imagine if ed miliband and ed balls had still been in power. gordon brown's backroom boys when labour was failing to balance the books, failing to regulate the financial markets, and failing to take on the banks. the two eds, behind the scenes, lurking in the shadows, always plotting, always scheming, never taking responsibility. at this time of crisis what britain needs is real leadership. this is no time for the back room boys labour's economy was based on bad debt and false hope. labour got us into this mess. but they are clueless about how to get us out. another term of labour would have been a disaster for our economy. so don't for a moment let labour get away with it. don't forget the chaos and fear of 2008. and never, ever trust labour with our economy again. government has brought difficult decisions. of course the most heart wrenching for me, for all of us, was on university funding. like all of you, i saw the anger. i understand it. i felt it. i have learned from it. and i know how much damage this has done to us as a party. by far th

>> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, can i start by joining the prime minister in paying tribute to our brave servicemen who have given their lives over the summer. lance corporal paul watkins, corporal mark palin from first battalion, the rifles, marine james wright from juliet company, left tenant daniel clack from first battalion, sergeant barry weston from key row company, 4-2 commando royal marines and senior aircraftman james smart, number two mechanical transport squadron. mr. speaker, all of them demonstrated tremendous courage in the line of duty, and we sended our deepest condolences to their family and friends. let me also join the prime minister in remembering all of those who died in the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. we all said at the time, mr. speaker, that we would never forget, and it is right that we pay particular attention on this, the tenth anniversary of september september 11th so that for the victims and the families we show we are true to the words we spoke in the aftermath

. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, people are going to judge the prime minister on results. they don't want to hear his spin about the work program. youth unemployment is up by 78,000 on today's figures. even after his work program has started. what young people and their families ar asking is where are the jobs? >> the work program is the best way to help young people and indeed all people back into work. now, of course, as i've said these figures are disappointing but we shouldn't ignore the fact that since the election there are actually 500,000 more jobs in the private sector and employment over -- there are more people, 300,000 moreeople in work than there are a year ago.

. >> dave miliband. >> here, here. >> mr. speaker, today's figures show that unemployment is up by 80,000. does the prime minister still think the british economy is out of the danger zone? >> well, first of all, let me say these unemployment figures are disappointing figures. i don't want to hide from that. every lost job is a tragedy for that family and i want to do everything i can and this government will do everything it can to help those people back into work. that is why we have 360,000 apprenticeships starting this year. that's why we have 10,000 extra university places and that's why in the work program we've got the biggest back to work welfare to work program this country has seen since the 1930s. but at the same time, let me say to the right honorable gentleman, it is right that we get on top of our debts and our deficits. and today of all days shows the danger of getting into a position other european countries are in where the whole credibility is being questioned. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, people are goin

. >> dave miliband. >> here, here. >> mr. speaker, today's figures show that unemployment is up by 80,000. does the prime minister still think the british economy is out of the danger zone? >> well, first of all, let me say these unemployment figures are disappointing figures. i don't want to hide from that. every lost job is a tragedy for that family and i want to do everything i can and this government will do everything it can to help those people back into work. that is why we have 360,000 apprenticeships starting this year. that's why we have 10,000 extra university places and that's why in the work program we've got the biggest back to work welfare to work program this country has seen since the 1930s. but at the same time, let me say to the right honorable gentleman, it is right that we get on top of our debts and our deficits. and today of all days shows the danger of getting into a position other european countries are in where the whole credibility is being questioned. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, people are goin

it was an agenda and i had to miliband not to bother me for about three years. the -- i had to tell the band not to bother me for about three years. this was a project i had not planned on making. and we got off the road and i filled the time. because it was done offhand and i have no particular idea what it was supposed to be -- it was all material that came in the course of making the album. it was just a combination of the work and growth and insights i had made over the last 10 years. it was a restatement of those all in one place. oddly enough, i think it is the best work i have ever done. tavis: is it safe to say that age and being a father and all the years in fleetwood mac has made your sound, your music a bit tamer? >> i would not say tamar. i would say more grounded. , in the same way that i've been able to strike a balance between fleetwood mac and the solo, i found a wonderful balance between professional life and personal life. a lot of my friends who were spouses and parents in previous decades who were not really there for their families, i did no

in the weeks ahead, ed miliband and conservative prime minister david camera. -- david cameron. this week on "the communicators ," a look inside googles business practices. a senate subcommittee held a hearing on the topic, including whether the google search engine is biased in the way it displays search results. our guests are scott cleland, and david balto, an antitrust attorney. >> this week, the senate antitrust subcommittee held a hearing on google business practices. that is our topic this week on "the communicators." coming up, the former ftc commissioner for the competition bureau will be out here to talk about google's business practices in this week's hearing. we wanted to did you to scott cleland, the president of precursor. he is the editor of a publication called googlemonitor.com. >> is google worthy of being investigated by the ftc and the senate antitrust subcommittee? >> yes it is. it has more violations of antitrust law that any company in the last four years. i have had four official once, and they are being investigated on three different continents. just in

and, david miliband, you can tell all the time you spend on the international stage. your point will be well remembered. thank you so much. thank you. [applause] we're going to take a 15-minute break and meet back here at 10:00 for the next part of our conversation about china. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> daylong live coverage of a summit on china's growth and influence in the world economy continues shortly. coming up next, remarks from american and chinese business leaders. all this taking place at the u.s. institute of peace here in washington. and we have more on china now yesterday at the u.n. general assembly, china's foreign be ministers told members he supported the palestinians' bid for membership and said the six-party talks on north korea's nuclear program were the most effective way toss retain -- ways to retain peace and security. we will show you more on this forum when it continuesment -- continues. >> translator: mr. president, i wish to begin the current session of the general assembly. i am confident with his outstanding ab

. >> with the britain's house of commons still at recess, watch labour party leader ed miliband 's talk. >> should always start with the assumption that when a politician or c.e.o. is saying something, they are not telling you the truth. now, they may be telling you the truth. but the burden should be on them to prove it. >> he's an eagle scout and directed and produced three of the top 10 grossing documentaries of all time and a best-selling author. a memoir, "here comes trouble," and your chance to tweet michael moore live at noon eastern on book tv on c-span 2. "washington journal" continues. host: and now joining us from new york city is reed abelson. she is a health care industry reporter with the "new york times," ms. abelson, on wednesday this week you had the lead story in "the new york times," and here it is. health insurers push premiums higher and major health insurance companies have been charging sharply higher premiums, outstripping those working and creating more problems in unrelenting raises in medical costs and go on to talk about the large increases in premiums. why s

watch labour party leader ed miliband next sunday.nd dave cameron. >> host: we're pleased to introduce you to steve landafeld, director of economic analysis, and today it's what we produce. first of all, what is the bureau of economic analysis? give us some background. >> guest: the bureau of economic analysis is one of the two agencies, statistical agency in the department of commerce. we put together data from public and private sources and assemble it into an comprehensive consistent unduplicated set of accounts for the country. >> host: one of the statistics you create is gdp. what is gdp exactly and how is it measured? >> guest: it's the broadest measure we have of overall u.s. economic activity including consumer spending, investment in plant and equipment, includes what the government spends, and then what we consume in terms of experts, exports minus imports. currently it's $15 trillion, and it's one grand damascus di ball measures from macroeconomic activity. >> host: why the change, and is there still a gnp >> expwhrg there

in the weeks ahead, party conferences with labor party leader ed miliband and conservative prime minister david cameron. >> british prime minister david cameron also spoke at the united nations on thursday before travelling to canada to address parliament. this 30-minute event is courtesy of canada oppose a cable public affairs channel. cable public affairs channel. >> order. i will call all the right honorable prime minister to take the podium. [applause] >> (voice of translator): thank you, dear colleagues. the honourable speaker >> thank you, dear colleagues, senators and members. justice ad justices of the supreme court, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. [end of translation] >> it's eat privilege all of us to welcomto our parliament today the prime minister of the united northern ireland, the right minister of the united northern ireland, the right honourable david cameron. [ applause ] >> on a personal note, david i have seen you rtly and often, many times in fact both asder of the opposition and prime minister in great britain and around the wo but it is special pleasure t

will be chaired by someone with great credentials on china and all matters international, david miliband. he was the british foreign minister in 2007, 2010. he was 41 years old when prime minister gordon brown appointed him making him the youngest person to hold the job in 30 years. in 15 years in government and politics he served as minister of the environment and school. he was the driving force in renewal of labor under tony blair and still labor party member of parliament. his brother is current labor party leader. he is a graduate of oxford university and holds political science degrees from mit. he works as senior global advisor oxford analytica. i will turn it over to david. [applause] >> good morning. i have to start by saying it is a mark of the remarkable generosity of spirit that usually invites the europeans to chair this. strikes me as a mark of your diplomatic skills that the euro does not appear anywhere in what i am about to chair. i am delighted to be here not just to represent the rest of the world but also to help facilitate the discussion over the next hour and a half

. >> dave miliband. >> here, here. >> mr. speaker, today's figures show that unemployment is up by 80,000. does the prime minister still think the british economy is out of the danger zone? >> well, first of all, let me say these unemployment figures are disappointing figures. i don't want to hide from that. every lost job is a tragedy for that family and i want to do everything i can and this government will do everything it can to help those people back into work. that is why we have 360,000 apprenticeships starting this year. that's why we have 10,000 extra university places and that's why in the work program we've got the biggest back to work welfare to work program this country has seen since the 1930s. but at the same time, let me say to the right honorable gentleman, it is right that we get on top of our debts and our deficits. and today of all days shows the danger of getting into a position other european countries are in where the whole credibility is being questioned. >> ed miliband. >> mr. speaker, people are goin

and ed miliband and david cameron later in the week. >> "washington journal" continues. host: this is curtis dubay with the heritage foundation, a senior policy analysis. we invited him on to talk about the president's deficit plan when it comes to the topic of new revenues. welcome. we have heard a lot about the but that rule. -- the buffett rule. what does it mean to the public and what does it mean to you? guest: it is broadly on defined in the president's plan. someone making more than $1 million a year should make -- should pay more in his taxes than a middle income family. it is not very well defined. but the congressional budget office, the average effective tax rate is over 30% for the top income earners. a middle-income family pays less than 15%. so if we take that from the congressional budget office, and it likely means that the president is going to take the capital gains tax rate. by now it is 16%. income tax rates are higher. he might be talking about trying to wave the capital gains rate. we're not 100% sure. it might be revealed later on. but those are th

in the weeks ahead, party conferences with labor leader ed miliband and conservative prime minister davidameron. >> rick rodgers is our guest. he is looking at how to protect your money, a retirement counselor, and lancaster, pa., and good morning. how important is it for americans to have a pension plan these days? guest: not very common. private pensions, there are only 16% of americans who work for a company that have a private pension. of those, 30% of the fortune 1000 companies, their pensions are frozen and mackenzie is saying that in the next couple of years, it will be 75% that have frozen pensions. they are on their way out. host: what you mean by a frozen pension? guest: meaning that they stop pensions. it is essentially replacing your in come at some point when you retire. each year, they have to actually figure out how much money needs to be in there and they make a deposit. if the freeze a pension, whatever benefits you earned are now frozen, so you will not accrue any more. therefore they are not required to meet the funding requirement. host: is the basics of a pension plan

watch labor party leader ed miliband keynote from the lady -- labour party meeting on sunday. >> on october 3 the supreme court will start hearing oral arguments on whether states can be sued for failing to pay the required rate set by the medicaid act. this saturday or a similar case from 1990 arguing that states can be sued by private parties to the force medicaid compliance. arguing fortunate states supporting virginia governor wilder, future chief justice john roberts. >> it may be helpful at this point return to the language of the statue. that language specifies that a state medicaid plan must provide for the payment of rate which the state finds and makes assurances satisfactory to the secretary. >> listen to c-span radio. >> the president of european union on the state of the e.u. jose manuel barroso focus on the eurozone financial situation during this 40 minute speech at the european parliament in france. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [speaking i[speaking in french] >> translator: the session is open. [speaking in french] >> translator: today, we have a very

what's labour party leader ed miliband keynote from the labour party conference sunday at 9:00 on c-span >> that language specifies the state medicaid plan must provide for the payment of rates which the state find makes assurances matter-of-factly to the secretary. >> listen to c-span radio in washington d.c. at 90.1 fm nationwide on xm satellite channel 119 and on line at c-span radio.org. >> now a discussion of u.s. trade initiatives in afghanistan and central asia. this 90 minute event is hosted by the central asia caucasus institute and silk road studies program which is affiliated with the school of advanced international studies at john scott ince university. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. my name is fred starr the chairman ofd the central asia caucasus. the program today is cosponsored by the center for strategic and international studies and i'm pleased to introduce our coconvener and friend from csis, and are cogens. let me also note that there are various books and studies on today's topics, some of them free, and these are available outside

she was joined by former british secretary david miliband.our. >> this is a remarkable generosity of spirit that marks both the united states and china. we would like the europeans to chair this first session. this with a diplomatic skill the keyword euro does not feature anywhere at to the chair. and here to try to help facilitate the discussion over the next hour or so of this panel. house trying to think of the framing or theme of this conference and series of panels. what came to mind was one of the commentaries mean in the wake of the 10th anniversary of 9/11. one commentator said that historians will write about the last case, not "war on terror," but "made in china." chinese leaders stress that 150 million people live on less than $1 a day. the gdp is one-tenth the u.s. level. that is true. but i think we all know that the last 30 years of reform and opening up have brought a revolution to that country and bring a harbinger of the enormous change for the world. it is a harbinger because there is another revolution coming and change in

in the weeks ahead, ed miliband and david cameron. >> present obama spoke tonight at the closing ceremonyds dinner of the congressional black caucus foundation. in his address, he talked about the efforts of his administration to help those in need and urged congress to pass his jobs plan during this 30- minute event was held in the nation's capital. ♪ [applause] >> hello cbc. thank you so much, thank you. please, everybody have a seat. it is wonderful to be with it is wonderful to be with all of you tonight, with the conscience of the congress. thank you, chairman cleaver and brother pain for all that you do each and every day. thank you to all of you for all of you with your outstanding work for the intern program that has done so much for so many young people. i had a chance to meet some of the young people backstage, and unbelievably impressive group. being here with all of you, with all the outstanding members of the congressional black caucus reminds me of a story that one of our friends, a giant of the civil rights movement, rev. dr. joseph lowery, told one day. he lowery, i don't