lake nasser, the world's largest man-made lake, holds two years' worth of the nile's water.ith the aswan dam, egypt regulates the flow of the nile. this has beea boon for agriculture in the delta. without the dam, you would thnot have perennial irrigation in the delta. you would not have three cropping seasons. but there's a downside-- you are holding back silt, so those nutrient-rich water which used to come every year during the flood no longer comes. so this has resulted in increased dependency on fertilizers, on the additions to chemicals to the land. not only are these expensive, but there's an environmental cost as well. narrator: one such cost is a kind of pollution called salinization. salinization occurs most often in arid climates like egypt. in the hot, dry air, surface water evorat quickly before it can sink down into the soil, leaving behind whatever mineral surfcontent was in the water. the salinization in this field is extreme and obvious. the problem is widespread, with damaging levels of salinization affecting as much as 50% of egypt's farmland. but despite

when i went -- i was at nasser's funeral. isn't that amazing. i was there with robert murphy the diplomat among warriors and john mccoy. we landed and there were soviet airplanes, tanks and soldiers all over that country. this is 1970 plus or minus something. we met with sadat who was the acting president, the vice president, and the briefing papers said he was a light weight. that nasser didn't like to have strong vice presidents around him. this fellow won't last 15 minutes. sometimes i over state for emphasis. probably not exactly what the paper said but something like that. we went independent an met and came away enormously impressed, a man of substance and guts and he looked at us in the eye and said look, i have no problems with the united states of america at all except israel. and within a year or two all of the soviet tanks and airplanes and artillery and soldiers were gone. gutsy move. you know, we look at the revolution and we think isn't that terrific. then it starts sorting out and you see it's not so terrific. why is that? the rea

half a century ago and of course he equated nasserism to terrorism so i think there's a deep western interest in an outside interest in seeing that type of nationalism not come to the fore in egypt right now and there's a lot of history of outside intervention with some of the people who are actually organizing and spearheading these protests really just that just aside from the outside intervention that you talk all fair we had a political analyst in cairo on the program here on our teachers a bit earlier he was saying that people are fed up with the ruling military council they're also fed up with the muslim brotherhood that have only been there for a very very short while the democratically voted in he also said the people would actually to some degree rather have it all thora tarion form of leadership like what they had with mubarak because they operate better under such a leadership any truth that you think. well i'm sure there is truth to that insofar as there are a lot of different opinions on all different sides as you pointed to earlier there's a lot of different sects and d

he told mulally about nasser's dream of building a house of brands.he acknowledged there were too many dealers, and he told mulally about his own push to globalize product development. until we do that, nothing else is going to work, ford said. our costs are going to be too high. we're just going to fall further and further behind. why haven't you done it already, mulally asked? ford explained that he wanted to but was getting pushback from his executives who saw it as a threat to their own regional fiefdoms. if mull mulally took the job, he would have to overcome that resistance. that will be the enabler to get everything else done, ford told him. if you can't do that, if we can't get that, we'll just be whistling past the graveyard. the internal politics troubled mulally. he asked ford for more details. ford sketched out the company's organizational structure in black pen. family tree of sorts that listed the head of each division and showed who reported to who. the operating people are on quick sand, ford told mulally, i need help. mulally had real

dave and christie nasser and giant george, thanks so much for coming on. what a treat.that, shaquille o'neal on the line there for me? i'll pick it up in a second. >> could you handle that dog? we're both dog owners. >> i like big dogs, but that's a lot of dog. that's a horse. in fact, he's running in the kentucky derby. did i mention that? >> my money's on george. awesome. >> you were thinking of the question i wanted to ask but couldn't bring myself to. >> yeah, how big is the pooper scooper? >> i wasn't going to say that word. i was just going to say that responsible pet owners. >> okay, fine. >>> time to check with david gregory, see what's coming up on "meet the press." hey, david. >> thank you for that segue. i appreciate that. coming up, the fight for women voters heated up this week and we'll talk about it with kirsten gill brandt and michele bachmann. plus, tim geithner talks jobs, taxes and the sluggish economic recovery. it's all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >> david, thank you very much. that does it for us. thanks to tamron hall, lynn berry a

the country signing a three year deal for twenty million euros per year while in samoa president nasser my mother says he'd like to see a plaque. now with the french open on the horizon the clay court tennis season gets into full swing this week with the monte carlo masters getting underway plenty of big names in action third seed andy murray receiving a first round bye and then losing just three games and a second round encounter against later on choose day coming through a six love six three and dominant fashion world number four is a two time seven finalist at the event in moffitt c.j. wilfred saunders in action against germany spirit culture song as he turns twenty seven today has already taken the first set six tooth brushes mikel usually is out after straight straight sets to face a qualifier federico rafael nadal will be ending for an eighth straight title after pulling out of a semi final against mary i last month a vent in miami with a knee injury. to. the knee with a will answer because i didn't practice a list of my practice a few days ago so. it's time to. to plan my my leve

the brotherhood has been underground for decades going back to the era of the nasser so i mean i'm not quite sure where in the view is going is going the fact. a new bill for internet security is finding a way to support u.s. lawmakers who are now in hunston from asian gathering to combat cyber attacks and terrorism but freedom activists say it could lead to wiretapping of private communication by the state or not is going to expose washington selective support of internet freedom. the u.s. government continue spending millions of dollars to support freedom of the internet around the war but is it freedom for all we keep leaks which to many has become the symbol of an average been under fire from u.s. officials and lawmakers because we can reach publish arguments which embarrass the american government in many ways we can beat the comes the enemy the u.s. has reportedly issued a secret indictment against julian a songe the head of the website which leaked hundreds of thousands of documents revealing embarrassing details about wars in iraq and afghanistan five major u.s. financial insti

no no reason first the brotherhood has been underground for decades going back to the year of the nasser so i mean i'm not quite sure where in libya was doing is going as facts. through the day's news the decision not to de ice of russian passenger plane is now considered the most likely cause of monday's deadly crash in western siberia that aircraft came down just minutes after takeoff killing thirty one of the forty three people on board including all the crew doctors are still fighting to save the twelve critically ill survivors investigators telling us the plane's engines were functioning when the plane hit the ground a three day period of mourning for the victims says no started the first funerals taking place today. and we'll keep you cross on the latest developments as the investigation into that plane crash in western siberia on our website are also online tonight other stories may be interested in how to handle presidential prying . is a pleasure to speak. and to have a microphone that i can see. feel free to transmit it to if you see him barack obama laughs off last week's inci

but the brotherhood has been underground for decades going back to the era of the nasser so i mean i'm not quite sure where in the bill is going is going it's fact. well the international criminal court has turned down palestinian request to investigate a lesser israeli war crimes on their lands official reason for the rejection is that palestine is not a un recognized state let's go live now to jerusalem and jeff however who's a co-founder and executive director of the israeli committee against house demolitions thanks for being with us mr helper i'd like to begin with asking you this the palestinian authority has relations with over a hundred and thirty governments and was granted observer entity status by the un why should a lack of statehood recognition be enough reason to not investigate what could be serious crimes here. well that's exactly the problem the palestinians exist in a kind of a limbo because they're not a state they don't have access to all the instruments of international law or of the u.n. system but at the same time. international law that doesn't apply to the occu

the end of the brotherhood has been underground for decades going back to the era of gamal abdel nasser so i mean i'm not quite sure where in the view is getting is going the facts. little you want to respond to that especially so especially if yes absolutely i'm saying it as best as specially so in america's war on terror which largely contributed not just in egypt but across the muslim world to stigmatise islamic parties not just in egypt but in tunisia in morocco and indeed across the region and contributed to demonize this party and basically paint them as islamic extremists and now we know that the muslim brotherhood is seen as a moderate party and contrary to what alisa was saying it is also seen in egypt as a bloc in fact to the more radical a party which is the son of his party of the new world which is supported by gulf countries especially saudi arabia ok richard you want to jump in there you say you disagree go ahead. i don't i don't really see a big difference between the muslim brotherhood and the softest parties but to get back to i think oren is absolutely right i mean th

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but the era of nasser, instead of bringing freedom and democracy as he said, it turned out to be one of the most oppressive periods in egyptian modern history. ushering in a long period of wars, socialism, confiscation of property of the businesses and the people who were actually making the country work economically. poverty, it ushered in poverty and illiteracy. from 1952 until last year, 2011, the revolution had happened. egypt had only three presidents. three presidents only. see how many presidents america had during that time. i lived under most of my life in egypt, i lived under oppressive dictatorships and police state of nasser. i lived in, i witnessed oppression of women. female genital mutilation. my mother's generation, 97% of the women had to undergo through this operation including my mother. polygamy and its devastating effects on family relations. honor killing. i knew a girl who was 16, was raped. and as a result of that rape, she was killed by her family because she was, she has committed sexual sins. my only outlet to escape sharia, life under sharia was to move to

the history of this kind cup dates for the heavy case i think that 50s to the debacle that was jack nasser. culminating his own frustrated to see that. he talked about the landscape railing against toyota which he accused of working with japanese government to manipulate began to boost export. he told mullally via coming 2007 contract negotiations with united autoworkers with the company's survival in outline concessions he hoped to rest from the union, which cuts, more competitive work roles and into the job banks where they collect benefits, sometimes for years while waiting for new positions to open up. if ford could not get concessions they might have to move production to mexico. mullally seemed haut, clearly a lot of challenges facing the automaker needed questions that needed answering for you to consider taking charge of such a troubled company. here's a chance to fight for this tool of american manufacturing. if i'm going to do this, i need to know everything he thought. so mullally began his interrogation. why are there so many brands? stop himself from using the word we. we kept

written by his owner, dave nasser. just how big is he?aving way too much fun there. it sounds like you're having a rave in times square. if you meet this dog, you're not sure if he's a dog or a horse or part-giraffe. he's so intimidating that people usually cross to the other side of the street when they see him out for a walk. but in reality, he's a total gentleman. in fact, i think i made a new buddy. take a look. the camera just loves him. he has over 90,000 facebook fans. over 1 million hits on youtube. he's even been a guest on account "oprah." >> hi, george. >> reporter: this super-sized celeb is giant george. a great dane, so great he holds the guinness record for tallest dog in the world. but back home in tucson -- >> hi, i'm dave. >> and i'm christy. >> and this is our dog, george. >> reporter: george is just one of the family. >> george. >> reporter: and in the new book "giant george, life with the world's biggest dog," it's clear that this world record holder is happiest at home on the couch. i decided to bay a visit to this to