. >> we would like to queion and talko himecause it may encourage others to defect. it may speed uphe downfall of the gadhafi rege. and think what we have to be careful of is before anyeal ne, fore he is aowed to g tony otherountry, we get answerto t queionshat ned to be answered of e terror a activies w involv in theast 2od years. >> thererenconfirmed reports that as many as 10 other lyan officials are onhe vge o defecting, but the forgn office wou n comment. if true, this has th potential still bolered the hopes of the opsiti, who hav been dashed byhe mitary offensive of t last few days. >> the impetus of the deftion s former libyan jadist had co to britain. theres anmazing novel bed around hiwn expienc. hifathers a leang diplomats who disappeared in th 1990's. e fmer foreign office minier michael bryan hamet with man times. let's tak about thi yourathe wasn exilen cairo. you lieve that during his disappearae he was terrogated? >> yes, my fatr sent letters that were smuggd ou of present. he senthree letters between 1993 and 1995 he dcrib in dail w he wasbducted, wh

hasa's foren ministe riveon wednesdaand is being queione at a secret cation. he was in a agile ate mind. our world affairs edor h beenoniting developments. be rumors come from the libyan oppositn in lonn an elsewhe. ey can't be taken at fe value, buthat gave them t extra impetus was the press conference that the gornment okesn gave today. omeo asked him about the whereaboutsf the pme minister, the spker of the parliament, the duty reign nist, thoil minter,nd the tellence minister. s fars h knew, theyere in libya unless the wen offial dies. th is the phrasing he us when hwas dcribing the trip to engnd. th obviously gave an extra push. if any of thoseeopleho he dected, it wod be tremendous blowo t colonel's authority here. the will still be that determination ong e small groupto carry on. still aead,e polar prints. is h rdy to be h brother's best man? in the of's populaon h gro by81 million people to 1.2 1 llion. the census ao reveals a coinuing preferen foboys. e se ratio is at itworst nce 47. have this port. e numbers are staggeri. 2.7 million offials invved i

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at the the queion jeremy bowe >> th letter atas publish in jor newspers by he leaders of britain, france, d prident obama of the u.s. was publifries -- not blueprint. it was a declation of rgime change. they do not like ing the phrase becse i is toxic because of irain 23. regime change i definity what ey wan the question is, w did they do it wh the u. resolutnhat th have, which is about protting civians. it is ong job, as president obama sai but that lter, that hotbed - op-ed s staring gaafi in the fa and saying abt what we are not goi to blink first." >> tre are very ugh sanconsn ace er libyat theomen you ink y and whatight get rid of t adoee is not t military eratn, the other means -- but other mean >> sanctions are very tough ainst libya. t if you look at the histy of tgh sanctions oncounies ov the years, it cannot point to any case ere nctions on e run have brought down of lead that was -- on eir own have brought down of lder that was disliked by the rest of e world. there really is no-- i took africa and all the lead up lg time. libyanup pnty of money. ey say theyaveillions in forei

. >> the other crucial queion is e wreabouts of those black borecoer is. they hol the secret to e final momes of th flight. wh ty surved o years at e steps under the enormous pressure of the water? -- these dehs under the enormous pressur othe water? >> that suggests that the plane felllmos verticay into the ocn. they areopin tha the boxes e in tact and will providehe answers tprevent aimil accide in e future. > some oer news from around the world. theigern president sayshat state eltion will go aad a anned next week. he sdhat security has en reinforced arosshe country ahd tuesd'elections. tensf thousands of nirian were fleeiheir homes. goodluck jonathan won e presidenti vote. officials in mexico fou another massrave in t nor of t country. they fod inear t city o taranto. expts connued to identify the remainsf 145 pele buried in the north. returning w to the conflict in libya. the deaths ofwo joualis haveighlighted e dangers of covering that area llarclinton had this to sa >> we are particularly saddened today about the loss of tw journalists. we extenour

. >> t big queion is not so much wt the size of the ilout fundill , but what nditions might be attaed. what furthe spending cutand ustety mightbe demanded? rememberthiss a country that is still in ression. >>he uk will be exposedo t pouguese bail out becaust backs the eopean emergency fund to hp countries in difficulty. ai willbe in the form loan guarante. the uk wilnot aually hand ov any money unless porgal goes bus so inortugalsay e austity msures only make matters worse. e chcellor of the excheque day said it shod be a wning toritain. >> firstgree and iland and toda prtug. theyre all countes tt did t coinced of world that the could y thr debts. two othem are cntri with smaller budget fici than itai now a of them ar bng bled ouat he costs to their populations. >> in portugal, there's anoth problem. there's on a caretaker govement electis ar sll wks away. who wl the negotiate the tes of a baiut simpoant t this country andts independen? >> porgal ruggles to put its financial hoe in orr. in the unid states,the standoffver the budge is rehingoiling point and all eyes are on fray's midni

. >> the big queion is not so much whathe size of the ilout fundill be, but wat conditions will be attached? at further austerity may b demanded? remember - this is a couny stilin recession. e u.k. will be exposed to the portuguese bailout because it cks are europn emgency fund to help countries difficulty. the aid will be in the form of loan guantee the u.k. wil notand overny money uess portugal go bus some sayustetyeasus ar only making tngs rse. the chancellorf thexchequer toy suggested ishou be a warning to britain. >> of fst -- first greec ireland,ut tn portugal. all counies at didot convince the world to pay their debt. two of tm, countries wit smler deficits thabritain. now all of them being bailed out at huge cos to thei populations. >> in portugal, there is anher problem. there is only a caretak government he. elections are weeksway. so, who will negotiate the tms of the bailout simpoant to is country and its independence? >>hat is o eure editor, gan hewitt, reporti. here in the united stes,he stanff or the budget is reaching boilingoint all eyes are on frid' midnht deadline. withou

but has raised queions abt th need for intelligence and the needsf juice. abohe skies of libya, natosakin sole commd. when it comes to pplying weaponto rebels on the ground, th have come out against t me, saying the lliae is thereo ptect people, not t arm them. th rebels had sufferednoth seack after significa gains ov the weekend. they hav been forced t retreat from the oldort o bga. i ink ntinuesn- fighting ctinuesn misrata. >> ting ecover lost ground, the rebelset f agai they kno the enemy is ing in wait. they he learned that theard way. so ts tme t approach was more cautious, scanning for hidd threats and sding patrs in t dest to protect thadvae. the rebs atacked with rocks, hing to dislodget gaddafi loyists up ahea but ese amateur ghte are noatch fothe gime pivotman, who hit bachardith mortars. theattl was unequaand was ov fast, another defeat for the rebels ce again,he rebs are hing to make a hty retreat. they did noget very fa forwar theyere hit with incoming fi. they have had pushed back once again. > caslties were cing t. the rels he los40 men here

oose hamas, to choose aarty that is diametrilly opposedo peace and recciliion, rses very serious queions about what they nt. ultimately, peac ruires bh sides to me tough choices. this requires both sides to confntistoric narratives. we a ready. if t palestinians cose hamas, it is clear tt th're not. we pe to see pestian learship and that it ject what has snds for. >> epor say more than00 membs ofhe baa par have sign over the crackdown on demonstrors. the un securityouncil failed togree to a statement condemning theioleef the rianovernment. cosel has held an ope meeting for mmberto expss their views. the u.s. ambassado told the meings that the syan president st ahe crackdown onemonrators. >> t u.s. condemn inhe strongestossie terms t a. olen usedy thgovernment of syria agnst its own people. myoverent calls on president assad chang course now a heacall'sf his own people. welso callpon the internationalommunity to spond to thisrutal crkdowand to hold accountae tse w are peetrang these gross human rights violaons. thunited states has expreed itsposition to the syria government. we are csiden

. >> t queion i aft bailing out ireland and greece does the european union have funds for this? >> it certainly does. i think this is one advantage in comparison to last year's. so last year when greece first came up, the question was, how do we really deal with it? and this all seemed to be rather ad hoc. still, it's a big question in which way we can proceed. >> what are the chances portugal can get its finances in order? greece hasn't managed to do so and it received a bailout. >> i'm rather skeptical about whether they will be able to go there. we havto bare in mind tha all the institutions now coming in will probably impose another prosperity package. and we've seen the portuguese government just resigned because of the reason of not getting through a package so i think political opposition will be quite tough it remains to be seen whether this package will go through. >> you mentioned austerity conditions. what kind of conditions will the e.u. impose upon portugal? >> so this could be all kinds of cuts. for example, in social subsidies or in social networks. itould -- and

the rublicans, ey aed the righ queions, the solions they propose arerepoerous. ving it to thetateto soe anlet's have a commiee 50 governorsoes notolve thprobm. no one is willing to addss the most primary issue, the rerement age. the social securit retement age is too low for the systeto be sound. there iso manipulation, private savgs accounts tt can solve tha other than raising e rerement age. >> will we see politicians taking ever single potential disagreement tthe brink fm now? >> right n, ye therere some many this that th democts hold near and dear th this government canno afford. plnedarenood only gets a quarter of i funding fmhe federal gornme. whher or not youtandne way or ather on the abortio ise, the fact of theatte is that the feder govnment nnot afford to be finaing anne penthd which is esntially a non profit. national public rio, cboy poetry, ektra grail, all manner othin thathere is not the mon to do. -- electric rlall manner of things. if we raisur taxes 5, we would have a $560 billion deficit. that isow much more mey are sndin if we raise every tax

commission, i thank you for the opportunity to appear before you toy and would be happy to answer any queions that you may have. thank you. >> thanks to both of you for testifying. madam chairman? >> thank you so much, mr. chairman. first i want to thank both of you because you have been available to those of us on both sides of the aisle here to answer our questions. i appreciate that so much. i want to put in the record something i golt from usgs, because it happened in japan, it didn't happen here, obviously. but how many earthquakes, i would say to my friend, have we had in america that they have maged to document, and it's 157 earthquakes all over this great nation and in every part of this country. these are over 6.0. 157 earthquakes over 6.0. i also asked for the documentation on tsunamis, and what i do have is the areas where the highest risks are. that would be alaska, hawaii very high, west coast high, puerto rico, virgin islands high, the others low to very low. so i'm going to put those both in the record. >> no objection. >> thank you. mr. yasco, i know you've been very involved,

i forget what the first part of his queion was.e was talking about companies tying up leases and not using them. guest: that is a common statement that is made. at i remind people is when a company leases lands offshore or on the ground itself, it has to lease it in certain size parcells, and then it goes in and does testing and so forth. they go to that part of the leased property where the optimal opportunities are to get oil or gas or whatever product they are looking for, so you have to throw out a wide net in order to find what you are looking for. obviously, even though there me hundreds of thousands of acres that a least, it would make no sense to randomly drilled throughout those areas. you have to go where the oil is. you are always going to have leasing that goes far beyond what the drilling is. that is just the nature. we do not have a perfect size to know where the oil is. remember, the leased land is being paid for. someone is in in revenue from that. in many cases the state. we see this on dry land also. the truth is,

readers into the u.n.,n effort led by jesse helms, we lost our seat on the administrative and budgetary queions which is the important u.n. budget panel. if the goal was to diminish u.s. influence and a genuine reform on the back burner, than that goal was achieved beyond anyone's dreams. if the objective was to foster meaningful reforms, this withholdinof dues much be just a failure. one of the republican witnesses who testified, not the witness that i called. even the long ionesco withdrawal can be shown to have any much long-term impac on the effectiveness or the integrity of the u.n. system. ambassador rice, i looforward to hearing your views on how withholding u.s. dues would impact our efforts to prevent the recognition of the palestinian state and pursue other u.s. foreign-policy and national-security interests. much of the debate has been characterized by dated and sometimes exaggerated allegations such as the cash for kim scandal. i agree with ambassador mark wallace who argued that the state department and congress and the verifiable metrics. the transparency initiative, an effort he