for them iran is persia and shiites. they don't want iran to be strong at all. so i was just in saudi arabia and the feeling you get there is the kind of cartoon image i draw is like herein was like a big brother who 34 years ago walked out of the house and slammed the door. you took his bicycle, i took his tennis shoes, he took his bed, okay? 34 years he's gone and we all had an undiluted relationship with our uncle sam and he was never there. last month, knock knock. (laughs) okay? he's back! and they're just freaking out. i mean, he's back! he wants his bicycle, his bed, his shoes and his own relationship with uncle sam. >> rose: tom friedman for the hour. next. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: 2013 was a big year in foreign and domestic policy. joining me now is tom friedman. he's friend of this program and a pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "new york times." his book "from beirut to jerusalem" was updated to reflect th

thus, through personal charms and sensual gratification and individual influence that the queen of persiabtained the precious boon she craved. her own life and the life of her beloved people. mr. chairman, it is my privilege to stand before you on a similar mission of life and love, but i thank god we live in an age of the world too enlightened and too moral to admit of the adoption of the same means to obtain as holy an end. i feel it would be an insult to the committee were i to array my person in gold and silver and costly apparel, or by inviting them to partake of the luxurious feast or the banquet of wine. i understand the spirit of age to well to believe that you could be moved by such sensual means. means as unworthy of you as they would be beneath the dignity of the cause of humanity. yet i feel if you are to be reached at all, it would not be by me but by the truths i shall endeavor to present to your understandings and your heart. the heart of the eastern despot was reached through the lowest propensities of his animal nature by personal influence. yours i know can't be reached

we are talking persia here. and it has been completely suppressed.e are ready to let you enrich of to your electrical needs, which is the minutes. but weready to do that, are not ready to allow you to become a nuclear weapon state hidden if you are ready to buy that deal, you can be a part of the global community again. that is a real choice. the israelis, you have three choices. you only get to. what a be a jewish state. you want to be democratic state. and you want a state with all the land of israel. but in this will come he only can get two out of three. you can be jewish and democratic they don't get all of the land of israel. in all be democratic and of the land of israel, but you can't be jewish. and you can be in all the land jewish, but you can be democratic. -- but you can't be democratic. to goerry's strategy is right at the security issue. basically saying, you have legitimate security concerns. they have nonstate actors armed with missiles mixing among civilians on for borders, sinai, gaza, lebanon and syria. that is no joke. read kerry

thatnorthodox action from of another petitioning woman, the famous a local figure, queen esther of persiathe audience knew that queen esther lived in the harem and served him sexually. it was not her place to request anything of her king. but one day, risking her life, she begged him to save her people, the babylonian jews. gottliebetress anne to share the opening of the speech that day. [applause] >> february 21, 1838. chairman, more than 2000 years have rolled their it dark and bloody waters down the rocky, winding channel of time into the broad ocean of eternity . since a woman's voice was heard in the paris -- palace of an eastern monarch and a woman's petition achieved the salvation of millions of her race from the edge of the sword. persia, if queen she might be called, who was but -- mistress of her villa chu her voluptuous lord, trained in the secret abominations of an oriental harem, had studied to knowy the character not to the sympathies of his heart could not be reached except through the medium of his sensual appetites. hence, we find her arrayed in apparel, standing in the i

persia citroen shares lost more than 12% after general motors sold off its 7% stake in the french carmaker. we're going to finish up with a story. it may be a sign of things to come for the music business. beyonce has released her fifth solo album friday. there was no prior warning from the american pop star and no major marketing campaign and the album was made available immediately on itunes. some say beyonce is now setting an example for artists trying to make some cash in the increasingly online music market. she is basically going around the middle man there. with that, we're going to wrap up this business edition as well and it's back to you. >> thank you very much indied. well, beyonce always on top of trends and we're going to see what else is happening in cyberspace in terms of latest goings-on. "web news" starts right now. >> hello, and welcome to today's "web news," where we take a look at what's been hitting the online headlines. on today's show, artists across the globe have been paying tribute to nelson mandela. hundreds of writers have signed a petition denouncing the mass s

when all dry and chevron discovered oil that i did was at the helm for persia of south sudan's independence also an historian corn was amazing in the sudanese civil war during the eighty's explains why the u.s. wanted another country on the wild. united states was basically the midwife for south sudanese independence united states in its real world posed to the cartoon base of government not least because it would seem as being anti israel and was perceived as being pro palestinian not only that but there is oil in sudan and the oil is in the cell phone this problem i don't do that nor and then there is the china question the chinese state oil company is deeply invested in south sudan and for a way the chinese was also seen as a tool through which could be accomplished through independence and searching for stuff so that chevron felt that it would be in their best interests if south sudan were to secede because it would be easier to exploit the oil in a divided country as opposed to a united country that was a major reason driving the split do the math we're talking about hundreds of thousa

interesting place, right on the silk road, which goes from the hellenistic greece, tracks along to persiachina and i saida and jesus is able to -- it's a lively time, too. and jesus is able to pull in ideas of the body and soul from plato, from karma and buddhism in the east and he can synthesize all of this and create a world religion, although i do say he was not trying 20 start a religion. that wasn't his purpose. >> when you say synthesize -- give me an example of the synthesis that would have come from west and east. >> well for instance i think with body and soul being how we're put together is a hell inistic idea, plato. but the idea of carpal aand the it's a complicated idea but the main thing, say blessed are the merciful for god will show them mercy. i think notice sermon on the mound, matthew 5, and have 7, jesus is really laying forward a beautiful, a perfect system of ethics and, you know, blessed are the peacemakers, blessed are the meek, blessed are the merciful for they shall be shown mercy. then the six antithesis, things like in the old days they said, if you hurt somebo

nothing at all to do with americans, but a king in persia and huddling under shade tree.hen came on, said the lord spare and a list of the ships to sea at the christmas. that was the beginning of what i think is perhaps the most unifying feature of modern america. thank you all very much indeed. [applause] >> and know that there are some limitations imposed by television, but i would be alerted if there are any questions, china hansen. >> would have been different and he been born in america? do you think you would have had a different perspective because you are going in and of the country? >> i do know what you mean. not too long ago i wrote to the canyon in eastern arizona. i don't know if any have been. it's a wonderful canyon : dwellings. every single person that was there was european. an italian and argentine, non-american. it seems to me that the people that are most curious about this country are outsiders. and the americans to my love, and i am an american now, are somehow condition to bunt genuinely to be as curious about their country has, perhaps, they should

gm is selling at seven percent stake in persia oh. -- in peugeot. ryan chilcote has more on that. what exactly did we find out today? peugeot is getting hammered. shares down almost 11%. if you look at the year, investors of usual have done pretty well. share price by up more than 70%. what a rocky ride it is. shares down more than seven percent yesterday. look, gm and peugeot are going to continue their partnership and continue to buy and develop products together, but i think everybody understands this partnership is not going to be on the same grand scale that was originally envisioned just last year. that is not because peugeot announced they're not saving as much money as they anticipated, but they are competing for customers, right? that is not helping them. gm bought the seven percent stake last year to underpin its partnership. it says peugeot no longer needs that capital support. the background is peugeot talking to its chinese partner g. gfang there i >> talk to me about what this says about gm. >> a lot of news coming out of gm this week. we have dan ackerson moving on.

>> they've gotten the people of iran hopefully to the point -- this is the great culture persia -- hopefullyfor the people of around to have a green revolution, for to finally succeed. thought, andhful meanwhile israel was more risk. had 164 my friend, they centrifuges. now they have 19,000. do you know sharif said to me? do you know what your sanctions have gotten you? 19,000. click they are not dealing in good faith. it --ith tests to verify >> i never sat here and said the words good faith in terms of what they are doing. everyone knows that you do not build a secret hole in a mountain to have centrifuges and working inou are good faith. you do not sign additional protocols. you do not deny access. we all understand that. the issue is, what will we do about it? we need to have a sudden breakout that threatens israel -- the truth is you went further that they will continue all aspects of weaponization. in order to weapon eyes, you need to have highly enriched uranium. goingour plan, they are the opposite direction. they are destroying their highly enriched uranium. congressman, we would kn

he's getting from the east inside from india from china and persia, karma.sential. jesus is the greatest story of all time. a myth is a story. it's like a tear in the fabric of reality through which all this spiritual energy cores. i think this is what we have got with the jesus story, the greatest story ever cold. we have to get at the core of what was happening. >> who is he? >> your mission is -- your mission in writing this book to talk about jesus the man? do you come to any conclusions that jesus was only a man or a man in god? >> it's not my job. my job is to say what was it like on the ground to be jesus? you wake up and all of this religious truth comes to you. god speaks to you. it's about his discovery that he is in fact god. the spark of god is inside of him. one of the real tasks to me was go to back to the bible and get at the real story. >> you read the bible in groek. >> on welcomes only. >> the new testament is rip in greek. i was talking about translations. one of the things i thought was exciting is i get back to key words. for instance, t

and persia down again today, after general motors is exiting the major stake, and that leaves it in thes conference held by the irish finance minister that ireland will exit its bailout probably over the weekend on sunday. it that, of course, been a post per child for the bailouts for you a territory, kelly, but still a lot of questions of how ireland is as an economy. it is funded through to 2015 and its bonds trade around 4%. >> the point about the underperformance of europe interesting, because we see people piling in to the equity. so the contrarian indicator, again. >>> and now yahoo! and the big mail fail, the latest update from the help blog says most of the affected yahoo! mail users should have access to their accounts. it also, though, says there are small number of users whose accounts have been brought online who may temporarily not see messages from before the outage. on that note, we want to bring in cara swisher, editor of "all things d," and one of her articles there saying all of it. yahoo! mail is a consumer daft, but the company's response is even worse. cara jones us