when the mogels came from persia to north india they saw the story telling and thought it was a beautiful art form. they were not engaged with the story but saw the beauty in the footwork and hand movement. they brought the dancers into their courts. they were a form of entertainment. so, i want you to put your imagination caps on. we will go from the forest into a beautiful mogel palace. there are velvet carpets and peacocks walking around. there are beautiful paintings and everyone all of you, the audience have come to enjoy the court and the king sits on his thrown in the corner twirling his mustache and he called for his dancers and they come to the room. you are here to be entertained by them. this is called taught. taught is a highly stylized tuning of the mind and body together. you will see very fast turns ending in sharp stances and things with our eyes and eye brows and our neck, our hands. and you will also hear a language, which you might have heard. this is the language of our dance. it tells us what to do with our feet and our bodies and there is a lot of mask going on. you

up before the other in the chinese hard court meaning in a modest micallef spoof soft chamish left persia in the first of the second seed victoria azarenka also made the quarter finals at the expense of the win is a loner her choice well i've missed the right one ensured her passage refer to her generation. mikhail youzhny as title fight meanwhile is continuing in the men's side of things the russian he has just proved his quarter final berth at the expense of spain's pollutes the loop is before that fernando verdasco did keep the spanish flag flying beating italian fly view simple in three sets to six six one six things to. do well for its own good who is top seed out the event was made to work hard in his own nurse he defeated grigor dimitrov area they twenty rules offering plenty of resistance but tsonga prevail to seal it seven six seven five the frenchman needs the point his bid for a place at the tour finals which takes place in london next. also in the running for that season ending eight nonevent is thomas burdick checks supporting his quest with victory over austria's european me

so often chummy chef persia in the first of the second seed victoria azarenka also made the quarterfinals at the expense of the lineage her child while i guess the right one ensured her passage with victory over jai shared. mikhail youzhny is title fight meanwhile is continuing in the men's side of things the russian he is just his quarterfinal berth at the expense of spain's feliciano lopez before that fernando verdasco did keep the spanish flag flying beating italian five you support in three sets to six six one six games. to wilfrid tsonga who is top seed out the event was made to work hard in his opener he defeated grigor dimitrov of bulgaria twenty rules offering plenty of resistance but song to prevail to seal it seven six seven five the frenchman needs the points to boost his bid for a place at the tour finals which take place in london next month. also in the running for that season ending eight moment bent is tom marshburn. dick chick supporting his quest for victory over austria's you're going melzer a break in each of the two sets on the day getting the job done for the number

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be enough to balance iran if not more than iran because iraq is not going to fall into the open on persia it simply is it's just not going to happen now of course so you mentioned the plenty of oil that there is in iraq but let's talk about libya because there's been a lot of news going on there were there to plenty of oil there as well and so if you look back at the situation right mean at one point and i brought this up with one of my guests yesterday at one point say that coffee was the pariah then we suddenly started shaking hands with him our senators started going over there he opened up his oil fields and how quickly all of that changed as soon as the arab spring started to spring up so what do you think that sends a message that the u.s. is a fickle friend but i think it sends a message very strong messages being interpreted by that in the rest of the world the arab world that the united states is going to be or selective in what it does and what it does is usually go to be wrapped around the oil and is no question about it's wrapped around the world in libya it's also wrapped aro

so, now, art that spans a thousand years from ancient persia, egypt, is on display in all its glory. tiling. the empress' carpet, more than three years to restore. another persian masterpiece. in the damascus room, we see how 18th century noblemen lived and entertained. we wonder about today's uprising there. the met has laid out all of this, and more, not as an ode to religion, but as a secular, region regional panorama. to walk through this islamic treasure trove is to experience all but also a sense of relief, that herein lies a thousand years of beauty. that's our program for this week. joining us next week when condoleezza rice joins me. watch "world news" with david muir tonight for all of the latest headlines. and for all of us here, thank you for watching. we'll see you next week. thank you for watching. we'll see you next week. ♪ ♪ [ multiple sounds making melodic tune ] ♪ [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, every innovation, every solution, comes together for a single purpose -- to make the world a safer place. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman.

process and allowed them to crush these protesters instead of doing the, starting the arab spring in persiaspeak out as loudly as many would like, but to go as far as to say he was coddling or supporting the mullahs and the ayatoll ar ayatollah in iran, isn't that going way too far? >> compare what president obama did at the beginning of the green revolution legitimizing the revolution, which he did, and not doing anything concre concretely to support the protesters in any kind of strength like he did later on in egypt and as i mentioned, subsequent protests. there is a whole difference in kind to the reaction of the president, let's take each for example and the reaction of the president when it came to iran and the odd thing was that the person in egypt that the president was dealing with was an alley of the united states as opposed to the people in tehran, who had been at war with us and have been killing american troops in both afghanistan and iraq by supplying them i.e.ds and training and equipment to those who want to kill us. >> let's say you were president of the united states right

states and the western cultural invasion when the pro-democracy green movement started shouting in persia, a shortened version of "he is with us," that have a catalytic effect on the people because they thought obama was standing with them in the pro- democracy movement. the president actually was not. he was trying to have a dialogue directly with khamenei and his focus was not on what would come later with the green movement. but the u.s. can have an internal effect. i would suggest and argue that incident should tell you that if the u.s. actually does talk about democracy in iran, if it actually uses its puli pulpit to challenge the regime on its internal oppression, it actually can encourage a change and reinforce the people inside psychologically. when we do not do that, i think we send signals to the regime that we do not really care. some iranian diplomats who defected have made it crystal clear to folks that when they would write their cables back to tehran, the americans and europeans would see them and talk only about one thing, the nuclear program. what did those diplomats righ

debt cancellation amendments in mesopotamia to free-market populism is out of sharia in medieval persia. one thing that struck me was the slave trade. when i was involved in these drop the dead campaigns one of the arguments is africa is the most indebted continent in the world and who is what to who? if you don't know look what you did to was which is a fair case. you make that case even stronger her if you look at how the slave trade was conducted. it was entirely carried out through the manipulation of that. the stage where people were coming in and taking people away did happen but it was often an initial stage and followed up by creating these really elaborate deathtraps so that the whole thing was a complex credits screen where merchants in england would forward funds to merchants overseas and forward funds to african merchants and everyone would be advancing to someone else until it got to the local level where one common pattern was fun and wars between people because indebted kings needed a way to pay back their creditors. even more common was to advance goods to get people cau