sandy weill and the cornell-weill medical institute is in qatar. guggenheim museum will be your neighbor. >> as will the louvre. >> they'll be in beijing or shanghai. >> we may be in beijing or shanghai. >> charlie: we may be? >> yeah. >> charlie: i'll bet you in your mind that is a done deal -- in your mind, that is a done deal, not "we may be." >> it being a done deal in my mind is different from my being able to announce it on "the charlie rose show." >> charlie: well said. but there is also -- i'm interested in this because first of all, people at the crudest would say, "he went over there in search of the richest partner he could find." and "he made a deal." and without casting aspersions on any particular person and the leadership of the united arab emirates, especially abu dhabi has a reputation for a lot of very positive things, but he went over there to get the money, make the deal, and it became a kind of codependence on each other. you had a reputation. they had moneyment that's the crudest way to look at it. >> it is a very crude way of

point of view was it because we don't know the tire engine arms and food we have a sequence and maybe qatar's but by the way are the seconds nation. not nation would say. in an amount of people living in the. so maybe then we will think about. other nations but well from genetic point of view russians are definitely occupying specific sport on genetic map. that is in between let's say poles at ours and bush two years on the north you are you have career goals and on the on the south georgians and so on so so definitely we are as russians or particular genetic space like an english. needs. those people that we have tested from these expeditions as a pure russians let's say at least as they say that they are pure russians they occupy in this sport if you takes your ukrainian this ukrainian will never get in this nice his genetic let's say sequence the genome sequence will differ him from the russians this is a true thing which you're saying because russia started in a key which is now the capital of ukraine so so so i always thought that russians are ukrainian and the russians are our same nati

looking for the misses you set in kill two dogs with a hydroelectric power plant in the republic of qatar. wednesday investigators say poor security may be a time possible. cause of justice in the hague rules kosovo's declaration of independence from serbia was legal spunking feel is a dangerous precedent is being said however the ruling is a non-binding. israel an arab man has been jailed for eighteen months for the so-called rape by deception he persuaded a woman to have sex with him by pretending to be cute. next also you talked to journalist and author jonathan koch who says that israel is a regional guly which actually benefits from division. you know. what now i have jonathan cook a freelance journalist and author of three books mr cook thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. you are the only western journalist to be based here in nazareth the largest arab town in israel what kind of different insight does this give you to the conflict as opposed to most foreign journalists who are based in the centers of tel aviv and jerusalem and ramallah at that location itself. tends to

is and train is quite situated with the gas over the other sources the big the core competitor is qatar of course and were aware also see. there that the sources of gas developed in africa like her nigeria and also algeria and leave it to basically russian gas is not that needed well the russian gas is needed in this country's but the problem is that now russia is supplying approximately twenty six b.c.m. to this to the sea area which potential will be covered by south stream but the total capacity of south stream is sixty three b.c.m. and and the source we have to mind that there are blue stream pipeline that goes from russia to turkey is also like using fifty percent or all of that over all of the overall capacity so where is the reserve risk off like. having north full capacity to rights and just shortly what is the prospect for the book at this point . i would say it's true there are currently. put a full terminations over this new book her idea. i wouldn't truly say that for europe new book is completely forgotten clearly europe needs diversification of the gas that goes front from

s of large international companies ortiz qatar deserve a report on what they find so during about life here in russia. civita russian style the media writes about it the people talk about it and very few actually live it and a lot of those who do aren't even russian this is moscow so-called golden mile where real estate is valued at around ten to twenty thousand u.s. dollars per square meter is apartments are fitted with every gadget and have every conceivable comfort and are let to top managers from international companies who come to live and work in russia but why do they come by and large moscow is a fast paced developed city but it still lacks the comforts the expert managers for you still so what brings them here. well first of all it's the money moscow is considered quite dangerous by most of these companies so they get paid extra just to come then as the income tax in russia is just thirteen percent compared to forty in europe the u.s. and of course it's the glamorous life they lead here the parties the dancers the night clubs the country clubs red carpet treatment everywhere t

closeness between russia and the west was on show at a joint two russian german summit in the city of qatar in book present to me to medvedev and chancellor angela merkel joked about the world cup to person burgers but they made the smiles they got some business done too with dozens of agreements signed correspondent daniel bushell scott the story. in the windy city of where you could get was very much a case of the midwest if and merkel or i'm sure if you like is the sioux country's leaders who are all smiles their personal strong relationship really highlights the country's two excellent relationship at the moment historically until it was greeted chatted with mr medvedev in fluent russian he with her off to a top local restaurant where they enjoyed octopus but later promised it was not the old people who predicted that germany would lose in the semifinal over the world cup now there was talk of a trio of world leaders forward looking leaders barack obama richard revert if i call a transatlantic troika if you like moving the world forward of security and defense issues with food as the un

have been killed in a terror attack on a hydroelectric power plant in russia's southern republic of qatar the noble cuddyer to generators were put out of action when several bombs were set off in some like the station that maria phenomena has more. none of the caucuses target as ations claimed responsibility for a serious of bloss their bucks on hydro power plant in russia but in a ball carrier in the north caucasus meanwhile national and to church committee is reporting now that all the people being involved in a base attack those who have carried out as well as the organizers have all been identified although officially no name has yet been given the russian media has already suggested that i made abdul lockwood be behind this attack this man is known as the leader of al-qaeda militants he became number one in the republic just a while ago and since then the number of deadly incidents in the republican south and in the region as a whole has increased dramatically and analysts say that in such a manner they smash and is now just trying to get some respect from the militants in the region

and dixon's team is funded by a 23-year-old sheek from qatar who came in with $10 million when teamsr dollars. sheer look at sights and sounds from a weekend. >> love the dress. love exhilaration. this is intense. >> this is 317 miles per hour. i like that. >> and this is battling of your eye ball goesing down the track. and this is we're going to do it on the streets. >> you know the difference between a funny car and top field car? >> yechl i do. one is long, one is like, a car. >> there is boring watching lefthand turns and waiting to get around the track. >> it's somewhat quieter today than yesterday. lebron james is house hunting in florida. supposedly made an offer on a home in coreable shal availables. there is a the owner says lebron is not buying. has a nice infinity pool. >> can you imagine the power bill? he left angst back in cleveland. >> and there is another check of the forecast now. >> people saying show me the sunny. this afternoon there is a time lapse view looking towards sutro tower. there is a marine layer deepening just how deep is it? there is about 1500 deep i

if you look at the afghan taliban, for instance, their leadership has been based out of qatar pakistan for some time now yet you have younger more aggressive leaders on the ground in southern afghanistan who aren't always willing to take orders anymore from the shura as they call it in southern pakistan so i think there is also a sense that the time is right to move on a deal like this before the taliban leadership becomes too fractured. >> rose: so the people who push most for some kind of deal right now are the pakastanis? >> i think they see as jane said a strategic opening here both in what is going on in terms of the taliban leadership, in terms of where the american commitment may be, and their own. i think you see a confluence of events they see this is the right time to make their move. >> rose: you were going to say? >> one thing we haven't discussed is actually what president obama has said is the ultimate goal is the main goal of this war which is to defeat al qaeda. and that is kind of the elephant in the room. money talks about that, but that is the american goal is not to

. >> sreenivasan: amiri flew today to iran via qatar. an official welcome is planned for him at tehran's international airport tomorrow. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen. >> ifill: next, the safety concerns surrounding the diabetes drug, avandia. this afternoon, an independent panel of experts recommended that it remain on the market with additional warnings despite concerns over heart risks. "newshour" health correspondent betty ann bowser begins with this report. the health unit is a partnership with the robert wood johnson foundation. >> reporter: the decision came after the 33-member panel spent the past two days sorting through 700 pages of data and listening to more than 20 experts who weighed in, and this instruction from f.d.a. commissioner dr. margaret hamburg. >> apply your sharpest scientific thinking and bring your best judgment to the questions facing the agency. >> reporter: avandia has been one of glaxosmithkline's blockbuster drugs used by millions of type-2 diabetes patients since 1999. but ne

we signed an agreement with qatar and we have the agreement with china, the logistics center and so onnergy and green development. we have set the target for the western balkans to become part of the european union by 2014. this is a target set by the prime minister and it coincides with the greek presidency of the european union. we have set the targets to drive green development into the black sea. we call it black sea turns green because we recognize it is an area that can have a lot of positive developments going toward green energy, and so on. more important are things happening with the mediterranean. greece is part of the union for the mediterranean, not just part we have put a lot of emphasis on making sure we have the secretariat for energy. for those not familiar with that, it's a union between the european countries and the north african and east mediterranean countries to promote a number of sectors including transport, institutional development and so on. the reason is we want to play our cards and be the one to drive green development in the region and make sure greece ha

countries are belgium, canada, china, france, germany, ireland, japan, kenya, mexico, netherlands, norway, qatar, russia, spain, sans nia, the united kingdom, the united nations international and then some. so let's talk more about some of the particular sites you're seeing, you're seeing the aerial view. but we had an opportunity to go to some parishes and see some of the impacted areas, in addition to the marsh area. one of the places we went to was st. tammany parish. i visited this area and they already had an operating emergency operations center. there i meat commander dan precourt. he's the parish liaison officer for the parish. his position is important because what we learned from hurricane katrina, one of those most important lessons, was there was not enough communication between local officials and the public during a disaster. but at the st. tammany parish emergency operations center, there's a coast guard liaison, commander precourt and a representative of b.p. and many other people working there, working together to talk about how the agencies can solve this problem. the public li