichael by the early 80's at columbia university and he says that he's speaking and a woman asks a question and he says the way in which he response, his eyes glow, the eyes of the mad man or a saint. so obama's view of black power is something that is anachronistic suitable for the politics of 1960's and 70's but is not flexible enough to take into account the changing racial and political demographics of our multicultural present. >> host: and yet he has opened the white house and made it available to people of different ideological and wide range of activist spectrum. al sharpton who was somebody who of least in the popular imagination to be considered a fiery black activist and yet he is someone who has access to the white house and has been done to see the president. what do you make of how obama has handled, been accessible

the contact between me and president obama, and me and president sarkozy or chancellor merkel or otherbeen very intense over the last period of time. but equally, because we're dealing with the financial regulations, dealing with liquidity and capital ratios for banks and everything else, the detailed work which has had to be done across the international community involving the treasury has been very extensive indeed. i think the new world is that we are part of a global economy, we are increasingly part of a global society and increasingly the leaders, whether they are the economic leaders of the political leaders, have to spend more time talking to each other about these very big problems. >> while you were doing that, and we all understand why you have to do that, is not no. 10 generating policy initiatives which do not have the evidence base which policy initiatives developed by departments do, and never 10 then feeds these out into the system in order to try and keep you in the news on domestic issues and ensure that what you are busy with the international situation, they in som