there is the face of the munich bid. if munich is awarded the winter olympics, the opening and closing ceremonies will be held in the olympic stadium. figure skating, ice hockey, and curling would be held nearby. a new stadium will be built for speed skating. >> we have a very green concept for the winter olympics. there is a long-term lasting concept for the traffic. >> south of munich in the bavarian alps, a long history of posting sporting events. each year, one of the legs of the ski jump competition is held here. next month, they will hold the alpine skiing world championships. in 2018, they could alsoe have the snowboarding and cross- country skiing competitions. >> it is the biggest peaceful festival on earth, and if we are given the chance to stage it, will be very proud and very good hosts. >> there are also opponents. farmers and conservationists say it would cause irreparable damage to the environment, but for the most part, it has widespread support. >> the opponents to which it really rethink it. we really n

there is the face of the munich bid. if munich is awarded the winter olympics, the opening and closing ceremonies will be held in the olympic stadium. figure skating, ice hockey, and curling would be held nearby. a new stadium will be built for speed skating. >> we have a very green concept for the winter olympics. there is a long-term lasting concept for the traffic. >> south of munich in the bavarian alps, a long history of posting sporting events. each year, one of the legs of the ski jump competition is held here. next month, they will hold the alpine skiing world championships. in 2018, they could also have the snowboarding and cross- country skiing competitions. >> it is the biggest peaceful festival on earth, and if we are given the chance to stage it, will be very proud and very good hosts. >> there are also opponents. farmers and conservationists say it would cause irreparable damage to the environment, but for the most part, it has widespread support. >> the opponents to which it really rethink it. we really ne

clearly lyndon johnson's generation was branded by munich. munich analogy kept services. and he also was haunted by the fact that the right wing has exploited china's going communist in 1949. you know, he recognized that in the signing the save rights bill, he was probably signing away the south. you just wonder whether all of this came together to influence in any way -- >> guest: well, of course. i disagree with my fellow historians who tend to believe in movements and patterns that can't be changed. >> host: right. >> guest: i think a good example of rejecting this notion that you are imprisoned within the history of munich of appeasing a dictator or a threat is the way that president eisenhower, the third great caesar in my view, the way that he dealt with the crisis in 1956. because the british and the french and the israelis went in to take back the suez canal. they assumed the united states, even though the most powerful country in the world, would simply stand back and say tut-tut naughty kids and awe -- allow it to happen. eisenhower did not. he's the president o

from munich, you head south on the back roads for almost an hour. once you're there, let the charm take over. murals are everywhere. bavarian villages spill over with traditional crafts and skilled artisans. mittenwald's violin mangas enheilgeigtu card for more than 300 years. mittenwald, the quintessenal pi but was a stopping place on the old augsburg-verona trade route. imagine, what a sight for weary travelers. and now let's cross the border to a major jumping off city, vienna. once you cross into austria, strains of strauss waltzes and the sound of music play havoc in your brain next come the images of cafe mit schlag and apple strudel and freud and mozart the 8-year old composing a symphony. all right, all right, so i've seen too many movies. vienna is a symphony of culture and the arts, stunning structures, and the legacy of hapsburg power. but for those looking for a getaway, it's the perfect setting, nelemajestally onhe mighty nube river. a trip on the danube is restful and delightfully beautif. the river runs 1,500 miles from the black fore

most big european clubs like munich, who are here taking advantage of facilities, have a winter break. english clubs are not so lucky and are likely to resist anything which impacts on the premier league calendar. >> this is another example, where you see fit the -- fifa making it up as the golan, policy au haute. >> qatar will not worry about that. tonight, the skyline was lit up with stars of the asian cup, a dress rehearsal for the biggest football tournament bubble. it's increasingly likely that 12 years from now, qatar will be hosting the first winter world cup. >> stick around, if you can on "bbc world news." a bumpy start the country will consider amending its controversial new media law. first though, an explosion in afghanistan has killed a dozen and wounded many. our correspondent in the afghan capital, kabul, said this. >> the target of friday's attack appears to have been a border police commander who was killed. according to officials in afghanistan, the suicide bomber struck this house in a town near the pakastani border. 110th ellum meters -- 110 kiloliters. there were

. >> most big european clubs lie munich are who are here taking advantage of the facility have a wintereak which might ease that disruption. english clubs are not so luckily. >> this is an example if we see fitcha suspiciously making -- fiffera suspiciously making it up as we go along. >> cutter won't worry about that and tonight dohar's skyline was lit up. a dress rehearsal for the biggest football tournament of all. after today's developments it's increasically likely that 12 years from now they will be celebrating their first winter up with. >> bollywood's star hit the red carpet. >> red carpet glamour to rival the oscars. these awards are coveted by hindy actors because they're judged by an industry panel not just on popularity. they finally took out a best actor award recognized for his pro-trail of a robinhood style police officer in the blockbuster "da bang." this time she played a sexually aggressive widow. but popularity isn't ignored on the night of night. christina walked away with the popular choice best acktrezz award. >> there must be reasons why different films are domina

>> germans would never change the name of munich just because nobody uses the spelling. >> it costs somuch money, changing tterheads, and all the paperwork involved. >> i think it is ok. used to be written with two "a 's." >> the mayor pushed through the map name change. he sees it both as a return to tradition and innovation that will benefit the city internationally. >> by giving up the scandinavian spelling, we're able to communicatmore easilwith the rest of the world and it is easier for everyone to find. >> aarhus is keen to raise its profile and has raised a bid to become a european capital of culture in 2017. until now, aarhus has been traditionally overshadowed by the capital, copenhagen. the locals hope things will change. >> our art museum alone will bring a lot of funds. >> over in the city's main advertising agency, the jury is still out on the new spelling. many actually thought the old brain above the "a" was a unique selling point -- the old ring above the "a" was a unique selling point. >> we like to focus on what sets us apart from the rest. we look for characteristics

the munich international curity conferenchas widraw the invitation to the belarus foreign minister. they said that the move condemned the crackdown on opposition groups following last month's presidential elections. 600 people were jailed in december. opposition parties and international observers say that it was great. finance ministers is what i am trying to say. >> the european debt crisis continues to drag on. we will be talking about this for a while. seriously, the euro zone finance ministers are starting to move towards some sort of agreement or compromise on the rescue fund. they want to be well prepared if the crisis weidman's. they are prepared to restore market confidence. what the juggling act considering the views of the nations involved. member states have agreed on introducing stricter rules for lenders. >> banks will have to face tougher stress tests while underlying capital and liquidity after two large irish banks suffered a liquidity crunch and facilitated the irish bailout. >> we must learn our lesson for the next set of stress tests. >> euro zone finance ministe

she works as a designer from her munich apartment. her label is relatively young. she is working on her third collection. for her, it is the fabric that makes all the difference. she chooses the cloth for each design personally. she creates her designs on a computer. her style is simple. that is the trademark of the british-born designer. >> everybody has a favorite teacher. that is what this should be, for everyone to wear your favorite piece that you take out of your doors everyday -- drawers every day. >> the look is vintage. rose bowl is a famous flea market in california. this woman is responsible for getting kate's designs into the shops. -- this man is responsible for getting cates designs into the shop. the designer does not have a shot of her own yet. the garments are manufactured in turkey. the two are making their final preparations for bread and butter. they hope an appearance at the show will give the lel added exposure. >> we have a feing that word is spreading. we hope they will have presence throughout germany in one or two seasons. >> the sleeves a

that is a different story in munich. the starke coach runs a company of star players. they just spent 17 million euros on another star. others have been out because of injury. but they are determined to robert dorfman of the top bundesliga spot. >> the most important thing is -- >> it is not to look too far into the future. >> in the immediate future, they have decided to take the goalie out and replace them. that will be another test of their team spirit, unsettling the squad, especially since the move was not agreed with by the sports director. >> i can gauge thomas craft every day, but what i cannot gauge is whether he will be able to handle the pressure. >> all the bundesliga players have to handle the pressure. that includes the individualists if they want to overtake dorfman on the way to the title. >>> one of the most impressive players has been there midfielder. the japanese international has been virtually unknown when he arrived, but he has managed to help the club take the lead by scoring eight goals. he was also recently voted top discovery of the year by a

seal of approval from both sides the world's two biggest nuclear power plant exchanged documents and munich late this week to allow weapons production work to begin in earnest. and the world attention is focused on egypt as the nationwide uprising against president hosni mubarak continues despite over one hundred deaths in clashes with police and chaos including mass prison breakouts some believe they were bold and there is similarities with the recent khaled revolutions in former soviet states. up next we'll take a look at the latest scientific efforts in man's quest to reach was able to show the means that could get as their. strange. hello invoking the technology of today we're often on a bit of a different beat than our colleagues here in our newsroom and while they work together to bring out today's breaking news we're going into complete isolation to prep for the future of long term space exploration. if you takes two years roundtrip to get to mars and back could you stand the test. if and where did you train for a dad kind of mission and the end of an ominous corridor in the basement

transfer news mark on ball mill has signed with series side a similar but bottles form a club buy in munich met the middle of his wishes and counseled his contract months ahead of its expiration the thirty three year old is moving to the city on a free transfer deal with the netherlands national team captain van bommel it has started his career as a player with p.s.v. and hovan and he also played for barcelona having played the bye and feels like the season's one valma will not be eligible for the lawns last sixteen tie against them . now good news all around for n.b.a. basketball fans in the big easy the new orleans hornets not only beating the founder by two points by the long term future of their franchise in the city is looking brighter as well the league board now the hornets for more than three hundred million dollars earlier this season and now that the necessary to your attendance marks have been that the team are on the throne foods local founds were able to celebrate that announcement while witnessing a whole victory against rising star caving durand's and company chris paul have

former club by munich met the midfielders wishes and cancelled his contracts thirty three year old is moving to italy on a free transfer deal the netherlands national team captain started his career as a player appears beyond tovan and also played for barcelona having played for by in the champions league this season would not be eligible for the midlands last sixteen tie against tottenham. it's a cage and the bad days finally seem to be over for dinner moscow remain top of their division following a high scoring and hard for win of askance in petersburg things got off to the worst possible start for the nomination arena inside doesn't get another player to injury this time afford it denise topic or helps on the ice alternately collision of a soon find themselves a goal down your home fronts and opening a scoring staff that only four minutes and mannish keep pace with some petersburg side in this action game of the still full three down midway through the second period to quit goldsboro gave them the lead still in the second yani. still off scoring within twenty one seconds of each ot

munich match the midfielders wishes and counseled his contract months ahead of its expiration the thirty three year old is moving to a city all the free transfer deal by the netherlands national team captain bonbon the start of his career as a player with p.s.v. eindhoven and also played for barcelona having played football in the champions league this season valvano will not be eligible for the long last sixteen tie against told him. over to the ice on the cape have joined on guard at the top of the standings that also of beating civets on the road three zero elsewhere out the mobilise solf trotter in the penalty shoot out well but rhys claimed the biggest win of the day eliminating earl bought them at the little. town girls and the rest of the cage wars there on your screen as well. and i'll stay with hockey as we continue profiling clubs and let's take a closer look at one of the league's giants small school regions blonde but i've got four by now and has the story. newly founded in two thousand and five the blue and yellow feet are the rightful successor spot he make the soviet hocke

officially step into power that's already planned as we're hearing for the fourth or fifth of february in munich. most of which this is a very significant event for our country due to agreements we have with the united states the americans have done their bit we also have finished these procedures both chambers of our parliament ratified the start treaty certain remarks were taken into consideration to satisfy the parliaments on both sides but the most significant thing is that after the exchange of ratification papers between our foreign ministers it will define the size of cutting nuclear arsenals for the next ten years. speaking on a separate issue president meeting with you've also said that russia is keen to continue the negotiations on the defensive project just awaiting for nato reaction on this proposal but this is a historical deal death third such treaty between moscow and washington the first two or sorry back in one thousand nine hundred one and in one thousand nine hundred three with this latest one is set to reduce the number of strategic arms on both science by over one third so i

in munich has definitely been already adopted a historic visit and has there's been a great deal of applause for it in march of their. children many thanks reporting live from amman all the crew being made in president if you could read that is middle east in twenty. now the chinese president hu jintao is in the u.s. for a four day state visit the two leaders are expected to hold discussions on the most sensitive issues confronting their nations from economics and trade to human rights policies experts say the u.s. president is a facing a much heavier pressure in order to bring clarity into what the u.s. and china actually all strategic partners or strategic rivals will foreign affairs columnist simon to the things the u.s. officials won't shy away from challenging china this time. i think barack obama has a lot to do to persuade the american public and the american congress that he's sticking up to china he was accused when he went to beijing in two thousand and nine a cowtown that was a bit unfair but he didn't get very much achieved and he's had his whole succession of administration offi

ratification by the size of that plan take the world's to gets nuclear power plant exchange documents in munich later this week so they can start counting their arsenals and his ego cannot report. after more than a year of hard line negotiating and ten more months of internal dispute it's finally done moscow and washington are stripping down their nukes first the state duma and then the federation council gave the bill the green light now that it's signed by the president only a formal exchange of ratification documents is left before the new start comes into force for the next ten years many hope it will not only restrain the two nuclear superpowers but become an example for others to follow this first of all is about the security of the united states and the security of russia this is about unwinding the excesses of the cold war this is about bringing both countries back to the same level of nuclear weapons because we read truly insane levels during the cold war i think it will have a real irrational implications in effect other countries as decision making as well managed to become the symbo

seal of approval from both sides the world's two biggest nuclear power plant exchange documents in munich later this week to allow weapons reduction worked again in. world attention is focused on egypt as a nation wide eyed rising against president hosni mubarak continues despite over one hundred deaths in clashes with police and chaos including mass prison break outs some believe the revolt bears similarities with recent kind of revolutions in forward soviet state. well problems with security deep rooted corruption and a difficult investment climate prison that have toppled all of these topics as he discussed his plans for modernizing russia in an interview with bloomberg television and he also spoke about the fate of me health care and the twenty twelve presidential race that interview's coming up next he want to see. president here to thank you very much for joining us you want to turn russia into a modern country you've got mcdonalds you've got shopping malls you've got sushi what's missing and what. was missing on things like infrastructure business infrastructure and legislation to

the date when this exchange may happen and this is either the fourth or the fifth of february in munich so quite soon indeed and it was quite a long running process for us to view negotiations and then since the nine months have passed since the president initially signed this treaty there were many disagreements stumbling points but nevertheless the two the nuclear superpowers were able to overcome them and finally ratified and signed it. she's national missile which is this is a very significant event for our country due to agreements we have with the united states americans have gone their way we also have finished these procedures both chambers of our parliament ratified the start treaty certain remarks were taken into consideration to satisfy the parliaments on both sides the most significant thing is that after the exchange of ratification papers between our foreign ministers it will define the size of cutting nuclear arsenals for the next ten years. quite significant indeed this is the third such treaty between moscow and washington the first two were signed back in one thousand

stepped into power that's already planned as we're hearing for the fourth or fifth of february in munich this is historical deal disturbed as such treaty between moscow and washington the first two or sorry back in one thousand nine hundred one and in one thousand nine hundred three with this latest one is set to reduce the number of strategic bombs on both sides by over one third so it's a significant step both in the relations between the two countries and in terms of global security sure the negotiations lasted initially for over a year then it took around nine months for the treaty to be ratified after he was signed by the two presidents last april there were disagreements but nevertheless nuclear superpowers were able to work overcome them and sign this deal make it possible. to missile which is this is a very significant design for our countries due to agreements we have with the united states americans have gone their way we also have finished these procedures both chambers of our parliament ratified the start treaty certain remarks were taken into consideration and to satisfy the

this visit which came several weeks ahead of the middle east quartet meeting in munich that's definitely been already adopted a historic visit and has there's been a great deal of applause for it. well the chinese president hu jintao was in the u.s. for a four day state this would discuss and expected with barack obama over economics trade and human rights some say the u.s. leaders on the press had to clarify whether the countries are partners or probably involved or foreign affairs columnist simon tisdall says u.s. officials one more child away from challenging china this time. i think barack obama has a lot to do to persuade the american public and the american congress that he's sticking up to china he was accused when he went to beijing in two thousand and nine of cowtown and that was a bit unfair but he didn't get very much achieved and he's had his whole succession of administration officials in the past week for being trotting out a whole shopping list of demands or requests or wish lists for chinese action and a whole range of areas as you mentioned in your introduction on the ec

and it was sucess taking e land by agreement in munich and followed by 1939 in the summer hitler andstalin pact and the joint decision of the nazis and stalinist to conquer europe from different parts of europe, not to run into one another poll in the divided carefully. i mentioned that possible rhyme to point to a few parallels. the iranian regime today have some of the characteristics that the nazis did in the 1930's. certainly the twin objectives of conquering or at least dominating the whole region of the world and killing the jews, constant among dictators it seems. i also take a vintage of the fact that the persians invented chess and are very good at it dis ahmadinejad strategy as essentially moving juan upon one f side of thechess board slowly down towards the king's row in order to convert to the most lethal peace, the queen here a nuclear weapon. while neither side of the board and perhaps sidebar conversations or launched. but the resolute progress of the pond towards the king's row to become the most lethal piece on the board s what the heart o theatter isall about. the o

cashman has r r t moscow bellerose former presidential candidate lead in munich lie of has been released on bail after being detained during the violent protests in december on saturday the wife of another former candidate was also released pending house arrest many more have been freed despite being accused of instigating a violent outbreak after alexander lukashenko won the country's disputed presidential elections six hundred people were arrested and all some of them were badly beaten the european union has been urging voters to release members of the opposition who've been detained for political reasons they demanded the country investigate the abusive actions of security forces against demonstrators instead. the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe has called for new sanctions against della reese over its violent treatment of the opposition president lukashenko has said he would retaliate if any action was taken against the country the e.u. boycotted his inauguration with many countries opting to distance themselves from the ceremonies. russia and the us are all set to be

seal of approval from both sides the world's two biggest nuclear power plant exchange documents in munich later this week to allow weapons production work to begin. and world attention is focused on egypt i've been nationwide op rising against president hosni mubarak continues despite over one hundred deaths in clashes with police and chaos including massive prison break counts some believe they were bold bad similarities of revolutions and thought the soviet state. has flare up around the arab world with egypt on high alert for a week now peaceful about what of these demonstrations mean another failure for u.s. foreign policy call stalkers up next. if you can. follow me and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle is outside democracy promotion an oxymoron what is america's track record in the arab world and is invoking security interest over democracy the greatest haven for tyrants. and. to discuss democracy promotion i'm joined by katie in paris he is a writer and filmmaker and with we go to jeff purdue he is a post-doctoral fellow at aberystwyth university and author of american foreig

she works as a designer from her munich apartment. her label is relatively young. she is working on her third collection. for her, it is the fabric that makes all the difference. she chooses the cloth for each design personally. she creates her designs on a computer. her style is simple. that is the trademark of the british-born designer. >> everybody has a favorite teacher. that is what this should be, for everyone to wear your favorite piece that you take out of your doors everyday -- drawers every day. >> the look is vintage. rose bowl is a famous flea market in california. this woman is responsible for getting kate's designs into the shops. -- this man is responsible for getting cates designs into the shop. the designer does not have a shot of her own yet. the garments are manufactured in turkey. the two are making their final preparations for bread and butter. they hope an appearance at the show will give the label added exposure. >> we have a feeling that word is spreading. we hope they will have presence throughout germany in one or two seasons. >> the sleev

the munich international security conference has withdrawn the invitation to the belarus foreign minister. they said that the move condemned the crackdown on opposition groups following last month's presidential elections. 600 people were jailed in december. opposition parties and international observers say that it was great. finance ministers is what i am trying to say. >> the european debt crisis continues to drag on. we will be talking about this for a while. seriously, the euro zone finance ministers are starting to move towards some sort of agreement or compromise on the rescue fund. they want to be well prepared if the crisis weidman's. they are prepared to restore market confidence. what the juggling act considering the views of the nations involved. member states have agreed on introducing stricter rules for lenders. >> banks will have to face tougher stress tests while underlying capital and liquidity after two large irish banks suffered a liquidity crunch and facilitated the irish bailout. >> we must learn our lesson for the next set of stress tests. >> euro zone finance minist

and it was success taking the land by agreement in munich and followed by 1939 in the summer hitler andstalin pact and the joint decision of the nazis and stalinist to conquer europe from different parts of europe, not to run into one another poll in the divided carefully. i mentioned that possible rhyme to point to a few parallels. the iranian regime today have some of the characteristics that the nazis did in the 1930's. certainly the twin objectives of conquering or at least dominating the whole region of the world and killing the jews, constant among dictators it seems. i also take a vintage of the fact that the persians invented chess and are very good at it. and i see ahmadinejad strategy as essentially moving juan upon on one far side of the chess board slowly down towards the king's row in order to convert to the most lethal peace, the queen here a nuclear weapon. while neither side of the board and perhaps sidebar conversations or coffee lots of distractions are launched. but the resolute progress of the pond towards the king's row to become the most lethal piece on the board i

there have been cases in american history and maybe world war ii was one of them when after munich, after hitler tore up the agreement there was nothing more to do than to fight. but in virtually every other case if you analyze it comes to things, he tried to things are true if i will get to your question, and sorry, this is a diversion. but one is that the americans don't negotiate very well. you know, we often break off negotiations or claim that they are breaking off negotiations but really we did and so forth. what interest often in negotiations. you know that in the case of the first gulf war. all that saddam hussein wanted to do finally was to leave kuwait with his troops. without any concessions in the bush the first said we will see him in baghdad. in other words, but war wasn't about getting saddam hussein out of kuwait, it was about destroying the iraqi forces and occupying iraq through the sanctioning iraq. so the negotiation is sometimes doesn't exist because we don't want it to. but even when we do negotiate or we are willing to negotiate some times we consistently confuse ne

that is a different story in munich. the starke coach runs a company of star players. they just spent 17 million euros on another star. others have been out because of injury. but they are determined to robert dorfman of the top bundesliga spot. >> the most important thing is -- >> it is not to look too far into the future. >> in the immediate future, they have decided to take the goalie out and replace them. that will be another test of their team spirit, unsettling the squad, especially since the move was not agreed with by the sports director. >> i can gauge thomas craft every day, but what i cannot gauge is whether he will be able to handle the pressure. >> all the bundesliga players have to handle the pressure. that includes the individualists if they want to overtake dorfman on the way to the title. >>> one of the most impressive players has been there midfielder. the japanese international has been virtually unknown when he arrived, but he has managed to help the club take the lead by scoring eight goals. he was also recently voted top discovery of the year by a

and it was success taking the land by agreement in munich and followed by 1939 in the summer hitler andtalin pact and the joint decision of the nazis and stalinist to conquer europe from different parts of europe, not to run into one another poll in the divided carefully. i mentioned that possible rhyme to point to a few parallels. the iranian regime today have some of the characteristics that the nazis did in the 1930's. certainly the twin objectives of conquering or at least dominating the whole region of the world and killing the jews, constant among dictators it seems. i also take a vintage of the fact that the persians invented chess and are very good at it. and i see ahmadinejad stragy as essentially moving juan upon on one far side of the chess board slowly down towards the king's row in order to convert to the most lethal peace, the queen here a nuclear weapon. while neither side of the board and perhaps sidebar conversations or coffee lotof distractions are launched. but the resolute progress of the pond towards the king's row to become the most lethal piece on the board is wha

he had gone to a university in munich, i'm not sure.but he had lived in the germany for many years, and he suddenly reappears on the back of a u.s. tank and says, hi, i'm here to be your governor in a box. it doesn't work that way. so what we have to do is get out of the way and allow real diplomacy to go on. there needs to be diplomacy. does it have to involve the taliban? of course it does because they're one of many forces in the country. this is one of the great lessons, ironically, of former senator mitchell who has been president obama's special envoy in the middle east. unfortunately, he didn't operate off of it. but he knew from his own experience in ireland that the first lesson of diplomacy if you're serious is everybody has to be at the table. why? not because you agree with everybody, but if you exclude some, if you say, well, you can't come because we think you're terrorists, you can't come because you won't put down your arms, you won't come because of whatever, if you do that, the diplomacy's not going to work because all

guest: it--two years in bavaria, south of munich in a little village called lengreis up in the bavarian alps. i had a great time. c-span: you came to the united states permanently in what year? guest: '49. c-span: how did you get here? guest: oh, boy, that's another story of thievery. i had a--what i worked in the post office delivering telegrams. then i worked in easton's wholesale new--news agents which is like the irish barnes & noble. and then i--in the meantime i got a job with this old woman writing. she was a money lender, a shark--a loan shark. and... c-span: what was her name? guest: ms. finucan. and she needed somebody. i was delivering a telegram. and she said, 'are you in any way smart?' well, i said, 'i can read and write.' she says, 'half the people above the lunatic asylum can read and write. can you write a letter.' 'of course i can write a letter.' and she hired me to write threatening letters to dilatory customers. i was to threaten them that if they didn't pay up they'd go to jail. i thre--oh, and i threatened with all kinds of things. i let my imagination run wild. a

and it was success taking the land by agreement in munich and followed by 1939 in the summer hitler and. i mentioned that possible rhyme to point to a few parallels. the iranian regime today have some of the characteristics that the nazis did in the 1930's. certainly the twin objectives of conquering or at least dominating the whole region of the world and killing the jews, constant among dictators it seems. i also take a vintage of the fact that the persians invented chess and are very good at it. and i see ahmadinejad strategy as essentially moving juan upon on one far side of the chess board slowly down towards the king's row in order to convert to the most lethal peace, the queen here a nuclear weapon. while neither side of the board and perhaps sidebar conversations or coffee lots of distractions are launched. but the resolute progress of the pond towards the king's row to become the most lethal piece on the board is what the heart of the matter is all about. the other phenomenon that is taking place is of course the iranian nuclear weapons program. if you do not believe that it is

on february 5th on the margin of the munich security conference. are you saying anything public on that? and secondly, as a follow up to what you said a couple of days ago about the situation in kazakhstan and the issue of the president's powers, i think the kazakhstan government has taken the early elections now as opposed to the referendum before. any comment on that? >> on the -- we are aware that the government of kazakhstan has decided not to pursue the national referendum. we think that's the right decision for kazakhstan to make. now that the president has signed the law of ratification, we are working with the russian federation to schedule the exchange of instruments. i think we'll have more to say about that later in the week. >> p.j., hold on to second please. i was talking about the early election in kazakhstan. >> i, you know, as to when elections are scheduled, those are decisions made, you know, by kazakhstan. last week when foreign minister was here, he was still talking about a national referendum which would actually cancel electi

their concerns there is with demonstrations, but in rome, the munich airport with 2,000 people there the concern is the terrorist arrives in a taxi and opens fire. that's a richer target and disrupts an entire airport more than an airplane. i earnestly never advise you never to fly. it's 830 passengers. [laughter] now, what has been the case in the second airport is changing. it's a singapore airline airport, and here passengers are instructed that if they want to board successfully, they have to arrive within 30 minutes of takeoff. 30 minutes, not three hours, two hours, not an hour and a half, but 30 minutes. how do they do that? simple. they are mobile screening gate by gate. the screeners, the machines and everything go from one gate to the other. they don't screen. they have a prescreen to make sure you don't have a bunch of people carrying machine guns in their hands which is just done visually. as you enter, the rest without stopping anybody, the rest is at the gate. therefore, they have gate selective security methods, so they have let's say the flight that goes to japan or k

that secretary clinton and someone would exchange instruments on february 5 on the margins of the munich security conference. are you saying anything publicly about that? secondly, as the fall of a couple of days ago about the situation in kazakhstan, i think they're talking about early elections now as opposed to the referendum. any comment on that. >> we are aware that the government of kazakhstan has decided not to pursue the national referendum. we think that is the right decision for kazakhstan. now that president medvedev has lined -- signs the law of ratification, we're working with the russian federation to exchange instruments. i think will have more to say about that. >> i was talking about the early election in kazakhstan. >> as to when elections are scheduled, those are decisions made by kazakhstan. last week, when foreign minister -- when the foreign minister was here, he was still talking about a national referendum which would actually canceled elections in 2013 and 2017. it appeared to us that kazakhstan has decided not to pursue a national referendum and we think that is

>> and munich tunnel has a set of them. and i'm sure will collect more. great, okay. >> you have some man that is trying to hand you something. >> okay. do you think any of the decline and use the fm for civics results from the change in the rhetoric of the purpose of government? that is today the focus is much more on privatization, enabling the free market. so i guess that means we don't hear much talk about the higher purposes of government may be. there's a lack of liberation. >> i don't think that's one inhering out there. i think the fact you have young people who weren't learning anything about it. and so, it's not a next acted that there's not much much discussion or concerned. >> yeah, i was at the same thing. it can come historical perspective here. this decline started 40 years ago. and i hope i'm not going on a limb here. i don't think it was around until 1990 and into the 90s that people begin to say something is going wrong here. and the unfortunate state of public rhetoric in the united states had not reached anything like today's character

their concerns there is with demonstrations, but in rome, the munich airport with 2,000 people therer target and disrupts an entire airport more than an airplane. i earnestly never advise you never to fly. it's 830 passengers. [laughter] now, what has been the case in the second airport is changing. it's a singapore airline airport, and here passengers are instructed that if they want to board successfully, they have to arrive within 30 minutes of takeoff. 30 minutes, not three hours, two hours, not an hour and a half, but 30 minutes. how do they do that? simple. they are mobile screening gate by gate. the screeners, the machines and everything go from one gate to the other. they don't screen. they have a prescreen to make sure you don't have a bunch of people carrying machine guns in their hands which is just done visually. as you enter, the rest without stopping anybody, the rest is at the gate. therefore, they have gate selective security methods, so they have let's say the flight that goes to japan or korea, the usual bunch of 45 schoolteachers all together who all know each othe