tonight a conversation with peter yarrow and noel "paul" stookey, the two surviving members of peter, paul, and mary about the publication of their new text titled "peter, paul, and mary :50 years in music and life," which chronicles the decades at the epicenter of music and the fight for social justice in this country. we're glad you can join us. a conversation about the life and legacy of peter, paul, and mary coming up right now. ♪ >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >>> ever since the early '60s, peter, paul, and mary have been at the crossroads of music and political action. and the trio's unwavering commitment to social justice is the nativetive to "peter, paul, and mary 50 years of music and life." we'll look at the trio singing one of the anthems of the civil rights movement -- use guessed it, "blowing in the wind." ♪ answer my friend is blowing in the ♪ ♪ the answer my friend is blowing in the wind ♪ >> i don't care how many times i hear that, how many different ways or versions of it i hear, talking about the trio -- >> yes -- >> --

peter greste spent over four months in did out of cairo. he describes what it's been like for peter. >> he's determined that this experience is not going to break him. he doesn't want to come out bitter and twisted, but it has taken a lot of effort and self-discipline and determination, and focus to - for him to remain mentally together and look after himself physically. world leaders, including president obama denounced the court conviction. >> the issue of the al jazeera journalists in egypt. we have been clear publicly and privately that they should be released. the egyptian government defended the ruling arguing that it has not been a political decision arguing that it is up to the appeals process to occur next. >> we work in so many different places, and we should be taken as a professional media institution, not as a part of any political or ideological or any other establishment. al jazeera's maintained its public campaign on behalf of journalists, and what has been going on behind the scenes is less clear. president abdul fatah al-s

peter's getting fairly anxious, i think, in the lead-up to the first. so one thing they mentioned was he's trying to distract himself by doing his next assignment in the diploma course that he's doing. look it's been a trying christmas, and certainly a lonely one. having said that you know plenty of families are separated at the time so we are not the only ones having sort of a sombre christmas, i guess. >>> and journalists in news rooms across australia held a vigil to mark the year al jazeera's journalists have been held in gaol. journalists from the special broadcasting service channel 7, 'sydney morning herald' and the guardian australia paused for a moment to mark the arrest of peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed >>> more to come here on al jazeera. shouldering the burden - how the youngest victims of syria's civil war are helping their families get by >>> tapping into a precious resource, we look at the scramble for water in an african megacity. >>> welcome back. the top stories on al jazeera, and the man in charge of indonesia's s

chris, tracy byrnes, peter.be singing "after the bell," but maybe "countdown." >> you know you want to. >> i can fly, but i can't sing. flu season has begun. the cdc warning it could be particularly deadly season. are you protected? we have the details straight ahead. actress halle berry, is sure the sexiest woman in hollywood? many of you think she is. taken a stake in the lingerie line. why increasing celebrities are starting their own businesses instead of just promoting a brand. that's coming next. ♪ >> listen up, folks, the cdc has issued a warning that this flu season will be a bad one. the most common strain of the virus is circulating the us one that tends to send more people to the hospital than other strains and it's caused more deaths. the organization says the virus has mutated from the strain used to make this year's flu vaccine. this means this year's vaccine may not be as effective at combating it. be careful. liz: halle berry is the latest of a string of celebrities buying stakes in companies. no

-peter: marcus, i'm peter. -steve: marcus, i'm steve. -lemonis: nice to meet you.-steve: nice to meet you, too. lemonis: skullduggery, a family-run toy design and manufacturing company in anaheim, california, was exactly the sort of company that i felt had great potential. the company had generated $1.6 million in sales the previous year, but they were still losing money. steve: it's a big loss. lemonis: and while they had one or two products that had real potential, most of their products were missing the mark and collecting dust. i don't get this game. it's not fun. but if i can increase their visibility on the toys that were selling and push them to create new toys, i knew i could turn skullduggery around. so, i did a deal, and i invested $1.1 million for 30% of the company and an ongoing sales royalty. so, i want to be able to have control over the financial side. i don't want you taking on any debt or taking on any other partners without me being okay with it. -steve: i think that's fair. -peter: you want to shake on it? lemonis: and do we need to run this by

michael ratner and peter kornbluh.oined in washington, d.c., by robert muse, who just came up from havana yesterday, a lawyer based in d.c. who is an expert in u.s. laws relating to cuba. his recent piece i list in the mecca's quarterly, "u.s. presidential action on cuba: the new normalization?" tell us about hearing this news, robert muse. >> of having a little trouble hearing you. >> tell us about hearing the news. where were you, about the announcement of the normalization? >> i was having breakfast with peter kornbluh in hotel, and we were told -- >> in havana, cuba? >> that's right, in havana. with ited -- 70 came in and had picked up a news release that alan gross was being released. access towe had early the fact sheet coming out of the white house on what actually was going to be done. i want to compliment the obama administration ongoing much larger and further than any of us expected it would go. there was a hope and expectation the obama administration would do some things in the new year, but i must say tha

peter, quick, take the oil story into 2015. what is your best trading idea peter for 2015? >> well, i guess be cautious in crude oil. i don't see anything changing with the buy and demand situation. like you said, may be a target of $35. remember in 2009 we pulled back to 32 without shale and much bigger abroad. cheryl: we talked about opportunity in the energy sector stockswise. what's another sector you have your eye on for 2015? >> the banks are act well. i think the banks continue. i think there is opportunities in tech, and i was focusing on twitter. not right now, but in the first few weeks, that could be one of the better social media names to get involved in for alpha for 2015. cheryl: you know, chris, also, looking at volatility over the last month, volatility really start to skyrocket. i've seen many of the forecasts come out for 2015 to say look, we had a great year in 2014. don't expect that in 2015. get ready for a roller-coaster ride. chris, what do you say? >> absolutely. a great rally really on and off since 2012. depends where you go back and look at one of

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i was peter pan. >> reporter: and there's proof. her mother's parents willing abetted. >> my grandfather was captain hook and my grandmother was wendy. she used to sew my shadow on. that was the way to get me to take a bath. if you would take a bath, i'll sew on your shadow. all right. you have a deal. you have a deal, wendy. so that was my life. i lived in neverland. >> reporter: fast forward and a yale drama grad and "girls" co-star would fly for real. and crow too. her father's mother would have been fit to bust. >> she was a performer. she was incredible. stage presence. definitely be thinking that. i'm going to try to crow loudly enough for grandma to hear me. ♪ i won't grow up >> reporter: so we'll sing along tonight with the songs we know and wipe away a tear or two at the parts that touch us most. and we will be pulling for a young actress from connecticut whose dream has come true. ♪ in never neverland >> reporter: harry smith, nbc news, new york. >> so brian said today he'll be watching the live broadcast with family close

aid worker peter kassig held by isis in syria when u.s. ally -- the talks collapsed and kassig was beheaded soon after. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. indonesian rescuers have found dozens of bodies and debris from a passenger plane that was carrying 162 people when it disappeared on the way to singapore sunday. the remains were found in the karimata strait off the coast of borneo. airasia flight 8501 had requested permission to climb to a higher altitude amidst bad weather, but the response was delayed due to heavy air traffic, and the plane disappeared. leftists in greece appear poised for a historic victory after lawmakers rejected the prime minister's nominee for president, setting the stage for early elections next month. the failed vote triggers the dissolution of parliament and comes amidst mounting outrage over austerity policies which have come as part of greece's international bailout. the left wing syriza party is leading in polls, paving the wa

peter macks. this is his poster from 1967, the summer of love. it catapulted him to fame, making him a lasting symbol of the era. >> this was a sketch i made. after a year or so of doing things, being with the swami, and the idea of love was a big idea. we have to love everybody, animals, the planet, the people you don't even like. and one day i decided to do l-o-v-e and draw my love lady. it was a famous poster. tens of thousands. it became a famous image. >> back then. this poster sold for $1 a piece, for two. today they are about 2,000, 3,000. everybody owned a poster, and i became so powerfully famous that anywhere anyone would point to me, i'd walk in the streets. peter macks. i didn't know how to say yes all the time. >> graphic artist peter macks has been colouring our world for decades. the cosmic designs capturing the posters, sneakers, pianos. we walk by a piano that you gave to ringo. >> he came to me. he of course add me to paint. the day i finished pointing, by coincidence, total coin

peter teal is a tough one to introduce. founder of paypal pays kids to leave school, venture capitalist, first outside investor in facebook, even works with the cia. peter teal has been involved in just about everything in silicon valley. he's a venture capitalist an entrepreneur and a libertarian activist. he's the first outside investor in facebook and sits on the board there. he's invested in yelp and linkedin and helps the cia use big data to fight terrorists. he's begged college students to drop out of college, funded gay marriage initiatives and republican campaign at the same time. he warned of a financial bubble and crash five years before it happened. >> hey, guys. >> he's been depicked inted in movies and satired on silicon valley. his book, "zero to one" is number one on the new york's best-sellers list. when peter teal pushed a button and sent money from one palm pilot to another and paypal was born. peter was one of the main three founders of paypal. he has 68,000 followers on twitter but tweeted just once and

this is a message from peter. while i'm truly honored to accept this award, i do that on behalf of all of those whom it really belongs. to those who are part of the struggle not only in egypt but aware the press is not truly free. >> peter's passion is erik, kenya is where he's based or supposed to be based and he's now spent almost a year in a prison cell along with our two other colleagues, mohamed and baher. al jazeera denies all their charges and demands their immediate erase. hadr abasi, al jazeera. >> mohamed fahmy who is a canadian citizen is in prison alongside the others. he wrote a letter which was smuggled out of the uranium by hijail by hisfamily. >> the right for freedom of expression is what true democracy means in a civilized world. almost a year into my detention i'm now more furious than ever i'm caught up in a weapon of coalitions in the middle east who can't seem to agree who the terrorists are, which militant group to arm next. and if we were all to sworn enemy the press. >> you can find out mo

peter and i were chatting. peter comes by every once in a while and we chat.centennial of world war 1. i've been fascinated by this story. i never heard it before. peter said he had. of the famous christmas truce of 1914. i never heard it. world war i began in august -- >> this is historically accurate. so what have we got in christmas, the war has been slugging along for about five months. you literally got british and german soldiers, football field apart, guns cocked. bay nets ready. the christmas truce is announced. at midnight on christmas, one or two guys cautiously from each side sort of get out of the trenches, sort of walk towards each other. they're kind of cautious. the closer they get, they smile. they shake hands. before long, this is documented -- before long, hundreds and thousands of men along the lines are together. they're singing songs. they're chatting. they're recalling memories. they're showing the gifts that they got from home and even sharing them. this captivated the world. the pope at the time, said what tutsi we declare a christmas t

what is the myth of peter thiel and what is the reality?> the myth is that they are somehow singular and that they are somehow divine, omnipotent beings. these things that i am doing are not solo efforts. i have friends that i talked to a lot and people i talk to closely. >> i am curious about your background, and what should you along the way. i know that you were born in germany and moved around a lot, you went to south africa and india. >> i went to seven different elementary schools as a kid, and so i felt a little bit like an outsider instead of an insider. so there is kind of a combination of outsider-insider perspective that shaped me a lot. >> what were your parents like? >> my dad was an engineer. >> you were raised an evangelical christian and did not believe in anything like evolution? >> i still consider myself a christian and i think it is important to have a very different perspective on things, because it pushes you to either defend your ideas really well or to have a much deeper understanding. >> on paper you worked in a new

jane. >> please, call me peter. >> pleasure to see you, peter. >> [ bleep ] i'll just put my tony herei'm flying sorry. i wanted to jump but this chair is a lot higher than it seems. [ bleep ] is this thing going to hold? i put it up myself. >> you absolutely should not jump. >> owwwww! >> i love it. >> good for jane. >> i know. she's great at that. >> we don't see anything like that happening during the real show. >> no. >> we'll all be watching just in case. >>> christmas comes to the white house this afternoon. first lady michelle obama welcomes military families for the first viewing of this year's decorations. >>> happy birthday to amanda sigh freed who turns 29. academy award nominated actress july ann moore is 54. rocker ozzy osbourne turns 66. got to be a song in there for him. keep it right here for more news, weather and sports. i'll sdar rah brown with bill karins. thanks for watching "early today." we hope you have a happy one out there. >>> get ready for another roipd of rain. it's almost been coming down hard in some spots, causing road closure webs flight delays and a nu

if you do i'll burn my peter. >> you'll burn your peter? >> and you've been charged with continually hitting your buzzer throughout the control period. how do you plead? >> guilty. >> i'll find you guilty on that one. two more to go. >> the fourth charge then is disobeying again a rule where you've been continually pressing your cell button again for no reason. >> guilty. >> the last report of the evening was where you've intentionally endangered the health and safety of others where you activated the smoke detector in your cell, requiring the prison staff and fire service to attend. do you understand that charge? and how do you plead? >> guilty. >> so you've pled guilty. i'm going to found you guilty on that. all right, i think we're finished with the reports for this morning. >> jimmy's otherwise good behavior record over the past year helps him catch a break. he receives seven days loss of recreation time. his prison job wages and access to his cash account to buy supplies and snacks from the canteen. >> are you okay with it? >> for five

the united states, and africa as well, where peter greste was based. he was based in nairobi before being transferred to egypt. we're talking about 12:30 p.m. london, just we were looking at 317 tweets per minute with the free aj staff hashtag within it. to get that many per minute is a great move. we've got a few here. >> so was so much going on, some tweeted saying saying: >> one year later the events that have shaped the aj staff campaign. it will include the release of peter, bader and mohammed. >> this summer's war was the bloodiest ever. one of the worst events was a shelling of an united nations school. jane ferguson spoke to one family trying to recover from the bombing. >> suddenly losing the use of two limbs makes almost every task in life harder. what she misses most is playing with her children. >> my life was okay. i used to play with my children. run with my children. i used to do everything. now nothing because it's not just my leg my arm. if i need someone to walk, i need someone to help me. if i want to drink water i need someone to op

peter's and paul's church in north beach. and we are going to really miss him, but he was extremely fond of the waterfront, particularly of the port and its maritime history and its maritime future. so, as i talked to a number of different people, everyone has to remember what a gentleman he was in his tennis playing years he was pretty aggressive. but other than that, he was really sweet and gentle and just a great person to have around the waterfront and we will miss him. so, on behalf of sal, over and out would be his saying. if i may, would love to ask you to adjourn in his honor today. and that concludes my report. >> any public comment on the executive director's report? seeing none, public comment is closed. okay. >> item 9b, port commissioner's report. >> thank you. i have a couple items i'd like to mention. first as has been alluded to, proposition f passed this past election which go to the port project with respect to pier 70. so, we're thrilled that we'll be seeing that project move forward. it has often been poin

peter greste, bureau chief mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed . they spent time in jeeght egypt getting to see their son. >> it's amazing he's inspiring us all to go on. because as we all know this has been a very, very lon struggle. long struggle. >> it's been a year that's seen protests spread around the world. the hashtag freeajstaff, gone viral around the world. >> we agree publicly and privately that they should be released. >> al jazeera has maintained the media campaign. >> we work in so many different places and we should be taken as a professional media institution not as a part of any political or ideologic or any other establishment. >> egypt's president abdel fatah al-sisi insisted it was a matter for the courts. president sisi has suggested that he would have preferred to have the journalists deported, perhaps a sign that he was aware of the damage this case was doing to egypt's reputation. but as 2014 comes to an end al jazeera's team raims in remains in jail, having committed no crimes. >> she's hopeful the judges will see justice r

festiva, peter -- first of all, peter nailed it. i think were going to see choppy markets.e bullish about the u.s. economy for the longer term. we think there's going to be opportunity with a lot more in europe and asia trying to do the right thing. there is a lot of opportunity out there. term and long-term we are bullish. we are bullish on equities and we think alternatives will play a large role. >> let's talk about monetary stimulus being provided by the bank of japan, by the ecb to a degree and perhaps more in the months ahead. one thing i noticed in the byvestment outlook blackrock is that the total amount of liquidity has been going down since qe 1. how do you think that is going to play out? due tould the ecb replace what is being drained out of the system or that is not being supplied enough by what is going on in japan? >> the ecb will do its own part. one thing that is important here. .t seems to be happening increasingly, asset managers and other players are providing liquid e themselves. i think about middle-market loans. the kinds of things that the to do.sed

i am ali velshi speaking to musician and human rights activist peter gabe bre yell? >> i thought i misread that. you are creating apes. >> yeah. well, i mean i played -- i had a year when i was working with sue savage-rumbeau with these extraordinary bonobo apes and i went down there four times. sometimes with musicians and, and we tried different things but in the end, we got a bonobois on the keyboard, two of the apes and i would be playing in the next door room. they could see me and they would just experiment with different notes according to what i was playing, and most people, you know, i mean i think some people have seen stuff on the movies and they expect had he them to play beetoven but what you see is an extraordinary intelligence questioning each note, finding harmonnies, octaves, repeating certain notes and for any musician, they get blown away because there is something happening which you get in a jam where things begin to work, and it was 100% evidence from the -- of the intelligence of other beings, and i think we have maintained extremelyarrogant at

i love what peter barnes said. he didn't let janet yellen go by on this oil sell-off as a net positive, he dug down into the question to get janet yellen to say we are worried about what's going on. liz: do we have peter there? not quite yet. >> i'm here. liz: can you hear us? the best question. i kept thinking, she's conceding that russia does matter. >> she is. and i mean i was actually shocked that we had to wait until the 15th go get to it. this is all that the global markets are focused on right now is this sharp drop on oil prices as phil was talking about, and the possible contagion effects on europe and the united states and banks in europe that have $600 billion in russian debt and whether or not we'll see another 98 defaulting contagion. when they finally picked me, i was thrilled to ask the question, and she said yes, of course, we're watching the situation, it did come up in the meeting, but she did not say. liz: i immediately tweeted it out. if you want the exact quote, i believe she in essence said ye

. >> peter doocy has more on this. peter, how was the president first received. >> reporter: the president was received very well. he was beginning to talk about this is the beginning of the end of the war in afghanistan with the first lady at his side the crowd in the marine base in hawaii erupted >> we have been in continuous war now for 13 years, over 13 years and next week, we will be ending our combat mission in afghanistan. afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country. we are safer. it is not going to be a source

i am ali velshi speaking to musician and human rights activist peter gabe bre yell? >> i thought i misread that. you are creating apes. >> yeah. well, i mean i played -- i had a year when i was working with sue savage-rumbeau with these extraordinary bonobo apes and i went down there four times. sometimes with musicians and, and we tried different things but in the end, we got a bonobois on the keyboard, two of the apes and i would be playing in the next door room. they could see me and they would just experiment with different notes according to what i was playing, and most people, you know, i mean i think some people have seen stuff on the movies and they expect had he them to play beetoven but what you see is an extraordinary intelligence questioning each note, finding harmonnies, octaves, repeating certain notes and for any musician, they get blown away because there is something happening which you get in a jam where things begin to work, and it was 100% evidence from the -- of the intelligence of other beings, and i think we have maintained extremelyarrogant at

it was a year ago today that peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were arrested and imprisoned. andrew simmons has their story. >> reporter: al jazeera's doha news center marking an anniversary the staff here and in the rest of the world find hard to absorb. it is now one year since a phone call to the news desk reporting the arrest three of the network's journalists in cairo. then 12 months behind bars. for just doing their job. right across the world there were newsroom vigils and protests outside egyptian embassies. a trial in cairo had failed ocome one any evidence to incriminate the staff or associate them with what egypt described as terrorists. all the charges against correspondent peter greste, bureau chief mohamed fahmy and producer baher mohamed were false. baher's wife spiking from her home in egypt impressed her desperation. >> translator: my life is wrecked and so are the lieftion lives of our children. the head of the family has been in prison for a year for no justification or crime. >> peter greste's parents have spent christmas day in egypt getting an hour and

peter greste's parents followed from home. >> seven years for peter greste. oh my god. >> oh!e were prepared for the unexpected. oh. it's absolutely unbelievable. >> seven years. my god! [ sobbing ] >> joining us tonight at 9:00 pm eastern for an in-depth look at the dangerous state of journalism and press freedoms across the globe. in that is our show for today. i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining us. ♪ >>> hello, everybody, this is al jazeera america. i'm david shuster in new york. john siegenthaler is off. tonight expanded search. indonesia is now asking the united states for help in finding the missing air asia jet, as hopes fade for the relatives of the 162 passengers and crew. >>> the u.s. military coalition formally ends its combat mission in afghanistan. >>> tanking oil, this was the

. >>> will you watch peter pan if you are not a peter fan? it is the fairies versus the trolls. millions are expected to tune into the peter pan live, but how many will be hate watching? hate watching you say? as a writer at the daily beast points out the sound of music live drew huge ratings, but awful reviews. and they will be a bigger target of snarkiness. she said in an interview i like to watch things synically. meanwhile, they are staging a live elvis of -- of elvis' show. ♪ >> it has to suck to be a dog with a con constant happy face. you could be wrighting in pain and they are saying look how adorable he is. he is like i want to die. >> that's exactly how i feel. >> it is true. >> sam, are you going to watch this peter pan thing? >> definitely. do you think an elvis impersonator has ever been found dead? >> usually in a port-a-john. it is interesting to get a girl to play peter pan. women get to do that. guys don't get to do that with roles. meryl streep -- >> ah, "bird cage," the mom in" hairspray." >> that is cross dressing. >> have you never seen a a tyler perry movie