the hope is that the military will follow through on its promise to midwife a real democratic reform.avis: i want to ask you whether or not the military can be trusted and a quick question about mubarak. i am always fascinated by this love of power. i am not naive about this but was it just about the power? i am trying to figure out how a guy who is 82 has been the leader for 30 years and years these footsteps and refuses to get out of town. is it just being drunk with power? after 82, what are you holding on for. >> that is a great question. we are hearing he was not getting good information. he was relying too much on one of his sons who was being groomed for power. that kept him from understanding the gravity of the situation, but when he finally did step down i had this feeling of elation that finally this part of the nightmare would over and egypt could move through democracy. i also had this sense of depression because i thought this is a guy who 18 days ago could have made this move have y intact. this is a man who really brought egypt to economic ruin. he did all these terribl

i have the confidence, a british midwife was on hand to help with the delivery -- by happy coincidence, a british midwife was on hand to help with the delivery. >> will come to australia. >> thank you very much. >> it could have been so much worse. australia feared a hurricane katrina-scale disaster, but somehow it survived cyclone yasi without any loss of life. >>> the world's longest-running trade dispute has ended. after the european parliament approved a bill to cut import tariffs on the american bananas. it began in the early 1990's. but american producers said that he was breaking trade laws by importing bananas duty-free from africa, the caribbean, and the pacific while charging terps on their effort. the eu said were trying to protect small producers. >>> in his first interview since protests began in egypt tenders ago, president hosni mubarak said he is fed up and like to step down now, but fears chaos if he does so in a takeover by the muslim brotherhood. he said he cares for his country and intends to die on its soil. the vice president said he will not talk to the diplomats

transitional that turkey did several years ago toward democracy where the army was essentially a midwife rather than continuing to to run the country and actually help set the stage for the moderate islamist government that we see in turkey today or do we go down the path that we've seen so often in pakistan's history or you see the military a centrally come in claim that it will usher in a democratic age and then just stay in power. egypt is not in the kind of crisis that it was in when saddam. assumed the reins of power from nasser with all of the turbulence in seventy three war in the lead up to camp david. egypt seems to be in terms of the spirit of its people prepared to enter into a kind of democratic phase of its history and egypt is a very democratically inclined society the demonstrations that we've seen over the past several weeks here really similar to the mass demonstrations that took place against british rule in one nine hundred ninety and forced the british to grant egypt independence so i think the army at this point can see i should say the whole military in egypt can se

the question is what kind of guarantees can the military provide that they are actually going to midwife a kind of democratic process, that we're actually going to get the things rami talked about, civilian oversight of the military that is a very tall order in this part of the world. so we're not yet sure that we have actually gotten a regime change. >> what questions do you have hishem, you look at the military, the muslim brotherhood, at democratic powers that really don't have, haven't had any power, right, democratic groups. >> the good thing about egypt is between the two world wars, egypt had a liberal society, it has a political life. it has parties. it was dysfunctional in many ways but it was not ray very repressive regime. egypt at one time was the bellwether of the arab world, a trendsetter, created great culture, movies, cinema. >> brown: you and i have talked about this many times. >> absolutely. and i think when those people were dem crating against the regime they were demonstrating against the men who became the personification of the decline against egypt. i think today

opportunity if the united states kind of develops some backbone and pushes the egyptian military to kind of midwife the democratic process, we have an opportunity using the existing egyptian constitution even to get a democratic process out of this. >> i think our there are two developments that you have to pay attention to here, if you allow know jump in very quickly. someone that what happened over the past few years. i think the egyptian political civil society has managed to achieve two things, one, some kind of consensus over a very clear agenda of reform. it's like a wish list. it's like a laundry list and if even in the street can recite for you separation of power, freedom of assembly, party formation, independent judiciary and so on. it's a long list that can constitute a successful way toward building a democratic life. there is a clear vision about what egyptians want. the importance of elbaradei is there are two things. one is what this agenda needed was the trigger to effect it. that came from the tunisia. the it inspired and inflamed the opportunity for change. and the second is the v

she made her living as a midwife and abortionist. she had a fiery temperment, a volcanic temper. sinatra told shirley mclean later on that he never knew whether his mother was going to hug him or hit him. it, he had much of the same sensibility as dolly sin at ra. he had a sense of humor that could be brutal at times. but he had a fiercely sharp intelligence. a deep abiding impatience lasted his whole life and again a volcanic temper. >> rose: i will talk about that in a moment. the other woman in his life that frequently comes up is ava gardner from my home state of north carolina. some say the post beautiful woman of her time. >> yes. >> rose: but what was the relationship, what was the attraction for both of them and what was the relationship. and why did it end? >> well, it ended i said if the book that they were like an unstable chemical compound. two elements that could never really bond. they were really ultimately too similar to each other. too impatient. too volcanic. she had the same kind-of-temper that sinatra had. she loved as he did, she loved sex. she loves drinking

on this isle, which is sort of my midwife role, but may give sort of four midwife advised.number one, please build on what is already on the table. 80% of this round is already on the table. of course we have got everything is a greater nothing is agreed. we all know that. that is a principle of trade diplomacy which we cannot reach. of course 80% as an average. we have got more than 80% of agriculture and less than 80% of the services and more than 80% on transportation and customs procedures in less than 80% of the deeds on fisheries but 80% is a very solid good base to finish. number two, use this window of opportunity, which the g20 table has recognized after a good discussion and without opening all the secrets of the g20, i think i can publicly say that the three heads, members of the g20 two happen to be with us tonight, have been the ones that have been leading the pack within the g20 to get these deals done and we are in public and i want to thank them for that. so there is a window of opportunity. it has to be used. we need to accelerate. as a result, a good -- ha

just so happens another evacuee was a midwife. >>> in washington, a republican move to repeal the nation's new health care law failed yesterday in the senate 51-47. four different judges, federal judges, have ruled on the legality of that law, but the decisions have been split. eight peers headed for the supreme court. >>> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld says the war in iraq would have gone better if other u.s. officials had backed off. in his memoir, due out next week, rumsfeld criticizes bush officials like condoleezza rice and colin powell. he writes, quote, there were far too many hands on the steering wheel, which, in my view, was a formula for running the truck into a ditch. >>> there's a new video this morning that some say may be proof we're not alone in the universe. a ufo in the form of a bright light is seen descending over the dome of the rock in jerusalem. the video said to be taken over the weekend. then suddenly the light shoots up into the sky. there you see it. another video from a different angle appears to show light doing the same thing. those clips have gone v

on this how, which is sort of my midwife, let me sort of give advice. number one, please build on what is already on the table. 80% of this round is already on the table. of course we've got [inaudible] we all know that and that's a principal of trade diplomats which we cannot preach. of course 80% is an average. we've got more than 80% of the agriculture, we've got less than 80% of the servicers, more than 80% of the deal on the trade civilization and procedures and less than 80% of the official subsidies, but on that, 80% is a very solid and good base to finish. number two, use this window of opportunity which the g20 has recognized after a good discussion and with that, opening all the secrets of the g 20 i.t. skycam publicly say that the three heads of the members of the g20 who happen to be with us tonight have been the ones leading the pack with in the g20 and are want to thank him for that. so there is a window of opportunity to read it has to be used and for that we need to accelerate. a good explanation as to the place [inaudible] will have pre