professor roza will be the invitational scholar of the center for the 2010, 2011 academic year.the doctor will close a program with a question and answer. and doctor wilson is an applied research called with the center. she received her phd from emory university in 2008 and is working on the fifth point of the series of jewish responses to persecution, which will cover the years 1944-1946. this claim was made possible by the generous support of the foundation and the foundation with additional support of the monroe foundation. were also thank the hell in a foundation to make this program possible. before and the podium to jurgen i want to ask everyone to join us again on the evening of mar march 18. finally i ask that you please turn off your cell phones and other noisemaking electronic devices. thank you. jurgen? >> good afternoon, my name is jurgen matthaus. before we get to the reading, let me take a few minutes to explain the rationale behind the book, and the reading would having today. shortly after hitler had been appointed chancellor of germany, the most prominent repres

i spoke with roza otunbayeva, the head of the opposition group and she said as of now, there is no change of policy. no change for the status of the manas base, but she wants to talk to the u.s. ambassador soon. in the past, the opposition has said they're opposed to it remaining open. back to you. >> we'll stay on top of the situation there. >>> another bump in the road toward an xik recovery. first time claims for unemployment benefits climbed by 18,000 last week to 460,000 people. experts were expecting a drop. >>> unit airlines and us airways are in merger talks. if they combine, it would create a nation's second biggest airlines. and retail sales were strong last month. they credit the gains to warm weather. >>> dow jones industrials down three, s&p flat. not a lot of movement today in the markets. >>> bernie madoff's exclusive penthouse is off the market. it sold for $8.8 million. that's a million less than the original asking price. the buyer is a toy executive who was behind the cabbage patch kids. money will go to reimburse madoff's victims. >>> starting next hour, tiger woods be

and the interim leader, roza otunbayeva, warned today time is running out for bakiyev to leave the country. she said pressure is mounting to throw him into prison instead. >> (translated:) from the very beginning, from april 7 we have stated that we guarantee his security according to the constitution. but after seeing the scale of his crime, we believe that he went out of the limit of the law. the society, the people demand that we take him to court and call him to account. >> holman: the interim leader also said she will extend the lease on a u.s. air base in kyrgyzstan for a year. the base is critical to u.s. operations in afghanistan. the body of poland's first lady, maria kaczynska, was flown back to warsaw today. she and her husband, president lech kaczynski, were killed saturday when their plane crashed in western russia. the first lady's remains arrived on a military plane in a wooden casket draped with the polish flag. it was met by her only daughter and the late president's twin brother. separately, parliament held a special observance in memory of the 96 people-- many of them go

but back at the parliament building, roza otunbayeva announced she was the leader of an interim governmentnd she urged bakiyev to resign. >> certainly, we want to locate him and we want to negotiate with him, negotiate just regarding the resignation not about other things. and so the appeal like now, ex- speaker appeal that he should resign. his business is finished in kyrgyzstan and so all those >> reporter: and the new interim defense minister made this pledge to the people of kyrgyzstan. >> ( translated ): the armed forces will not be used to resolve internal issues. this is very important. why? personnel of the special units and personnel of the armed forces were used against civilians in the cities of bishkek, talas and other places. this will not happen in the future. >> reporter: throngs of people converged on the central square in bishkek today. they ripped up white material to wear as armbands to show support for the interim government. russian prime minister vladimir putin was the first foreign leader to recognize that government, but he also denied that russia had anything to do