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it comes in second with sue's on a of slovakia taking the bronze medal.a reminder of the top story this hour, the ecb has announced a controversial one trillion euro bond buying program to kickstart struggling eurozone economies. s palace for the past two days by shiite militias. the government has also resigned, but not before it agreed to amend the constitution and brett more power to the minority. >> moments after his government resigned, the yemeni president too, annou

in fact since then, boko haram has captured an area the size of slovakia. that's two slovenias.s nine million american football fields. >> jon: holy ( bleep )! that's a lot of area. i did not realize. >> you know what, you're not the only one jon. not a single head of state went to nay jerry after the attacks, not even obama and he's african. >> jon: well, well, african american. he was not born in africa. born in hawaii. >> oh, yeah, right. yeah, yeah, yeah. ( laughter ) i got you. i got you. >> jon: if it makes you feel better obama didn't go to paris either. >> yeah, but at least you could have sent us jails taylor. what? africa doesn't get a friend? ( laughter ) >> jon: settle for paul simon? >> oh okay but only if he promises not to steal our music. hashtag bring back our songs. look jon, in france 1.6 million people marched for 12 cartoonists, which is great. but by that math the whole world should have been marching in nigeria. sometimes it just feels like africa is the vegas of islamic terror-- what happens in africa stays in africa. >> jon: that was a tremendous accent.

global perspective the united states ranks 78 and women's representation in political office, below slovakia, bangladesh, and saudi arabia. the problem is not performance. research consistently finds that when women run for office they are just as electable in terms of fundraising and success in campaign. the main difference is that women are less likely to run for office and are more likely to address women's issues. but, issues. but, of course, it matters who women are in politics. as examples like sarah palin reminds us, putting women in positions of power is not the same as empowering women one of my favorite new yorker cartoons features a board room filled with about a dozen men seated around the table and one woman. that is a great. well, we need men to make that. we also need to change the dynamic of women in politics they have to target votes and dollars at political candidates, both male and female who are willing to advance women's issues. we also need a strong women's movement. cross national research finds the presence of a woman's movement is a better a better predictor of women

he didn't take a be con mist to realize this couldn't end well, jim any italy and slovakia got more moneyhould have. he says the state will not become reckless, this government has promised to maintain balanced budgets. but can it last? greece's former representative at the international monetary fund which is one of greece's creditors says the country still needs to borrow $23 billion this year. >> they have chosen a path of confrontation which could lead to an accident that would take the form of a default on a payment on the external debt and the next step would be social unrest capital flight, and eventually. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: keen to stress that it will not confront creditors in a wild west scenario, but until the two sides agree they disagree. al jazerra athens. >>> u.s. press barack obama has attended a farewell ceremony for secretary of defense chuck hagel at argue navel base, hagel resigned in november reportedly fromunder pressure the president. obama praised him saying he was key in creating partnerships in the middle east. >>> the tech giant apple appears to be more p

look at poland over the last five or six years is the story at the of the moment and if you look at slovakia from the czech republic at the end of 92 and many people thought there would find it very difficult to make a go of it sometimes as well or better than we did, so i'm always careful about this first in the class because it only lasts for so long. >> i think what is wonderful in the book are all of the personal relationships and stories. i had come earlier with the% i had come earlier with the general, and president clinton was going to come over and what happened was he planned to get the saxophone to president clinton that his mother had just died and so the question is they were going to go to a jazz club and the question was whether there was appropriate or not. and we debated about what we should do and so the plan is i was going back to brussels to get president clinton and i was going to ask him when we were coming in on air force one that he wanted to do and if in fact he wanted to go forward when the president greeted me at the bottom of the stairs and i gave him a hug. i was

over the five or six years at the moment looking in slovakia from the czech republic from 1982 been many people saw it is difficult to make a go of it. so i am over careful because it only last for so long. >> the only thing that is better with this story and the relationship to recollect some of the stories that diplomats feel and president's talking about the 1994 trip, i had come earlier and what happened is president havel had planned to give a saxophone to president clinton but president clinton's mother had just died so the question was they would go to a jazz club and the question is if that was appropriate or not. . . i was supposed to give him a yes or no so on the plane i did ask president clinton and he said he would be very happy to do that and it would be great. and then one of the really nice parts i have to say on that trip warren christopher was coming in also and he said madeleine because this is where you were born i think it makes sense for you to go down the stairs with president clinton and he obviously outranks me. so we did come down the stairs and i gave a hug to

president of the czech republic, the defense minister of the czech republic and the president of slovakiaboth of them like and the stationing of nato troops and their territory, both of these were members of nato. likens the stationing of nato troops in their territory as being akin to 1960 warsaw pact invasion of czechoslovakia. these are leaders of democratic allies, members of nato a hungry at this point would probably not be able to join the e.u. given the democratic backslide the we have seen. the russians have been expert at using ed snowden. however you think he got to moscow whether he was a russian agent from the beginning gorgeous ended up miraculously in moscow they have used a remarkably well in turning european public opinion against the united states particularly in germany where most of the most embarrassing leaks have been directed at german public opinion. i see michael hayden here. when i was in germany at told my german friends i am sorry but angela merkel should not have been discussing anything other than potatoes to a recipes on her cell phone. it is not a safe mode

having said that the hungry and slovakia and chech republican saying we do not want trouble with russiand we are on the back foot and need the gas and trade and you have to stop. nato is not getting stronger as a consequence of the fight, it's more salient but differences with the nato countries are display. >> let's talk about the economy and spending the week to talk about and i was in poland where they have a particular kind of apple and 60% gets sold to russia but on august first that stopped and they cannot find a market for their particular apples. on the russian side in comes the substantially lower than they are on the european side so you have these russian enclaves in countries and the russians do much better being europeans but they seem to like this whole mother russia extending its arm of protection around them. >> it's unclear how much they will like it over the long-term, the problem is they out last the ukrainians is the issue here. survey recently taken in russia about level of support of the boycott on food stuff and it's like putin in the 80s and food inflation is hit

couple of centimeter centimeters and running to the night and that was just italy and a problem in slovakianow on the ground there and aircraft went to neighboring austria and hungry and the next thing to pick up on is what is coming from between my legs is the line of cloud here driven by quite strong winds right down to the surface so on the coast of cruatia we have the seas picking up, as a result of that well it's likely to cause problem in any coast. this is just a gentle start. these are not big waves yet but preparations are being made. i don't think necessarily it's this particular case that will be worst hit. if we go ahead to the forecast look at the winds here and the big circulation all over europe. in fact, in the next day or so it will be the north coast of africa in particular where winds look like gale force that will be pretty well battered. >> thanks indeed and still to come on the news hour calling for clemency for two death row inmates in indonesia as execution looms, the mission to save india's river which is revered by millions and in sport the latest from australian o

the problem isn't that germany italy, and the poorer-than-us slovakia didn't give enough money to greece gave more than they should have. it was just thrown into a black hole. >> ifill: the new government also sought to reassure financial markets, but greek bank stocks plunged 25%and the athens stock exchange fell nearly 10%. >> woodruff: wall street slumped today, even after the federal reserve reaffirmed it will be "patient" before raising interest rates. instead, the market focused on a new slide in oil prices to below $45 a barrel, the lowest in nearly six years. that sent the dow jones industrial average down nearly 196 points, to 17,191. the nasdaq fell 43, to close just under 4,638. and the s-and-p 500 dipped 27 to finish at 2002. >> ifill: and, a major new auto recall. nissan today issued two today for nearly 768,000 vehicles. one involves electrical shorts and possible fires, in more than half a million "rogue" s.u.v's. the other covers 216,000 "pathfinders" and "infinitis" with hood latches that can fail. >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour. negotiations with the islamic

slovakia took a couple. but the whole people who cleared them were al qaeda lawyers. nine al qaeda lawyers who were senior polite:appointees in the obama administration -- >> i'm just saying some are disputing that but i want to focus on this. they go to any one of these countries, those countries are not obligated to keep on tabs on them. >> they're not. they do whatever they can to prevent them from returning to terrorism but can't guarantee anything. >> sorry to jump in on there i want to be clear on that point. my mind is slow. >>> japan is raceing the clock as isis thugs threaten to behead two japanese hostages if he government dund fork over $200 million by friday. >> reporter: japanese officials are scrambling desperately scrambling to get their free. they're trying to work with other countries trying to build any type of communication line with isis. so far they have come up short and that leaves the fates of 47-year-old kenji and 42-year-old haruna in jeopardy and isis released the ransom video demanding $200 million for their release within 72 hours. that wo

expressed in the emergence of political groups in countries in central eastern europe from hungary to slovakia and indeed in fraction. what's going to be very interesting in this specific incident is what the french leaders and how france reacts, as well. these incidents are absolutely polarizing that goes without saying. i think there will be many people who would wish to keep a lid on this and would try to explain that if this does end up being something linked to either al-qaeda or isil, then people should remember that this doesn't in any sense expression the views of 99 and a half% of islam. it's very important that islamic groups and muslim groups stand up and say so them receivers. that is what white or christian or mainstream, whatever other expression of political opinion that exists in europe would want to see muslim groups saying that they don't believe that this is a way forward in what you could loosely describe as a free society. >> all right lawrence, we're going to have to leave it there for now. for those of you who may have just joined us, gunmen attacked the paris office of