>> stephen: i don't know but, but madonna'sant rance gave me an urge to eat a bucket of fried chickent believe-- (cheers and applause) either that or she had a dolly parton transplant. (laughter) folks, i cannot believe that on national television they held a mass gay wedding. now officially, officially it was only 33 couples but who knows how many people were innard vently gay married last night. you know, it's just like a gala ger concert, the first two rows are in the gay splash zone. well, i hope, i hope that gay-- and jay z will be really happy but it might be tough on beyonce and her now spouse taylor swift. do not break her heart or she will write a very cattie song about you. other big winners last night include alecia keys, paul mccartney, dave grohl, mike buble, vampire weekend and daft punk. what do all of those people have in common? oh, that's right, i gave them all the colbert bump. i'm a star maker, baby, i'm a grammy factory, this is where it comes from. but nation, as proud as i am of all these friends of the show i am most proud of my best friend of the show, me. wit

. >> thank you so much. .rance >> indeed. it is difficult to reconcile the pensions and protecting jobs in an economy that is dependent upon the private sector. there are concerns across europe that there is too much .ureaucracy and red tape more particularly on france, i do worry that they do not have the ability to get a budget right. >> thank you so much for that. we are back in two. >> welcome back. we are in bloomberg's european headquarters in london and we are 30 minutes into the trading day. let's see how things are shaping up. you can see that the dax is gaining one percent. we had some good news and global growth forecast are what investors are focusing on overall. this means a bunch more stocks rising today. let's have a look at currencies. we are expecting a speech later on from george osborne. these are the bloomberg top headlines. there is a growth in the world -- there. you expect that the world trade will gain. expanding and we had it up 0.4% in 2012. are doingys traders libor interviews. in the past six weeks

everybody can get health of rance it's just a matter what price they pay. independent caller. caller: good morning. that with the use being a graphic that is entirely getting on the a. c.h. plan, with them still cover under their parents plan many even being mare skpreud still being able to covered under their parents plan, how are we going to stimulate the youth to be able to be a part of this program when they're already covered under their parents insurance. additionally there seems to be and not z opting out going to sapt a kh plan whatsoever. that's a big concern. that's a two-part question. very good problem. they have to get a lot more young people. as you mention the there are a of people that are a lot of young people still on their can only ans but they do that until they're 26. stories locally people working for these navigator hanging outside of bars trying to interest a lot of these extreme ads trying to remind people that young people the wrist,s they take and make them the perfect candidates health insurance. they have to get them and that's the big challenge an

for self years now, this town has been consumed by a ranc oh. rous argument about the size of the federal government, an important debate. when that debate prevents us from carrying out even the most basic functions of our democracy, when our differences shut down government or threaten the full faith and credit of the united states, then we are not doing right by the american people. [ applause ] >> now, as president, i'm committed to making washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here, and i believe most of them, you are, too. last month, thanks to the work of democrats and republicans, congress finally produced a budget that undoes some of last year's severe cuts like education. nobody got everything they wanted. we can still do more to invest in this countries future while bringing down the deficit in a balanced way, but the budget compromise should leave us to focus on creating new jobs, not creating new crises. in the coming months, let's see where else we can make progress together. lets make this a year

>> do you know what rance? >> it says the bombing starts at midnight. what does it mean? >> no! it means peninsula. >> how do you keep people from being afraid of this no. >> i can't keep people from being afraid of this and i can't convince people of that. all i can do is say watch what we do and i think if they see what we do on the air and see the stories that we cover, i think they'll understand that we're doing serious news. >> well, john, i think -- [ cheers and applause ] >> i think john held his own there. you can catch john siegenthaler here on aljazeera america week anies at 8:00 and 11:00 eastern time. >> here are some of the stories we are following for you at this hour, that record setting freeze continues to chill 190 million americans, but warmer weather on its way started to raise temperatures across the country. senate democrats were able to secure enough republican support to end that filibuster of an extension of unemployment benefits but now may not have enough gop votes to pass the bill. former defense secretary robert gates criticizing the whites the house

thousands of demonstrators are rallying in die if rance of this new allow. that what is this about? short term, this is about some new laws which were passed last week, rushed through parliament, angering a lot of opposition anti-government protestors, because it raises the prospect of people going to jail for many years. some of these new offenses would carry a prison term of up to 15 years, taking part in mass riots, but lesser offenses demonstrations, wearing a helmet, for example. we've seen lots of people at the site of those clashes you were mentions, wearing helmets, just as an act of defiance. there are a few hundred people there in a standoff, which is fairly calm for the moment, but overnight monday into tuesday, there were more clashes, there were more injuries. one of the opposition leaders, right now, we believe has gone to the presidential palace to talk the president, because he's trying to calm the anger on the streets to avoid more blood shed. as you can probably see, the camp, the protest camp in independence square here certainly is staying for the time being. man