many enjoy the fruits of prosperity along the path to a new china. but millions are still missing out. and public discontent is growing. against that backdrop, officials are choosing a fresh slate of government leaders. "newsline" correspondents will bring you full korj of she jinping's new china. don't miss it, starting march 4. >>> brain surgeons say it's not >>> restrictions are tightened on smoking and tobacco sales. it calls for a gradual ban on smoking in many public places. starting in june people will no longer be able to light up in hospitals, schools and culture facilities. hotels and restaurants will become smoke free a year later. new curbs will restrict the way manufacturers market their products. people appearing in movies and tv shows for children will not be allowed to smoke. russians are among the reviest smokers anywhere. the country's smoking rate is second only to that of greece. more than 70% of russian men smoke more than any other country. health ministry officials say in 15 years they hope to cut the smoking rate in half. >>>

many enjoy the fruits of prosperity along the path to a new china. but millions are still missing out and public discontent is growing. against that backdrop, officials are choosing a fresh slate of government leaders. we bring you "china: change and challenge." >>> one of the most isolated country nuts world is showing some signs of openness. north korea will allow foreigners in the country to access the internet through their mobile phones and other desites ares. the pyongyang bureau of the associated press reports the new service is being provided by a joint venture between local and egyptian cell phone companies. foreign residents living in the capital were informed last week of the internet service launch. on monday, the bureau head of ap for south and north korea sent a twitter message from pyongyang saying she was using the service. earlier this year, north korea allowed people to bring their own mobile phones into the country. pyongyang watchers say these moves could be an attempt to attract more visitors from abroad and improve foreign curren

ne newsline will bring you continuing coverage of incoming president xi jinping's new administration. don't miss "chinaange and challenge." >>> israeli leaders are showing they're ready to defend their country against a wider range of threats. they successfully tested a new type of anti-ballistic missile. israeli officials announced the test of an interceptor. they developed the weapon with the united states. the arrow three is designed to shoot down ballistic missiles in outer space at higher altitudes than previous models. it's also believed to be more effective against missiles armed with nuclear and other nonconventional warheads. israeli leaders repeatedly said they haven't ruled out military intervention to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons. analysts consider this a threat to iran's medium range ballistic missile which can reach targets in israel. >>> cuban president raul castro says he'll step down at the end of his second term in 2018. raul's older brother fidel castro made a rare appearance at the assembly. he wants key roles to be passed down in a gradual and organized way. >> transla

in san francisco, alan wang, abc7 news. >> china's terra-cotta warriors are running at the art museum and civic center plaza. >>> he admits he fathered a secret child with a colleague's daughter. >> and thed money found at the golden gate bridge and what one couple decided to do with it. >> and the woman who had to lie about her age just to get a facebook account. tonight, facebook's response. >> and how an oscar nominee almost didn't make it into this country today. and then later on "gym mooy --" jimmy kimmle live." >> we will have the oscar pick for best picture. >> "lincoln." >> i said later. >> i said later. >> we will be back in 60 hey! hey honey! hey alan. uh, hey.... i'm bob, we talked at the tax store. i did your taxes. i thought you were a tax expert? today, i'm a master plumber. major tax stores advertise for preparers with "no tax experience necessary." at turbotax, you only get answers from cpas, eas or tax attorneys - all real tax experts. ..es and all other major tax stores combined. ld you do if you found $11,000 in cash on on the golden gate bridge. a vallejo couple m

in san francisco, alan wang, abc7 news. >> china's terra-cotta warriors are running at the art museum and civic center plaza. >>> he admits he fathered a secret child with a colleague's daughter. >> and the bag of money found at the golden gate bridge and what one couple decided to do with it. >> and the woman who had to lie about her age just to get a facebook account. tonight, facebook's response. >> and how an oscar nominee almost didn't make it into this country today. and then later on "gym mooy --" jimmy kimmle live." >> we will have the oscar pick for best picture. >> "lincoln." >> i said later. >> we will be back in 60 >>> what would you do if you found $11,000 in cash on on the golden gate bridge. a vallejo couple made that surprising discovery on valentine's day. leslie brinkley spoke with them about their find and their decision. she is live at the bridge for us tonight. >> reporter: i asked them to recreate what happened. they said on valentine's day the couple set out here to vista point to take in the view on their way to dinner in san francisco. they found a black camer

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in other news, china says it's investigating complaints in japan that one of its warships block its weapons system onto a jeapanese naval vessel. incident took place -- the incident took place in the east china sea. each side is accused of raising tensions by sending in ships and aircraft. the united nations says half of all of afghan bribes amounted to nearly $4 billion. 20 fires are burning across the island. residents are on the so-called which meanst alert, they should consider leaving the area. now, with exactly one year to go until the winter olympics in sochi, president putin has sacked one of the games' most senior organizer. he was unserious erroneously -- unceremoniously dumped after the president took a tour of the venue and asked who was responsible for the delay in the complex. thanks for being here. who exactly has been sacked? >> he is the vice president of the national olympic committee. he was overseeing the building. he is also a chairman and owner of the company at is in charge of regenerating the whole area ahead of the olympics. he is quite an important man. >> an impor

countries like thailand indonesia why did they fare in all of this do you see those countries being the new china in say thirty forty years time when i look back have a lot of natural resources from a lot of that is wrong with. that is there a straight talk going to china somebody might come for the child but i doubt john is that they have many competitors that are twenty or thirty years ago it's just life. and you know it is they stand on the road very few for better and there's. very few going ok let's talk about the threats to china though on a domestic level what do you think poses the biggest threat to they need to sort out their home economy issues in order to move forward and do you see a slow landing coming anytime soon a some off putting for china. but it's all fair when it's all a set back in america the. impression you know it's no war because we have very human rights where you are never became an extremely successful country but what if the problem is that a thing worse than. before the problem of a staggering or a problem that they have they don't solve the problem of time. ok so mo

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. >> it gives new importance to pakistan-china relations. it takes a step further into the realm of economic cooperation. the chinese ambassador says much sia remains unstable. he said they must take advantage when they see openings. >> under this new situation, china-pakistan should work more closely to seize opportunities and to meet challenges. >> chinese companies were solved in a series of port projects in myanmar. the entrance into pakistan has raised concerns among leaders in neighboring india. >>> th

on china to discuss brian deegan from the new america foundation joins us now welcome brian so china is the world's biggest export are and a lot of these gadgets end up right here in the u.s. from smartphones to other electronics so if people are worried about china spying on us what about these products that we consume how easily could they be bugged. and so all these devices that we use every single day. any of them could be bugged and you know but that isn't just a fact that is true about devices that comes from that come from china that's true about devices that are manufactured anywhere anywhere in the world and in fact we've had to deal with that in the u.s. in the past with their with their own carriers but the the the thing that allows the characteristics of these devices that allow that type of surveillance and monitoring is there a closed nature is the fact that no one can see into them no one can understand how they actually work inside they're actually black boxes and so that is true of almost every single cell phone that we use no matter where it's manufactured so that i

. >> ♪ i'll be there ♪ >> a kenyan voice is among thousands performing in china's new year televisionctacular. we get the first ever backstage glimpse of rehearsals. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. the birthplace of the arab spring is facing its biggest crisis since its revolution two years ago. tens of thousands of mourners attended the funeral procession in tunisia of the murdered opposition politician chokri belaid, a political killing that rocked the fledgling democracy and highlighted divisions between liberals, secular tunisian, and conservative islamists. >> there was genuine anguish across tunisia today. no or more so than in the home of chokri belaid. his wife and father sitting dignified. words of support to his daughter, whose father was assassinated on wednesday. a political murder that threatens to undermine to nietzsche's fledgling revolution -- undermined tunisia's fledgling revolution. >> my father wanted it to the democratic with a bright future. he always said the country was full of good things and believe political

from china may have been somewhat distorted by statistical quirks and the start of the chinese new year. looking at a few months of data shows the big story in china is one of moderate, but solid growth. >> they're not falling apart. growth is going to hold in the range of 7% to 8%. but this is not going to go back to 10% either. there's no signs of that. it looks like its a more permanent, but controllable slow down. >> reporter: china remains strong in assembling and processing goods like iphones that are then exported by foreign companies. when economists exclude this processing trade, they figure china may actually be running a trade deficit. darren gersh, "n.b.r.," washington. >> susie: diesel powered passenger cars and trucks made up just 1% of car sales in the u.s. last year and while that's up five-fold in as many years, it's still a tiny portion of the u.s. auto industry. ruben ramirez takes a look at some car makers hoping american consumers fall in love with diesel this year. >> reporter: "if at first you don't succeed, try again." that's g.m.'s motto g.m. as it brings d

pattern i think what we're looking at is art of this obama pivot to focus on china and to paint china is the new military threat to the world it's a demonization china earlier this month u.s. president barack obama signed an executive order aimed at strengthening america's defenses when you know hackers steal people's identities and infiltrate private e-mails we know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid our financial institutions our traffic control systems we cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our comp but according to reports washington is all too familiar with the offensive side of cyber war it's the u.s. who launches things like stuxnet that together with israel to to cripple certain iranian technology capabilities in two thousand and ten a computer virus known as stuxnet infected tehran's enrichment facilities destroying nearly one thousand of iran's six thousand centrifuges according to reports the virus made entirely out

but the "new york times" and journal suggest big concern within china and communist party of their image abroad and back in china. a lot of these stories reveal things about the chinese leadership how much money they have, but they don't want come out and figure out who the sources are for these stories. it's part and parcel of political repression from home. >> paul: our information is that they did not go after customers for example or commercial business. they really wanted to monitor our coverage, to see who our sources were. >> we ourselves are not affected by sources in china, the method by which we get information, there was a huge scandal with this character bogi li accused of murdering a businessman. there were revelations about human wealth of the senior leadership. >> paul: is this the nature of secret authoritarian regime? >> this is a communist country. the as sinister country that believes in espionage, believes in under handed methods. we tend to forget looking a skyscrapers in shanghai but that is the nature of the regime from the beginning. >> paul: they haven't stopped

if you look back to the what happened monday news, china took the futures down, the news in germany turnedded that around, and the mergers is great for the psychology of the market, without a doubt, help lifting today's market with a reason to sell often. you had the housing number not as spectacular. other news there that could have taken the wind out of the market. the bull will not die. money flows from the retail investor trading individual stocks, money going into mutual funds so you got it all. liz: got it all, but do you have ten year treasury yields moving in the way that you expected them to? you got the u.s. dollar to play in here as well. >> yeah, well, we have seen treasury yields hovering at the 2%. it's an uncertain on which way they are going to go, you know, if you start to see the equities back off, october, -- of course yields gain in value and there could be panic in the market with people searching for the volatility index or a play like gold or silver. gold is hovering at 1600. there's questions about whether or not it gets a bounce back up or not. liz: weird that platinu

google chairman eric schmidt is going to take china to task in a new book thats he's written. this according to people who have had an early read of it. schmidt will blame china directly for many recent hacks of american businesses, warning china could be the internet's number one enemy, and that the u.s. will be at a disadvantage because american companies can't hack back. it's against american law. early reviewers say schmidt is very direct about his feelings about china. you don't expect that out of high tech companies. they usually coddle their relationship with the chinese. turning to wall street, today's not the day we're going to see any records set. the dow opened at just over 14,000, its highest level since 2007. and had it gained a bit, it would have set records for the highest ever, but today looks like minor losses instead. >>> speaking of losses, we have to eat a bit of crow or raven this morning. last week we dismissed predictions by video game programmers at redwood city's electronic arts that the ravens would win the super bowl. well, it turns the out not only w

on china to discuss i was joined earlier by brian doogan from the new american foundation i began by asking him how concerned we should be about all the made in china gadgets that we use in the u.s. and what are the chances they could be bugged. all these devices that we use every single day. any of them could be bugged and you know but that isn't just a fact that is true about devices that comes from that come from china that's true about devices that are manufactured anywhere anywhere in the world and in fact we've had to deal with that in the u.s. in the past with that with our own carriers but the the the thing that allows the characteristics of these devices that allow that type of surveillance and monitoring is there a closed nature is the fact that no one can see into them no one can understand how they actually work inside their actually black boxes and so that is true of almost every single cell phone that we use no matter where it's manufactured so that is the capability. that any manufacturer has over any device that we use and the reason that we're talking about this today

from beijing. >> reporter: north korea conducted the nuclear test while people in china were celebrating the lunar new year. a spokesperson for china's foreign ministry criticized the action. >> translator: we have released a strong statement regarding north korea's nuclear test. we have made it clear that china is resolutely opposed to this kind of action. >> reporter: this footage was shot in a city in northeast china. people can be seen strolling and going about their business across the border in north korea. the close proximity of the two countries raises concerns in china that its neighbor's nuclear program could undermine security. xi jinping has opposed the nuclear tests. he discussed peace and security on the korean peninsula with a special envoy from south korea. he said china continues to maintain that eliminating nuclear arms and prevents perforations of mass weapons. >> translator: china should be tougher on north korea. nuclear weapons are deadly. i think we should solve this problem by imposing diplomatic sanctions. >> translator: china is too lenient on north korea. our national securi

china has released its economic data for the first two months in march to help to try and iron out nv any distortion. >> chinese lunar new year holiday, shoppers over here -- >> there's major celebrations over on the west end, i understand. i'll have to go and catch that. >> hoping there would be a lot of shoppers from china flying in. >> when people wonder why aren't sales weaker, it's because of the demand from china and other ininvestors. >> investors in european goods. >> china cpi he'sed off a seven-month high in december to a 2% gain on the year. prices are likely to pick up again in february because of rising food costs around, yes, the lunar new year holiday. also, prices down 1.6% but they are set to rise again with warmer weather. we'll have more on what investors can expect from china in the coming year of the snake. >> also, china has been less vocal about the rise on the yen from than other countries. but beijing is taking action of its own to head off unwanted pressure to appreciate. find out more about china quietly joining the currency wars on cnbc.com. >>> and in australia, a cocktail of slowing mining i

countries like thailand indonesia why did i fare in all of this to say those countries being the new china are in say thirty forty years time. have a lot of that store in store lot of is wrong with. that. going to china somebody might have a child but i doubt if they have many. twenty. five. i can it's just not ready to china's eye on a domestic level what do you think poses the biggest threat to they need to sort out the honey mokoena may all issues in order to move forward and do you see a slow landing coming anytime soon as some are predicting for china. all countries on the rise all companies all families all individual back. to be present in a war very very human rights where you are are never became an extremely successful country. but if the problem is that you think the worst thing both of us . for the problem of a staggering moral problem that they have you don't solve the problem of time. ok so maybe go into a slightly different topic that china is now ahead in terms of trade like we've been chatting about just now but not something you know about in gold purchased is so just qui

we have new leadership in china, new leadership in korea, in your leadership in japan it so hopefullythey will be able to see some of these things through because i think it's very important, not just for asia, but, frankly, for the world, given what's happening elsewhere, particularly in europe. so having said that, terry, i think we should go and have our little conversation. thank you very much. [applause] >> here's the book in japanese. well, and the book, bill, is in portuguese, and simplified chinese, korean, and now japanese. i think that, you know, the dissertation just heard from bill, you know, it's so lucid and so straightforward that you sort of, you know, grab this notion of why didn't we start implement on some of these things are and all that. and we seem to get into such publication. and so the first question now, i think that i'd like to ask, and i'll ask a couple of questions and then thrown open, going in the direction anybody wants. is coming up, because we were talking about the lack of coordination and cooperation in relationship, and the people going it alone, e

new year. we will have more on china and that lunar new year when we come back. >> not only that, we will go live to the berlinale talking to our man out the red carpet, so do not go away. >> welcome back. across asia, people are preparing to welcome in the year of the snake. millions are on the move right now head of the lunar new year celebrations which began this weekend. >> travelers had better be ready for traffic. today is expected to be the biggest -- the busiest on the roads today in china. >> across asia, people are on the move. they are returning home to bring in the new year with their families. in china alone, some 200 million people are expected to travel for the holiday. it is goodbye to the dragon and hello to the snake. while some fear the traditionally despised reptile will bring bad luck, others are more positive, like this fortune teller in burma. >> snake means stable and thinker and a very strong. he works with a strong mind. >> new year brings a lot of business as crowds flock to markets to stock up on traditional food for the holiday. in some cases, food is even connected t

don't be in there again i just want to say we just got the news that china eclipsed the u.s. in trade so if you're looking at the total number of exports and imports of goods in the united states last year that was three point eight two trillion china right point eight seven trillion and if you're looking at the g.d.p. statistics you're conscious when you look at the nominal g.d.p. but you need to look at the purchasing power adjusted g.d.p. that really reflects the real size of the economy because on that basis the renminbi is actually still undervalued and so china and many many wriggler that's not what i was saying it was that was you guys if you went on to me ok i want to go jump in are you i mean are you worried about currency wars in a bubble very go ahead i know in general i'm not worried about it she was i am not worried about put the action as but. being kept in check i also think that one day maybe some years down the road we may have to worry about a big bubble again because of all the money that's being printed but we are not yet in a new bubble economy however i

don't be in there again i just want to say we just got the news that china eclipsed the u.s. in trade so if you're looking at the total number of exports and imports of goods in the united states last year that was three point eight two trillion china right eight seven trillion and if you're looking at the g.d.p. statistics you conscious when you look at the nominal g.d.p. but you need to look at the purchasing power adjusted g.d.p. debt really reflects the real size of the economy because on that basis the renminbi is actually still undervalued and so china and many many regard because that's not what i was saying it was that was that you guys are doing on a me ok i want to go jump in are you i mean are you worried about currency wars in a bubble very go ahead i know in general i'm not worried about she was i am not worried about put the action as but. being kept in check i also think that one day maybe some years down the road we may have to worry about a big bubble again because of all the money that's being printed but we are not yet in a new bubble economy however i am v

denby and again i just want to say we just got the news that china eclipsed the u.s. in trade so if you're looking at the total number of exports and imports of goods in the united states last year that was three point eight two trillion china right point eight seven trillion and if you're looking at the g.d.p. statistics are conscious when you look at the nominal g.d.p. but you need to look at the purchasing power adjusted g.d.p. that really reflects the real size of the economy because on that basis the renminbi is actually still undervalued and so china and many many rick i am sure that's not what i was saying it was that was that you guys are doing on a me ok i want to go jump in are you i mean are you worried about currency wars in a bubble very go ahead i know in general and i'm not worried about it she was i am not worried about put the action as but. being kept in check i also think that one day maybe some years down the road we may have to worry about a big bubble again because of all the money that's being printed but we are not yet in a new bubble economy h

>> new leadership in china. new leadership in south korea. new leadership in japan. of course a new leader in north korea. >> also partly a new regime in the united states. you've got secretary kerry who will come at this in a slightly different point of view than his predecessor. we'll have to see how that plays out as well. >> what's the sort of detective work that happens now to figure out more about the things we don't know? how about particular test. >> right. as i mentioned previously, all we know is there's been a test. we have a very rough estimate of how big the bang was. what we don't know is whether the device was made from plutonium or highly enriched uranium. that sounds like a minor technical issue but it actually has hugely important policy consequences. north korea only has a small amount of plutonium. it actually would be very, very hard for it to produce more. so part of the reason why north korea wants to shift to uranium is because it would allow it to increase its arsenal relatively quickly. so if this turns out to be a highly enriched uranium te

in the back seat of your car. >> reporter: as for the "new york times," the paper says the latest hack attack is over, but says it fully expects china to try again. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> we devoted a lot of time here this week to the wild temperature extremes in our country, rising and falling, 50 degrees or more. and now we are paying the price in terms of violent weather. lots of damage, lots of accidents. our report tonight on all of it from weather channel meteorologist julie martin. >> reporter: in michigan this morning, blinding snow caused a deadly chain-reaction accident nearly a mile long on i-75 near detroit. at least three people were killed and several injured. >> there was a whiteout condition and once the first crash happened, other people couldn't see the -- actually see out from the hood of their vehicle. >> reporter: hours later, another in michigan and a dozen vehicle pile-up in indiana. in maryland, water rescues caught on tape. firefighters forced to pull people from their cars as water quickly trapped them. 6 inches of rain in just a few hours forced laurel officials to evacuate several hundre

kate snow, nbc news, chengdu, china. >> provocative topic. kate snow will have more on this tonight as part of "rock center" at 10:00, 9:00 central here on nbc. we are back in a moment with a woman on a fast track to make history this weekend. ♪ >> it's "saturday night live"! >> we want to wish a very happy 95th birthday to our friend, don pardo, long-time voice of "saturday night live," still going, still unmistakable. don pardo was first hired by nbc back in 1944. >>> well, she has already made history. danica patrick is the first woman to earn the pole position, first car, first row, for sunday's daytona 500. she long ago became the first woman to win a race in the indycar series. and when i talked to her this week about sunday's race, about the media attention, the pressure, we started about talking -- we started by talking about what her driving means to her fans. especially to little girls with big dreams of going way too fast in a car someday. >> what does this mean for little girls? i heard a story one time that i thought was really n

china marked the beginning of the new cycle in the lunar calendar.dragon makes room for the snake. people celebrated with a straw dragon. more than 65 feet long and is on the guinness world records as the longest dragon in the world. the new year is traditionally also a time for fireworks, but this year authorities have asked people to tone it down to reduce pollution. >> ama: san francisco began celebrating chinese new year today, kicking off in the financial district. mayor ed lee took part in the year of the serpent eye-dotting ceremony to welcome the year of the snake. people born in the year of the snaking thought to be thoughtful and yet complex characters. time to get a check on the weather, which was just fantastic today, leigh. >> leigh: it was great. a little on the cool side, especially with temperatures this morning in the mid-to-low 30s, but a beautiful sunset shot from our high definition walnut creek cam. and live doppler 7 hd showing you clear skies. thanks the winds out of the north northeast, and all of that is just being pushed off