we move a few days later to thursday, march 27, for a performance by alicia joel rabins, a wonderful singer had-songwriter who has put together a one woman show. it's a fascinating suite of songs that looks at issues, societal and perral, raised by the bernie madoff issue. two more shows. she'll perform again saturday evening at jcc east bay with her band girls in trouble which does indy rock and folk songs based on women of the bible. we end the festival with a show by ben sidron, a great jazz man, pianist, singer, record producer and p.r. host, author and scholar, about jews and the great american songbook. so in the sense we start with the great iraqi songbook, and twin the great american songbook. >> what a comprehensive, diverse group of folks coming to the bay area for all this music. another neerks you are among them. >> yes. >> we'll show in a moment a clip of some of your work. set that up for us now. >> i conceived of this piece convergence as being an illustration of two parallel histories, so a jewish history from the 19th century and parallel african-american had history

i believe this is a meaningful chance to have dialogue with president obama and prime minister rabin. obama and needed to park in korea national non human. my mouth off about that the senior white house officials said it was constructed with no signs of discord. but there has been plenty of discord old mates. it started small the nine year old. with the meal back became the first south korean president to visit iran to come play with appropriate controls. then in effect to suck raised questions about the cost. typically still cold cold for cleaning. you don't then you know the japanese politicians should demonstrate kobe his leadership and he'll have a hard thing to hit the pentagon is a true partner leon talley yet. i mean is i may add it to detention when he visited destination on. one is japan's war dead. was amended to include he is convicted of war crimes after watching one too. about me. i would use my pitch to strive for a while when people will not stop don't buy into the new school. i miss it. she has no intention of hurting the feelings of south korean and chinese. leaders f

c-span: and this photograph shows golda meir and yitzhak rabin. >> guest: rabin, yes. and--and it was a--you know, the--the middle east figures very heavily in american politics, and any time one of the chiefs of state would come, the--the white house and the rest of the establishment gave them special attention. it was interesting in--in that particular instance that the president said to golda meir that she and he had the same--one thing in common; they both had jews as their foreign minister. and she said, 'yes, but mine speaks english.' c-span: and then over on the next page, and it's a full lead in the book, is andrey gromyko. and what was the timing on this shot? >> guest: this was in october--i think october 22nd, 1970. the reason that date stays with me is i read in haldeman's book, "ends of power," that kissinger first and then the president became very concerned that the russians were building a sub base in cuba. and he brought in gromyko and told him whatever he needed to, and the next thing you knew, the sub base was ended in its construction and it didn't

crews have been going in there with our equipment and literally what rabin this building apart. department told back and letting the war continued from time to time they do have to move in and put out hot spot for the demolition crews uncover with than the billing. as far as what may have initially causes fire on tuesday they say still investigating. and reviewing interviews and looking at information the arctic have. at this point they have no plans of sending people back into the building. >> : the building is in real and texas state it wouldn't be safe. to operate inside. they'll be out here as long as necessary to make sure the building is safe. and then also of your planning to travel in this area all states are on fourth street in china basin are so close offer on the building. for now that >> : many residents of black men from the apartment building across the street from tuesday blaze pre got the word that they could return to their homes today a study stream of people could be seen wheeling in their luggage and carrying their pets back home. thus we spoke to us still sh

rabin aftershock now about 2.7. >> : there of the 11 aftershocks of magnitude 2.5 or higher so far umbria break in russia so hard that it broke off zero big plants of watter trade to what area. the flood the street but shaking from the quake could be felt for about 15 seconds followed by many aftershocks trade will continue to deny on things in the l.a. area to keep on it. the newscasts morning. this week marks 50 years since won the largest earthquakes on record it. magnitude 9.2 quake and alaska. meantime anywhere there is an earthquake right causes cancers apostle tsunami. >> : or is just beginning to fall as shy emergency crews from across services coming the other to the need is one for an event to you and your family safe. an event that wraps up a national tsunami week. none less is walked on lincoln way in san francisco meant one of many evacuation routes across of the scope. if not seen as another warning since 2007 but never know when the next will come. magnitude 6.9 as quite struck off log california coast justine weeks ago pre well it did not bargains among warring officials s

from lbj on, every president tolerated illegal israeli settlements in the territories, a process rabin called redeeming israel's narrow hips, and the hips were narrow, of course, because despite israeli efforts to evict the palestinians in 1967, most of them have stayed put, i said creasing the antibiotic wrap population -- arab population. i just have a little bit more to get through here, i hope you'll indulge me, was aimed by scoop jackson at filling up the west bank, the golan and gaza settlements with russian jews. 40,000 emigrants a year and $35 million a year in expenditures, enabled by u.s. aid dollars, created new facts on the ground that we deal with today. we disagree with this policy, kissinger aide joseph cisco wrote in 1971, but we say nothing, so the israelis assume our acquiescence. nixon called the failure of his predecessors to solve the palestinian land and refugee problems one of the major lapses of the post-world war ii era. his first secretary of state, william rogers, the first diplomat to use the term palestinian tried to roll back the israelis but was immediate