cameras in the national assembly.tually makes a good theatrical effect. >> theater is really all it is. unlike in taiwan where political brawling often sways an outcome. scott snyder says the punch-ups we see in the korean assembly are all for show. >> usually they are related to ritual confrontations or situations where a measure or a law is about to be passed. the assemblymen already know what the outcome is going to be, but they need to show their constituents that they have done everything they can in order to try to stop it from being passed. it it's a ritual fight to show your loyalty even for a lost cause. >> well, guys, even if you're not changing history, you sure are getting a good workout. >>> coming up -- uh-oh, look out. mikes and paperweights fly through the air in india. >> mikes and paperweights have become like missiles. >>> plus, somali's fight over whether to allow peace-keeping forces into their country. >> the ultimate irony of this one is this was a fight about peacekeepers. >> it was quite dange

this means that the national assembly betrayed the people of france it does not represent the people in statistical terms lisbon has been ratified by the national assembly overwhelmingly when the people rejected the treaty in a referendum it is clear that this representative democracy actually represents no one at all today the european union. scared of the people and of consulting the people there's also the demonization of the people treating them as though they're stupid as though they won't understand this is real right wing ideology men are idiots sheep that must be led by an elite against their will it's an ideology that can be called extreme right. be european union was meant to bring down unemployment bring prosperity security whatever you want to callers but instead it brought unemployment to the adoption of the euro inflated prices it caused the industrialization especially in france it may be better for germany but it's an economic disaster on the security front it's been a disaster with schengen a total loss of border control the french have long been familiar with that w

consideration in consultations, the state governments and the national assembly approved the reduction of the price of petrol. >> but many nigerians are still angry. they seek government subsidies on petrol as the only benefit they get from nigeria's huge oil wealth. >> let's shift to the movies, and the stars were out in hollywood on sunday for the golden globe awards. the night's highlights included a veteran actress meryl streep, who picked up another golden glow in the best actress category. another feature of the evening was a silent black-and-white french film which also managed to scoop up a few wins. here is more from the world of entertainment. >> the awards were hosted by british comedian ricky gervais. >> if you do not know, the golden globes are just like the oscars, but without all that the steam. -- esteem. [laughter] the golden globes are to the oscars with kim kardashian is to kate middleton, basically. [laughter] but louder, a bit trash year, and a bit drawner. >> as the evening of all the, hollywood legend meryl streep and picked up her record they meet -- record-brea

everybody in the united nations assembly signed this except for the united states and somalia. we have begun to gather the information. i have a little bit more literature year if you want to talk afterwards, and some examples of that, but that is one of the things we need to do. let's look at the fundamental violations of our rights that are happening in your community and think about how we can elevate this to a level of international acclaim. it may seem a ways down the road, but if we are working in solidarity to actually gather this information, while we're fixing the problem at the same time, i think that is one plausible direction for us to go in. >> hello. thank you for coming. in a native san franciscan. i have actually two questions. one is i had the experience of staying in atlanta, georgia, for several years, and one of the things i saw was the prosperity and how they actually really took care of business. is there any way to kind of model that system or progress that was made in atlanta and kind of import it into the black communities that we see here today that st

they also have to vacate their seats in the national assembly with this is that the growth of bringingout early elections. so in answering the question why the nro are bringing brought back now, the army now has a chance. if we care about pakistan's democracy as well as hussein haqqani, the u.s. government is to be much more vocal than it has been. we work with partners to send a clear message that we recognize this is a coup albeit by a judicial hue. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, christine. our next speaker is stephen cohen of workings institution. and before that, the university of illinois urbana-champaign, steven and i are now colleagues that hurricanes and he has in particular been a watcher of pakistan army, but i believe what he has to say is going to go beyond that. steve. >> let me say that perkins is pleased to cosponsor this event and i'm pleased to participate in it. i am happy that it's taking place in hunt thing. here's a guy when i was a graduate student i attended lectures by herman kahn. in her meant was the futurologists. he was one of the first big ten futurolo

the national unity government would organize a constituent assembly to be transparent, fair and arab and international oversight through three months from the creation of the national unity government. mr. president -- in informing the security council of all these developments i should like to inform you that immediately before coming to new york, i was compelled to take an urgent measure in suspending the work of the arab observers in syria because of the grave deterioration of the situation in the country lately after the syrian government openly declared that it is taking the security option. this led to the withdrawal of some observers until i take the matter to the league's council in a few days. as you see from the brief reports on the arab crisis, the league has always endeavored to find a peaceful political settlement to the syrian crisis that spares the lives of the syrian people and realizes its demands and aspirations. furthermore, the league fully realizes that the support and of the international community of the aarab plan as being the only mechanism to resolve the syri

they're vacating their seat in the national assembly with explicit goal of trying to bring about early elections. in answering the question why are the nro being brought back now? the army now has a chance. if we care about pakistan's democracy as well as hussein haqqani the united states government has to be more vocal than we've been. we have to recognize this a coup albeit by judicial hue. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, christine. our next speaker is steven cohen of brookings institution. before that, of the university of illinois and urbana-champagne. steve and i are now colleagues at brookings and he has in particular been a watcher of the pakistan army but i believe that what he has to say will go beyond that. steve? >> thank you. s. let me say that brookings is pleased to cosponsor this event and i'm pleased to participate in it but i'm happy it is taking place at hudson. years ago when i was graduate student i attended lectures by herman khan who founded hudson later in his career. herman khan was futureo. lgists in the united states. his interest was nuclear weapons. he d

nation of power. the freedom of assembly. the promotion of democracy. and the protection of promotion of human rights and that those very states who don't even have a constitution let alone a genuine electoral system and who have only exercised democracy through satellite stations and fancy conference halls, those same countries, i say, unfortunately, resort to the security council to ask for reform and for democracy. syria, mr. president, had a parliament, in 1919. by that time, in one year after the fall of the empire. while lawrence of arabia was wreaking havoc with the destinies and the resources of the states and was trying to turn the clock back to obscurism. mr. president, syria signed the protocol of arab observers because we were keen on keeping this issue under the arab roof. syria proved its full and accurate commitment to the arab plan and the protocol signed between syria and the secretary yacht of the league of arab states and the support of the arab mission confirmed as fact in paragraphs, 37, 38, 39 and 73 of the report and it confirmed

assembly. this follows the national transportation safety board's recommendation last month to ban all use electronic devices behind the wheel it is already legal in illinois to text and drive and talk on a hand-held phone in school and construction zones chicagos had that ban on hand held cellphone usage while driving and a proposal to ban cell phone use while driving has been put on hold in lake forest councilman there could not reach a consensus on the proposed distracted driving ordnance last night the town's aldermen are considering a broader measure to ban other distractions while driving that would include a ban on adjusting the radio evening reading or applying makeup officials fear banning all of those actions would be difficult to enforce the may take are bracing for potential damage to crops temperatures are expected to drop from 80 down to 20 degrees in three days in an attempt to avoid freezing damage to crops the farmers there pumping warm water out of the ground to spray on those trees fact they hope this fogging action will raise temperatures inside of the orange groves and prevent ma

this is a very different chamber from the old assembly, dominated for decades by the notoriously corrupt national democratic party. now it is islamists in control, with the muslim brotherhood of the largest single party. >> what should have been a simple procedural session became slightly chaotic as mps argued over the oath of office and other details. the muslim brotherhood insists their first priority is not introducing islamic law, but simply getting the country moving again. >> accepting responsibility for this party to act with the needs of people and to respond for all the people. we need freedom and justice. >> outside parliament, for different demonstrations converged. everyone from islamists to intellectuals demanding more economic freedom. >> we are for creative expression and freedom of creativity and scientific research and demanding the removal of the old regime. >> these demonstrators are a reminder that they will be held accountable for their decisions. the parliament is no longer just an avenue for corruption as it has been for years. so another landmark in the dramatic developmen

assembly last year. this year the bill contains more rights to contain religious institutions. the governor addressed a national conference that was in baltimore this weekend. compassion and justice are needed in the debate over same- sex marriage. >> it is the dignity of a free and diverse people who at the end of the day all want the same day for their children. for their children to be able to live in a loving and a caring and a stable home that is protected equally under the law. >> the committee will hold a hearing tomorrow on this bill. kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. >> the republican contest is beginning to take shape. kate amara has more. good morning. >> good morning. new numbers show mitt romney is building a comfortable lead over newt gingrich in florida. >> the chair has been fd in florida. >> with one day before the florida primary, new polling shows the momentum has shifted back to mitt romney. he has been attacking newt gingrich. >> this will be an historic election. i have been a leader and i will lead america back to strength. >> met romney has a 30% of support. newt gingrich has 29%. -- mitt romn

overlooked a dedicated team has to collaborate together to take it from a national idea to finished product and that's precisely what has assembled out here in novosibirsk as a result of their hard work there are by far the largest and most successful gaming company in eastern europe and based on what they've done lately they can clearly compete with the best that the west has to offer but they found that with accolades and success come ever growing considerations. kind of financial resources that you work with at the beginning and what kind now. thousands one could spend something like ten thousand dollars or even less to make a game that's completely competitive. today to make a game that would be his in its own zone. talking about casual games we don't speaking about major blockbusters in the hard cold gaming genre quarterly but one has to spend in excess of hundreds of thousands of dollars. and that's true for one of the alum wars biggest titles the treasures of montezuma has proved so costly among casual gamers that it's already on its third iteration it's ranked as high as number two on the u.s. i pad app store list of most

assemblies. it's not a national election. and the questioner asks what would be the implications of a ppp victory in the senatorial election? and i think the real question that we ought to be answering as well is what do these senate elections mane? mean? so would any of my colleague on the panel like to tackle that one? go ahead, lisa. >> yeah. i think the implication is that the if ppp does very well in the senate elections, then that will help them in the general elections that are scheduled for next year, a year from now. um, but, you know, i think, again, it comes up to the timing. i think somebody had asked about the timing, and my first thought was the timing of the memodate issue, we have to ask jaz. he's the one who wrote the article in the financial times that brought up the case. but, you know, we're talking about timing, and i think chris raised this as well. you know, why two years after the fact all of a sudden the supreme court now is saying, it's threatening to disqualify the prime minister for not following t

assembly. members of the. membership. to continue with the. observer. nation security council we received eight votes that we need nine still may not upset every one is pressure again still membership we refuse the idea of being a nonmember observer state everything is possible i'm not saying that it can't be everything is possible if you ask me about the official position of the palestinian state on this issue i'll give you the answer we seek full membership we will apply for a second time etc until we get our bid approved. in a number of arab countries are now obsessed with the idea of throwing existing regimes. mr president why did they attempt to create a national unity government and in failure. what has been achieved in terms of social and political reforms. first of all our attempts didn't. we don't wish to create a national unity government but my personal suggestion was to create a neutral transitional technocratic government. of experts that would work until the election that's not a national unity government. and its creation is already underway we

. >> reporter: marusha, a 26-year-old soprano from australia is part of a united nations of musicians rieu has assemblednce, russia and poland. >> reporter: many come from poland, of course. like percussionist and his son glen. >> he's already in the orchestra at 20 years old. >> reporter: and the violinist who was only ten when he first met the maestro. >> i went up to him and i said, later, when i grow up, i want to be like you. >> reporter: most speak english. but the orchestra is conducted in dutch. >> it's quite easyçó actually. >> but we all help each other out. >> sometimes there are sentences with three different languages in it so that we understand each other. double dutch. (laughing) >> we are a big family. it sounds perhaps like a fairy tale but it's true. we have fun together. and making music with people you know as long as that, that's fantastic. i only look at my orchestra and here comes another sound. that's better than sex. >> reporter: better than sex. >> yeah. it's really true. it's fantastic. >> reporter: a 16th century castle. andre took piano lessons here as a boy. now he owns the

and how did our nation that supposedly respects free speech and the rights to peaceably assemble respond with mass arrests police brutality and constant criticism in the mainstream media that would make thomas jefferson and the rest of our founding fathers korean our civil liberties are disappearing we now have to walk to radiation scanners display our new bodies to t.s.a. agents before boarding an airplane our phones could be wired stepped our internet searches retrieved in our library book records examined in the name of so-called homeland security and in just the last few weeks new powers have been granted to the president to indefinitely detain americans who are suspected of being what he identifies as terrorists we've traded liberty for temporary security and as ben franklin once said we now deserve neither in the name of the so-called security we have now and manned drones flying all over the world in search of terrorists our war machine has spread out across the middle east operating both overt and covert wars that are draining our nation of critical resources and leaving thousand

his wrath at those industries we talked about, automotive assembly, national defense, medical devices and so forth. it is about 10% of the u.s. gdp. that is the size of it. it's about 45% of our exports. and it accounts for about 4 million of what i would argue very, very high skill jobs. we talk about knowledge workers. this event afar and. so we think well, it is 10%. it punches way above its weight. the secretary talked about the amount of r&d it's actually been done by these players. most of the 67% are done by the advanced industry players in manufacturing. that is where the engine is. and actually, what we would argue that all of the trends are heading south, we heard about education. we've heard about the lack of long-term thinking. the trends are heading south and we think south quite quickly. we have to do with a strong base and we shouldn't forget that. more than my next-door countries combined. that is changing. we are to china is doing and so forth. but we believe we are in a use it as a type of thing, where we've got to make some big shifts to drive it. and one of the rea

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republican, my father was asked to come down to the state and say a few words to the nation and the people there assembled, and he looked out at the crowd in front of him and the people of around the country who were watching on television, and he told a daunting task that he was asked to do. my father was asked to write a letter to be put into a time capsule that would be opened on the 300th anniversary of the united states of america. he said, what a daunting task, to be asked to write a letter to a people who would know everything about us, but we knew nothing about that. what do i write about? do i write about nuclear proliferation? he set to write about freedom? freedom is so important. he said, but if we do not make the right decision today, the people that live on on the 300th anniversary may very well not have the freedom to open up the time capsule to read the letter that in fact he has put into it. that is how important this election is because are we not losing our freedoms one by one, each and every day? it is not the government that is encroaching on our lives more and more every day? do you

nation. >> the floors are cracked up. >> on tuesday, martin o'malley announced the money. >> this year, we will be asking the general assembly to approve a $372 million investment. >> susan is the ptso president here in southwest baltimore. >> some of the bathrooms don't have bathroom stalls. some of the toy lets are broken. >> --some efferent--efforts o f them are--some of them are broken. >> they want the money used to also enhance learning. of the $370 million, the governor wants, 20 million is going be used for building repairs. >> we need it. the city needs it. >> reporter: martin o'malley says he is going to create jobs with that. >> and thank you. the governor's request was approved. >>> the ravens are going gearing up. and we'll have coverage of this. and today crews paints a huge logo on the grass at the courthouse. now, don't miss the action when the houston team comes. the kick off is at 1:00. you can watch it right here. >> then, it is the pizza post game show. mary and san will be live on sunday. >>> and coming up u casey anthony's thoughts broadcast. why she is so upset about the videos. >>> a dispute that led

it's roughly those industries that you talked about, the automotive assembly, national -- the defense, medical devices and so forth, it is about 10% of the u.s. u.s. gdp, that's the size of it, but it's about 45% of our exports. and it accounts for about four million of what i would argue very, very high-skilled jobs. we talk about knowledge workers and you think about the whole chain, this is at the far, far end. so it's, we think while it's 10%, it punches way above its weight. if you -- the secretary talked about the amount of r&d that's actually being done by these players. most of that 67% is actually done by the advanced industries players in manufacturing. that's where the bulk of it, this is where the engine is. and, actually, while we would argue that all of the trends are heading south, we heard about education, we've heard about the lack of long-term thinking, the trends are heading south, and we think south quite quickly. we actually do have quite a strong base, and we shouldn't forget that. i think we invest more than the next four countries combined. that's changing. we

nation's homo sexuality. the legislation now goes to the state assembly. >>> new figures are coming out expecting to show economic growth here in the u.s. ended on a hopeful note in 2011. economist expect the commerce department figures to show the economy grew at an an you'll rate -- annual rate of 3%. that would be an improvement over the summertime when the economy grew 1.8%. they do expect the economy expanded just 1.7% for the entire year. >>> president obama ends his five state tour this morning with a stop at the university of michigan. as ktvu alison burns reports he's detailing his plan to stop steep college tuition increases. allison. >> reporter: that is right. president obama wants to shift some federal money from college and universities that have seen a steep tuition increases to those that are keeping costs under control. now this is video euphon on youtube this morning of the long lines in ann harbor to see the president. the president used his state of the union address earlier this week to put colleges on notices they will lose federal help if they don't get tuition under control. >> higher educ

national couples began contacting me for help. not a day goes1/ request. i testified before the california state assembly judiciary committee, and provided written testimony to senator leahy for the uniting of american families act. the irc, in making their recommendations to the mayor and board of a supervisors, to improve and enhance the quality of life into the participation of all the grim immigrants in the city and county of san francisco must include the plight of same-sex couples and by-national relationships. at the four of any immigration reform discussion, particularly for this city, the current immigration law fails so many immigrants and families. yes, same-sex relationships stand on prejudicial ground when compared to their heterosexual counterparts. without specific language such as that in the united families act which seeks to have permanent partners, same-sex by dutch national couples will remain victims to the law that compels discrimination against lgbt couples, including the right to sponsor a spouse, and with no right to a k1 same-sex visa. we are advised that took schumer will intro