we then went to prague and had a meeting with some government officials there. as we were walking up the street, someone came out of an apartment building with an encyclopedia and had it opened to john glenn's picture and said would you autograph over your picture. we focus on how important these astronauts are to us here in the united states. but keep in mind how important they have been to people all around the world a soviet soldier on a train going into czechoslovakia, a person of minimal status, i guess you would say in prague who wanted to be able to look at john glenn and say i have this picture. would you sign it for me? john glenn's prowess has been more than just this trip to czechoslovakia and the other places we went. i've been so impressed with who he is and what he's done, his personal life but also one story i have to tell because it's one of my favorite all time, we had some people come to visit me and my office was that time in the hart building. and my -- there were people young teenagers from nevada who had been in the double dutch jump roping

>> on your application, it says in prague -- progress. could you elaborate what that means? >> i will elaborate. i want to show you how this venue is. ok. there is 19th avenue. this is park merced. this building here is there in the middle of that. they are not adjoining. they're not adjoining any residential units whatsoever. there is the front of the venue. very dark, i am sorry. ok. anyway, we did a lot of neighborhood outreach since then and i have been in touch with officer charles chan. it is hard to resist charlie chan. anyway, we have letters of support from the realty investment company that manages parkmerced and we have a sizable petition here. we -- they met with the police department, with the captain and the now-commander schmidt. as i got a list of neighborhood associations from officer tim,c -- chan, when i tried to track them down, they were defunct. we have a letter of support from the parkmerced residents association. and from a person with part recep. it is a straightforward project. this is tom basso. and angelo basso. they are brothers. >> a family affa

a warm surge here in berlin, warsaw and prague. these temperatures are well above average. we're looking at berlin reaching up to 12 for our wednesday. so that's a look for our weather for now and i'll leave you new for the extended forecast. >>> that's our broadcast for this half our on "newsline." thank you for watching. bye-bye.

back in 2010 they met in prague to reduce the number of nuclear weapons. but any reduction would only come as part of negotiations with russia. those negotiations are not scheduled to resume until after both countries hold presidential elections this year. >>> if analysts paretics are correct you will pay record high prices for gas by memorial day. right now the statewide average is .37 a gallon. experts warn we could be paying near $5 a gallon for by memorial day. >>> sal, it will be interesting to see if people change their summer plans, vacation plans if gas goes that high. >> people do change what kind of car they drive on those situations. car dealers actually ride out the spike and things change rather quickly. let's take a look at the commute now. traffic is moving along pretty well as you head out to the mccarthur maze. another thing that changes is people get out in the road early to avoid sitting in traffic. obviously that kills your mileage. so right now traffic is looking pretty good getting out to the mccarthur maze. no problems here at the ba

. >>> a new tour in prague is taking folks behind the scenes of the dark side of history. a travel agency is now offering the corruption tour, which highlights the most famous corruption schemes and the men and women behind them. the tour was created to provide entertainment while spreading awareness on the country's ongoing battle against corruption. >>> it looks like they are mixing breakfast with stamina in london. people gathered for the annual pancake race as part of london's shrove tuesday celebration before the start of lent. 60 runners sprinted while flipping pancakes in a skillet during the relay race. the contest is also for a good cause. proceeds all go to charity. >>> in china, it's a full house for one couple. the pair's tibetan mastiff gave birth to a litter of 22 puppies. considered to be the most precious breed in the world, the owners care for them around the clock, making sure they're warm and fed. so far, the surviving 15 of the bunch are showing promise. just to put it in perspective, usually, there's only like four to eight of them. 22, extremely unusu

a warm surge here in berlin, warsaw and prague. these temperatures are well above average. we're looking at berlin reaching up to 12 for our wednesday. so that's a look for our weather for now and i'll leave you new for the extended forecast. >>> that's our broadcast for this half our on "newsline." thank you for watching. bye-bye. . .

officials that it was ms clinton that called on mr la prague now that she will be meeting in the next coming of hours in the next coming hours for a security conference that's scheduled in the unit maybe they will speak on the sidelines personally about this draft resolution and whether or not it will be approved and fully supported by the security council as i said remains to be seen because russia has its main concerns in the aftermath of what took place in libya it does not want to see repeated circumstances in syria and at this point takes place but of course our viewers know we will be following this story and updating them as more information becomes available proof that it's always changing because it's a late on a friday night there in new york thanks for staying on top of that for us murder nial reporting from new york for r t and we are receiving reports from opposition groups in syria that around two hundred people have been killed in renewed violence in the city of homes according to the syrian observatory for human rights and the army is showing the city with reports of f

one the streets they didn't to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in prague with the queen many many people that chanting and to mix the slogans from time to time police has been the firing tear gas at the times isn't even. though it's been able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about what was going on when it's going to stop people not just for testing in addition to teaching. because to the students are unbelievably effective keep in mind that if they start looking each day to turn everything to their chinese that's. not to hide the fear and the schieffer. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over here it's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and they're doing it to the will to the country. it must be or was you can see a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually in several other cities throughout egypt but we can also you can talk now about several months as well the following points incident the figure is the people from the administration told the students have been deta

of the streets they didn't to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in praguewith the green many many people there chanting and to miter slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas at the. test isn't even showed so we've been able to speak to several people though let's listen to what they have to say about who's going and when it's going to stop people not just but that's been conditioned to teaching. because there's just too gosh i'm believe in the effects people might die and that they will they suffocate each day to turn everything today trying them. not to light the fire and they do schieffer so. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over here that's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and that they're doing to the world to the country. it must be it was you can see a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually in several all the cities throughout egypt but we can also can talk now about several achievements as well the following points incident the figure is that there are people from the administ

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military strength its leader this is why here e has issued a statement saying that he is barton pasok of prague crow. is fighting alongside some group or the other but they have very little actual strength and i don't think one should take. all exaggerated ideas of the threat it poses to seriously i mean the fact is the overwhelming majority of people in syria of want to be outside the family and that is the key thing which we have to understand in which he should understand a lot of commentators have been saying about the arab spring in general that the violence and uncertainty in the aftermath will enable the muslim brotherhood as the only organization that is organized enough to take advantage of it to essentially step into the fray are you worried that that will happen in syria well i don't support them politically and i don't think it will be in the interests of syria to have an islamist government you know moderate or extremist the baton seems to be at the moment of saying that the model a moderate islamist government is the best model for the arab world i disagree very strongly that i do

one of the streets leading to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in prague with the queen many many people there chanting intimately slogans from time to time police has been the firing tear gas the test isn't even showed so we've been able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about what was going on when it's going to stop people not just protesting in addition to teaching. because the biggest i'm believe in the fact people might die is that there is nothing teach the children everything today and john that the thing that's like the fear and they don't schieffer is. that the chinese the seventy seven year old china it's over here it's more than enough what they're doing to the criticism that they're doing to the to the country. must be. well as you can see a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually can settle all the cities throughout egypt but we can also you can talk now about several achievements as well the following points incident the figure is the people from the administration all the students have been

that a certain airports were contractors do screening and tsa is just there to oversee the screen prague ses. there are upwards of 50 tsa employees on the payroll. while we can agree that strong oversight and this area is critically important, having 50 plus tsa officials in a single airport where they're not responsible for conducting screening is plain overkill and ca costing money. we'll look at other management issues throughout the hearing. i look forward to all the witnesses and now recognize the ranking member of the xpt, my friend the gentle lady from texas for her opening statement she may have. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. we are friends. we worked on this committee because we both have an unabiding commitment to the security of this nation. i'm delight to see administra administrative pistol and thank him for his leadership. this is a time for tough choices, tough decisions, and strong commitments to secure this nation. i would offer to say that because of this committee and the leadership of ranking member and chairman that in actuality the united states has through

cuts and economic hardships which they say are not their fault well i mean time in the czech capital prague are thousands of students protested against planned education reforms which would give businesses and politicians and president in power over curriculums crush demonstrations are also brewing across greece as the government seeks to implement the drastic course measures that came with the latest e.u. bailout the demonstrations that will be synchronous with those in spain where people are angry at their own draconian cuts and bleak prospects our correspondents are both in athens and madrid. you can see this iconic building behind me it's not become an icon for particularly good reasons but in that for a full parliament behind me and in the streets around that have been so full of ferment a day of protests today not a surprise a lot of people across the country in public sector unions there are doctors out on the street at the moment and there's also a lot of words a lot of alarmist words very financial words that didn't used to mean a lot that are suddenly taking on very serious meanin

brussels to tone down his austerity stance and instead focus on pro growth policies in the czech capital prague thousands of students are protesting against planned university reforms if passed they would give businesses and politicians unprecedented power of a curriculum and funding and fresh demonstrations are also growing across greece as the government seeks to implement the drastic austerity measures that came with the latest bailout our correspondent in athens is tom barton he has more. this iconic building behind me it's not become an icon for particularly good reasons but in that fretful parliament behind me and in the streets around that have been so full of ferment a day of protests today not a surprise a lot of people across the country in public sector unions there are doctors out on the street at the moment and there's also a lot of words a lot of alarmist words for a financial words that didn't used to mean a lot that is suddenly taking on very serious meanings indeed one of them the d. word default and today a later on today a meeting of the international swaps and derivatives as

brussels to tone down its austerity stance and instead focus on pro growth policies in the capital prague thousands of students are protesting against long planned but controversial university reforms even in the bureaucratic heartland of the e.u. thousands gathered to demonstrate against brussels insistence that cuts are the only way to financial. correspondent tom bowman is in athens with more on what's expected there. this iconic building behind me it's not become an icon for particularly good reasons but in the fretful parliament behind me and in the streets around that had been so full of ferment a day of protests today not a surprise a lot of people across the country in public sector unions there are doctors out on the street at the moment and there's also a lot of words a lot of alarmist words for a financial words that didn't used to mean a lot that is suddenly taking on very serious meanings indeed one of them the d. word default and today a later on today a meeting of the international swaps and derivatives association which sounds boring could turn out to be very important ind

bank as professor of economics at king juan carlos university in madrid joining us on the line from prague this hour thanks for that. well you can see live pictures from the greek capital on our web site as thousands gather in front of the part of the men to protest us territory measures all that is taking place exactly twenty years after the european union treaty was signed max kaiser and stacy herbert check out the record after two decades the full program is coming up later here's a look. at their opportunity was last year to have a coup d'etat and get rid of pap and rail and they could have been put in a populist government and they could have saved themselves but they failed to do that so it's finished for them ireland similarly is toast no hope for them whatsoever portugal under the bus spain no italy they have twenty five hundred tons of gold if they can hold onto it they're in good shape but i suspect that the current government will sell that italy's gold deal with the i.m.f. because they're totally corrupt this leaves only germany if at the end of the day. well the former head of

brussels to tone down its a sturdy stance and instead focus on pro growth policies in the czech capital prague thousands of students are protesting against planned but controversial university reforms even in the bureaucratic heartland of the e.u. thousands gathered to demonstrate against brussels insistence that cuts are the only way to financial recovery. he's in athens with more on what's been happening there. the greek parliament you can see behind me is no stranger to protests and indeed have been protests throughout the day and throughout greece today. staged. many public sector workers local councils were occupied the cross. greece of across the territory here with the message really that these cuts these cuts in pay these cuts in pensions are simply going too far we're talking about a twenty two percent cut in wages across the board in the minimum wage really really tough cuts going through here also to pensions those really hard to stomach for many people and unions have turned out very very concerned over that protesting outside the parliament and outside that the european commission

narrow street is one of the streets they didn't towards the built in old the interior ministry here in prague with the green many many people there chanting and to miter slogans from time to time police has been firing tear gas. ties to send even though chos would be able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about who is going and when it's going to stop people are just protesting in addition to teaching the cast of the students are unbelievably effective people keep in mind that there is nothing each day to turn everything today and turned them. not to light the fire and they don't she for. that of a child to seventy seven year old china it's over here it's more than enough what they're doing to the protestors and they're doing it to the will to the country. it must be or was you can see a situation is very volatile here in cairo and actually in several all the cities throughout egypt but we can also can talk now about several achievements as well the following points incident the feeders and the people from the administration all the students have been deta

of the streets they didn't to the woods they built an old photo of the interior ministry here in prague with the queen. many many people there chanting and to mix the slogans from time to time police has been the firing tear gas at the times doesn't even. if it never comes as a surprise full protest as the people who are wearing gas masks and ne they're carrying buffaloes with specially quite a suit liquid and the from time to time they're so pieces over coltan is. this liquid and sniffing it to be able to grease no molly but the thing is that once they approved i would say just a little bit sure sure. they're coming back to the tools of the building and it's old style it's again we've been able to speak to several people there let's listen to what they have to say about who's going to go and when it's going to stop. people are just protesting in addition to teaching. the cons to the students are unbelievable in fact even people might die and that they will they suffocate each day children everything today are trying them. not to light the fire and they don't schieffer. that the chinese

brussels to tone down its a sturdy stance and instead focus on pro growth policies in the capital prague thousands of students are protesting against long planned but controversial university reforms even the bureaucratic hard into the e.u. thousands gathered to demonstrate against brussels insistence that cuts of the only way to financial recovery and of course more of sarah ferguson madrid with almost. we can probably see thousands of protesters behind me here gathered on the central square in the trade now they're protesting this evening against the government's need a labor of forms they say that that's going to actually increase unemployment in the short term here in the country now earlier in the day of course we still student protesters mobilize across the country here in madrid they marched down by the education ministry we did see in other parts of the country in barcelona clashes break out between the riot police and some of the protesters there the images of some of the bins that have been set on fire by the protest is extremely concerning it seems that was somewhat a repeat o

no it's not but you know what i look back to what he did not just in prague but i specifically think about a speech he gave in cairo where he wanted to reach out into the muslim world he opened his hands and he said look this is a conversation we need to have i will sit down with whoever i need to sit down with i respect for what for who you are what your beliefs are and when we made a mistake and this was clearly a mistake and that's shining up in the most positive sense with the mistake that was so blatantly made the president to draw to stop and say look we are wrong we are sorry we apologize i actually think that shows strength rather than we just i would teach my kids this this isn't something that's new i think when a president does this it actually shows some people that we actually need it not everybody in the room but you know what you're never going to get everybody you're going to get some of those people i think that we've done something that's useful well i would do you think that any of the political posturing on the part of newt gingrich agcy likely camping really all

that would be president obama speaking in prague when he signed a historic new start treaty pledging to reduce our nuclear arsenal to five thousand warheads far more than we would need to blow the world into smithereens five times over so if we're trying to reduce our nuclear arsenal but we possibly want this facility for all those who supported continual bleeding of the american taxpayer say that it needs to be built to quote support current nuclear weapons stockpiles through surveillance and life extension programs small little tidbit up the project on government oversight guess is that it will be operational until two thousand and twenty three long after those current nuclear warheads will be supporting or have gone through scheduled life extension programs meaning that this facility literally serves no purpose and yet if the government continues to fund it the taxpayers will spend up to six billion dollars on it now obama has made the reduction of the nuclear arsenal a stated priority from the very beginning of his presidency and he has an opportunity in the coming week to put hi

have been holding out for a basically a loophole in this thing that would allow them to continue to prague to pursue criminal prosecutions so california has the largest number of retail fraud and new york has the highest number of at the level of the banks an executive is fraud is that true is that going to happen so you know we'll see if they sign on or not the landscape in this seems to change every day but you know what we do know is that that twenty five billion dollars if we're going to sue the banks for robo signing alone just that act of terrible fraud that has resulted in pain and lost wealth for you know. lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of people you know if you're just going to sue in that twenty five billion ok but don't let them off the hook. for one more thing other than the robo signing itself because there's lots more that the that we should be going after them for from you know origination of fraud to securities fraud like the whole the whole package so you know this settlement if it's twenty five billion dollars it must not result in any other release or claim any

it's long been president obama's goal to cut the nuclear arsenal as he declared in prague in 2009. >>day, i state clearly and with conviction, america's commitment to seek peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons. >> the latest plan met with dismay by republicans on capitol hill. >> i have to suggest to you i consider that reckless lunacy. >> it does nothing but encourage our enemies and discourage our friends. the result of that is more nuclear weapons programs all across the world. >> officials say so far the president has not received the proposals on his desk. >> john: world bank president says he is stepping down at the end of june. president's traditio position traditionally filled by an american. carney says he has no information on possible successors. euro zone finance ministers want to put greece under tighter surveillance in return for $170 billion bail-out. they announced that greece's president will forgo his salary as symbolic gesture. stocks were down today, the dow lost 97. s&p off 7. nasdaq dropped 16. factory output up .7 of a percentage point for januar

back in 2010 president obama met in prague to sign agreement to reduce the number of nuclear reactions>>> our time 5:38. san francisco filed a lawsuit that is in connection with the san bruno pipeline explosion. the target of that lawsuit a federal agency. coming up for you at 5:45 what the city is accusing regulators of doing. >>> bay area drivers you may be paying close to $5 a gallon for gasoline by the time summer gets here. that's gas price forecast from aaa. aaa says right now the price of gas in san francisco is $3.93 for a gallon of regular. in oakland and san jose it's about $3.87. that is 40-cents a gallon more than last year. it's about 70-cents a gallon less. we've been asking you our viewers on facebook if $5 for regular gasoline will change your driving habits. one wrote it will change how i drive because my car only takes premium. maria wrote fortunately the bay area has tons of things to do and see. we can stay close to home. we want to know what you think this morning. just like the ktvu channel 2 morning news team on facebook. >> it's always fun to look through those

people who i talk to about the economy who are democrats have great fears that this has been-- not a prague spring. it's not something that's likely to. for the next seven or eight months, and it it doesn't, direction really matters. if it stalls, i think you'll see that number go down a bit. i think the other thing that has helped obama tremendously is the opposition. the republicans have not acquitted themselves well. their popularity has dipped. i do, however, believe that the obama forcees, the obama campaign is a bit more arrogant than they have a right to be right now. i think this race is going to-- we just look at the last nine weeks, charlie, and there's so much that occurred that none of us anticipated. conventional wisdom has been so stood on its head that there's no reason to think the same won't happen over the next nine months. i think dan would agree, we have a long way to go withn this race. >> rose: go ahead. >> i say i couldn't agree more on that. and i think the obama campaign feels that romney has been damaged through this period. i think they are still preparing for wha

back in 2010 president obama and russia's president met in prague to sign an agreement to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in both nations. any reduction in the u.s. nuclear arsenal would only come as part of negotiations with russia. those negotiations are not scheduled to resume until after both countries hold presidential elections this year. >>> about 90 minutes ago authorities announced they caught a third iranian suspect involved in a series of explosions in thailand. the botched explosion blew up a house in bangkok. a bomb squad found and defused two other bombs packed with explosives. police were able to catch two iranians after a couple of bombs detonated prematurely. one of the explosions blew off the leg of a suspect. the third bomber was caught this morning in malaysia. >>> 6:35. san francisco files a lawsuit and it's in connection president san bruno pipeline disaster. coming up for you at 6:45 what the city is accusing regular lay ever -- regulators of doing. >>> ground breaking for the new 49ers stadium is set for late spring. last night they approved the $1 billio

." >> narrator: 100 miles east of prague is the czech republic, considered the green heart of the nations consists of small villages, an equal number of men lived in a castle. >> the films was extremely difficult in the sense that every where you turned there is a beautiful shot. you want to stop and you want to oh, there is another one, let's stop. get another shot. but we just didn't have that kind of time. we had other elements in the story to capture and different people we wanted to talk to, but you could spend all day, two days, three days just shooting beautiful, incredible architecture-type shots. >> narrator: the nation's oldest prison, it was built in the mid 13th century to protect the land holdings of a local bishop. it was first used as a prison in the 14th century. today it's a maximum security institution that houses the czech republic's most notorious criminals. it has been called the czech alcatraz. >> translator: that is just because of the type of convicts that we have here in the prison. that means convicts in maximum security and those serving life sentences. as of t

. >> cardinal dominik duka, the archbishop of prague. >> cardinal duka has the title of st.arcellinus and peter. and this is cardinal wim eijk, who is the archbishop of utrecht. [speaking foreign language] >> and cardinal eijk has been given the titular church of san calisto. >> all right. so we're waiting now for? >> giuseppe bertello. next will be arch bishop dolan from new york. there had been a discussion about preaching in modern times, and there had been some speculation that preaching to a modern world is one of the challenges facing the church today. some had suggested that no one with symbolize that more than the archbishop of new york trying to preach the gospel in a secular society. he did preach that yesterday, but he did say there are people of faith and great signs of fidelity even in new york. >> and he's 60 -- >> 62, i believe. >> timothy michael dolian of new york city. >> clearly a smile on his face. cardinal dolan probably has a smile on his face, beaming ear to ear. >> cardinal dolan has received the titular church of our lady of guadalupe. >> that is ver

you run as a moderate, as a businessman, as a prague mattma.d does not want a pragmatic, nod emoderate candid. >> there was an interesting story in "the washington post" this week about his economic record in massachusetts is not stunning by any means. there is not a lot of job creation. massachusetts was still stuck with the recession coming out of the tech bubble. >> and talking about planned parenthood, a sort of hot issue, the rule now being debated by the u.s. conference of catholic bishs and catholic charities is a rule that it was in place when mitt romney became governor of massachusetts where women were allowed to get contraceptives as part of their health plan. he didn't fight that. he didn't try to sort of institute some sort of conservative revolution when he was governor of massachusetts. he governed the way you govern massachusetts. but what i find ironic is that rick santorum has a record that is similar dissimilar to the base right? when he was in the senate he was considered a big government conservative. newt gingrich used to

>> we have data now looking around the world, people are commuting from new york to prague, certainlyoming from bonn in germany, many cases eastern europe. the demand for skilled workers is forcing firms to say we will take you three days a week and we will even cover your travel and you can work two days remotely. so this change is not just in the u.s. it is around the world in these large regions. >> it is really making the clock irrelevant, isn't it? just working 'round-the-clock. professor mitchell moss, very interesting study. thanks for sharing it with us. >>> coming up next, continuing saga of this rather patriotic piece of poultry. [ male announcer ] technology accelerates at a relentless pace. anything not moving forward... is moving backward. [ tires screech ] [ engine turns over, tires squeal ] introducing the 2013 gs, with the lexus enform app suite -- the most connected information and communication technology available in an automobile. [ engine revs ] the all-new 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back. see your lexus dealer. there's no going back. you have to dig a little