needs to get back on the path to democracy, and put it is not the leader to do it. -- and vladimir putin is not the leader to do it. >>> you have been watching "newsday" on bbc. >>> there have been two suicide attacks in the afghan capital on british councils. the target appeared to have been the british council, which fossilizes in educational and cultural exchanges -- which specializes in educational and cultural exchanges. witnesses said one wall of the building had been destroyed and gunfire could be heard. an unconfirmed report said that that two afghan policeman and at a municipal worker had been killed. fraud is a public holiday in afghanistan, -- friday is a public holiday in afghanistan, which marks the independence from britain in 1919. also, an update on the situation in gaza. the israeli military says it has fired at -- five rockets have been fired by gaza militants in southern israel. the situation, the ap giving us an update, saying that that is really military says five rockets have been fired by gaza militants, landed in southern israel. from london and singapore, bye- by

you know this guy putin? the guy. >> i know putin. i don't recognize him without his shirt off.e has a brigade, kind of -- there -- whoa. there is putin. there he is again. it's cold in russia but putin doesn't seem to know that anyway, he has got poor horse. got a brigade of ladies who love him in russia. and go around washing cars for putin. we're not kidding. this is true will. >> i believe it. look at those headlights. billy, look, it's that linguist chick from the show two weeks ago who became a citizen. >> bill: that's not maria. that's not her. >> i'm sorry. listen, it's nice to know that the warrior people that were the russians that were able to hold off in len grand for 900 days against the hun are now depending on baked good sales and car washes to fund the military. >> bill: kgb send those ladies to siberia and now they are raising money because they don't have any money. think our economy is bad. look what's going on over there. putin can't afford a shirt and these women are whole country. miller, look, this is right in your we'll house man. you knew the headlight l

today we're a punchline in putin's jokes, an object of his contempt. the laughingstock of the world's laughingstock and, folks, it hurts, and it should hurt. and i'm still trying to figure out how this happened or why, i want to know, who. who did this to us? who? who? i want answers. i also want a brown paper bag, but i want answers and the names of the failure whose are doing this to us. last time i was on this program i talked about this problem and i offered a way maybe we could fight back, an organization called ratchetrfocrs. when i tell you i was surprised by the reaction from that show by viewers. i want you to know with your help, this organization is moving forward. blaming one side or the other is not working, and being just cynical about it, it's not doing anything. we're failing, because failures are in control. but i don't think it's helpless, or hopeless. if russia after losing the cold war and collapsing and everything in went through, if they could turn it around and make fun of us, then we, the nation that beat them to the moon and be

(laughter) yeah, right over here, here is prime minister vladimir putin rocking a wet suit and carrying ancient greek artifacts he personally discovered right next to president medvedev's holding a huge gun. or it could be a pistol, medvedev is very small. either way, folks, either way it's like every one of russia's government posts is held by a different james bond. meanwhile, what is our president doing? riding on a bus. (laughter) the only way vladimir putin would be seen riding on a bus is if he trapped it in the wild and then tamed. (laughter) (applause) you know what else? you know what else? bus force one over here, isn't even american. it was made in quebec. it's a canadian hybrid. it runs on gas and beaver meat. (laughter) so while putin is insiberia bagging tigers, what did obama bag on his sav ari through the midwest? >> how are you? (laughter) (applause) >> stephen: you got a pie, come on o bama, at least throw it at a puma. in tough times, we americans want a president who is a bad ass! if it's not you, it's going to be rick perry. because if america cannot have james bond

(laughter) the only way vladimir putin would be seen riding on a bus is if he trapped it in the wild and then tamed. (laughter) (applause) you know what else? you know what else? bus force one over here, isn't even american. it was made in quebec. it's a canadian hybrid. it runs on gas and beaver meat. (laughter) so while putin is insiberia bagging tigers, what did obama bag on his sav ari through the midwest? >> how are you? (laughter) (applause) >> stephen: you got a pie, come on o bama, at least throw it at a puma. in tough times, we americans want a president who is a bad ass! if it's not you, it's going to be rick perry. because if america cannot have james bond we'll take yosemite sam. now folks speaking of our future president it is day six of what many inside this desk are calling parry with an a gate. for those of you just emerging from a coma in your time machine last week colbert superpac produced a multi100 dollar ad campaign urging iowanans' ames straw poll to write in rick parry with an a, that is a for paaaarry. and on saturday at the straw poll when all the fried put

own we come back russian prime minister vladimir putin tells us a parasite things i might be starting to see eye to eye with the fumble around the bus look at ows he will be in studio a stand up for nine eleven first responders and they can call for that update on the t.s.a. and now they're going all israeli on us and one comment from you the viewer right here on adam or says the man. lindsey lowe in. the original that islam is not evil actually the other no she said she's a son. welcome back to adam vs the man recently russian prime minister vladimir putin before a group of pro kremlin youth had the following to say about the united states of america quote they are living beyond their means and fifteen a part of the weight of their problems so the world economy they are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar now and mr putin i would hope you would recognize the difference between the leeches that are living off the american people and the american economy as a whole or the country of america and so no we are not a parasite we are not we are the

did you call prime minister putin invasion did he call you. the first time i contacted him about a conflict was about twenty four hours after it had broken out involves already ablaze mr putin just made a statement condemning tbilisi's move that was the right thing to do of course we spoke twenty four hours after the attack over a secure line and i do understand it's not very appropriate to discuss matters like this by cell phone it's also a lot of trouble to establish a secure line with someone who's in a different country we talked and then we talked when he came back but even before his return i called a meeting of the security council i explained my position my decision to return fire and in gauging the conflict security council members voiced their support for my decision some time later we had the meeting in which mr putin attended in relation to this we have to mention mr sarkozy who was at the time chairman of the new you i can't talk about him without a smile unlike the other president we discussed today because i like him and. i see

but he questioned putin's stance of holding on to the post of premier. >> translator: putin would have been remembered in history if he had quit politics after ending his presidential term. >>> china is in the midst of a pet boom. and it's not just your regular house cat that's in demand. it's rare and exotic species. for affluent dog lovers, the breed to have is the tibetan mastiff. >> reporter: no, it's not a lion. tibet an mastiffs are from western china. standing guard over homes and livestock. they have religious status in the homes. they are called dog of the gods. outside of tibet, the himalayan hounds are now overrunning the markets in beijing. prices start at $3,000. some sell for more than $30,000. this buyer is from the northeastern city of habin. >> translator: this is a brave and attractive looking tibetan dog. i'm really happy to buy it. >> reporter: the canine trade is booming. there are more than 100 markets like this across the country. this 44-year-old keeps 10 tibetan mastiffs in beijing. this 2-year-old male is his favorite, and most expensive. $77,000. >> translato

but he questioned putin's stance of holding on to the post of premier. >> translator: putin would have been remembered in history if he had quit politics after ending his presidential term. >>> china is in the midst of a pet boom. and it's not just your regular house cat that's in demand. it's rare and exotic species. for affluent dog lovers, the breed to have is the tibetan mastiff. >> reporter: no, it's not a lion. tibet an mastiffs are from western china. standing guard over homes and livestock. they have religious status in the homes. they are called dog of the gods. outside of tibet, the himalayan hounds are now overrunning the markets in beijing. prices start at $3,000. some sell for more than $30,000. this buyer is from the northeastern city of habin. >> translator: this is a brave and attractive looking tibetan dog. i'm really happy to buy it. >> reporter: the canine trade is booming. there are more than 100 markets like this across the country. this 44-year-old keeps 10 tibetan mastiffs in beijing. this 2-year-old male is his favorite, and most expensive. $77,000. >> translato

for war long before august two thousand and eight inside your pre-disaster then president vladimir putin saying we will show you some northern cyprus that's a quote according to. you a part of the government at the time can you confirm or deny that such deliberations took place. that is just totally wrong mr saakashvili generally does a lot of talking and he often loses control of what he's saying there were no discussions of the kind i would know as i've been part of the government for over ten years that's number one and secondly conflicts are no good for anyone ever those who say you can resolve something from violence are noirs conflicts have never resulted in anything good if we had managed to prevent this war it would have been to everyone's benefit and georgia's in the first place the fact that it didn't happen is a real tragedy and in my opinion only one person is responsible for this it's just the way governments function and that man is the president of georgia. but still in the. hall that in any case mr president war represents a failure of diplomacy and looking back some thre

one look at how president obama compares after his recent bus tour across the u.s. >> while putin issiberia bagging tigers, what did obama bag in his safari through the midwest?

it's been hidden from everybody it came out today much to the approval of the prime minister vladimir putin he was here to watch the debut of the stealth two fifty

vladimir putin said a few years ago when he was still president, the greatest geopolitical o -- putin wants to reexpand. he's actively working to do it. he's pressuring eastern and central europe, using the oil he's pressuring eastern and central europe. he has actively intervened to frustrate american efforts to try and bring peace and security in the middle-east, russia has flown political air cover for iran and north korea's nuclear weapons program. and now president obama actually invited russia to try to mediate between the nato alliance and in libya. so all of these steps that i think that russia has taken show that they are not really interested in cooperating with us at all. they will pocket every concession that this administration makes. but in reciprocity, we got nothing. nothing. >> greta: the israeli defense minister will be on in a second, we'll play our interview with him. i'm curious, you mentioned russia with regard to iran. what is the what is the level of danger of iran vis-a-vis israel? the united states seems to5Ñ5Ñ>e downplaying the nuclear weapons capability of

question that all our colleagues would like answered who called whom first did you call prime minister putin in beijing first or did he call you how did you and the prime minister called me to move. with him so the first time i contacted him about a conflict was about twenty four hours after it had broken out that what was going well was already ablaze or what mr putin just made a statement condemning tbilisi's move that was the right thing to do of course but we spoke twenty four hours after the attack over a secure line you understand it's not very appropriate to discuss matters like this by cell phone it's also a lot of trouble to establish a secure line with someone who's in a different country that we taught and we talk more when he came back but even before his return i called a meeting. the security council i explained my position my decision to return fire and engage in conflict the security council members voiced their support for my decision sometime later we had a meeting in subject which mr putin attended i don't want anything on the question of russia's accession to the world tr

a conflict was about twenty four hours after it had broken out that involved was already ablaze mr putin just made a statement condemning tbilisi's move that was the right thing to do of course we spoke twenty four hours after the attack over a secure line and i do understand it's not very appropriate to discuss matters like this by south areas it's also a lot of trouble to establish a secure line with someone who's in a different country we taught and then we talked when he came back but even before his return i called the meat. of the security council i explained my position my decision to return fire and engage in conflict security council members voiced their support for my decision sometime later we had the meeting in which mr putin attended a dinner was. moving on the question of russia's accession to the world trade organization is very relevant these days russia into the w t w c o wants russia the problem as far as we understand is that georgia is blocking russia's accession it is the only country that's not seen favor of russia joining the w. there's been talk about georgia agre

the what driving all of the decisions and it's very important because we had a big meeting with mr putin where investors manage and pull trillion dollars from a present and zest a very specific and direct question mr porson will use a fund to promote certain sectors of the economy to really do sort of government life things and he was very clear he wants a fund to generate good return. and it was a fun generated culture churn we know for sure it means girls businesses it means more employment opportunities it means innovation and there is a shift but your church comes first do you think that the government's come to be sure to you and make concrete people see will be increased did you feel that union meetings with putin meeting medvedev and what could encourage the government to increase this contradiction well it's very important that our business is very new to craddick kind of business what do you mean with the credit wants to have to do things so we either show good returns and we get more money or you have merits maybe out of the war with returns and you know we cannot raise any mon

members voiced their support for my decision sometime later we had the meeting in such a which mr putin attended i don't want. anything on the question of russia's accession to the world trade organization is very relevant these days russia into the w t o w c o wants russian the problem as far as we understand is that georgia is blocking russia's accession it is the only country that's not in favor of russia joining the w t o yes there's been talk about georgia agreeing to greeting russia succession if russia lifts its embargo on the import of georgian goods to make some other concessions is russia willing to pass a for it and what is your take on the prospects of russia joining. us and that was very well put and one thing i don't want to do is carter for it that would be a moral moderate georgia has a position on russia's w t o a session we respect their position as we respect the stance of any of us over in a state as long as that position is in line with the goal set out in the w t o's charter of trade trade preferences custom regimes we're ready to discuss it all the imports of wine

voiced their support for my decision that will sometime later we had the meeting in saudi which mr putin attended. in relation to this we have to mention mr sarkozy who was at the time chairman of the european union. i can't talk about him without a smile unlike the other president we discussed today because i like him and. i see. according to some which was persuaded you to follow the russian forces march towards tbilisi. of course not no head of state is capable of talking another head of state into anything look at the world trying to talk him down to giving up with have they persuaded him to do anything you know and i don't think they will but surely he would sooner die in his bunker let me stress this again taking cities was never our goal our goal was to stop the war machine which was at that time aimed at two breakaway territories and regrettably at our citizens what he did was very kind called me and said i heard there was a conflict do you want me to fly over to moscow i said i would be happy to serve him which then he told me i'm currently chairing the e.u. i could come over to

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in the one of his speeches going to these recent speeches that as a matter of fact prime minister putin promise that he will be protecting foreign investors i think he even said personally taking care for investors is it enough to convince foreigners that their money in your hands are safe well i think once again they had a very positive meeting with mr porter and they came very and they're just and very much focused on specific sectors following that meeting so i think it was very important for them to hear that message because that's a very important message for them to hear. but in addition there are all sorts of institutional efforts that they can place and to fund this one of those efforts and given proper governance having success stories will contribute to the story so i think it's very important for them to here's a message but the event of the day they will be happy once they reach a dollar now and takes three dollars you know four years from now that's basically what will make them you know really happy this science growing and helping to grow russia and keep computers i'm sur

putin doesn't have a woman? has several. >> to be president of the world he will have to climb over barack obama who wants that as well he came out of the water he was like boderek in tan . forget that he wrestled the tiger and that was the major thing and last week he swished a frying pan with his bare hands. >>

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