he was a big supporter of nicolas sarkozy.aybe years trying to make a political statement at the same time. >> he is certainly outspoken. does he have a point or is he being a drama queen? 75% tax rate is causing a lot of anchor. >> it is over 1 million euro per year. it was a symbolic gesture that will effect a few thousand people in france, of any bill send the wrong signal saying in france we penalize successful people when they make too much money. at the same time, it was a sergeant from the government. it would last only two years. they are in a crisis. this to be the biggest economic crisis we have known since the war. it is time for everyone to come together. the richest have seen their income rise over the last 10 years where the poorest have seen their income fall. the number of poor people in france has grown quite markedly. everyone should make a sacrifice. in america during world war ii, the marginal tax rate was 91%. >> using the people are going to follow depardieu's example? >> there are quite a few people who

and that may soon happen nicolas sarkozy's administration cemented ties with doha placing a military base in the gulf state and signing an investment deal now guitarist invest fifty million euros into the french economy primarily to help small businesses and rebuild parisian slums mostly inhabited by immigrants from arabic and african state. who oversaw the deal says this will help many the strongest maybe. that will help this youth. through to escape this vicious circle because when people have a job their vision of life is totally different when these strong people have no job they go into religion they go into violence and there are and that's terrible for the republic and that's terrible for france but after france so our long game to power this love affair with qatar got called despite that the new administration said the deal with qatar would. still go ahead things are not looking as optimistic as they were during the start of the iraq every step of the guitar and bass today in paris is being closely watched by the french media and some members of parliament are even calling to

. >> this is nicolas sarkozy speaking. >> reporter: sarah palin was punked when they pretended to be the president of france. >> you have been pranked. >> with have we been pranked. >> reporter: in london, prince william spoke of the news over the weekend. instead making a joke at a charity joke about how sickness should be called all day and all night sickness. we have heard from the nurse's daughter who says she misses and loves her mother. the bosses from the station held an emergency meeting overnight and tell us the deejays could make a first public statement this week. >> sececilia, thank you. >>> the snow this weekend. the snow and the wind is moving eastward. here is ginger zee tonight. >> reporter: more than 150 flights canceled. 300 crashes on minnesota roads, and roads across minnesota shots down because of snow. the biggest snowstorm in two years around the twin cities is dropping more than a sfwoot a half of snow in the western great lakes. look at the images from fargo, north dakota. the snow there, an inch an hour. frozen in duluth, minnesota, too. and these time lapse

nicolas sarkozy calls the burqa a degrading prison, what about plastic surgery? agreed, and dress in the locker room of my jaw my see women bearing the scars of mike reception, to me, breast implants and some no doubt undertaken out of personal choice but i think a lot undertaken also by the pressure of the gender culture to conform to a male norm of female beauty that casts women as sex objects. of the proposal were to ban all practices concerning which the ministry of feminism concluded day objectify women the proposal would at least be consistent, although few including few feminists would endorse such a sweeping restriction of liberty where the authorities would have a small number of alleged feminist experts. but it is not consistent. proponents of the burqa ban did not propose to ban all these objectifying practices and often strongly object to even the radical feminists who would like to ban certain kinds of violent pornography and even participate in these practices. the opponents of the burqa are utterly inconsistent, be trading fear of the difference th

political year and the fact that nicolas sarkozy was sent home by the voters so i would say that's the biggest thing this year john how about you but what because i was going to say to you do you think two thousand and twelve droned along. it did zone along for a lot of unfortunate people in pakistan and yemen and elsewhere they're not too happy with the u.s. drone program there but i think probably you know my realm is foreign policy and i think unfortunately syria has been the headliner in two thousand and twelve it's been getting much much worse and you know impending doom all the way a lot along one thing that was probably beneficial is that i think this year iran was a lot less. on the front burner is than last year last year was was a lot more teetering on the edge of possible war and this sure sort of calmed down so that was at least good well we have next year also here we'll how about you was at the presidential campaign in the united states because you did some good stuff with it oh it had been it just sucked all the decision out of every news channel in newspaper and it was

nicolas sarkozy was bounced out after one term replaced by france what holland -- france what --fracois hollande of the socialist party. for the first time in many decades the entire french government is controlled by the socialist party and the socialist party ran on the following platform -- austerity is not tolerable. we cannot allow the french people to be required to pay the cost of a capitalist system that could not solve its problems. the first two commitments of the new government were to raise the income tax bracket on the highest earners from its current rate, 45% compared to the united states which is 35%, raise it from 45% to 75%, and that has been passed. it past the parliament because the socialists who proposed it have the absolute majority in all the houses and the second thing was to use some of the money to be brought in by taxing the rich to higher, which he has now done, 40,000 new school teachers across france. these are symbolic acts and the fight is far from over. the wealthy in france are up in arms about this and all kinds of struggle and it is not how -- not cl

nicolas sarkozy in france came to columbia and gave a talk about the health care bill under discussion and a student asked him to comment. he said i don't want to meddle in your affairs but then he said i don't understand it. in france we take it as a basic right that you should have access to health care no matter what your income level is. for us, this is the question of a right and left. basic human rights. >> the olympic ceremonies in britain with the dancing nurses, people -- the british love their health system. we think it is a hell hole in the disaster and it is not. by the way, the other thing about the politics of it is if we get it almost immediately it will become irreversible and inconceivable that -- >> it is like medicare. most americans really think it is a good system. the joke about obamacare was the person who said keep the government's hands off of medicare. >> don't let the government get its hand on medicare. >> that raises a fundamental issue we have been circling around which is what is the role of government in our society and our economy and for 30 years now a

running for vice president, by a montreal-based comedy duo, pretending to be french president nicolas sarkozye his way through security to speak to tony blair while he was prime minister. >> hello, tony? >> yes. >> it's william haig. >> it's a quite good imitation. >> reporter: but it was no laughing matter in 1998, when opie and anthony, deejays from a boston radio station were fired by telling listeners on april fool's day, that the mayor had died. while the australian deejay's show has been terminated, it's not sure if they will be. >> she was giving us real information. >> reporter: the same joke they initially laughed at is now the reason for their tears. linsey davis, abc news, new york. >>> who is really watching you when you're shopping? why store mannequins may be watching your every move. >> ooh. >>> and i love this. plays of the year week. and take a look. we have to freeze it. it's all good. it's 100% good. >> i love them. >> george, you know it's good. >> i do. >> come on back. [spider-man] we got this. ♪ ♪ [mom] this hero stuff is easy! to the best vacation sp(all) the gulf! it