mr. taylor and of nigeria. the obligations of mr. taylor include his abstention from subversive activities against nigeria and from political activities in or military incursions into line beer i can't. -- into liberia. the restrictions are the requirement he obtain clearance to leave the city limits and that he be accompanied on any travel outside by an escort officer. security is listed as an obligation of liberia to provide protection to mr. taylor. the trial chamber does not find that these conditions governing the asylum offered to mr. taylor by the government of nigeria can be considered to constitute house arrest as alleged by the defense. in light of these considerations, for reasons of fact and law, the trial chamber does not credit mr. taylor for the period of time he spent in nigeria prior to his arrest and finds that his detention for the purpose of credit for time served can hinge on 29th of march, 2006. the court has a number of factors to be considered in mitigation of sentence, while the prosecution submits there are n

mr. taylor could only sit and listen.is defense team never denied that awful crimes were committed in sierra leone. at issue, they said, was whether mr. taylor directed them. the defense said it was always a political theater. that was an argument that the judge rejected. the stories of the victims would be told. and the man they found responsible for their plight was there to hear them. >> now to a -- another twist in the case of a pakistani doctor that helps track down osama bin laden. last week, he was jailed for 33 years in pakistan, initially thought because he helped america. now pakistan says it is because he is linked to a militant group. which is it? >> the central jail, home to the doctor. it has now emerged as are the that he has been convicted of robbing the cia find bin laden, but for supposedly -- of helping the cia find bin laden, but for supposedly having links to a terrorist group. his family has been silent since he was arrested. his wife and three children are in hiding. but his brother agreed to meet u

mr. taylor could only sit and listen. his defense team had never denied terrible crimes were committed in sierraat issue, thr mr. taylor had directed them. that was an argument the judge directed. -- rejected. the stories of the victims would be told. and the man the judge just found this possible for their plight was there to hear them. mark doyle, bbc news. >> now, our correspondent joins me from the hague. allen, this was about sentencing today but the judge going to great length to describe why this man is going to be put away for 50 years. >> absolutely. he went into great detail about the horrific crimes committed by the rebels in sierra leone. some just too gruesome to mention. among them, carving initials into the head so could not escape. the press is just ending. charles taylor's lawyer has been giving a press conference and also the chief prosecutor -- saying 50 years is not enough and they are also planning also to appeal against that sentenced to try to get closer to the maximum term of 80 years. >> presumabl

mr. taylor had backed. the hallmark of the rebels was hacking of people's limbs as a terrible warning to anyone who opposed them. there are scars that will never heal. >> the long term impact is devastating. amputees who now have to live on charity because they can no longer work. young girls who have been publicly stigmatized and will never acrecover from the, they were subjected. >> mr. taylor could only listen. his defense team had never denied awful crimes were committed. the issue was whether mr. taylor had directed them. the defense had always said it was political theater. that was an argument the judges rejected. the stories of the victims would be told. the man that the judges found responsible was there to hear them. bbc news. >> you are watching news day on the bbc, live from singapore and london. still to come, andy coulson is charged over perjury allegations. >> let's take a quick look at the newspapers from around the world. the herald tribune asks if spain is rescued, who foots the bill? the

mr. taylor backed in sierra leone. the council -- the hallmark of the rebels was hacking off people's limbs. there are scars, the judge said, that will never heal. >> the long-term impact on their lives is devastating. amputees' without arms, who now have to live on charity because they can no longer work. young girls who had been publicly stigmatized and will never recover from the trauma of rape and sexual slavery. >> mr. taylor could only sit and listen. his defense team has never denied awful crimes were committed in sierra leone. at issue, they said, was whether mr. taylor had directed them. the defense had always said it was political theater. that was an argument the judges rejected. the stories of the victims would be told. a man the judges found responsible for their plight was there to hear them. >> the editor of the website in thailand has been found guilty of insulting the marquee. -- monarchy. the high-profile case has renewed debate about freedom of expression in thailand. i am joined on skype from human

mr. >> taylor's speech will not -- >> mr. taylor's speech will not change what happened in sierra leone. the former president of liberia health plan an attempted takeover -- helped plan an attempted takeover by rebels. it included the amputation of innocent civilians' limbs, murder, and rape. the judges have left no doubt that they think charles taylor knew about these atrocities. in their judgment, he aided and abetted the rebels. prosecution has called for mr. taylor to be given 80 years in jail. the defense says that is excessive and disproportionate. final sentencing will take place in two weeks' time. >> a busy day in the hague and an important day for international justice. united nations monitors were evacuated from a town in northern syria today, a day after their convoy was hit by roadside bombs. amidst the continued violence, syria's president, bashar al- assad, granted his first interview this year, telling russian television that his government was fighting terrorists, not pro-democracy activists. we have this repo

mr. taylor. now i'll recognize mr. haer for five minutes of testimony, please. >> thank you. >> chairman thompson, ranking member holden, members of the subcommittee and full committee, on behalf. national biodiesel board, i'm grateful for the opportunity to testify today regarding the farm bill energy tight. i'm gary haer, vice president of sales and marketing for renewable energy group, a leading u.s. biodiesel producers headquartered in ames, iowa. our company has biodiesel production facilities in minnesota, texas, iowa, illinois, and we're working to reopen biodiesel facilities in louisiana, new mexico and kansas. our focus is on converting natural fats, oils and greases into advanced biofuels, and currently i have the privilege of serving as chairman of the national biodiesel board, the u.s. biodiesel trade association that i'll refer to as mbb. biodiesel is a renewable low carbon replacement fuel. like diesel fuel, it's used in trucks, trains, agricultural equipment, mining operations, generators and heating oil

mr. taylor. now recognize the chair for five minutes of testimony, please. >> thank you. on behalf of the national biodiesel board i'm grateful for the opportunity to testify today regarding the farm bill energy title. i'm gary haer, vice president of sales and marketing for u.s. energy group. our company has biodiesel production facilities in minnesota, texas, iowa, illinois and we're working to reopen biodiesel facilities in louisiana, new mexico and kansas. our focus is on converting natural fats, oils and greases into advanced biofuel. currently i have the privilege of serving as charl of the national biodiesel board and trade association. like diesel fuel, it's used in truck, trains, mining operations and heating oil. it's used in existing diesel engines without modification and it made from a broad diversity of feed stocks, including actual oil -- there are approximately 200 facilities across the country and produced 1.1 billion gallons of advanced biofuel, breaks the billion gallon mark for the first time in our industry's show history. our trade association, the m

mr. taylor? >> i think we should reform the fed. i think the evidence especially in the last few years is that the policy's not working. i look back in history and i see the '80s and '90s part of the time where alice rivlin were on the fed and things work pretty well. intervening, like we're doing now a more steady as you go policy. a lot of focus on the overall stance of policy, and it worked. so i think we need to get back to that. i call it a rules-based policy. not more statisticatic policy and some of the reforms discussed today will help us get back to that. >> next, please. >> i think on the whole, congressman, the 20th century was better than the 19th and having a central bank was a modest uteful part of the institutional structure it gave us a fairly successful century. i'm very cautious about taking radical institutional steps when there is very little going on in the world that would give us confidence that they would be stabilizing rather than destabilizing. >> doctor? >> i feel strongly that we need a strong and indepen

mr. jerry taylor, president and chief executive officer mfa oil company, co-founder mfa oil biomass llc in columbia, missouri. and mr. gary haer, chairman of the national biodiesel board in washington, d.c. so welcome, gentlemen, and thank you for bringing your expertise and experience to this subcommittee hearing. congressman greenwood, please begin when you're ready. >> chairman thompson, ranking member -- [ no audio ] >> jim, you're out of practice. >> i'm out of practice. i usually have somebody do that for me. so chairman thompson and ranking member holden and distinguished members of the subcommittee, i thank you and appreciate the opportunity to be with you today. my name is jim greenwood. i am the president and ceo of the biotechnology industry organization. we have more than 1,100 members worldwide. with its broad membership, innovative biotechgy companies, we are developing new feed stocks, catalysts for advanced biofuels and bio-based products. because these food stocks are based on plants and biological processes, they are more efficient, sustainable and environmentally friendl

mr. taylor that there was a $17,000 of expenditures, that this kind of -- it wasn't budgeted. >> we had a massive document request last year, and we had hired an individual to come and help us hockey -- copy and index those documents. we only keep three years worth of complaint files in our office. the rest of them which we maintained in perpetuity we maintain in an off site storage facility. we pay monthly for them to be stored and we pay for those documents to be delivered to us. when i say not reimbursed, we cannot charge other government agencies for the documents we produce. we told the commission before that the occ's budget is costing driven by about 90%. another 60% of the remaining discretionary money is used for rent. we have very little discretionary money to spend on training, document retrieval, buying equipment. from computers to scanners and the like. >> it is a big deal, $17,000. thank you very much, will appreciate your report. commission chan: thank you for your very thorough presentation and thank you to your staff. the fifth lowest cases, those people that are either s

mr. taylor to be given 80 years in jail. the defense says that is excessive. vinyl sentencing will take place in two weeks' time. -- final sentencing will take place in two weeks' time. >> from bosnia to sierra leone, it was a very busy day at the international criminal court. the united nations monitors left a town in northern syria today, a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb. amid the continued violence, president bashar al-assad grant is first television interview this year. he told russian television that his government was fighting terrorists. >> slowly, carefully, the u.n. observers astounded by tuesday's attacks -- stranded by tuesday's attacks. their convoy was hit by an explosive device. images that reinforced the sense of a mission limping along, a mission that is unable to stop serious mounting bloodshed. there are -- syria's mounting bloodshed. the number of observers is growing every day. but so, too, is the death toll. these pictures from the internet apparently show at the moment the government forces opened fire at a funeral. act

mr. taylor could only sit and listen. his defense team had never denied awful crimes were committed, and issued they said whether he had directed them. the defense always said it was political theater. that was an argument the judges rejected. the stories of the victims would be told. the man the judges found responsible for their plight would hear them. to go now to another twist in the case of the pakistani doctor who helped the cia track down osama bin laden. last week he was jailed for 33 years. -- >> now to another twist in the case of the pakistani doctor who " the cia track down osama bin laden. >> the central jail, home to dr. shaquile lafridi. since his arrest one year ago, his family has been silent. his wife and three children in hiding. but his brother agreed to lead us in his lawyer's office. >> they are very worried about me. he is now speaking out, though he says government officials warned relatives to keep quiet. >> they told the family members not to say anything to the media, that it could endanger him,

mr. taylor, i appreciate your comments on a exit strategy. comments around this building are that the closest thing to eternal life is a government program. one of my concerns with all of these programs, and if you could respond within the time frame that we have here, it seems to me and i'm a former business owner, it seems to me that business owners have a tendency to build pricing based on whatever the subsidy is. and then without an exit strategy, they're always back here wanting the program to continue, because now they have established a marketplace that has been based on a false market premise, below fries product. how do we know we're not just falling into this same trap here with you all? >> well, i think i can only speak to the biomass portion of that. but i think the fsa rule as was written was absolutely the thinking was so dead on when they talked about the chicken and egg problem. the payments that we received in biomass, they went to the farmers, to get them to commit acre into the program. with that, knowing that they were in

mr. taylor supplied arms and other help to the rebels in exchange for so-called blood diamonds mined in thealleged. the bbc's correspondent covered the trial. he's returned to see where the blood diamonds are a thing of the past. >> this is what peace looks like in sierra leone. but the war is long over. this is a controlled explosion at a new industrial-scale diamond mine. since fighting ended a decade ago, the face of sierra leone has transformed. the seeds of a possible economic boom have been planted . the days of so-called blood diamonds, when gemstones fueled rebel war, are firmly in the past. >> this kind of mining couldn't be more different than the type that took place in sierra leone during the blood diamond years. in the past, the diamonds were smuggled, some by liberia, none of the rocks will leave. but digging up precious minerals only creates small pockets. sierra leone is still a very poor country. many people continue to rely on the back-breaking business of mining for diamonds by hand. eking out the living for themselves and their families. mining has brought few benefits t

mr. taylor. now we recognize you for five minutes testimony, please. >> thank you, chairman, ranking member, members of the subcommittee and the full committee, on behalf of the life of eisel board and grateful for the opportunity to testify regarding the farmville energy title. i'm vice president of sales and marketing for the renewable energy group a leading u.s. by a diesel producer headquartered. our company has by a diesel production facilities in minnesota, texas, iowa, illinois, and we are working to reopen the facilities in louisiana, mexico and kansas. our focus is on converting the national fact, oil and grease into advanced biofuels. currently i have the privilege of serving as the chairman of the national wiota eisel board and the trade association i will refer to as nbb deride by moody's and lizilo carvin diesel replacement fuel. it's used in trucks, trains, agricultural equipment generators and heating oil. by you diesel was used in existing insurance without modification and has ma

mr. jerry taylor, president and chief executive officer, cofounder, said oil biomass llc in columbia, missouri and mr. kerry hair, chairman of the national bio diesel bort washington d.c. so welcome, gentlemen. thank you for being here to bring expertise and experience to the subcommittee hearing and congressman greenwood, please begin when you're ready. [inaudible] >> jim, you're out of this. >> i usually have someone do that for me. so chairman thompson and ranking member holden and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you and i appreciate the opportunity to be with you today. i am the president and ceo of the biotechnology industry organization. bio is the world's largest biotechnology organization that was an 1100 members worldwide. with this broad membership, innovative industrial and agricultural biotechnology companies are developing new feedstocks biological catalyst for production of advanced biofuels can renewable chemicals and bio-based products. because these feedstocks manufacturing methods and products based on plants and biological processes, they are more efficient,

mr. taylor, one of the stars of the new movie coming out battleship. >> good to see you. >> so back to 2006 now six years later not one, but two big budget movies under your belt. >> definitely a full circle moment. i think peter berg cast me in "friday night lights," it's full circle moment with him, as well. he cast me in "battleship" and i think we're going to actually go do another movie in september together. so we're basically dating now. >> i know there's something we noticed about you, there's less of you. you don't have that hair that we've all come to know you for. >> gone. >> how did he convince you to get rid of it. >> i think any time you step onto one of these destroyers -- i had it off when i was prepping. just you're not going to get away with long hair in the navy. >> the updo doesn't work? >> no, it doesn't work. >> i have to ask you about john carter. it's got a lot of attention for the wrong reasons. >> right. >> it didn't do all that well at the box office. at this stage in your career what do you take away from an experience like that? >> i don't really do movies for b

mr. taylor i guess i would like to ask a question because i am intrigued we told a subcommittee hearing in is the small business that i chaired talking about the campus to again test as a very -- campus gigantus as a productive crop to be able to put out, is that applicable for areas like colorado and the desert? >> it is more tolerant. our furthest established it does better but it can survive less water in fact in the 300 acre propagation field which is northwest wichita kansas received only 7 inches of raynein and is the only thing ae out there and produced half a crop and survived it. so, it does survive and prosper in areas that would be typically east than what you expect. >> you comment in your testimony that you would like to see the existing projects through to maturity. can you define a little bit with maturity is and when you expect to receive that? because part of a ridge of -- part of our job obviously as well as the stories of the taxpayers' dollars we want to be given to see these. it needs to be all of the above and our alternative fuels to be a will to reach the point and

taylor, five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for the opportunity. ranking member, clay. thanks for bringing these important issues for politics discussion. in your opening remarks you mentioned we have nearly 100 years of federal reserve history to learn from. it seems to me the lesson is very clear. highly december cession their policy leads to problems and poor performance. more systemic rules based policy, steady as you go policy leads to far superior performance. in the great depression the federal reserve cut the growth of the money supply. >> we can't quite hear it. >> it's been on the whole time. sounds better to me. >> in the great depression, the federal reserve cut the growth rate of the money supply and that raised unemployment to unprecedented levels. in the 1970s, a discretionary ghost stop policy led to double digit and unemployment and double digit inflation, low income growth and double digit interest rates. in the 80s and 90s, a more focused policy, more systemic, more rules based in my view, led to long expansions, low inflation, declining unemployment

taylor for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, for the opportunity, ranking member clay, and thanks for bringing these important issues for public discussion. in your opening remarks you mentioned we have nearly 100 years of federal reserve history to learn from, and it seems to me the lesson is very clear. highly discretionary policy leads to problems and poor performance. more systematic rules-based policy, steady as

mr. obama dropped by the taylor gourmet for takeout. bunch of sandwiches for his luncheon guests then headed back to the white house. tax credits for small businesses, one idea the president is proposing to beef up the economy. steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: at the white house today the president lunched with congressional leaders to avoid a repeat of last summer's fights that trashed the nation's credit rating. barack obama versus john boehner on spending cuts and tax hikes. they failed to make a grand bargain and their short-term deals expire in december. buying hogies to serve at today's talks, president obama would vow no down to the wire talks this fall. right now he wants tax cuts for small businesses that hire more workers, saying the recovery can't wait. >> one of the ways we can sustain momentum is for congress to take some actions right now even though it's election season, even though there's gridlock, partisanship. >> reporter: a clear election move by the president countered by house speaker boehner, who liked the h

mr. president, the tragedy of specialist taylor's death is certainly not lucky for anyone else.s left behind or his friends and fellow soldiers. i know it is a small solace in place of what they have lost, but i want them to know that this united states senate holds specialist david w. taylor in the highest regard for his service on behalf of our country. and we are honored just a few days before memorial day to recognize his enormous sacrifice on behalf of this nation. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey is recognized. mr. menendez: i rise today in strong support of the underlying bill that we are debating, the food and drug administration safety and administration act. this legislation, which would be the model of bipartisanship and effective legislating on the part of chairman harkin and ranking member enzi, is critically important to the people of new jersey and to the nation. this bill is about more than drug safety. it is about more than protecting patients. it's about improving the approval process to speed access to new li

taylor. james murdoch had approved the payment. now members of parliament wanted to know if he had previously lied to them about a cover-up. >> mr.ch, did you mislead this committee in your original testimony? >> no, i did not. >> so if you didn't, who did? >> as i've said to you, as i've written to you and i've said publicly, um... >> bergman: his position was that two other senior executives of news corporation had misled the committee. >> so was it mr. crone, a respected lawyer and in-house legal adviser for many years? >> yes. >> so do you think mr. myler misled us as well? >> i believe their testimony was misleading, and i dispute it. >> do you think mr. pike, a partner at farrers... >> bergman: james murdoch led the news that night. for mark lewis, who wouldn't give up under intimidation, like the mp tom watson, persistence had kept the story alive. you've said that but for pure chance, pure serendipity, it's very possible none of this would have come out. >> correct. the journey, which is something which had started as a small file in my office in manchester, had led to the resignation of someone in ten downing street. but