and so that was very much the case in terms of finally getting saleh to agree to go. i don't really have much to add what elliott said about jordan. i do think that the king now is -- is more conscious of the need to carry out reforms that will be seen and not just from an image standpoint but in reality to be real. it is a very hard -- it is a very hard nut to crack because the backbone of his regime also is the recipient of about 80% of the revenues of the government. and if you really are going to open up the system and if you're really going to create the kind of reforms that will allow jordan to flourish over time you have to manage the fact that they get 80% of the revenue now, you can't have them go cold turkey, without unleashing forces that in a sense you're not going to want to see happen, so again, this is -- this is one of these cases where you can do a lot in the laboratory that seems to make sense but in the real world where you have to carry it out, it's a very -- it's a very hard process to i think to orchestrate. i do think that the king has thought a

david petraeus who at its high was the set com commander had conspired with president ali abdullah saleh of yemen to cover up the u.s. role in those strikes in fact that a yemeni official said if saleh of self-help a terrorist will continue to lie and say the problems are ours and not yours so i think that was the first incident that really put this independent journalist washington's radar into their target sites ok but at the same time you know this isn't a case of some pentagon bureaucrats in reaching out there and trying to suppress information this is the president of the united states himself intervening in this case i mean for someone who's not familiar necessarily with the story that would it lead people to think that this guy with a done something really bad what evidence that has the u.s. has requiring that he remains behind bars so what there was famous for in yemen was doing interviews with people that were on the u.s. hit list the leaders of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and also with a u.s. citizen named don who are a lot the course was assassinated last september in a

saleh whiches are suffering, too. we have constantly urged in our discussions with the syrian opposition in the country and outside the country to underline to the allawi communities and all of the communities in syria, whether they be christians or business people, drews, kurds, it's a very complex social makeup that all people in syria would be treated equally, that all people's basic human rights would be respected, and that it would be a syria where all different communities would be able to live in harmony. we underline that message every time we meet the opposition. the opposition, as you've noted, is divided. i think it's probably a reach to think they're going to unify any time soon into one single organization. i don't think that's going to happen. my question is a little different. can they unite around a vision? i described ambassador feldman described our vision, our suggestions, can they unite around a vision? and can they unite around a transition plan? they don't all have to unite into one single party,

in the last 14 months, long-time autocrats like ben alli, mubarak, saleh have fallen. in syria, assad's days also seem to be numbered. these are hugely important developments, brought about by people of tremendous courage. but they're only the beginning of the story. now begins the painstaking work of governing and rebuilding. and while less dramatic than the fall of a dictator, the decisions made today by leaders in tunis, cairo, tripoli, and elsewhere will powerfully shape the future of the arab world. in libya's case, the fall of gadhafi raises a host of challenging questions. how do you rebuild political institutions hollowed out by 42 years of misrule. what can be done to ensure government is transparent and responsive to the will of the people? and how do you disarm and reintegrate the country's militias? how do you breathe life into the economy? our guest this morning is intimately familiar with all these challenges. as many of you know, his excellence abdel rahim el-keib was a dissident under the gadhafi regime. exiled from libya in the '70s, he was educated in

saleh's son and nephew remain in charge of the powerful republican guard and central security forces. in iran, parliamentary elections took place, in a vote that's expected to reinforce the rule of islamic hard-liners. people waited in voting lines in the country's first major election since president mahmoud ahmadinejad won a disputed re-election in june of 2009. that outcome led to widespread protests and a crackdown. the outcome of today's voting was not expected to change iran's nuclear program or other key policies. the prime minister of israel warned the world today against resuming nuclear talks with iran. benjamin netanyahu spoke in canada, ahead of his weekend arrival in washington. he argued that tehran would use nuclear negotiations simply as a stalling tactic. >> it could do again when it's done before-- it could pursue or exploit the talks, as they've done in the past, to deceive and to delay so that they can continue to advance their nuclear program and get to the nuclear finish line by running the clock, running you want clock, so to speak. >> sreenivasan: netanyahu als

. >> you mentioned the tricky issue of immunity, which is what president saleh got in yemen. you think human rights groups, now that 8000 people have been killed in syria, would tolerate personal immunity? >> it is not an appealing option. i agree there are no good options. but it seems to me less bad than continuing what we have, which is ongoing bloodshed, a massacre of thousands of civilians on the ground, and no end in sight. russia, so far as we know, is still arming the regime. the russian foreign minister apparently is taking a sharper tone with syria. may be behind the scenes russia is trying to broker something like this. but i would say to those who are outraged by what is happening, and i am one of those, that personal immunity and the structuring of a stable government to come immediately after, is a lot better than perpetuation of massacre and the likelihood of civil war. >> you have very close links to the intelligence community in the u.s. what is your understanding of what might push president bashar al-assad to sell -- to accept such a deal? >> i am not hopef

saleh, for example, travels around the city selling coconut juice. he knows the best locations. >> translator: i sell 100 a day. there's nothing else out there for me to do. i don't have any choice but to do this job. >> reporter: they started out as a socialist country. it depended on aid from the former soviet union. but after it collapsed in 1991, tanzania officially changed to a market economy. the government laid off many public officials. they started selling goods on the street because it was cheap to get started. despite the influx of foreign investment, only countries wealthy benefit. the rest depend on the street to make a living. but the government is cracking down on vendors without a license because their income isn't taxable. >> translator: the police make it tougher for us, but they understand us. we are doing whatever we can because we don't want to support ourselves by robbing people. >> reporter: it's a tough way to make a living. but vendors like this 21-year-old hope for a better future. >> translator: i only finished elementary s

his name is thadi saleh.clip of the president singing a big lmfao hit, "i'm sexy and i know it." it's pretty funny. check it out. ♪ i'm sexy and i know it ♪ ♪ know it >> i know he is. >> exactly right. the president singing a lady gaga song "born this way." it's the latest incarnation of it. congrats to 34r saleh. good editing there of the president singing. none of this matters because paula is excited this morning for a whole different reason. the floor is yours. >> this is my favorite story of the day, maybe of the year. a movie that is sure to be up for some academy awards next year. ron burgundy is back. listen. >> ladies and gentlemen, can i please have your attention. i've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story. i need all of you to stop what you're doing and listen. cannonball! >> he is splashing into the beautiful waters of "anchorman 2" or they may call it "the sequel is back." so we're not exactly sure when this is going to be released. very funny bit. he went on conan tonight. he mad

he sent to many here unless you use one of them or as much as saleh was sent to for. providing some sense of. what he called win win solution whether he was killed by a foreign entity or killed by libyans or libyans a mere four werther's really don't know but what i'm saying is that there are too many parties who have real interests there he just keeps sliding forever. or that a full interview is coming up in that just over an hour's time. controversial army policy calling on soldiers to avoid capture at all costs even if it means taking their own lives has come under fire in israel follows a deal last year which saw the release of one israeli soldier exchange for more than a thousand palestinian prisoners what kind of swap is one that israel doesn't want to see repeated as artie's policy reports. it's back time of year again when no one's called up to put his life on the ninth for his country. when you go before. you understand that. you are not going back and six israeli soldiers never did come back another nineteen were returned in prisoner exchange deals for proof

present he took office last month following a year of mass protests against his predecessor ali abdullah saleh. the colombian army says troops have killed at least thirty members of the four armed lift this group it's one of the biggest sub strikes in five years according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for call the revolutionary armed forces of colombia group has been at war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. portugal is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport is severely disrupted with schools post and other state services also badly affected and it is processed protest was all denied by unions over thirty measures which triggered a seventy eight which were triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout this plan is locked into a three year program of cuts all of by the e.u. and the i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. also on our world update the rebels in the west african country mali

took office last month but following a year of mass protests against his predecessor ali abdullah saleh. the colombian army says troops of killed at least thirty nine members of the far left group it's one of the biggest such strikes in five years this is according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for all the revolutionary armed forces of colombia a group has been at war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. forty two is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport it's severely disrupted with schools and other state services badly affected by the latest protest was organized by unions over government austerity measures triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout lisbon is locked into a three year program of cuts ordered by the e.u. and i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. rebels in the west african country mali claim to have seized power and ousted the government in a coup they have impo

. >> as you know, ma'am, the -- the long delay in president saleh leaving basically derailed internal frictions that were going on. we didn't want our people engaged in what was really something the yemenis had to sort out on their own. so we're going to have to get with president hadi and his organization now and start rkfrankly, in what we were doing. not across the board. not in all areas. i can speak more in private with you on some of that. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator hagan. senator shaheen. >> thank you. general mattis, i'd like to begin asking you about what's happening with pakistan. i had the opportunity to travel in august with chairman levin, actually, to afghanistan and to see firsthand what was happening at that time in afghanistan. one of the things that we did was fly over the khyber pass. it was surprising to me because, obviously, i hadn't been there before to see just the extent of trucks and vehicles and people lined up to cross at the khyber pass. obviously,t november. i wonder if you could talk about how important it will be to reopen the khy

yemen had a couple of weeks ago abdullah saleh stepped down. we don't call that state a shiia state. we shouldn't. it's nonsensical. in fact, he's from that sect. you have a very strong wahabi influence. saudi funded. saudi inspired. that's very -- you have all kinds of different religious sects. in the case of yemen, i think it would be a mistake to put the question of religious freedom front and center in the transition, because there's all kinds of other issues of power struggle left over from the unification which saw essentially the crushing of a largely secular south and very progressive voices there. not an atheist communist movement but a very secular, privatized religious communist movement. you saw a developed socialist leader from a yemeni socialist party assassinated in 2002 as an isla convention. one of the most contentious things that happens in the country, the wahabis will go into zadi mosques in the north and start praying in wahabi style. they're standing there quietly, but they're doing it and it's very contentious and politi

thousands of protesters have hit the streets of yemen to madiba ex-president put on trial ali abdullah saleh stepped down from office last month in exchange for prosecution is expected to leave yemen after resigning but many suspect he's still involved with the government working with friends and relatives in top military positions at least two thousand people have died since an uprising against him began last year. french intelligence has been criticized for failing to arrest the toulouse government before he killed seven people. surveillance for months across is prime minister says there was no prior record that the government posed a threat to society he was killed by police sniper on thursday after a thirty two hour siege outside his apartment filled himself killing a rabbi and three children at a jewish school as well as three soldiers in separate attacks. no more excuses for missing what's being late for class in brazil where microchips are to be stitched into school uniforms to keep tabs on people's home devices will be embedded including meaning there's no escape parents receive a te

general david petraeus about the time was the commander had conspired with president ali abdullah saleh of yemen to cover up the u.s. role in those strikes in fact the yemeni official said. the trip will continue to lie the bombs are ours and not yours so i think that was the first incident that really put that in the kind of journalist washington's radar it is their target ok but at the same time you know this isn't a case of some pentagon bureaucrats sort of reaching out there and trying to suppress information this is the president of the united states himself intervening and in this case i mean. for someone who is not familiar necessarily with a story that went to lead people to think that this kind of thing done something really bad what evidence that's that the u.s. have and requiring that he remains behind bars so what i believe the hider with famous for in yemen was doing interviews with people that were on the u.s. hit with the leaders of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and also with the u.s. that it's been named anwar losey course would a fascinated last september in a u.s.

terrorism related charges but when there is enough outcry from locals from human rights groups president saleh drawn up a pardon for this journalist but here's the kicker scahill told r.t. to see caffein off earlier today he remains in prison today thanks to president obama and a phone call that he made a solid in february of two thousand and eleven president obama said we're very concerned about the release of this guy we don't roll the full extent of what the phone call what the white house and state department. that obama said that u.s. sponsored and so that order was rescinded but he continues to walk away in a prison after everything to make a record and it's he's in prison because barack obama was in the prison. i'm going to give you a really basic breakdown of the story i suggest everybody go and read the original piece as reported by scahill what's most important for us to note here is that all the talk we hear from the u.s. government about freedom of the press freedom of information we've seen countless times now that if a specific situation might embarrass the government highlights

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and that was very much the case in terms of finally getting saleh to agree to go.i don't really have much to add to what elliot said about jordan. i think, i do think that the king now is, is more conscious of the need to try to carry out reforms that will be seen and not just be, not just from an image standpoint but in reality to be real. it is a very hard, very hard nut to crack because, the backbone of his regime, also is recipient of about 80% revenues of the government. if you really are going to open up the system and if you're really going to create the kind of reforms that will allow jordan to flourish over time, you're going to have to manage the fact that they get 80% of the revenue now. you can't have them go cold turkey without unleashing forces in a sense that you're not going to want to see happen. so again, this is, this is one of these cases where you can do a lot in the laboratory that seems to make sense but in the real world where you have to carry it out it is a very, it is a very hard process, you know, i think to orchestrate. i do think the k

prosecutions for the horrendous crimes against humanity they conducted, they did the same thing with saleh down in yemen. it's unconscionable that the united nations to be calling for the prosecution and disciplinary action against any american out there -- particularly under these circumstances -- when they're not even calling for the prosecution of the people who have killed americans over the course of the last five days. megyn: that's the thing. this guy who was so quick for us to condemn our own soldiers, nowhere in his statement that we saw did he ask for, did he want an apology from hamid karzai or anybody else for the murder of you are troops that had nothing to do -- our troops -- >> i'm sure kt agrees with this, the idea that the apology from this commander in the chief, he now claims it's calmed things down. does he still feel that way today after two more americans are dead? i find this whole thing, this prospect that the united states which, by the way, was destroying those records from detainees, i mean, you had accurately stated just a few moments ago, megyn, when you said i

the reason he is still in jail, a phone call last month from president obama asking president saleh notuest on shea's alleged association with al qaeda al qaeda in the arabian peninsula but neither nation presented evidence other than interviews. shea's reporting included disproving u.s. involvement of an air strike that killed 14 women and 21 children in yemen. when stay hill asked state department spokesman beth gosselin whether the should produce evidence of shea's crimes, gosselin said "that is all we have to say about this case." so now we note u.s. is keeping him in prison what we don't snow y thanks to "up" viewers, we know the arizona senate judiciary committee signed off on a bill that charts new territory in republican efforts to control women's sex lives. laut will let employers refuse to cover contra accepts in their health plans unless the employee can prove she is using birth control as part of a treatment of a medical condition but we knew plenty of state were considering laws like that, this law, according to the aclu, may make it easier for employers to fire any woman >