how cutbacks in romania have hit the education system. compensation at last for abuse swedish foster children. and with the money in denmark. spending cuts are hardly likely to boost a politician's approval rates. daily scenes of rioting and looting. in romania, public anger forced the prime minister to resign. his austere measures won him the praise of the international monetary fund and the european union, but not of his own people, so were many as new head of government is off to a tricky start, but all he needs to do is to unlock hard cash from the e you instead of mere praise and make sure that the money reaches the people who need it. >> life is pretty good for barney christoph. he gets along well with his parents, and he does not have a long walk to school. it is located in his home town. he is lucky. many romanians schools have been closed down. but there are some things about barney's school that he does not like. it is pretty run down, and above all, it is much too small. without enough classrooms, the children have to go to sch

that's supposed to be deployed on ships and in romania, devesalu. that's the base michael said was negotiated. this jointly negotiated with united states and japan. as i said, japanese is cooperating on this venture as well. this is a jointly designed system. that's supposed to be deployed in poland. then finally block iib, a more advanced version on ships and on land around europe in 2020. funding for this missile was just cut recently. the 2012 budget, because congress was concerned there's too many concurrent development projects under way, so they have axed the funding for this. the netted sensor architecture, important aspect, multiple radar, spy 1, tpr-2. maybe nato radars. if one gets into the discussion about russianan population, possibility fof russian radars tied into the system. infrared tracking, airborne or space-based. then a command and control system to tie all this together, as i said. any shooter can launch off of any particular sensor data, track data. here is the evolution of the standard missile. 1a, 1b, iia, ii b, launched ono

mold russia's national rugby team suffer a disappointing twenty five nil defeat to romania in the secondgame since the rugby world cup. but we start with boxing and w.b. a heavyweight world champion alexander privette can admits he may have underestimated opponent marco hogg after narrowly retaining his title on points the judges' decision when kins favor after twelve gruelling rounds in germany the russian had his work cut out and was on the ropes in round four and seven but hark the w.b. cruiserweight world champion failed to land the knockout punch the decision was greeted with blues by fans in stuttgart with a vet can admitting afterwards perhaps he didn't take the fight seriously enough it's the second successful defense of the title he won it all just last year. now to footballer manchester city have stretched their lead at the top of the english premier league to five points after a three know how to win against struggling black goals from mario balotelli sergio aguero and adding jacko sealed the victory elsewhere terry connors rate as well as manager began with a two two draw at

robert ross to russia's national rugby team suffer a disappointing twenty five nil defeat to romania in ne their second game since the rugby world cup. but we start with boxing and w.p.a. heavyweight champion alexander privette ken admits he may have underestimated opponent marco hawk after not only retaining his title on points the judges' decision went into that king's favor after twelve gruelling rounds in germany on saturday night the russian had his work cut out and was on the ropes in rounds four and seven but how the cruiserweight well champion failed to land the knockout punch the decision was greeted with a bruise by fans in stuttgart with about ten admitting afterwards perhaps he didn't take the fight seriously enough it's the second successful defense of a title he won in the oldest last year. now moving to football in manchester city have stretched adelaide at the top of the english premier league to five points after a three nil home win against striking black burn goals from our ballot tally. when adding jacko sealed the victory elsewhere terry connors reign as walls ma

that entire village is in an area you called corebu in roman romania. and some parts of eastern romania, about 6,000 people have been cut off, completely. no electricity. they can't get out of their homes. dozens of major roads have been closed. 300 trains cancelled, schoolses shut down. >> and that's not the end of it. imagine this starts to melt. the flooding and the damage that that's going to create. >> i want to show you guys another video in kosovo, which gives you a different perspective of this severe weatr. this person walks out of this lot of little mounds of snow, right? well, those are cars, completely buried in snow. >> i'm surprised these houses haven't collapsed under that kind of weight. maybe they were out there clearing roofs as it was snowing. >> throughout europe, about 500 people have died, at least 50 in romania alone. >> do you know how long this snow has been building up? >> they have been experiencing this weather since january. you can see some people have to make tunnels to get out of their homes or into them. >> you would thi

let's take a look at some of these pictures coming out from romania. this is a specific vehicle cleaning the street covered with snow. heaviest snowfall across eastern europe cut off hundreds of villages on monday. rescue teams struggled to evacuate people. the cold has killed more than 600 people. but the death toll just in romania only well over 70. these people are pushing cars here. looks like there is a lot of travel disturbances and road closures. arctic blast is still here on tuesday. this is where the jet stream is. portugal looking pretty nice. on friday looking much better. still eastern europe will be looking at very cold temperatures. here in france pretty much the whole of the country is going to be on the other side of the jet stream that means finally putting an end to about 20 days of lower than average temperatures. finally hitting above average at 9 degrees on our wednesday. we're taking a look at the temperatures here in europe. moscow ie nus 3. that's much better than what we've been seeing in the past week. lisbon staying in the do

the bad old russia's national rugby team suffer a disappointing twenty five mill dipping to romania in the second game since the rugby world cup. but we start with boxing a heavyweight champion alexander povetkin admits he may have underestimated opponent marco hogg after retaining his title with a narrow points win in germany on saturday night the judges' decision went into that constraint after twelve gruelling rounds in stuttgart the russian had his what was on the rocks in round four and seven but hark the cruiserweight world champion failed to land. the decision was greeted with the blues by his winning side that can admitting afterwards perhaps he didn't take the fight seriously enough it's the second successful defense of the title in one in august last year. now moving to football and manchester city have stretched their laid at the top of the english premier league to five points after a three no home win against struggling black bun goals from mario balotelli you know where i was at and jacko sailed the victory elsewhere terry on his right as his manager began with a to chang

what do you make over this last objection from romania? >> it certainly surprised a lot of people, but we're taking it very, very seriously and working with our partners in resolving this issue. but the foreign ministers of the european union made this recommendation, and we very much hope that european prime ministers on thursday and friday will make the important decision as to the status of the candidates. >> i think some people will be surprised to hear you, the foreign minister of a sovereign state to say you're going to take such a strong position on this. >> i really think this has to do with misunderstandings, and confusion. romania is our next door neighbor and good friend of serbia. i'm sure all these misunderstandings are going to be resolved. the joivent committee we're having and continue to have in the future, this is not an issue that gets enough attention. >> one or two issues that i'm sure we're going to resolve and these misunderstandings are going to become a matter of the past. >> ok. well, let's look forward to your me

. >> the cold snap in europe has been affected romania since the end of january. record low temperatures and heavy snowfalls have prompted the government to declare a state of emergency. >> reporter: many parts of the danube river are frozen. some 30 ships and barges are stranded in this area alone. >> translator: the river froze for the first time in 26 years. >> reporter: the cold snap has brought record snowfalls to many parts of romania. in this village in the eastern part of the country, cars have disappeared under the snow. the government has declared a state of emergency. police and military forces are participating in a large rescue operation. >> reporter: this group of 50 soldiers and firefighters walked about three kilometers in the snow to an isolated village. the villagers have been waiting for a week. many are old and unable to shovel the snow. they were running out of food and fuel. >> translator: i live alone so i really appreciate the help. >> translator: we ran out of firewood. we decided to pull down a cabin in order to stay warm. >> reporter: me

pilgrims in eastern romania in the autumn of 1941 growth thousands of jews to try to reach palestine. more than 750, including 100 children, left the romanian port. it only got as far as istanbul. >> it is important to raise public awareness about these tragic events. and to educate the young generation. even after 70 years, there are still genocides in the world. >> during the 1940's, the british authorities turned away thousands of jews trying to enter palestine. the british embassy in istanbul turned down the visa request of the passengers and asked turkey to block its on returning. this is the only non picture of the ship -- this is the only known picture of the ship. it was cast adrift in international waters. in february of 1942, it was torpedoed by a soviet submarine s. only one person survived the sinking of the ship. it was one of the biggest civilian maritime disasters of the second world war. >> if you found treasure at the bottom of the ocean, would you give it back to its rightful owners after 200 years after it was lost? they're finally being returned to spain after a le

. >>> romania's prime minister is stepping down. emil boc made the announcement today. he announced he was stepping down to ease political and social tension. romania imposed spending cuts as part of a deal for 20 billion euros in fiscal aid from the european union and other organizations. the government slashed public workers' wages and raised the sales tax from 19% to 24. public anger at the austerity measures triggered street protests. the row man yan president emil boc asked the former foreign minister to try to form a new government. >>> now let's check the markets. the nikkei is down to 8,920. the strong yen over the credit problems are cooling market sentiment. many invest ors are waiting to see if greece will accept the austerity measures. the u.s. dollar currently trading at 76.56. the euro against the yen is 100. 100.42. the look at the latest interest rates. this is the ten-year japanese government bond. >>> indonesia is getting a boost from the european debt crisis. gross domestic product in 2011 rose 6.5%. higher than the previous year. it is due to gross d

i want to show you video coming out of romania showing you what the situation looks like down here. eastern europe has been impacted by record-breaking cold since the end of january. 79 fatalities have occurred in romania, alone. about 4.5 meters of snow accumulating in isolated areas. schools have been closed and lots of snow-related accidents have been reported as well. if we i'll show you what's happening with temperatures today. out toward the east, still subzero temperatures. improving in places like moscow. however, temperatures will be fall in ankara, down to 3 degrees. out toward the west, hitting double figures in london. we'll see these temperatures improou a little bit more over the next couple of days. here's your extended forecast. >>> ouread story this hour. u.s. president barack obama has welcomed chinese vice president xi jinping at the white house. obama pressed him on trade and human rights issues. xi is expected to become head of the ruling communist party this fall. >> translator: i look forward to my in-depth discussion with you, president obama. >> obama told x

. >> romania is getting caught in the storm. the prime minister has resigned after weeks of protests against austerity measures. he announced he was stepping down to ease political and social tension. romania imposed spending cuts as part of a deal for 20 billion euros in fiscal aid from the european union and other organizations. the government slashed public workers' wages and raised the sales tax from 19% to 24. public anger at the austerity measures triggered street protests. the romanian president asked the former foreign minister to try to form a new government. >>> now let's check the markets. overnight the dow ended lower, weighed down by concerns of greece's on-going debt deal. to see how stocks are opening in tokyo, let's go to ramin mellegard at the tokyo stock exchange. ramin, looks like profit taking after last friday's gains from strong u.s. jobs numbers. how are stocks kicking off this tuesday morning? >> good morning to you, ai. let's look at the opening levels shall we for nikkei and topix. marginally lower this

. >> the cold snap in europe has been affected romania since the end of january. record low temperatures and heavy snowfalls have prompted the government to declare a state of emergency. >> reporter: many parts of the danube river are frozen. some 30 ships and barges are stranded in this area alone. >> translator: the river froze for the first time in 26 years. >> reporter: the cold snap has brought record snowfalls to many parts of romania. in this village in the eastern part of the country, cars have disappeared under the snow. the government has declared a state of emergency. police and military forces are participating in a large rescue operation. >> reporter: this group of 50 soldiers and firefighters walked about three kilometers in the snow to an isolated village. the villagers have been waiting for a week. many are old and unable to shovel the snow. they were running out of food and fuel. >> translator: i live alone so i really appreciate the help. >> translator: we ran out of firewood. we decided to pull down a cabin in order to stay warm. >> reporter: me

. >> romania is getting caught in the storm. the prime minister has resigned after weeks of protests against austerity measures. he announced he was stepping down to ease political and social tension. romania imposed spending cuts as part of a deal for 20 billion euros in fiscal aid from the european union and other organizations. the government slashed public workers' wages and raised the sales tax from 19% to 24. public anger at the austerity measures triggered street protests. the romanian president asked the former foreign minister to try to form a new government. >>> now let's check the markets. overnight the dow eed lower, weighed down by conrns of greece's on-going debt deal. to see how stocks are opening in tokyo, let's go to ramin mellegard at the tokyo stock exchange. ramin, looks like profit taking after last friday's gains from strong u.s. jobs numbers. how are stocks kicking off this tuesday morning? >> good morning to you, ai. let's look at the opening levels shall we for nikkei and topix. marginally lower this tue

and more deaths have the knicks -- have been reported in new canaan -- in workinukraine and romania.> heavy snow and freezing temperatures have reduced parts of europe to a crawl. in northern and central italy, this has been the coldest week in 27 years. roads, railways, and airports are all affected. but it was still colder in parts of romania, where even the sea froze. >> this was like in 2005 were you could walk out 100 meters on the sea. >> further south in turkey, a rare snowstorm in istanbul. it is snowing heavily here, says this man. it is a long time since we have seen this kind of weather. outside the country, some of the heaviest snowfalls in years. the freezing temperatures have fallen to as low as minus 33 degrees celsius in the ukraine, raising concerns about the impact on vulnerable people. special shelters have been set up to help the homeless. in neighboring russia, temperatures have also hit lows, but not everyone is concerned. >> it is fine. you should have winter temperatures when it is winter. everything is fine. >> but many communities are cut off and this is the

france and romania actually bucked the trend. the question is what is going to happen going forward? i spoke with a lady who says if you take whole, you have to be positive especially for the likes of germany. >> receive encouraging numbers from china. inflation coming down around the world. from today's point of view, i would much rather start looking forward and try to analyze too much into what has happened in the last three months of 2011. >> the numbers show the difference between the seven economies and those in the north in europe. >> the greek debt crisis and all the ramifications, to what extent is this having an effect on the corporate world? >> again as sense of preparedness. a couple of companies, a french banker called bnp paribas took cheap money that the ec be was offering in december and used that to reach capital targets, sold their shares rallied 7%. another interesting company called heineken, they said we are having problems in the euro zone, but we have to adapt accordingly and we are looking outside the euro

sochi heavy rain in temperatures just above freezing point man double trouble in the game against romania. and even those sochi is not the coldest place in russia it was hard for the home team to keep up the gas two weeks ago the bears struggled to beat portugal and eventually ran out winners by just the narrowest of margins thirty three thirty two the final score however the encounter with the romanians proved to be a much tougher encounter and unfortunately for head coach kingsley jones the team's problem area in the scrum was once again to prove to be a major issue that we know is that this is where you need to improve and here we need to identify players more players more options not position rumanians attack from the first whistle and score at troy after only five minutes the russians just weren't able to come to terms with either their opponents or the conditions as the visitors would add another convert to try to take a twelve lead into the halftime break on day two north and the next on the right here on the skin the bear stunned all players as they tried to get russia back into t

the prime minister much romania resigns after continuing protests against the government's austerity program. welcome to "bbc world news." i'm david eades. also coming up in the program -- >> no one knew then that the girl would arrive here as princess elizabeth, would leave again five days later as queen. >> an anniversary to. we report from the kenyan holiday spot, where elizabeth ii succeeded to the throne 60 years ago today. >> hello. thanks very much for being with us. syrian forces have intensified their bombardment of the city of homs, which has been the main center of the protest against president assad's regime. heavy artillery power has been pounding the city since early morning. local activists say a field hospital has been hit. there are reports of an explosion at a oil pipeline feeding a main refinery in the city. just want to bring you that live shot once again of homs. this is the picture at the moment. the opposition syrian national council says up to 50 people have been killed. it accuses the regime of encircling the city of tanks with what it's calling a major offen

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they controlled east germany, hungry, poland, romania and north korea. there were local communist governments that had taken over in yugoslavia, albania and north vietnam. there were strong communist parties in france and italy. china had gone communist before in 1949 with 20% of the human race. lest we doubted their sincerity about what they were trying to do, the soviets crushed revolts in east germany in '53 and hung garry in '56. we had considered ourselves to be a leader in the world in science and technology and recognized for those areas. now the soviets claimed it was their technical superiority and the world should follow their and taking students by the thousands to russia, moscow and training them and bringing them back ag back to their own countries.na extolled the virtues of communism. fte this beforesaying we will the bay of pigs disaster. the soviets gained dre tremendous credibility. this was something with very, very serious for dwrunt states. there were many inth for the lo know whether we could be certain of just exactly what was going

romania's president has nominated the country's intelligence chief as the new prime minister that's after romania's premier stepped down and dissolved the government saying he wants to preserve social and economic stability in the country this follows weeks of protests over austerity measures introduced in two thousand and ten to secure financial aid from the e.u. and the i.m.f. . braving the norwegian man who admitted to killing seventy seven people last july told the court that he deserves a medal of honor for the murders the extremist also demanded his release survivors and relatives of victims sat in on the last problem an area hearing before his trial begins in april breivik said the attack was against traitors who he claims are bracing immigration to promote an islamic colonization of norway. palestine's two rival factions islamist hamas and a secular fatah have reached a deal to form a joint interim government they have reached and they have agreed it will be led by palestinian president mahmoud abbas before the general parliamentary and presidential elections the deal brokered by

this is the way we're getting around in romania, we're tunnelling through. that snow has to go somewhere. it is going to eventually melt and what we want is a gradual warmup into spring. if we get a significant bump in the temperatures, we'll see the crops impacted not by the freeze but then by what is going to unfreeze here in that we could have significant flooding. we'll watch that very closely over the next couple of months. nina? >> okay, ivan cabrera, many thanks at the cnn weather center. >>> coming up next on "world business today," after reuniting with old friends in iowa, chinese vice president hits the road again. we're talking, of course, about xi jinping here. the next stop for him will be california. we'll tell you why the state is so important to china. >>> and also on the show, the view of hormuz. >>> from cnn hong kong, i'm andrew stevens. >> and i'm nina dos santos at cnn london. warm welcome back. you're watching "world business today." >>> let's take you back to the european stock markets where the major indices are continuing their downw

traffic at a standstill in romania. thousands of people remain isolated in small villages. more than 600 people have died in this record-breaking snow snap. >> we feel for them. >> will continue to be on the warm side of things. even though we still have a chance to get cold for a few days nothing like that cold wave is going to come through. >> it feels like spring today. >> let's get a look at the time lapse of our sunset. looking out to the west from our rooftop in arlington. there is a beautiful sunset. temperatures in the 50's with clear skies. as the head through the evening, we will hang on clear skies just a little bit longer. the next weather system will bring some ring tomorrow. officially at reagan national airport, 55 degrees. 40 degrees was the morning low. it will probably be that tomorrow morning once again. at this hour, temperatures starting to drop off just a bit. 45 degrees in gaithersburg. 52 degrees in quantico. 30's to the north with sunset behind us. around here it will be 35-40. koch will start to increase like tonight. by tomorrow the next system --

great britain has two, jamaica, romania and germany have super bowl bound footballers.r joining me for my program this week. i will see you next week. >>> hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield with a check of our top stories. a massive crowd packing the city in syria. these are funerals taking place for people killed in the last few days. witnesses say syrian troops shelled residential areas killing hundreds of civilians. >>> a freak winter storm hits london's heathrow airport. fewer flights flying in and out causing problems and travel delays across europe. in australia the problem is flooding. thousands have been told to evacuate in towns across queensland and new south wales. >>> an angry, frustrated parent in new york wants answers. almost four

is slower than broadband speeds in which of these countries, hungary, malta or romania?the "dividend" pays off after the "dividend" pays off after the break. >>> we asked, according to net index.com, the average broadband speed in the u.s. is slower than broadband speeds in which of these countries, hungary, malta, or romania? now the payoff. all of them. >>> 20 minutes left in the trading day. i'm seema mody. the nasdaq continues to post gains, technology being one of the best performing sectors today. we've been speaking about apple as well as semiconductor stocks outperforming. chinese adrs, report earnings yesterday, they missed street estimates. on the conference call, the ceo saying their twitter light service will contribute to the top line on the second half of 2012. that's adding momentum to all of these stocks right now. money flying into international chinese stocks. nokia, downgraded by oppenheimer. >> seema, thank you very much. about 16 # minutes left in the trading session here, with the dow above 13,000 for the moment. let's check on the nasdaq. which is

missile defense system it is obvious that this presupposes deployment of its components in poland in romania or a station in turkey obviously this will also entailed these their mission of a base in spain for american ships equipped with the ag is them. it is obvious that the missile defense system will be targeted at the russian federation rather than some mythical middle eastern countries possessing virtual missiles. at least fifteen countries around the world have been involved with the nato missile defense shield . their radar stations in denmark and britain which is also host to interceptor missiles. canada two is going to join the project anti missile functions will be given to be agency responsible for north america's outer space defense. japan has decided to assist the nato missile defense shield it's taking part in the manufacture of pages into septa missiles. japan is going to build a forward based radar station on its territory. a similar radar station has already been built in turkey. the czech republic roumania hungary poland are ready to allow nato as missile defense complexes

. >>> a man in romania dug for hours to uncover his home from the snow. the cold snap has killed hundreds of people all across europe as temperatures in some countries have plummeted to nearly minus 40 degrees. >> that is unbelievable. >>> there is a is a new top dog. malachi the pekinese won. >> stick around your complete first warning weather forecast now just two and a half minutes away. >> first here is a look at today's midday stocks and last night winning lottery numbers. , >>> now, your weather, complete forecast and the first warning of severe weather. >> welcome back, everybody. the sun has returned and we are warming up. it is 51 degrees in baltimore right now. look at all these 50s out there. and remember our average high is on the rise but it is still on 45 degrees. we are going up from here this afternoon. now the wince have turned around to the northwest and usually that brings in a cooler air for us. in this case there is just not a lot of cooler air where that wind is coming from, out west though colder air is making its way in that will f

and this video shows a rescue going on in romania. a swan was stuck in the snow freezing to death. they saw him and went out to rescue him, as you can tell, the swan is exhausted. it can barely hold its neck up. >> you know, it's a miracle they were able to even see the swan because -- yeah, she blends right in with the snow. >> they were experiencing a very mild winter. and suddenly that mild winter turned into severe snowfall that is causing the freeze. people have died throughout europe. many of those are people that are homeless. kids that are poor and probably live in homes that don't have any heating. temperatures have dropped to negative 25.6 degrees fahrenheit. more than 11,000 people have been cut off from the world. >> you've got to think, there's still all those animals outside who have to live in this super-cold weather. >> how incredible are these rescuers to take the time and the effort in these cold temperatures to get out there to rescue a swan. >> guys, i am going to need your opinion on this next video to tell you if you think the officer in the video did the righ

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