has allowed sweden to continue to sell them. from alternative tobacco products, we turn to alternative energy. in the world of energy, the holy grail is a power source that's inexpensive and clean with no emissions. many start-ups in silicon valley are working on it. and one of them is bloom energy. they want to put a little power plant in a box literally in your backyard. for nearly a decade, the company had been unusually secretive about its bloom box. but in february 2010, its inventor, k.r. sridhar, invited me to take a look inside his much talked about but ver before seen creature. what could this power? >> this could power a u.s. home. average united states home. >> entire house? >> entire house, 24/7, 365. >> something that small? >> the way we make it is in two blocks. this is a european home. the two put together is a u.s. home. >> [chuckling] 'cause we use twice as much energy, is that what you're saying? >> yeah, and this will power four asian homes. >> so four homes in india, your native country. >> absolutely. four

augustin carstens, anders borg is sweden's minister of finance and christina romer on president obama's panel of economic advisors now teaching in california. i'm pleased to have all of them here and i begin with this question. how hard was it to do and how significant was it to put together this $430 billion fund? >> charlie t was hard going to begin with because when you see that mountain to climb, you're not too sure their's going to get to the top. but i must say that in the last few days, there have been willingness of the international community, many countries, you know, from japan, south of the process to switzerland, to russia to china toindia, to singapore, to mexico, to sweden, and all the nordic countries with it, 20 of them just rallied and decided to express their support not only to the institution, but also to the virtue and values of multilateralism, you know, to be there for others when there is trouble. and it was extremely gratifying at the end of the day to, you know, not only hit the target but exceed the target. >> rose: why is it necessary? >> well, it is necessa

sweden offered at least $10 billion.enmark $7 billion and norway more than $9 billion. >>> now let's check some economic figures from mainland china and hong kong. our reporter in hong kong jamie ung has more. >> china's inflation rate started rising again nationwide in march. in shanghai, prices come down slightly from february. the shanghai municipal bureau said prices rose 3.8% in march compared to a year ago. it was down 0.1 percentage point from the previous month. but food prices were still high, up over 9%. prices for home appliances and maintenance services also rose 5%. the chinese property market seems to have cooled down. the national statistics bureau says home sales declined 17.5% in first quarter compared to a year ago. overall properties sales including homes, offices and commercial buildings fell 14.6%. the government road various curbs to clampdown on housing prices including property taxes and restrictions on second home purchases. a report by citigroup says the cost of homes in hong kong rose 6% in the

it's somewhat subdued because in norway and sweden not so much in denmark people are increasingly afraid of talking about their fears and their fears for the future which is not a healthy situation it's far better that people can come out and say that i think this whole battle what can we do about immigration what can we do your part in suppression but that sort of debate seems to be subdued in norway and in sweden and that is unhealthy. so i would very much hope that people would loosen up and talk about real issues instead of instead of pretending they don't exist ok i think that was a much bigger program was that he got there president of the danish free press society could if he thought thanks for having coming up with r.t. how to take the spoils of the art to go a lot of the business of that how russia is because all for the american flags and more will be digging in the potential rich reserves of the sea got more on that coming in about ten minutes on. all the day's big stories next by the russian president's release to political prisoners one of which is a former presidential cand

talks about his personal experiences sweden of course he's talking about the expected results of his extradition hearing sweden's trying to extradite him on allegations of sexual assault that result is still pending so we still don't know whether our songs will get further experience of sweet and. it is quarter past the hour let's take a look at more of the world news for you that's fine minister mark root has resigned along with his cabinet after the collapse of government talks over austerity measures the junior coalition partner the right wing freedom party refuses to agree to constant state pensions talks which have been going on for a month for trying to slash the country's budget by sixteen billion euro to meet you rules rating agency fitch has warned that the netherlands may lose its aaa rating over the debt crisis one of the few remaining eurozone states to hold the top ranking. region extremist anders breivik has said sorry to some of his victims' families during the final day of his testimony over apologize for those killed when he bombed in oslo government building but not

used also in our the example in fact sweden has already endorsed china's membership of the r.k. tongues or what you say the sweden has already endorsed china's membership of the arctic council but how does trying to go about getting support for this if that's possibly a position of having a carrot in front of a nation and offering money to buy its way in why would our claimants be willing to give china a chunk of the arctic. well the china option is attractive in a number of ways in the first place time has been money and you all know the exploration of and it's the resources can be the risky venture. providing the financial resources is always helpful and secondly china normally doesn't one exactly a trade going in and share it is quite willing to be a junior partner in the benchers and in fact it's china still still does not have p eight want its for asian can't knowledge it's also more reassuring to us to the arctic countries and to be out of this because then china certainly cannot be dominant in the east joint venture while you bring up the issue of china that not really ha

welfare state it just took us out of the first personal experience with the socialist paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like you have a party when i start talks about his personal experiences sweden of course he's talking about the expected result of his extradition hearing sweden's trying to extradite him on allegations of sexual assault that result is still pending so we still don't know whether afghans will get further experience of sweet and. the second programming julia signs is brand new series here on this channel airing tomorrow of course as we said there just after eleven g.m.t. . the un's porson has observer mission to syria as multiple reports continue that the teetering cease fire is being violated on both sides the rebels political leaders still want to un military intervention but as examine the reports from damascus the public have no appetite for foreign interference. almost everyone in syria these days is in opposition to something ready to lash out at opponents at any moment and seventy six year old my feet mohammad is in opposition to that he says syr

fighting in northern afghanistan currently in sweden nominally neutral contributed warplanes for natoas war against libya last year what the activists are highlighting what are the three major causes for concern the first was that nato is evolving into a sun chalet a global war fighting organization having now conducted wars and three continents present yugoslavia now it's down it's still ongoing and in libya also the fact that nato is in very symes or the european phased adaptive approach interceptor missile shield program which in some spending not only throughout europe from west to east but also and asia minor into turkey and thirdly they talk about this is a very promising year human biology or a big important work of their careers and you know it's a shame because belgium is one of five europe you know major members under a major program called burden sharing part of nuclear sharing. policies and u.s. tactical nuclear weapons that would be you first right nuclear turkey of another kind i don't have to tell you that sort of thing the same sleep close to russia but also borders or

the socialist paradise or sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like the other party when i was not talking about his personal experience to sweden of course he's talking about the expected result of his extradition hearing sweden's trying to extradite him on allegations of sexual assault that result is still pending so we still don't know whether afghans will get further experience of sweet and. un sports or in some sort of a mission syria has multiple reports continue that the teetering cease fire is being violated by both sides the rebels political leaders still want to un back military intervention but it's not his exam the boy who reports next month of moscow's public of no appetite for foreign interference. almost everyone in syria these days is in opposition to something ready to lash out at opponents at any moment and seventy six year old my feet mohammad is in opposition to that he says syrians are so worked up about politics it has become difficult to make people smile but he can the way. i like dancing in the street and i like the reaction it was using the new i feel free

socialist paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like. when arsenal's talks about his personal experiences sweden of course he's talking about the expected result of his extradition hearing sweden's trying to extradite him on allegations of sexual assault that results is still pending so we still don't know whether our sons will get experience of sweet and. up to eighteen minutes past the hour let's take a look at some more world news for you the u.s. could use its military in afghanistan for at least a decade once it takes control of its own security in twenty fourteen pledges part of a new strategic parents agreed by the two countries on sunday u.s. national security advisor stresses that washington will only act with problems approval in what the document describes as being to defend afghanistan both countries will review the plan before it's signed by the american and afghan presidents. those prime minister marc rich has resigned along with his cabinet after the collapse of government talks over austerity measures the junior coalition

of course he's talking about the expected result of his extradition hearing sweden is trying to extradite him on allegations of sexual assault that result is still pending so we still don't know whether i will get further experience of sweet and. un sports or use observer mission to syria as multiple reports continue that the teetering cease fire is being violated by both sides the rebels political leaders still want to un by military intervention but it's not his example we can report snow tonight from damascus the public have no appetite for foreign interference. almost everyone in syria these days is in opposition to something ready to lash out at opponents at any moment and seventy six year old my feet mohammad is an opposition to that he says syrians are so worked up about politics it's become difficult to make people smile but he found the way they will manage shared like dancing in the streets and i like their reaction it always is in the new remits where you get even if he can stay away from politics and i ask him about his biggest concern is that syria should not dance to somebod

officials in alameda were able to talk via satellite with city officials in their sister city in sweden3 american cities calling their sister cities around the world. here is our coverage from july of 1962. >> all of us feel a sense of wonder in realizing that our words are being transmitted through space by the magic of telestar. this system of communication opens the way to tremendous opportunities for better human understanding. >> someday i hope i can go to sweden. >> isn't it wonderful progress? >> yes, it is and this is a wonderful telestar because great groups of people can communicate. >> another telestar call is waiting. i'm sorry. please conclude your call. >> the launch of telestar even inspired a song. telestar recorded first by the tornadoes and later covered by the ventures. ♪[ music ] ♪[ music ] >> still to come on a second look what do this and this have in common? >> and a bit later riding the whale, one bay area man's dream of taking this idea and spreading it far and wide. >> follow second look on facebook and twitter. >>> tonight on a second look we remember one of t

some neighborhoods in european cities where muslims exercise control, notably in france, and even in sweden, shariah is practiced and enforced in contravention and suppression of local laws. some of those areas have become known as no-go zones. the proposed mosque near ground zero in new york was to be named core bone a to us. the implementation of maria and the plac-- sharishariah. >> shariah itself con takens the obligation to wage jihad among nonbelievers. it is the obligatory struggle to impose shariah world wide. that doctrine regards truces and treaties as simply temporary pauses in the struggle until muslims can resume the struggle. it permits and indeed surges diassembly for the sake of islam. there is even a word for it. the tom squire bomber was challenged at his sentencing by the judge when he professed hatred for for the united states. she asked didn't you take an oath when you became a citizen of this country? his response was, yes, but i didn't mean it. millions of them reside among us in the united states as loyal americans and millions more of them reside around the world. t

bumpy start and he's four shots off the pace but birthday boy henrik stenson thirty six today of sweden leading the way michael roy is yet to tee off and that is all sports news with. film makers. and. the. directors of real life. i. am.

who leads the standings are up against the czechs and sweden currently leading one nil. now moving on to football and real madrid coach jersey marino wants chelsea to be by in munich in the champions league final after the german side beat his realm adrift team in a string penalty shoot out in the second leg of this i mean final at the end about well the german team had held a two want to vantage from the first leg but that was overturned in the first fifteen minutes in madrid christiane are now they're scoring from the penalty spot early on before bagging and not to put right now in the driving seat botts by halftime the time was all square again when i and robin himself scored a spot kick to make the tight three three i guess and that's how it remained side penalties were needed. justin. fired into the final which will be played at their arena against chelsea on may the nineteenth combine pain case paul white quite worrying at. this. minute. the drama today was at the highest levels and that's what makes football interesting there are wonderful players goals tension to

leave -- >> they get a month of parental leave in sweden men. >> exactly.nd if it is not used by men it is lost. >> so incentive to use it. >> exactly. >> to thank you so much to give us a different fassett. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> up next color of change is not a household name but that's not stopping them from getting a bunch of big-name brands to bolt from alec. and later brett ehrlich just plain makes some stuff up. >> coming up if this week was this crazy, you're about to watch an ad message created a current tv viewer for hershey's air delight. >>how's college life, honey? >>its great, but i'm already getting homesick. >>i've left something for you in your suitcase. >>thanks mom. it's perfect. if i can't be at home, at least i can have a taste of it. >>hershey's air delight milk chocolate, a lighter, airier meltier hershey's happiness. really? yeah, i'd like that. who are you talking to? uh, it's jake from state farm. sounds like a really good deal. jake from state farm at three in the morning. who is this? it's jake from state farm. w

now on to ice hockey and russia have bounced back from their opening defeat to finland by beating sweden four two in the latest leg of the euro hockey tour after a goal as a first period russian struck three times within four minutes to forge ahead while sweden pushed themselves back into contention to the couple of goals. second of the match maybe four two to russia with just over a minute to go while earlier while champions finland fought back from two goals down to hosts the czech republic three two you know the time. tennis now and second seeded maria sharapova will face another final against world number one of the tortillas are into following a hard fought victory over patrick that of god a single break of serve in the opening set was enough to cheer up a bit to take it six fought but kept the russian on her toes throughout and saved a match point in the second to force a tie break but cheer up with something extra to wrap it up seven three and battle into her fourth final of the season. while top ranked toria as aren't claimed her twenty ninth win of the year following a six one s

the fortress was sweden's military pride and joy. miles of walls and hundreds of cannon, it was the second-mightiest fort of its kind in europe after gibraltar. built by more than 10,000 workers, the fort was a huge investment and stimulated lots of innovation. in the 1760s, this was the world's biggest and most modern dry dock. after the construction of this fort, the village of helsinki became a boom town supporting this grand "gibraltar of the north." today, suomenlinna is most appreciated by locals for its scenic strolls. explore the park. there are ramparts to ramble and cannon to ponder. cafes nestle in the shade of the walls. you'll find finns on the rocks and families enjoying their humble beach.

future battle our start with bad news the defeat another name including pirate pirate bay here in sweden large fines prison sentences how do you feel about that result i think it's absolutely horrible i think there was an excellent example of how the establishment. takes its own privileges and then the status quo of the incumbent industries ahead of laws government cares for itself first and then for citizens if you look at previous new political movements i mean you had the liberal movement which came under twenty years ago you had the the social democrat the labor movement which came about eighty years ago you had the green movement coming about forty years ago all of them challenged the establishment and the status quo to the point where the early activists frankly went to jail and in history we regard those that went to jail as heroes so. it's a shame but perhaps being cynical that's the way it goes and these people will be heroes in the history books there is another side there are people who say look how much material went through that site and how much of it should have had some r

china's prime minister is continuing his european tour which is now something in sweden in beijing is looking for backing from the nordic states for its big. to gain a foothold in the arctic region and its fastener g. resources let's get some analysis on this from francis long managing director of mycenaean holdings an investment company in can't thank you for joining us now after visiting iceland mining energy accords with the country there will the chinese premier be looking to strike similar deals in sweden on this visit. of course. you would give anything so i think. the size similar deal but i think in the key question the nordic sixty explosion i think speed with china. in fighting for resources. to. china never you find. because the arctic powers like. you. norway. we were not one. people would. be expression a strong. chinese now so china will have some tough people magically. china doesn't have any sovereign rights over our resources why is it getting a chance to play a role in the region's future at least trying to encourage it be overstretching itself. most definitely china

to him happens time obviously his main fear has been always been that he will be extradited from sweden to the u.s. ok we look forward to the show or a summit in london thank you. the subject of immigration always stokes voters come election time and seeing a french far right presidential candidate show their true colors their very strict reforms if elected mr saucily reports there's a fear that ethnically ring fencing fronts could prove to be permanent. anti immigration anti euro antiglobalization and advocates of protectionism all in the name of the french state and national identity. there is not a single french person now one european who does not know that i am a sworn enemy of the european single currency buskers its radical islam is a direct consequence of mass immigration of the left and the right imposed on us for decades it is not know. traditionally on the fringes of france's national politics the rhetoric of today's far right may no longer be as far off for its citizens as it once was opinion polls suggest the presidential candidate marine le pen of the ultra right wing nati

sweden set up a public-private type of company. it's not officially in, let's say, the department of energy. that with this, they also noted if you can convince the people that this can be done in a safe way, that there are economic benefits. and what could have been, you know, let's pick you and you like it or not, it's going there. it turned out to be three competitive bids for the right to put the spent fuel in these sites. and so it was a competition that kind of went completely in reverse. in fact, the losers, the people who did not get the site picked actually had some side benefits. but there was a serious competition to say we see economic benefit, and if you do this in a safe way, there's -- you can control the downsides. we actually have an example of that in the united states. there is radioactive waste in new mexico in carlsbad where it's been operating for 11, 12 years, roughly that period of time. great economic benefit. no accidents. it's been done in a very safe way, and it's been an economic prosperity for that reg

welfare state it just took us out of the i have had personal experience with a socialist paradise or sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like the other party when it's also it's about his personal experience this week and of course he's talking about the expected result of his extradition hearing sweden's trying to extradite him on allegations of sexual assault that results is still pending so we still don't know whether our songs will get the experience of sweets and. more of the world's news for you now sudanese warplanes carried out airstrikes on south sudan on monday killing three people near a southern oil town ventoux that's just on a day after new fighting erupted on the border between the two countries if you found troops were pulling out of the disputed border town has great ginny's officials say up to four hundred of their soldiers were killed during the battle region became independent from the north last year probably a long running civil war which led to nearly two million deaths. clashes over the demolition obvious in the filipino capital have killed one person and left do

now and i saw the russia have bounced back from their opening defeat to finland beating sweden four two in the latest leg of the euro hockey tour after golden spurs brushstroke three times within four minutes to forge ahead sweden push themselves back into contention with a couple of goals but nicholai second of the match made it forty to russia with just over a minute to go and before that world champions finland fall back from two goals than to be the czech republic three two in overtime. tennis second seed to reach a wrap of all faiths another final against world number one victoria as a rank following a hard fought victory over pep petrak a veto in stuttgart a single break of serve in the opening set was enough for chirac of her to take it six four but kept the russian on her toes throughout and saved a match point in the second to force a tie break however sure upriver found something extra to wrap it up seven three battle into her fourth final of the season there she will meet victoria as a ranger who beat agnes could advance in straight sets. while men's world number two rafael n

easy game now an ice hockey russia have bounced back from their opening defeat to finland by beating sweden for two and the latest leg of the euro hockey tour after a goalie spurs period russia struck three times within four minutes to forge ahead sweden pushed themselves back into contention with a couple of goals but nicolas second of the match made it to russia with just over a minute to go while just before the world champions spin and fall back from two goals down to beat host the czech republic reaching in overtime. to tennis and second seed in rishon wrap of will face another final against world number one think tory as a ranker following a hard fought victory over petrak of the in stood guard a single break of serve in the opening set was enough to take it six four but convey to the kept the russian on her toes through that and saved a match point in the second set the force of tiebreaker. over found something extra to wrap it up seven three and battle into her fourth final of the season. thank you and in the final she will face the top ranked player victoria azarenka she claimed he

the plight i have had personal i hope her salute experience with the socialist dream paradise of sweden and i can tell you it is nothing like the other times when i was talking about his personal experience this week and of course he's talking about the expected result of his extradition hearing sweden's trying to extradite him on allegations of sexual assault that result is still pending so we still don't know whether i will get further experience of sweet and. more of the world's news for you in brief this hour the u.s. could use its military in afghanistan for at least a decade once and take control of its own security in twenty four thirteen pledges part of a new strategic pact agreed by the two countries on sunday but u.s. national security advisor stresses that washington will only act with kabul approval and what the document describes as being able to defend afghanistan both countries will review the plan signed by the american and afghan presidents. their region extremist anders breivik has said some of his victims' families during the final day of his testimony very apologize

information center and in stockholm we go to richard he is a member of the swedish parliament for the sweden democrats all right gentlemen this is cross-eyed that means you can jump in anytime you want and rays in london first i'd like to go to you a lot of people said that after the first round of the presidential election in france that the choices were dismal but and whoever wins france still loses how do you feel about that. yes that's probably that's probably a good call i mean if sarkozy very unlikely but it's because he does win the second round we have to keep in mind that in the first round of the elections three quarters of french voters actually voted against sarkozy so that in itself is an indictment and if what is new looks like very likely or launch will come in we will get a whole new shake up in the way europe is likely to pursue solving the eurozone crisis alone has indicated that this austerity package you know advocated by chancellor merkel of germany is not necessarily one thing so we might get someone who is not that popular or we might get someone who in the future will

can see is everywhere, in which hannah ike believe and in serbia and switzerland and sweden and holland, he's been a foundational change for the west worldwide. >> when you see that he's an shepley melody mean? >> there was a book put out in 2007 the man who changed the world and the translated that into chinese said it sold 500,000 copies in 2007 and i was contacted by some chinese professors who said they looked for something contradicting because the change in sexual conduct among the chinese youth was enormous colin the release of that book. they said sex, drugs and rock-and-roll, we can do that so they asked me if they could translate some of my book into chinese as some kind of response. remember, nason appeared in a major, fox film saying he's a wonderful man who did all these things. cities everywhere. thus wasting nature documentary last year identifying him as the basis for their harvick education programs in switzerland and as i say just came back from the philippines he's involved in every aspect looking at the revolutionary for us but you can do all these things with no dow

leave -- >> they get a month of parental leave in sweden, men. >> exactly.s not used by men it is lost. >> so incentive to use it. >> exactly. >> to thank you so much to give us a different fassett. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> up next color of change is not a household name but that's not stopping them from getting a bunch of big-name brands to bolt from alec. and later brett ehrlich just plain makes some stuff up. >> coming up if this week was this crazy can you imagine how crazy next week could be? i can. don't go away. [ male announcer ] cookies with smooth caramel and chocolate. ♪ ♪ hmm twix. also available in peanut butter. attack on women that perhaps the majority of the population woke up? >> idaho is not known as approaching act i.v. you had hundreds of women show up, thousands signed petitions. they made their voices heard. what happens is that now, the legislators are running scared. very similar laws have passed quietly in other states for the past 10 years, really in the past two years have intensified. pennsylvania a similar law was