if you look on the left, that is the new world, south america and north america above is is the first map to show north america and south merriman unambiguously surrounded by water, not as an undefined place not identified at all. because, it shows north and south america surrounded by water it is the first map to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of a mystery because europeans aren't supposed to have known about the pacific ocean until 1513 when balboa caught sight of it from the mountain. and it is not something i dwell on on the book because i felt the mystery is more fun to leave as a mystery than try to resolve. but it is a great part of the story and not the only part of the story. there is more that is very very, significant about the map. look at africa, this is one of the first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa and -- had only been circumnavigated in 1497 by the portuguese and the frame at the bottom of the map is broken and it would have been easy to push the frame down a little bit. i think the point is clear, it is a

if you look on the left there, that's the new world, south america and with north america about it.he map. it's something that peter has written about extensively. it's not something i'd want in the book because i felt the ministry is almost more fun to leave as industry than try to resolve. but it's a great part of the story. it's not the only part of the story. there's more that is very, very significant about the map. if you look at africa for example, this is one of the very first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa had only been circumnavigated a bit. the frame at the bottom of the map here is broken that it would have been easy just to push the frame down a little bit. i think the point is clear the break with tradition, this is new knowledge and it's exciting. people tend to forget that, but this is a great discovery because it means you can sail from europe around africa and into the indian ocean and beyond. even beyond that fact though is the fact that map shows the full 360 degrees longitude. it's one of the very first to do that as well. the map spr

if you look on the left there, that is the new world, south america and with north america above it, this is really the first map to show north and south america unambiguously surrounded by water, not as some undefined part of asia or some undefined place that really is now identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water is the first map to show the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of a mystery because europeans are not supposed with known about the pacific ocean until 1513 when balboa caught sight of it from a mountaintop. so that is something that brings a lot of people back to the map and something peter has written about extensively. is not something i could go on a whole lot in the book because i felt the mystery is almost more fun to leave as a mystery than to try to resolve but it is a great part of the story. it is not the only part of the story. there is more that is very significant about the map. if you look at africa for example this is one of the very first printed maps to show the full coastlines of africa. africa had

if you look on the left there, that's the new world, south america with north america about it.ously surrounded by water. not at some undefined part of asia or just some undefined place that really isn't identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water through the first not to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean and this is something of a mystery because europeans are supposed to note about the pacific ocean intel 1513, when balboa caught sight of it from the mountain top. so that's something that brings a lot of people back to the map and something that peter is written about extensively. it's not something that i dwell on it a lot in the book because i felt that the mystery is almost more fun to be missing the street and to try to resolve. but it's a great part of the story. it's not the only part of the story, though. there's more that is very, very significant about the map. if you look at africa, for example, this is one of very first printed box to show the full coastlines in africa. africa comics you think i have only been circumnavig

. >> i am not all that familiar with some things in south america.n you tell me basically were you in north or south america or in the southern section? >> well, actually as an analyst with the cia i worked on every country -- worked on the caribbean, i worked on central america, worked on mexico and south america, the one country and never worked on was cuba. [laughter] that's right. but i was the caribbean analyst for particularly haiti and their dominican republic and jamaica for a while and then i was chief of the indian branch and then i worked on argentina and lived in argentina and also lived in basel. >> you're involved with venezuela? >> yes, to some extent. >> i didn't know that to cover all of south america. >> i was a regional analyst. let me say a few words about hugo taught us and what i am going to say may sound a little radical what most people think of the cia analysts, a few years ago i read a book by a diplomatic historian about latin america, it fellow man named mark, he made an assertion that i actually agree with and he said tha

if you look on the left there, that's the new world, south america and with north america about it. this is the first map to show north and south america unambiguously surrounded by water. not at some undefined part of asia, or just some undefined place that isn't identified at all. because it shows north and south america surrounded by water, it's really the first map to suggest the existence of the pacific ocean. this is something of mr. guith europeans are supposed to know about the pacific ocean and mountaintop.alboa caught sight so that's something that brings a lot of people back to the map, something that peter has written about extensively. it's not something i'd will on a whole lot in the book because i felt the ministry is almost more fun to leave as a try to resolve the. but it's a great part o story. there's more that is very, very significant about the map. if you look at africa, for example, this is one of their first printed maps of africa that showed a full coastline. africa had 11 circumnavigated by the portuguese pulled in 1497. maps are only beginning to show all

and south america, central america, or south america mostly.use it's all over the place in peru. and i think the soldiers are a big nuisance in mexico. because the soldiers are hiring people from the city. politicians are hiring people from the city to run the soldiers out. sebelius. the problem there is with the arms thing. all the arms go from here over there. i did a lot of charity work, and i don't anymore. i don't live there. i know all these areas because i hung out supposedly with the wrong people. and we might be here with, because america is the biggest consumer of drugs. >> no question. >> because of the money. it's easier to get to. they are trying to legalize marijuana in mexico. for what? they can't afford it. >> i'm going to allow him to respond to that's a few more words, but we are out of time. do you want to respond to that? >> i just think we need to consider the foreign policy implications of this drug issue, especially with afghanistan. if the united states can somehow cut down our consumption we would make the world better

it comes from south america -- >> of course. but they don't have trees that grow it. >> right. but what's your point, though, exactly? >> well, i mean, they're getting the raw stuff from wherever. >> right. >> from south america, central america or south america mostly because it's all over the place in peru. >> right. >> and i think that the soldiers are a big nuisance in mexico because the soldiers are hiring people from the city -- politicians are hiring people from the city to run the soldiers out. civilians. in and the problem there is with the arm thing. all the arms go from here over there. i used to -- i grew up in -- [inaudible] i did a lot of charity work, and i don't anymore, i don't live there, but i know all this areas because be i hung out supposedly with the wrong people. and we might be here with -- [inaudible] north america is the biggest consumer of drugs. >> no question. >> because of the money. it's easier to get to. they're trying to legalize marijuana in mexico. for what? they can't afford it. >> unfortunately, i'm going to let howard say a few, respond to

it is one souvenir memory i have from south america. one day i was walking on the edges a petty when i was researching for a rainbow in the night. and across came a young girl. holding some school books. she was coming back from school and going home and obviously she had not eaten. she had looked very weak. so research in my pocket if i could give some money or something and if i could only find a cracker i had in my pocket. so when she passed in front of me i gave her this cracker. she said thank you and went away. and maybe a minute after i saw the most touching sight i would ever see in my life. across the steps on the young south african girl came a dog. and i saw this little girl break the cracker in two and give half to the dog. i understood that day but generosity means yes? >> it's not a question that it's a comment. i am from india and you are -- i mean, you are like a saint especially after your book, midnight because a lot of people knew a lot of people could not read english but when the city came in the movie was made it w

but in any event after a lot of research and soul-searching we reached the conclusion he is in south america because his illegitimate daughter was living in a place in several miles south of san diego diego -- santiago and hiding in a notorious place you may recall the gestapo and rome and said we're not 100% sure but she calls the key nobody in that age cannot do it alone obviously. the daughter went there and read went on to missions to south america but particularly that first one but even though we met for people in the course of to describe to us a person who exactly fit the description of alberta who was seen in the last two weeks but we did not find him but has many of you no less than one year ago there was a report in the new year times and germany that albert heim died and he died in 1992. what was interesting heim son was the key witness in this report. six months earlier had told one of the important german newspapers that he had not seen his father for decades and had no contact with him whatsoever of the six months later he said i was with him in cairo, i visited many times we

. >> i was going to go to asia and europe and and south america and back to the u.s. at planned on traveling for about a year or two with teaching english, travels, it might be forever. >> for others, it is a career stepping stone. >> hopefully, more business contacts, and finding a job over there. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with sandra shaw. >> first monday of 2010 and it is bitterly cold outside. we still in the teens for the wind chill factor reported let's look radar and satellite imagery. there is late effect snowed generated from the snow machine in pick 3 lakes. it -- in the great lakes. other than that, it is going to be very gusty as far as the window, and quite cold out there actual temperature in the 30's now. it feels like the upper teens. temperature unless mr. is 17, real feeling. -- temperature real feel in westminster is 17. 21-mile-per-hour cost in baltimore. same at the airport. that is really the issue. we're not the critical category of wind advisory we had today, but is enough to make it feel so much worse out there. today's forec

you have the drug that works out of south america tied to a rocky the groups in africa affecting securityurope. you have the potential for disaster if you see the facilities of these groups and to work internationally. the nightmare scenario is some of these groups collectivizing for purposes of profit or radiology and use and struggle -- and use or smuggle a weapon of mass destruction. what we worried most about was al qaeda or other groups who expressed an interest in obtaining and using a weapon of mass destruction could get access to it through some of these unaffiliated networks where we know in the past, there has been devices smuggled through central asia. this is a world in which these networks and individuals can relate to very easily and very effectively using mode density -- using modernity. this makes them incredibly potent. this also speaks to the information environment. the web 2.0 technologies of today, the ability to move money through cell phones, use a chat rooms or blogs, highlight where we are coming national security perspective. you see this in the terrorism context

host: who is the strongest ally in south america to the united states? probably cause to recover. it is a middle-class country and americans go there for tourism. -- cost of rica. caller: is there a disconnected latin america between the economic stability and the political stability of the countries in south america? it seems there is a disconnected. these countries have not been very politically stable but their economies are able to be supported and grow. you mentioned the bilateral relations is a better way to go for policy in latin america. what other countries other than brazil could we adopt that? guest: there are a number of countries we work very closely with. chile just had a presidential election and that was a major shift from the coalition of socialists to an independent on the democratic right. we will be able to work well with the president. there is a new president in uruguay. he is a pragmatic president. we work closely with the president of columbia and the government in peru. and burt brazil -- and brazil is one of our major allies. th

host: who is the strongest ally in south america to the united states? uest: probably cause to recover. it is a middle-class country and americans go there for tourism. -- cost of rica. caller: is there a disconnected latin america between the economic stability and the political stability of the countries in south america? it seems there is a disconnected. these countries have not been very politically stable but their economies are able to be supported and grow. you mentioned the bilateral relations is a better way to go for policy in latin america. what other countries other than brazil could we adopt that? guest: there are a number of countries we work very closely with. chile just had a presidential election and that was a major shift from the coalition of socialists to an independent on the democratic right. we will be able to work well with the president. there is a new president in uruguay. he is a pragmatic president. we work closely with the president of columbia and the government in peru. and burt brazil -- and brazil is one of our major allie

." >>> you could make a short film about robots attacking south america, post it on the internet andost back and sit back while hollywood launches a huge xet tigs for your video services. coming up next on viral rewind. >>> a look at the top stories. a new video shows the man blamed for the deadly attack on a cia outpost sitting next to the head of the pakistani taliban. it was apparently made ten days before the attack and in the video. humam khalil abu mulal al balawi calls on jihad to attack u.s. targets. >>> a man accused of touching off a massive security scare is due in court next week. they say 28-year-old haisong jiang dunked under a security rope and forced officials to shut down the terminal and rescreen thousands of passengers. it delayed flights worldwide. he was arrested and charged with defiant trespass. >>> the nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a northwest airlines plane on christmas day has pleaded not guilty. umar farouk abdulmutallab made his first appearance yesterday in detroit. a grand jury indicted him on six charges, the most serious, attempting to use

south america's market is big. -- >> during the rally. >> after the rally, it will probably be fast. on the way down, you won't catch it. corn though, i think corn -- we don't have the big carryover like we do in beans. in corn, use options. get some options for that. >> ok. thank you both, gentlemen. we'll look forward to that week. we'll be back with more "u.s. farm report" in just a moment. >>> welcome back to "u.s. farm report". obviously, we checked the drought monitor typically every week at this point. good news is we're heading towards next season at least unless we don't get any snow in some locations. we're only talking a few spots in the corn belt where it's really dry. still, northern wisconsin, western u urment of u. pumplt -- u. p. of michigan. dry areas, arizona is getting worse. i think the good news is where the weak to moderate el nino this season, you'll see a fair amount of moisture, at least more than normal in that part of the country. let's hope that pans out there because you can see things improved in the pacific northwest over the past few weeks. let's check

its reputation as a rebel favorite, first in the hands of the guerilla fighters in central and south america, from there to africa where it proved as lethal in the hands of an untrained child. on that continent, aks bought for as little as $12. got the nickname the african credit card as in don't leave home without it. it's said to be in the official arsenal of more than 80 countries. the u.s. bought more than 180,000 of them when it rearmed the iraqi army. the ak-47 was so instrumental in mozambique that it is on their national flag. it's become a weapon of choice for terrorists, drug dealers and gangsters. some say these weapons are responsible for the deaths of one quarter of a million people every year. there are reportedly anywhere from 70 to 100 million ak-47 and variations of it floating around. so why is the company that makes these going broke? it's a story of globalization and technological change. massive demand for a product now invites cheaper imitations and counterfeits, many almost as good as the original but at a fraction of the price. back in the soviet era the soviets didn'

and so you've got a drug trafficking networks out of south america tied to an al qaeda group in africa affecting security issues, not just in that region, but then also in europe. and you have been, i think the prescription for potential disaster when you look at the facilities of some of these groups to work internationally. the nightmare scenario in this context, by the way, if some of these groups collectivize and for purposes of approximate or ideology. to use or smuggle a weapon of mass distraction. one of the things we worried most about in the national security council was al qaeda or other groups have expressed an interest in obtaining and using a weapon of mass distraction, to actually get access to it. and they could get access to it, perhaps, through some of these unaffiliated networks, crime or smuggling networks. will we know in the past there has been a radiological devices or nuclear material smuggled. for example, in central asia. and so, this is the world in which these networks and individuals can interrelate very easily, very effectively using the implements of moder

overseas, to visit international airports in africa, europe and the middle east as well as in south americaand make sure that we're on the same page with all of them to see what can be done to shore up security overseas because after all, domestic travel is only one piece of this. the most dangerous part of course is international travel, that's the way abdul mutallab came in via amsterdam to detroit. there's going to be a meeting what she calls a broad international outreach effort. >> gregg: is the administration still planning to shut down the prison in guantanamo bay? >> well, they're under more pressure to reconsider, but at this point they're saying they're going to go ahead with that plan, it's part of our national security to close it. as one administration official said, this guantanamo prison has been used as a rallying cry and a recruiting tool by al-qaeda so it's in our security interest to close it and as you know, of course, a lot of inmates there, the detainees are yemeni, they've been released and sent back to yemen. this suspect abdul mutallab went to yemen in the couple mo

this was felt over towards cuba, virgin islands and even reports of northern portions of south america was a strong system. those aftershocks range from 5.9 to 5.1. 5.9 can do significant damage. when one comes in at 7.0, that's a big problem. here's the satellite imagery, dry conditions and high temperatures climbing into the lower 30s with low temperatures in the 20s. that's the good news. favorable weather over the next three days. back over to you. you really feel for the peechl people of haiti. >> absolutely, the dead of night there and obviously a difficult, difficult time. thank you so much. appreciate it. once again, we want to show you some of the latest pictures from rut gerz showing the scenes of destruction at port-au-prince hit by he a 7.0 earthquake rocking the city. associated press reporters and photographers on the scene describe the city as devastated. many major landmarks have been affect affected, but most importantly, of course, the people. some 2 million people living crammed into this city in shanty towns and the like struggling now in the night to survive. thank

god knows that we have a lot of experience with drug in revocation in latin america and south americayou still at -- the drug in eradication in latin america and south america. and you still have enormous quantities of cocaine being produced there. in afghanistan, we have tried to do crop substitution, crop the revocation. and we have somewhat gathered -- rebethe opium harvest is 20% oro below what it can has been in previous years. the long-term answer is that you have stated -- you have to have a decently functioning economy so that people can live without producing drugs. that takes a long time. if we think that war is worth conducting, we will have to conduct it even in the presence of an opium harvest. we can do what we can, but we are not going to wipe it out because no sensible farmer in a deeply impoverished place like that is going to agree to forgo a big cash crop like opium in favor of something that does not earn him very much money. it is a terrible problem. host: james traub with us talking about the role of vice president biden. guest: it is easier to stay in completed

yield people with least go and traveled to south america and africa and hopefully, but it's difficult. it is difficult. >> [inaudible] >> i've been to slovakia. i had a wonderful time and i love slovakia. i think it is much more cheerful even when i was younger i thought slovakia government was much more sort of like a drink wine, the czech drink beer and they are more gloomy. somebody calling me. [laughter] probably checking if i am really in here talking to you -- >> [inaudible] >> im or ayaan but i'm not saying it anymore because people think i am from the moravian church and it's very confusing. and then i explained -- you ask moravia today. >> [inaudible] >> i am moravian and remember when i came to new york there was an old lady who said so you are czech and i said i am actually moravian and she said don't worry moravian are almost as good as czech. laughter chris whittle to want to get into the technicalities between the different groups of people. >> [inaudible] [laughter] we have little accent and a different cuisine and places but this book is simplified. this book goes thro

very smart ruthless individual who came as a teenager that he had a snakehead got him a flight to south america. they had a stopover in lax. and a 14 of 15 your kids without the necessary paperwork to enter the united states with no english and nobody within. he got off the plane at lax during a stopover and just walked out of the airport. and somehow found his way to new york city and joined this game. he was a dangerous guy who to this day people and chinatown that i've spoken with find kind of an alarming scary figure. he ended up pleading guilty to five murders. the first time he encountered sister ping was when he and his gang robbed her family at gunpoint. and he actually put a gun advocate and they took money from her. a second time he encountered was when they did it again, because they hadn't got enough money from her the first time. the third time they encountered one another, sister ping asked him to go into business with her. because you become very good at bringing these fishing boats out to meet the big ships and offload ships. i could go on and on about the psychology of sister p

god knows that we have a lot of experience with drug in revocation in latin america and south americag in eradication in latin america and south america. and you still have enormous quantities of cocaine being produced there. in afghanistan, we have tried to do crop substitution crop the revocation. and we have somewhat gathered -- rebelthe opium harvest is 20% or so below what it can has been in previous years. the long-term answer is that you have stated -- you have to have a decently functioning economy so that people can live without producing drugs. that takes a long time. if we think that war is worth conducting, we will have to conduct it even in the presence of an opium harvest. we can do what we can, but we are not going to wipe it out because no sensible farmer in a deeply impoverished place like that is going to agree to forgo a big cash crop like opium in favor of something that does not earn him very much money. it is a terrible problem. host: james traub with us talking about the role of vice president biden. guest: it is easier to stay in completed policies, but in term

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south america, central mark. et cetera.t the u.s. is willing to spend money and time and effort to reduce its consumption, its demand for drugs. i see no reason to believe the u.s. will do so in the future any more than it has done so at any time in the past since the 1960 1960's, when drugs became part of a certain mainstream of american life. there are people who think this is a terrible situation, there are people who think it is ok like myself. there are people who think it is a great situation. well, that is their opinion. what i think is increasingly difficult to argue is that there is any consensus or willingness in american society to declare a war on drug demand or reduction or drug consumption in the united states through testing, through invasion of privacy, through clampdowns on trade, on everything. is the u.s. willing to send the army into the projects in chicago, into the projects and tenements in new york, in los angeles, into east los angeles to do away with drug consumption there? i don't think so. i don't

spanish lane which station in new haven, studied hypnotism, had a prosperity brought back from south america and taught to sing opera. he wrote an italian were sardar, remind people he was a near-death blue baby born when the volcano erupted in new mexico so what he was planning to add to advance to enter me to be the holy hell out of most people on the tennis court and had become an argumentative atheist. this is her fiancÉ. he was wired, gurgling with news, cabinet in a way that left people either breathless or a. he devoured books, ideas, latched onto philosophies. he was like a private school banshee. feasting on things that he knew my vault him far above and beyond his expected station in life. and he didn't really want to be like his father, the anonymous broker in the white silk suit doing the cia's private work over endless banana daiquiris and hotel lobby meetings in pre-castro could get if you let he might have been comfortable with some of the modern cia operatives. the ones who dispense with tedious formalities, geneva conventions, went for the jugular, back to the bone stouter h

south america, central mark. et cetera.see no indication -- and the numbers don't show any indication -- that the u.s. is willing to spend money and time and effort to reduce its consumption, its demand for drugs. i see no reason to believe the u.s. will do so in the future any more than it has done so at any time in the past since the 1960 1960's, when drugs became part of a certain mainstream of american life. there are people who think this is a terrible situation, there are people who think it is ok like myself. what is increasingly difficult to argue is that there is any consensus in american society to declare war on drug

at yale he was a deejay, studied hipness to some, had a prize to repair it he brought back from south america and it taught to sing opera and a role in an italian motorcycle, reminded people he was a near death blue baby born when the volcano erupted in mexico so that he was planning to do advanced studies in journal germany to beat the people of the court and become an atheist. this is her fiance. he was wired with news coverage reading from one topic to another, kafta needed in a way that left people either breathless or annoyed. he devoured books and ideas and latched onto philosophies and a cell, i heard that we over the journalism school sometimes used a bad choice of words as my daughter recalled the wtf. does anybody know what the fudge. not to me was a wtf and molly's life. i hope molly is laughing right now. in heaven. the thought that somebody would say hawley, excuse me, molly was going to be engaged to dick cheney. well, maybe the world would've been different. maybe molly would've exercised some behavior modification. and i don't mean in the way that dick cheney did by the way to

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you have the drug that works out of south america tied to a rocky the groups in africa affecting security issues not just in that region but also in europe. you have the potential for disaster if you see the facilities of these groups and to work internationally. the nightmare scenario is some of these groups collectivizing for purposes of profit or radiology and use and struggle -- and use or smuggle a weapon of mass destruction. what we worried most about was al qaeda or other groups who expressed an interest in obtaining and using a weapon of mass destruction could get access to it through some of these unaffiliated networks where we know in the past, there has been eighdevices smuggled through central asia. this is a world in which these networks and individuals can relate to very easily and very effectively using mode density -- using modernity. this makes them incredibly potent. this also speaks to the information environment. the web 2.0 technologies of today, the ability to move money through cell phones, use a chat rooms or blogs, highlight where we are coming national security p

them, even though we benefitted the united states from meds and even that we benefit to all of south america. you shouldn't do that. for 60 years haiti was under embargo and i say if you want to know how haiti got support, go look at its beginnings. i am not going to assault the leadership of haiti also that his been predatory. i have been fighting against them since i can remember. but, a new day is coming to haiti and it began back in 2006 with the election of the president to one with about 51% of the vote and to turn around to the 49% that were not with him, that were his opponents and from the 49% he got some good ministers for his cabinet and form a unity government. were it not for that, the food riots of 2008 would have seen the government topple. were it not for that, the problems with the four hurricanes in three months would have also toppled. haiti has reached political stability. i was not part of president raval's cadre of france. he called a mutual friend in new york and he said i want you to call your ambassador friends, and i saw this spirit of unity that gave us independenc

god knows that we have a lot of experience with drug in revocation in latin america and south americayou still at -- the drug in eradication in latin america and south america. and you still have enormous quantities of cocaine being produced there. in afghanistan, we have tried to do crop substitution, crop the revocation. and we have somewhat gathered -- rebethe opium harvest is 20% oro below what it can has been in previous years. the long-term answer is that you have stated -- you have to have a decently functioning economy so that people can live without producing drugs. that takes a long time. if we think that war is worth conducting, we will have to conduct it even in the presence of an opium harvest. we can do what we can, but we are not going to wipe it out because no sensible farmer in a deeply impoverished place like that is going to agree to forgo a big cash crop like opium in favor of something that does not earn him very much money. it is a terrible problem. host: james traub with us talking about the role of vice president biden. guest: it is easier to stay in completed

them, even though we benefit in the united states primates and even though we benefit in all of south america. no, you shouldn't do that. for 16 years, haiti was under embargo and i say if you want to know how haiti got so poor, go look at what is beginning. i'm not going to absolve the leadership of haiti also. that has been predatory. i have been fighting against them since i can remember. but, a new day is coming to haiti and it began back in 2006, with the election of a president who won with about 51% of the vote and he turned around to the 49% that were not with him, the way his opponents and from the 49% he got some good ministers for his cabinet and formed a unity government. if not for that, the food riots of 2008 would've seen the government toppled. were it not for that, the problems with the four hurricanes in three months would've also toppled the government. haiti has reached political stability. i was not part of president preval leiby work. and i saw this spirit of unity that gave us independents because that's how we want independence when the bans were fighting french right

america between the economic stability and the political stability of the countries and down in south america e countries have not been very politically stable but their economies are able to be supported and grow. you mentioned the bilateral relations is a better way to go for policy in latin america. what other countries other than brazil could we adopt that? guest: there are a number of countries we work very closely with. chile just had a presidential election and that was a major shift from the coalition of socialists to an independent on the democratic right. we will be able to work well with the president. there is a new president in uruguay. he is a pragmatic president. we work closely with the president of columbia and the government in peru. and burt brazil -- and brazil is one of our major allies. those countries that are economically stable, in particular chile, colombia, peru, we can work with them very well. there's probably no problem because economic stability has provided strong support of open democratic societies. countries like venezuela and ecuador have tremendous politic

ending gender inequality and discrimination against gays and lesbians from the middle list to south americaca, and asia. in sudan, ongoing tensions threaten the devastation oand the genocide of doodarfur. we can focus our efforts on preventing genocide elsewhere. we have to remain focused on women, women's rights, women's roles, and women's responsibility. as i said in beijing in 1995, human-rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights. i wish it could be so easily translated into action and changes. that ideal is far from being realized in some many places around our world. there's no place that so epitomizes the difficult and tragic circumstances confronting women than in eastern congo. i was in goma last august, the epicenter of one of the most violent and chaotic regions on earth. when i was there, i met with the victims of perfect gender and sexual violence. i met with refugees driven from their homes by the many military forces operating there. i met with those offering to negotiate the conflict. i saw the best and the worst of humanity in a single day, the unspeakabl

took place, half of the members of the european union were also with america and japan was with america and south korea was with america, but, i think there is an interesting point, you are absolutely right to raise the judgment and in the end, this is what it is. it is not -- as i sometimes say to people it isn't about a lie or conspiracy or deceit or deception it is a decision and the decision i had to take was, given saddam's history, given his use of chemical weapons, given the over 1 million people whose deaths he caused, given ten years of breaking u.n. resolutions, could we take the risk of this man reconstituting his weapons programs? or is that a risk that will be irresponsible to take and i formed the judgment and it is a judgment, a decision i had to take the decision. and i believed and in the end so did the capital and parliament, incidentally, that we were right, not to run that risk. but you are completely right, in the end, what this is all about are the risks. and the reason why it is so important, the point that you make, is because today, we are going to be faced with exactly t

caller: columbia, south america. >> let's go to huntsville, alabama. >>caller: the speech tonight with all due respect to president obama, i felt like it was a speech full of manipulation from the president. one instance was when he would be talking about being bipartisan with the congress. then he would turn around and blast the republican party. oni think it is another time that he is manipulating and telling lies why he is speaking boss while he is speaking. >> what-- while he is speaking. >> what about his criticism of the supreme court? caller: i think that there was no tact. >> herald from pennsylvania. caller: obama is a great speaker. i don't believe him. the only good part i saw was the fact that when he talked about creating energy and he talked about oil and nuclear power. republicans stood up and clapped for that. i don't know if you remember o'reilly's interview. in that interview, he was talking about nuclear. >> what about tax cuts? >>caller: i think they are good. you have to do it. the things that he said in the past he has not done. i

and beating them even though benefiting the united states from it, even though we benefit from south america no, you shouldn't do that. 60 years haiti was under embargo. if you want to know how haiti got support, look at its beginnings. i'm go not going to and solve the leadership of haiti also. it has been predatory. i have been fighting against them since i can remember. but a new day is coming to haiti and it began back in 2006 with the election of a president who won with about 51% of the votes and turned around to the 49% that were not with him, that were his opponents and from the 49%, he got some good minimums sters for his cabinet and formed a unity government. were not for that, the food riots of 2008 would have seen the government topple. were it not for that, the problems with the four hurricanes in three months would have also toppled the government. haiti has reached political stability. were it not for the president's friends, he called a mutual friend in new york and said i want you to call your ambassador friends and tell them to stay. and i saw this period of unity that gave

department set up to begin accepting converts, from the taliban, reconciliation sectors, like south america. >> it's not an issue for the department. this is an issue for the government of afghanistan. clearly just reading president karzai's comments in the press, particularly in the lead up to this conference in london, it is their desire to work more aggressively towards a reintegration, at the very least a reintegration plan and ultimately perhaps a reconciliation plan. we have always been supportive of that notion. and that's why we are committing additional resources to try to change the dynamic on the ground to lead toward that possibility. and that's why i think financially there's support from us and other countries to try to figure out what we can do in a nonmilitary sense to provide an alternative for these foot soldiers. jobs, etc. >> i have a question about blackwater. just to have you clarify the secretary's remarks about blackwater. was he getting -- >> you were there and still confused? >> i'm still confused. was he getting confused -- >> i think you have been reading too muc

we're going to have to draw on( and south and central america and asia but also our friends in the muslimeast and in south asia. we believe that we don't really need to compel ourç friends to cooperate with us because i think we uniformly recognize that this is a shared threat. >> suarez: the president took the opportunity to both assert that he'll stay on track with closing the guantanamo bay prison and at the same time said thatç yemenis won't be released and sent home. help us square those two aspects of the policy. >> asç you know, ray, all along we've been going through each of these cases of individuals down at began taun mow bay dgt tooth comb, addressing them individually on a case-by-case basis,ç making sure that those that we can transfer in a way that will advance our interests and protect the united states, we do that. obviously under the right conditions and the right circumstances. as the president said today and as he discussed with the attorney general, the current situation on the ground in yemen is not the right circumstances. so he wanted to send that clear signal.

america's coldest spot, aberdeen, south dakota, minus 31. >> december noins was minus eight today and blown through all $3 million the city budgeted for snow removal, but there, people own winter can coats and gloves, not like meridian, mississippi, winter weather arrived inside the courthouse, the boiler is broken. >> we have to dress in there, but when we have to go down the hall or into the break room it is freezing. it is over our socks. >> many people are just sick of it, this cold has been biting them for more than a week and this time, there is no escaping to florida. tomorrow's low in miami will feel like 24 degrees. jeff. >> glor: well, mark strassmann, braving the cold hat less, thank you very much. north america isn't the only continucontinent shivering toni, mark phillips in london faces the temperature of an icebound europe. >> reporter: britain's fabled green and pleasant land is white and cold, the space shot confirms something everybody on the ground knows. britain and the rest of europe are enduring the longest, deepest cold small in three decades and forecasters say

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individual woman of the village in ugonda and a small salam and another city in africa or south central america. a story that has been one of the things that has propelled her to support and do the work she's doing. and which we always have to remember is at the core of what we are doing. but she always reminded us that leadership she has given is driven also by principals and by long-held convictions that she has been articulating now for decades. and so i want to just express my gratitude for having her be able to provide that kind of leadership as we sit here and it not only celebrate but look forward which is what she is asking us to do. and i think i probably am speaking for all of you and it is a joy to be able to see this, but isn't it incredible to have a secretary of state of the united states to stand here and say that women and girls are front and center to the foreign policy and foreign assistance of this country. [applause] you have no idea what a joy it is to work with her, so i think the only other thing that i would say after they're really inspiring and important words of the s

america's coldest spot, aberdeen, south dakota, minus 31. des moines was minus 8 today. and has blown through all $3 million of the city budgeted for snow removal. but there, people own winter coats and gloves. not like meridian, mississippi. winter weather arrived inside the courthouse. the boiler is broken. >> we have to dress in layers but when we have to go down the hall or into the break room, it is freezing. it is as though we're outside. >> many people are just sick of it. this cold has been biting them for more than a week and this time, there's no escaping to florida. sunday's low in miami will feel like 24 degrees. mark strassmann, cbs news, marietta, georgia. >>> where do you go to thaw out? >> hawaii. >> that's about it. the bahamas. we always see cruise ships. i'm surprised we don't have one leaving from the marine terminal now today. they're always leaving but the problem is even if you're doing that, you have to dress to get to the ship. wear the heavy coat to get to the ship to go to the bahamas. >> or just run from your car. hope it is quick. >> it is re

it's latin america, and its parts of east asia, parts of south asia and latin america and even an emerging europe there are some strong economy is beginning to show signs of vigor such as poland. third factor is and this is i think the big unknown to extend a very important point not to lose sight of is the turnaround liable to occur in the corporate sector. one way of thinking about the downturn of 2009 is we had corporates adjusting it very aggressively. and in so doing turn the financial position from one of modest to win a substantial financial surplus. now maybe that financial surplus position will remain for the next six months, nine months by my suspicion is it will increasingly turn into a little more corporate activity and corporate optimism whether on the capital spending side or the employment side and that is my fourth final point which is i think we're going to get a turn in the global employment picture. desmond use the high level of unemployment in the u.s. and the weekly market as a reason for extending weakness and i would turn that point on its head and say as a the econo

the brazilians have led an enormous increased involvement from south and central america, haiti's neighbors. they have done so superbly. whenever people were killed in the earthquake, they basically have held things together haitis's neighbors, and they have done so superbly. they have held things together. president obama and the secretary of state and our a.i.d. people have signed an agreement with the brazilian leader so that we, of the united states, have tried to provide extra logistic and distribution support in haiti. but i want to say, sir, on behalf of the world, i think brazil has been magnificent and we are very grateful to you and your country and to your leaders. [applause] dennis o'brien is the chairman of the digicell group. he lives in ireland, except when there is and earthquake in haiti. we have been friends for many years. he told me not long after i met him, that young haitians who sold his telephone cards on the street or the best under norris he has ever met. he has worked tirelessly to rebuild the haitian economy. he has worked out -- to coordinate the business people