every time i need inspiration, i think about my friend and nasa astronaut, suni williams.he's going to be racing the same race, except she's going to be doing it in space at the international space station. i spoke with her earlier about life aboard the space station and also how her training is coming along. you took me around a mockup, obviously, of where you are now. we talked a lot aboutcinated by. even got a sleep pod. how are you sleeping? how does it feel up there? >> interesting question, you know, people always ask, like, how do you sleep? of course there'scourse, there'e have sleeping bags. and it's been great. you close the doors. it's quiet. it's dark in there. we all have our own tap lops in there so we can email while we're in there. it's actually been really nice. eating has been great. you know, everything's been pretty perfect so far. >> yeah. and one of the other things i did when i visited you at the johnson space center was to do a virtual reality spacewalk. it was a remarkably challenging thing i think for myself. i got nauseated even in the virtual re

mutanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni area. more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. this locale is the historic center of baghdad book selling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. named after the famous 10th century classic poet, al-mutanabbi, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. mutanabbi street also holds cafes, stationary shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. it has been the heart and soul of the baghdad literary and intellectual community. this tragedy is part of a wider and continuing tragedy, but one that we want to isolate and address, not only for the loss of lives but also for the implications underlying the destruction of a street where books were sold. book selling on mutanabbi street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense, we feel that mutanabbi street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. mutanabbi street starts here. our first reader will be

there are shia/suny disputes. it is interesting when you start looking back on some of these. portia in iran -- the shia in iran working with al white they'reed syria -- ala looking for whatever help they can get. there are looking to fight any way they can do it. it is a factor. it is a concern. they were a about it. why are they worried about it? they are all worried about the retributions. maybe they feel a little guilty for centuries. they are concerned. i think maybe it is not as big of a deal as some people would put it up to me. let me take the gentlemen in the silver hair. >> to bring it back to the navy in a little bit, in arabian sea and gulf, what do you think would happen if the iranians attempted to close the streets or created an incident in the gulf of? >> it is back to basics. historically are present as the maritime. it is not fit culturally. the iranians might try it. it is just a matter of time. they know they really cannot match up against us. unfortunately, you get a lot of posturing. we are getting back to budget now. we are stretched thin. there is not a

it's a jewel in a surge also in the sport coming up as well russia's murray sharapova will take on suni williams to decide who wins the olympic tennis gold medal at the next thirty minutes here on our team from moscow but it's business next. let's you know a warm welcome to business artsy london is under fire as the costs of the a live big just keep growing now this is a given the country is in a double dip recession and this is fueling the public anger laura smith explains. there's no doubt they lympics have been more expensive than it was first thoughts even officially the budget quote drew polls and some reports say it's increased by as much as ten times from three point eight billion dollars to thirty eight billion and where has that money go on one point six billion on security first dogs but much of it is going into building the olympic park including the eight hundred fifty million dollars stadium itself they're quite extensive four hundred twenty six million and the hundred and sixty six million dollars. and that's where the word legacy comes in where the government hopes the bi

and al qaeda has for the most party didn't fied with the suni sect and most likely going to support them but let's be clear this is not al qaeda central in pakistan or wherever the team may be, that are pushing this, these are people who are foreign fighters who fought with the al qaeda organizations given the message to go forth and try to do what you can to keep this organization relevant and then there are others who just simply agree with al qaeda who simply know where you can get weapons who simply know where the rebels can get support, and they are telling them this is where you can get it and we can help you get it and if we help you get it then perhaps you can help us. >> got you. all right. now, if al qaeda, is influencing this to some extent and some pippa thesers in rebel forces -- some sympathizers in rebel forces, doesn't that in the u.s. put us in a strange position, we are supporting the rebels as well you have our sworn enemy supporting the rebels. makes for strange bedfellows. >> not the first time they did the same thing in iraq back during that war they looked for oppo

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and suny, i have a lot of questions on this one. first being, can governor brewer even do this? >> you know, that really is the question, right? and this is a very complicated area of the law, because typically, federal law trumps state law. but -- and it trumps state law in areas of immigration. but what does that really mean? the courts haven't been very clear. so at this point, now you have a state order saying that this is the deal. this is what can happen. and unless and until it is challenged in a court of law, which i suspect it will be, that will be the state of things in the state of arizona. >> okay, so, as we heard the vernor mention, you know, they will still issue those work authorization cards as the federal program, under the white house, you know, now allows. but explain to me how it's possible to work here legally, but not have legal status, as a citizen. >> yeah, well, when president obama did sign this executive order, called the consideration of deferred action for childhood arrivals, it was very clear, brooke, that this is just a stopgap measure. that this w

concept shed 1.1% dragged by financial utilities while a fierce price war between china appliances sent suni appliances up in the afternoon. hang seng gave up -- give back yesterday's gains, down by 1.2%, led by developers and energy. but standard charitied hong kong shares key couped 3.6% after that $340 million settlement for dealing with iran. elsewhere nikkei recovered from early losses to end about flat. weakness in iron and steel makers was countered by gains in transport companies. the south korean market is out for a national holiday, also indian market. australian market slipped lower by about 0.25% weighed down by material and utilities. >> thank you. >>> china's economic planning agency has trimmed its coal output in three of the top producing regions by 7%, trying to get rid of a supply gut for falling demand on coal because of the slowing economy. there are more signs of the slowdown. for the second time this year mainland posted capital outflows in july. it's a sign of shrinking external demand. china economist at barclays joins us for more on this topic. good morning -- or goo

central problem for president obama as our piece in the crystal ball by professor jim campbell up at suny buffalo makes clear. jon: but explain this. the economy is not doing particularly well. the president made a lot of promises about keeping unemployment down that haven't come to fruition. and yet the president remains personally very popular and, in many of the polls, is still leading mitt romney. can you explain that? >> sure. it's summer. and right now, personal popularity can be more important than some of the other fundamentals in an election. in a general election though, assuming, assuming that the opposition candidate, that is, mitt roll any, plays his cards well, and focuses intensively, even maybe excessively on the economy, one would think some of that would change. given the numbers in this article, president obama clearly has one of the worst economies to come up during a re-election campaign. you know, by some measures only jimmy carter had a worse economy during his re-election campaign. so we'll see whether, whether governor romney can really do what he has to do but he

we replaced a suny dictatorship with a shiite regime.has happened in in iraq has not been the emergence of a shiite democracy. it has more been a shiite regime. certainly over the last decade since the fall of saddam, what does happen in iraq has benefited iran more than the united states. it remains to be seen what will happen 20 years for now. host: have we learned any lessons? guest: absolutely. one of the reasons why you see such a reluctance on the part of the obama administration to intervene at in syria is precisely what happened to in iraq. we intervened militarily and produced tens of thousands of civilian casualties. it brought about a regime that saddam improvement on said dom hussein, but is not a democracy that we wanted. likewise in syria, there is a realization that this is likely to be a jeffersonian democracy. there is an understanding from democrats and republicans that the american public is tired of extending blood in the middle east. i want to say all this with the katia that i lived a year in auveat thathe co caddy

the persian world needs in the arab world, where the shii meets the suni. i cannot think of a tougher place, so if you're going to go into a tough place to do it by doing a little homework. i feel that we should have done an awful lot more homework about, you know, when you look at a dictator, the first question should not become how do we get rid of them. the first question should be commanded to get there. once you figure out how person likes about got there, that will help inform the answer to how you get rid of them. clearly iraq has to be ruled by some combination of those three communities, sunni, shii, and the kurds. that has to be hard works. to go in and think that it was akin to the next vacation in 1945 as opposed to giving -- getting sunni out and replacing them by teefor, i don't think we understood the fall lines of dictatorship and democracy. it was to rate -- we were right to rectify that. the sunni-shia fall line has been there for a thousand years commend you might want to pay a little more attention to how you're going to deal with that.

it is, after all, where the persian world meets the arab world, where the she of world meets the suny world, or the turkish world meets the arab world. if you're going to go into the toughest place, don't just do it on adrenaline. do it by maybe doing a little homework. i feel that we should have done an awful lot more homework. when you look at a dictator, the first question should not be how do we get rid of him? the court -- the first question should be how did he get there? once you figure out how a person like saddam hussein got there, that should form the answer to how you get rid of him. clearly, iraq has to be ruled by some combination of those three communities, sunni, shia and the kurds. that has to be how it works. but to go in and to think that denazification in terms of 1945 and getting the sunnis are, i don't think that we understood it. dictatorship and democracy is something that we understood and we would like to rectify that. but the sunni-shia fault line has been there for thousands of years. you want to pay more attention with how you will deal with that. i must sa