. >>> fromustralia, a story on another issue that has rsed passions herhee -- t rig to di in perth, a adriplegic man has asked a judge to let h kill himself. tonight we have the rung. >>the president of taiwan raises the deatholl from typhoon morakot to more th 50 amidst mounting criticism his government s been slow to lp survivors. >>> and one night in bangkoks not st a hit song from the '80s. it could also describe howong it tes to go from one side of the city to the othe tonight, a reporfrom bangkok's notorious traffic. buckle up. >>> fr the world's leading reporters and alysts, here is what'sappening from around the world. this is "worldfocus." made possible in parby the followinfunders -- >>> goodvening, i'm martin savidge. >>> for weeks now, it's be topic number one ithe united states. the prident's ambitious plan to reform the health care system. there is probably no more controversial part othat plan an the so-called public option supporters say it will hel dre down prices by offering an alternative to privatensurance pls. bucritics say it's socialized medicine and they coend

perth -- personal activities. exercise can affect you just like morphine.e people get addicted to chocolate or alcohol or nicotine. in at the same satisfaction as those. -- it has the same satisfaction as those. when you work out and have a really good run or lift something very heavy, you release of endorphins. that is a way to escape paying. it makes you feel happy. you want to feel that all the time. your body wants to avoid paying at all cost. >> budget can only take so much exercise in a day -- but you can only take so much exercise in one day. >> anything done out of balance is a problem. >> what do you recommend if you are addicted to exercise? >> i have a couple of ways. let's say compulsive not addictive. you can recognize that by if you are not at the gym, do you daydream about exercise. that is one way to recognize it. do you push yourself even when you are injured or have a sprained ankle, do you still want to work out no matter what? the you exercise seven days a week? the look forward to being sore the day after your workout and? the plan all

mountain but the way she moves up with grace and ease stepping lightly to disturb the least amount of perth possible. even though she also says i cannot get appear as fast as i use to which is hard to believe she is a woman who is used to being in motion a medical professional a fiddler and activist record she moves with the determination her arms, her legs intent on the purpose and her feet on a mission. today she is under way to the high rock, her favorite place in the world and although she wants to take her time and enjoy the walk of she is eager to reached the ridge where she will encounter a natural castle of barack case eaker world that only the inhabitants of this holler know they have been frequenting since the early 1800's. the nation is not only to take us to the high rock but to save them. they like most of the land may has not all of her life is in grave danger is started one morning november 2006 at the methodist church when a neighbor brag after the service that the mining company had approached him about buying his plan to start mining and the wilson creek it also claimed th

>> yeah, he's talking amtrak from perth.and, the thing that infuriates me the most, why didn't these goofballs use a kenyan birth certificate as a template? this drives me nuts more than anything. why australia? do they think australia is a country in africa? i don't understand why this is some cursory internet research really would have helped them out. maybe they could have actually looked up obama's birth certificate in the first place than would have stopped the whole thing there. >> no, probably not. what do they do now? do they get t-shirt that's claim the dingo ate my birth certificate or where do they go from this atrocity? >> they will probably know there is a seinfeld t-shirt. but i think the next t-shirt the birthers will be forced to come out with is, "can't you see he's colored?" >> yeah. and because a large percent of these are largely white supremacists. another interesting note in this, i mentioned louis armstrong has gotten eclipsed in the august 4th birthday but helen thomas, who has been a fixture of the w

to come home in perth a car and she would tell me that now we're going to have races and she would gout and line them next to me and be like i'm going to give you a little head start and let's see who can win here and into marks summer on the road and into a race me every day after school mtv every day after school. [laughter] i think that is a pretty good image of what her personality was like i'll just say that and say that last year mother busted her hip a couple years ago and her house in potomac, we live about a mile away. it is a circular in the house and a circular loop and she started in the middle and my seven year-old son and his body had to run the whole loop around the house and she ran a half loop. and she did win a. [laughter] and the kids with that looper and to do a short cut and my son almost the third couple of times and knocked her over into did it multiple times. my wife came over at about 9:00 o'clock on a saturday morning and my mother turned to tv and said i beecher son of pierre and [laughter] in a running race and my wife went, all my god. [laughter] so it is