they want more rudd. >> it's overwhelming now. >> jimmy: more rudd, man. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: "ruddf them. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it got five out of five rudds. that's pretty good. >> five rudds? >> jimmy: five rudds. you didn't hear that yet? >> i only heard three. >> jimmy: water is dripping off this beard. this looks like -- you are like an outdoorsy guy. >> you won't believe the things that get caught in this thing. >> jimmy: really? >> it's horrible. >> jimmy: you can't eat chili with a beard like that. >> i could, but you just have to negotiate everything. like lift it up. [ laughter ] you know how you get hot and, you know, you go -- to cool yourself off? >> jimmy: yeah. >> you can't do it with a mustache. but i figured if i go like this -- [ laughter ] i bypass the mustache. >> jimmy: it kind of does work for you. i want to hear about this story. you were working out, and there's another famous person that came in the hotel to work out with you. >> yeah, i was working out. this was years ago. and i was working out, which is a stretch. [ light laughter ] i was working out, i

but much of this has come from the bloodletting of the labor party, that decision to oust kevin rudd on the eve of the election, and a gamble for australia's first prime minister may well have backfired. >> you mentioned tony abbott, we have pictures, in fact, nick of tony abbott voting. and in terms of apart from what he has achieved so far, what about kevin rudd and his ousting, how much of that has impacted what the voters are thinking. >> julia gillard did enjoy the brief honeymoon period after she was the first australian prime minister in political history. but the mood soured pretty quickly and there was a feeling especially in the state of queensland that kevin rudd was very hard done by. he is a queenslander himself. why that's particularly significant is about 20 marginal parliamentary constituents will decide this race and half of them are in kevin rudd's home state of queensland. so the impacts of it has really hit labor very badly there. and i think also it reinforced this message from tony abbott, that he is the man to turn australia to stable government, the kind of go

rudd was dumped from office, despite concerns gillard would leave the country to victory. labor is worried that voters would be unhappy with the way kevin rudd was dumped a couple months ago. also at play are big issues like the economy and asylum-seekers, and in a way they have a difficult choice. labour says its multibillion- dollar stimulus package they say helped save australia from recession proves labor is a sound economic manager. on the other hand, you have opposition claiming such spending was not necessary and is accusing the government of being incompetent, so the big issue is the state of the australian economy and immigration. >> the first of the gypsies expelled from france were flown to bucharest. some 700 were deported in august. >> to they france has over 100 of them -- to they france has put over 100 of them on flights. this group says they are going voluntarily, each with a 300-0 incentives -- 3000 incentives, but the government survives in deplorable conditions. there is no water, no sanitation. she has lived here three months with five children and no

the effect has been, though, that kevin rudd's ghost has haunted this campaign and 69% of voters say that they disapproved of the way he was treated. you can't get 69% of voters to agree on anything, normally. so that's been a strong factor. >> reporter: in the last days, the polls have swung back in favor of the labor party. some say this is now julia gillard's election to lose. but she's not taking anything for granted. >> i think it's going to be a nail-biter of a saturday night. i think this is going to be one of the closest races the nation has ever seen. >> reporter: no matter who wins, one thing seems certain-- the future of the american relationship. >> one of the tenants of australian foreign policy is that both parties are deeply committed to the u.s alliance and as a part of that, an expression of that, both are also deeply committed to deployment in afghanistan. >> reporter: voting is compulsory in australia. around 95% of registered voters are expected to turn out when polls open across the nation saturday morning. >> lehrer: finally tonight, with bad news coming daily,

now, paul rudd.en thing between us. i trust him implicitly. funniest guy. he's great. just a great guy. >> jimmy: and the basis of the movie is that some -- paul rudd's boss has a dinner where he invites who can bring the biggest idiot to dinner. >> right. and i'm the guy he -- >> jimmy: paul rudd brings. >> he's having this moral dilemma because he's not a bad guy, but he wants to move up in the company, so he invited me to this dinner. because whoever wins gets the biggest promotion. >> jimmy: yeah, and you do such a good job. >> at being an idiot? >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. >> thank you. >> jimmy: fantastically done. it was really, really well-done. you must be -- because i've seen you in "date night" -- that's with tina fey. and at the end you have bloopers. i love bloopers at the end of things. anyways, uh -- but i saw you -- do you really break up a lot, or do you break other people up? >> i break -- they just edit it out. when you -- obviously, when you mess up and laugh -- i do, i mean, i la

. >>> a respectable debut for "dinner for schmucks" starring steve carell and paul rudd. it finished second, with just over 23 million which was in line with expectation, but down from the $25 million start for carell's previous live action movie "date night." >>> as for other debuts, "cats and dogs" opened fifth with just $12.5 million. and "charlie st. cloud" opened sixth with just over $12 million playing almost exclusively to efron's core audience of women. >>> finally, lindsay lohan was release freddie jail this morning. she left the facility at linwood at approximately 1:30 local time. according to officials, she headed directly to a rehab facility. bill karins, the world is waiting with bated breath, did you make it off your couch? >> i did but i didn't see good movies like you did. >> i went to see "dinner with schumcks." it was great entertainment. i can't say i highly recommend it. i'm such a fan of steve carell, such a fan of paul rudd, i'll go see them in anything. >> my instinct was right not to see it. >> i actually enjoyed it. >>> this comes from wnbc 4 whe

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the opposition leader is almost neck-and-neck with joy gillard, after forcing kevin rudd from the party helm. >> it's going to be open and shut. his prediction points to a win by julia gillard. last mongth, dirty harry predicted the winner of the world cup. but things do not always go as expected, and things could be neck and neck. she has been deeply unpopular. and as mudslinging got underway, she had to fight claims that being herself made her unsuitable for social issues. gilbert has capitalized on his image as a family man. the father of three managed to score points by promising to implement business friendly tax reforms, and he promises not to burden the industry with more taxes. >> 140 roma left paris for romani last friday. the flights have been there for years. and services slowly destroyed in st. petersburg. a substation failure was the problem, and lights were back on after about 2.5 hours. traffic chaos as lights went out throughout the city. mass transit came to a stop and water was cut off as well. back witit an in-depth lok. u-- look. >> welcome back. the new season kicks

it's "dinner for schmucks", starring steve carell and paul rudd. >> this guy, he's a tornado of destructiony: also coming up this week -- >> that's my brother. >> did you want to drop the glove in now? >> tony: zac efron plays catch with dead people in "charlie st. cloud". ♪ >> everybody has a story to tell about me. >> michael: a charming little movie with a big-name cast -- robert duvall, bill murray and sissy spacek star in "get low". >> tony: plus, he's been everything from cowboys and country crooners to the godfather's favorite godson. we look at the amazing career of robert duvall.

they have been battling for six days to clear rudd and -- mud and rocks that blocked a major river.e than 1100 people were killed in the landslide. almost 600 people are still missing, and clean drinking water is a major problem. >>> back home, southern california man with nerves of steel took his camera out in the waves and captured some video of a shark. chuck patterson mounted his camera on a ten-foot pole, dipped it in the water, and there's the great white shark. the great white circled him twice, even slapping its tail on his board before moving along. a second short-circumstancinged for 12 minutes. a researcher says it's likely this great white shark was given an electronic tag in month -- monterey, about 400 miles to the north. >> leigh glaser here. still waiting for the warm weather. the fog just lasts longer and takes longer to burn off. >> leigh: we have a couple lows off the coast, and they will continue to push this further inland, at least tonight and tomorrow, and then by monday and tuesday, temperatures will warm up slightly, at least for the first part of the work w

. >> and now you logic kevin rudd as a great achiever. do you feel like a hypocrite? >> well, thank you for the question. i like it when people are up front with their thoughts. >> no first term australian government has been voted out of office in 80 years and the country survive the financial crisis without recession. but few are rattled. labor felt that guarantee was -- victory was guaranteed. but has the plan backfired? will there be at all welch-born prime minister sunday? >> we will see what happens tomorrow. >> we are going to keep fighting for it. >> julia gillard calls this a snap election, so perhaps you will take heart that this so- called psychic crocodile predicted her victory. but will the savagery with which she ousted her former leader come back to bite her? bbc news, sydney. >> now this o'clock has been wound by hand since it was first made. since the first century, that ud has fallen to one family. but now the clock is retiring and a mechanical matter is being fitted. we have the story. -- and a mechanical motor has been -- is being fitted. >> regula

impact of fast food and other factors on obesity i'm joined by kelly brownell he's the director of the rudd center for food policy and obesity at yale university in dallas we have jacob sullum he's a senior editor of reason magazine and reason dot com and in irving we go to t. macand he's a professor at chapman university and also a research fellow at the hoover institution of stanford university and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want kelly i'd like to go to you first obesity is a very serious problem when we hear about awareness all the time but how is awareness been translated into cutting down in obesity. it's a very serious problem not only in the developed countries but in the developing world as well places like in the in china have rampant obesity it's now surpassed hunger as the chief nutrition problem and so countries are facing massive health care costs awareness is important to the extent that it leads a government to take action on the factors that are driving these problems awarenes

capital of kyrgyzstan government protesters were demanding an opposition leader be made prime minister rudd police used tear gas and five live rounds into riyadh to disperse the crowd up to thirty people were detained including. the protesters want to get into power he's already accused of trying to stage a coup in the country five years ago could you stanza suffered months of deadly political and ethnic unrest since president kurmanbek bakiyev was overthrown in april political analyst even the stuff says instability could turn it into a safe haven for extremists from the neighboring countries. there is growing instability in the north. and this is just a few hundred kilometers away from this. so if going to this town becomes a non-controlled territory where there is no. where there is a force. and. then those. on the pressure. they think well we have another place to go and then you have a wider international consequences and developments developments. it's about twenty two minutes past the hour now here in the russian capital you are with r.t. as we run down the week's top stories bronisl

it's "dinner for schmucks", starring steve carell and paul rudd. >> this guy, he's a tornado of destruction

this all developed after rudd went to london, looking around at what i wanted to do next, and worked with the guy who was one of the top bbc documentary filmmakers. he gave me a job and i fell off words with the mix of travel -- because i love trouble, and storytelling, the artistry of making films, and the education of every new film is like going back to grad school. i'm a generalist. i don't know what about specific things. until i make a film about them, and then i know a lot. >> this is from 2001, another frontline program, and you did two of the three-part series. this was about the a man named gordievski. >> he understood the subject inside. in moscow, then it was closing in. didn't i decided to use my secret. i sent a signal to british intelligence. >> he delayed projects he evaded his kgb waters and made his way to a forest near the finnish border. >> in the morning, i started to move through the woods. and there i waited. a car arrived with two british people. they picked me up, put me into the boot, and drove over the border. it was a very small car and a very small vote.