that is the bad news. on the good news, no is serious injuries reported, no storm related deaths. >> shepard: jonathan hunt live for us in long beach, new york. the governor of new york is speaking with our colleagues from fox 5 new york. speaking with the governor. let's listen. >> yesterday afternoon i was in new york city. last night, long island. this morning altamont at the dam, the new york power authority dam. and today i have been in mid hudson and i'm coming down to new york city and then i'm going be in long island. >> by the way, did you hear the evacuation zones will be lifted in about 50 minutes, folks can go back to the zones in new york city where they had the mandatory evacuation order? >> new york city, i ironically, i know a lot of the conversation the past few days has been about new york city but most of the damage we are talking about has been outside of new york city. it is long island, it it is upstate new york, the mid hudson. that is where we clearly the preponder arancance of the d

the rain has let up in new york city. wins are beginning to die down but the storm surge will continue for at least another 12 hours. they will see how that plays out. we just got an update. as you can see, the track hasn't changed any. the storm has followed pretty closely to the forecast track for the last several days. it's been forecast very accurately. again, it looks for the most part that millions of people got out of the way. >> we will check in with our local weather forecast which looks pretty warm for you but if you are planning on flying anywhere today or tomorrow, your flight may be canceled or delayed because of irene. right now 10 major airports in the northeast are closed. ffo more than 40 flights to the region were canceled yesterday, at least to flight team minutes. again, you want to check your flight because there can be a rebel effect when so many flights are canceled. even if you are going to a destination not on the east coast. a special report in a half hour at 8:00. face the nation is going to air

details about the new deal. the new deal has been well told.it is a look at basic developments from a new perspective. the perspective that reveals much about fdr and his mind and his work to an audience many of whom have forgotten or never learned of the critical role of roosevelt and his revolution in american history. let me elaborate. franklin d. roosevelt in the third american revolution argues that roosevelt avenue the achievements resulted in a revolutionary change in american life which ranks with the work of washington and lincoln, thus the third revolution. it was a revolution that grew not by chance through pragmatic political response to the crisis of the great depression but rather it resulted from a longstanding and well developed political ideology and embedded religious convictions. the 18th-century enlightenment phrase adopted but never fulfilled by the french revolution was liberty, equality and fraternity. roosevelt's revolution worked to achieve the third of these ideals of just government which emerged from the thinking of

the more powerful lower house. so its new leader noda will almost certainly become japan's next prime minister. he will then form his administration. this involves choosing cabinet members. and he's supposed to be party executive post as well. >> could the dpj regain support under the leadership of noda? >> well the approval rating may go up a bit with e the new leader. if public support for noda rises, that would make it -- make forming a grand coalition a bit easier. it would be difficult for the opposition parties to refuse a popular prime minister's offer to walk together. however, even though noda is a hard-working politician, japanese people don't know him very much. so noda might find it hard to get high approval rating. >> thanks. appreciate it. >> well, noda's election as head of ruling democratic party has caught the attention of other international media. they're focusing on his low profile and the long to-do list he'll face once he becomes prime minister. china's central television provided live coverage of monday

that's the good news. the tropical storm downgraded also good news. but as you mentioned the concern is certainly far from over because this is very much a water event. it will be raining for hours. we're already in saturated areas. there have been floods here over the last month. this is the wettest month on record in new jersey and new york. so we're already dealing with pretty bad conditions and now compounded by now tropical storm irene as well. so flooding remains an ongoing concern. a lot of people are out walking the streets trying to check things out. you see people town there along the river front. they are being advised not to do that. although here there's no downed electrical wires. there are areas that's flooded there are some downed electrical wires. there's a concern that people can get electrocuted. the warning continues to be to stay in your homes until this is completely over and it's going to be hours yet, alex. >> i'm glad you reiterated the warnings from the officials to stay inside. how about power because i know across the state

>> the good news is we see an emerging business model for media, and the bad news is it involves giving0% of your revenue to apple. but i think there is a lot of potential, actually, for building a business on top of distribution through mobile. the other thing we have got going on is really profoundly exciting and far more exciting than five years ago, that the tools are so much better than they were five years ago. they are profoundly better. compared to the dark days of 2005, media are now -- everybody is online. facebook can launch a product, and really, overnight, build community on thousands of websites. there really are some exciting things going on. in the last five years, things have changed a lot. >> does that count -- does that excitement also extend to content? >> i do not think we are there yet. i do not think we have seen any digital native content that has produced really ground-breaking journalism. a couple of years ago, we were pretty excited about what was happening at a place like talking points memo, where they were doing some great stuff. we have seen a lot of effor

the lines of news reporting. phil said that the times' practices, journalism of verification and i say it practices a journalism that values protection and bias, there's no other word for it created a journalism at odds with its historical mission of reppedderring the news impartially without fear or favor. it's also created journalism at odds with the liberal democratic values it's long stood for so even if you do support a more partisan times, and there are those that do believe news organizations should take up ideological codulls like that do in europe, but even if you support a more partisan times and the ideologically committed journalists in the room who do so, there's still cause for concern because of the law of unintended consequences, the liberal values that these progressives generally stand for are often very ill-served by the very paper that embodies them or said to embody them. john duey, the great professor, educator, and my philosopher is credited for finding the vital hates of the democracy -- th

that's the good news. however, the flooding threat is going to remain. ill see some of our biggest problems across albany, new york, hartford, connecticut, outside of boston, and also into burlington, vermont, with flood watches and warnings in place. and the next area on the map today that we're concerned about when it comes to rainfall is right here across the central and also the southern rockies with some heavier rainfall developing. as for the temps right now, the big spot to be concerned about -- i'm not sure. can i walk over here? yeah. okay. 89 in dallas. 85 in san jose, and 75 in atlanta. this weather map is so large. all right. as far as today's map goes, we have 106 expected in dallas. 105 in san antonio. 92 in atlanta. for those of you in new york city, heading back to work today, 82 degrees expected for you, and a little bit better here at lynn in dallas from 106 today to 105 tomorrow. >> wow. big doings. >> we're getting -- giving you a cooldown, folks. >> baby steps. >> thank you so much. >> sure. >> well, who sits atop the box office this

in the chaos of the past months, new power structures have been developing. >> the beginning of a new political system is waiting to be put in place. mustafa abdul jalil is the chairman of the council, formerly gaddafi's justice minister. he wants -- he is seen as the future prime minister. many western countries that were friendly with gaddafi, including france and germany, have recognized the transitional council as the defacto libyan government. doubts remain as to the role of islamist groups among the rebels. there are links between the rebels and outcry data, some alleged -- and alqaeda, some allege. many are skeptical about the form the new country might take, without even parliament -- a parliament. >> it has no structures. everything was dictated by gaddafi. it has to reinvent itself. it is a mammoth task. >> it is a task that they will not have to tackle on their own. the arab league, nato, and the european union have all offered to help. >> chancellor angela merkel has stressed the immediate need to prevent further bloodshed in libya. what she says berlin will be -- she says

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the white and green mountains of maine, vermont, new hampshire, the adirondacks. so from massachusetts to connecticut to rhode island, it looks like your heavy rain is over with. we're mostly talking upstate new york, all through northern new england. wind gusts in boston, just shows you, this storm has weak end significantly. once you get into the 40s, that's when you lose trees and get the power outages. even on the north side of the storms, right now the storms are located here far to the north. like at burlington, vermont, wind gusts out of the north-northeast, that's pretty incredible for a storm this side. tamron will finish up this here, and montauk is actually located right out here, montauk point, and we've got winds at 52 miles per hour at block island coming from the south. that's a lot of wave action, too. thankfully it's low tie. since the rain is with, there's probably a lot of people checking out the huge shores. they're telling people not to, but sometimes human cure outity is hard. >>> governor bob mcdonnell last hour said the biggest problems are

the soyuz. greaves r.t. . millions of new yorkers who have chosen to say in their homes white men story of backing away shirts are bracing themselves for the worst of hurricane irene heavy rain and strong winds have already started plumbing plumbing the city parts of the east coast of the u.s. devastated leaving millions without electricity. as among those preparing to weather the storm. businesses are either or either have boarded up their windows or put cheap along their windows and you can feel the wind increasing you feel the rain increasing rain is coming down like sheets the boiler shop in new york city michael bloomberg did have a press conference stating and urging all new yorkers just stay away from their windows move away from their glass windows because he says the winds are going to pick up speed friday new york city michael bloomberg the first time in history issued a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city three hundred seventy thousand people live there all these evacuation zones a lot of people

this statement comes after the new solution of the period. news that. khadafi is information chief has apparently called a peace headquarters. headquarters in new york and has said that gadhafi is ready for talks with the rabble to form traditional government and his even appointed his third son sided to lead the negotiations and this news comes just a week after a successful assault by the rebels on the libyan capital tripoli which became kind of breakthrough in the libyan six month long. civil war and. dramatically changed the situation here in libya and just days after and one. himself claimed that he will fight till his diet and call people to come and fight and to resist and not to give up and to die with here well meanwhile the rebels are progress and quite well they're currently control in most of the country and including the capital tripoli and they are now claiming that they are preparing for what they call this final battle an assault on kid off his native town city which is six hundred kilometers east of the capital tripoli they say they are

the middle of long island. it's no longer going over new jersey, it's just off the coast of new jersey. so that would keep some of the strongest storm surge off the new jersey coastline. the track is still wobbling here and. there it's supposed to make category three early saturday. wilmington, this forecast looks better for you. >> thank you very much. across the east coast, residents are bracing for irene, especially in north carolina, that's where president obama has already declared a state of emergency. nbc's kristen dahlgren has more from the outer banks of north carolina. >> reporter: good morning. this is likely to be one of the first areas on the u.s. mainland to feel the effects and the national weather service is already -- some of those increased waves from hurricane irene are hitting the north carolina coastline. they say six to nine-foot swells coming in now, that suspected to get much worse tlhrough today. we could feel tropical storm-force winds later tonight and conditions continuing to deteriorate as the storm moves closer and getting worse going into saturday. there ha

the lines of news reporting. phil said that the times' practices, journalism of verification and i say it practices a journalism that values protection and bias, there's no other word for it created a journalism at odds with its historical mission of reppedderring the news impartially without fear or favor. it's also created journalism at odds with the liberal democratic values it's long stood for so even if you do support a more partisan times, and there are those that do believe news organizations should take up ideological codulls like that do in europe, but even if you support a more partisan times and the ideologically committed journalists in the room who do so, there's still cause for concern because of the law of unintended consequences, the liberal values that these progressives generally stand for are often very ill-served by the very paper that embodies them or said to embody them. john duey, the great professor, educator, and my philosopher is credited for finding the vital hates of the democracy -- th

the more powerful lower house. soon after his victory, noda held his first news conference as the dpj's new leader. >> translator: i want to resolve the fukushima nuclear crisis, but it might take a long time. i also want to rebuild japan's disaster-hit areas and revive this country's economy. i will work toward these goals and achieve them. i hope to build relationships with the opposition parties that are based on trust. i plan to hold policy negotiations and ask for their cooperation. japan can't afford a political vacuum or the dissolution of the lower house, which would trigger an election. everyone has to work together to rebuild the disaster zone. >> noda became senior finance minister when dpj took power in 2009. he was promoted to finance minister in june of last year when naoto kan became prime minister. so who is yoshihiko noda? here's a look at the man about to become japan's 95th prime minister. >> reporter: yoshihiko noda was elected to the lower house of the diet in 1993 as a member of the now defunct japan new party. he became a dpj lawmaker in 2000. he ran in the dpj leadership election in 2002 in

and then use the local news. it is not defined that way but part down the street has some news. ut they don't call with that. it is important although an expansion of what it means to have the public involved. and it doesn't quite resemble good journalism we would like it to replace. >> wait for the questions. the microphone is here. >> a couple fast comments. i have been a journalist 50 years. piano like to should dress briefly what she said about citizen journalism. that merges into the wonders of blocking which i look at with a johnÑÑ desai at least one that comes to a traditional replacement but second, what she is suggesting how will the possibly work? with a national and international news requires people who have access, training, funding, w hat will this ascent journalist do about that? nothing. my second point* good gentlemen who was talking about the public broadcasting, i think that is a great idea but what does that do for the print media? frank said i don't think there's any chance at all at least one party of congress but if you answer that question. >> but i thin

the storms are going to continue to move north. new york city, you may look like you have a break in the rain, don't let your guard down because we will continue to see more rain coming in. in fact, we had seen almost 10 inches of rain into the air force baze base as the storm continues to move up. it will definitely continue to stay strong. >> what about the high rises for folks in new york in the high rises? >> reporter: that's definitely not something that you need to -- i guess, you don't need to stay there. you need to be finding shelter. at this point, if you have not -- high rise is not the place topto be, so you think you are high, out of the flood zone. you are not. you need to get down. if there is a power outage, people will have a tough time getting to you. >> we have been talking to aren'ts all over the northeast, many saying, it is just raining, but there are mandatory evacuations. is that a smart move? >> reporter: definitely a smart move. with the strong winds, the rain has saturated the ground. so this is something whe

the problem can be much greater with new technology. in the old days, you start a room about some chairmen on a board today a rumor of thousand chairman on the board -- you start a rumor about some chairman on a board, the people will not repeat it. there is layers of responsibility. it can be everywhere. it builds the character that they have been effective. it is unjustly affected. that is a significant difference. it is a very different technology. you are assaulting all the networks with fake documents. cannot is doubtless been them -- you cannot establish them. this is very different from the idea of the marketplace of ideas. i do not know that we know the answer to that. it is stunt to link it to what will be the solution. there will be venture capitalists here. their stock for the campus on the machine. -- they are stocking for the campus on the machine. they will not know which was the real credit card from the right one. >> this is not an answer to the problem. there will be so much. it is permanently attached to his name. he is

the dysfunction. katrina didn't cause new orleans' problem. verything that we had much clearer. >> many police officers worked hard to secure the city and rescue survivors during the storm and the aftermath. but more than 200 overwhelmed nopd officers deserted their posts while others did little to help their desperate fellow citizens. >> can you do anything to help these people? >> we have people coming and helping, sir. >> who's coming? >> five years after katrina, there's still little public trust in the police department, and new orleans' murder rate remains the highest in the nation. but there are signs the divisions exposed by the storm are beginning to heal. >> mayor landrieu won with a majority of every racial group in the city, of every single neighborhood in the city. in this sense he's a consensus leader at a time when the city truly needs consensus on something. >> and then there was the new orleans saints' stunning last minute triumph in the 2010 super bowl. giving this battered city a chance to come together and celebrate a sorely

russian capital and you're watching r t we're bringing you the day's news at the week's top stories so we start in libya where rebels have given a resolute no more get off is reported suggestion sit down for talks with the national transitional council says that all the colonel deserves is a rest and not dialogue archy's but if an option has spoken to the rebels and has more from tripoli. we have been able to speak to the rebels' information minister here in tripoli and he's made his position quite clear the rabble will not negotiate with the criminals the rebels will not negotiate with the killer is they want to get up here and they're running after him street after street district after district and as soon as they catch him they will throw him to jail this statement comes after the new solution use it appears that. gadhafi has information chief has apparently called a.p.'s headquarters and has said that gadhafi is ready for talks with the radicals to form a transitional government and his even appointed his third son started to lead this negotiations and

all of the new apples have touch screens. do away with the physical keyboard entirely like the iphone. kind of like that. no more feedback. this a few weeks after rim or research in motion or whatever you want to call it announced plans to lay off thousands of workers. today's announcement did really very little to boost the company's stand obligor on wall street. stock price still at five year low. the company is struggling to keep up with the iphone and google's android platform and others. earth once had two miewbs until they collided leaving just one. the miewnel we now have ate the other one according to new research from astronomer's edition. here is how they believe it might have happened. according to the theory at least. astronomers claimed the smaller of the two municipal slammed into our existing moon more than 4 billion years ago in what they are calling the big splat. the result they say explains why our moon is slightly lopsided. of course, it's just a theory. everybody knows the moon is actually made of green ch

host of the upon combs show. fox news watch is on right now. ♪ despite the bipartisan support for the deal, it is a deal no one want to take credit for. >> there was not much joy either in washington. the showdown over the debt ceiling has been averted but the fight over the national debt and deficit has only just begun. the debt deal dominated the news conference after president obama signed the bill in law after months of heated negotiations. leading up to the deal, the media seemed like everybody was on the same page. they wanted the deal to get done and have a bill to sign . then he signs it and then the story is different, isn't it? >> you could think they are dancing to the tune of wall street to make sure they are maid off and we wake up to realize nothing was aleviated. the media are only now catching up to that when jake tapper asking jay carney. can the president walk and chew gum. the media is turning on him a bit. >> the deal gets done and these are the headlines. spending cuts could further weaken the economy

but first, the other news of the day. here's kwame holman. >> holman: wall street closed out the week with gains today. stocks rebounded from a sell-off after federal reserve chairman ben bernanke said the u.s. economy is on track for long- term growth. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 134 points to close at 11,284. the nasdaq rose 60 points to close near 2,480. for the week, the dow gained more than 4%; the nasdaq was up 2.5%. a car bomb attack in nigeria today killed at least 18 people at the main u.n. building. it happened in abuja, the african nation's capital. a radical muslim group claimed responsibility. we have a report narrated by rohit kachroo of independent television news. >> reporter: terrorists strike right at the heart of the u.n.'s headquarters in nigeria. this was the chaotic aftermath of the car bomb-- many dead, many more injured. the suicide bomber got through the gates and into the compound, detonating the bomb close to the main building. the likely target-- foreigners, aid workers, d

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the, way. he does. final score, nework 41, chicago 14. >>> in baseball, big come from behind win for the dodgers. chris carpenter shut down l.a. for eight innings, striking out seven. a little weirdness in the eighth. holliday came out of the game because he had a bug in his ear. in the ninth, a terrible throw to home. the winning score comes in. dodgers rally over the cards 2-1. and from a bad throw to a great catch, ben revere bumps to the top of the wall, makes a sensational grab against the orioles in the seventh. baltimore takes down minnesota 4-1, snapping a five-game losing streak. it got seriously ugly for cleveland's chris perez in the ninth he hits the mariners' brendan ryan in the face. he was okay. perez ends up loading the bases on a sac fly, the dash from third and slides under the throw. he would score the winning run, mariners 3-2 over the tribe. and an odd decision by the u.s. olympic committee. they decided not to submit a bid to host the 2020 summer olympics. several cities had expressed interest, inc

the bad news? 18 storm-related deaths so far. 4 million people, give or take, without power tonight. and 12,000 canceled flights so far. the good news? something made this storm let up just a little bit and just when we really needed it to, meaning new york city was spared the worst of the storm surge after all those precautionary evacuations. but we still have, make no mistake, a lot of standing water in a lot of places and a lot of beaches that will take ages to come back. that includes along the jersey shore. we have a team of correspondents covering the flood zone. we want to begin tonight with nbc's michelle franzen in bay head, new jersey, on the jersey shore. michelle, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the water is slowly receding from this street in bay head. just one example of the damage caused near the shore. but it is new jersey's inland communities that may have been hit hardest by hurricane irene. with the worst yet to come. water spilled over the floodgates on the rarito

but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across syria again today, demanding an end to president bashar assad's regime. the syrian government proclaimed victory in crushing the uprising in one city, hama. troops there opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least 13 of them, on this first friday of the holy month of ramadan. we have a report narrated by jonathan miller of "independent television news." >> reporter: even a house of god on a friday isn't safe on this a day of protest dubbed by demonstrators as the day god is with us. syrian soldiers fired into this mosque in homs, hitting one worshipper and causing panic. in damascus, they surround another mosque. there was live firing and teargas on the streets of the capital this afternoon. ordinary syrian people prepared to die to see the back of basher al assad, the dictator prepared to kill to stay in power. this is the city of hama this morning, day six of the siege. 250 dead si

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the door. there was no new product. there may be one in the next couple of months. that is good news for apple shareholders because it looks like there is enough in the pipeline for the foreseeable future to keep things rolling. iphone 5 coming up in the next few months. still it is trading about $357 a share. in half an hour we'll find out what the folks over on wall street think about steve jobs is out. he is still chairman of the board but the ceo, day to day hands on person like he has been. >>> we posted steve jobs' resignation letter along with the tweets reacting to the news. that is at abc7news.com. >>> the f.b.i. and pinole police are trying to determine if two men involved in a deadly armed car robbery are responsible for two other bay area heists. yesterday they targeted a loomis armed truck. one suspect was killed and the other was wounded in a shootout. pinole police officer was shot and wounded but it's not clear who fired the bullet that hit him. police are trying to determine if the two men are also responsible for an armed takeover of an armored car

national soccer team takes on mexico in a friendly but can the new coach inspire the americans? so much for that rebound. international stock markets rallied early on wednesday but then the worldwide market sell- off kicked into tears. >> the dax fell over 5%. there are rumors that france could lose their triple a credit rating. >> a paris was the financial hub that was rocked by volatility. they could lose their top-notch credit standing. the credit rating agencies to deny it. president sarkozy interrupted his vacation to attend a crisis meeting. the result was austerity measures. among the losers, banking sites which have high exposure to greet dead. analysts blame -- for the volatility. >> i am convinced that those rumors are unfounded and spread by participants to make profits on market swings. the ecb will do their utmost to eliminate any problem in the banking sector. >> in new york, the positive mood from tuesday disappeared. the fed lost decision to keep interest rates low only listed shares temporarily. >> there is a very real sense of fear in the overall market. the tr

in addition to the new features the company plans on making 25 percent more channels available but to all of these changes, you have to get a new radio at the end of this year. serious ex-im will roll out to new generation reveals that are capable of handling these new features and an as yet automaker will roll out a 2013 car that is equipped with the new technology starting next year. now according to the founder of the web site the number of editors is slowly dwindling. he says it that has aged out. they got married and found better things to do with their time in update pages. wells says that this is not a crisis yet a key considers it to be very important. now new data shows that apple sales helped the company's iphone shipments to grow about 152% from the second quarter of last year compared to this year. however, low what apple year over year the growth has been strong it is samsung that stole the show. >> some good news this week in only there are some good take bills for smart phones and tablets. gabe slate gives us a look. >> through saturday at closing time target is selling

the lines of news reporting. said that the times' practices, journalism of verification and i say it practices a journalism that values protection and bias, there's no other word for it created a journalism at odds with its historical mission of reppedderring the news impartially without fear or favor. it's also created journalism at odds with the liberal democratic values it's long stood for so even if you do support a more partisan times, and there are those that do believe news organizations should take up ideological codulls like that do in europe, but even if you support a more partisan times and the ideologically committed journalists in the room who do so, there's still cause for concern because of the law of unintended consequences, the liberal values that these progressives generally stand for are often very ill-served by the very paper that embodies them or said to embody them. john duey, the great professor, educator, and my philosopher is credited for finding the vital hates of the democracy -- the abi

it's not surprising the new york f.e.d. might think that way, what's surprising the 50 attorney generals across the country seem to be caught into this new york f.e.d. brain mill. where did they get this idea? >> that's the thing about the settlement, and i hope people are tracking this because it's a complicated story, but it is a remarkable one, because you have this revelation of tremendous bad practices which seem to be plaguing the entire industry, the state attorney generals get serious and the banks get scared and come to the negotiating table and it looks like there's going to be some real hell to pay, now there seems to be wriggling out, how does this happen? >> we have what i like to think for a non-stoppable force and immovable object. you have the banks, who would love to put this whole thing behind them, and as you say, they'd love to wrote a check and say i have complete immunity, none of this will bug me again. if you look at the stock market right now, bank of america is trading at less than 1/3 of its asset

the brand-new building down there which is what? >> the brand-new glass and steel building. when we build brand-new high rise buildings they're required to meet the minimum standard of the building code. the building code is a minimum standard document. can you choose to build beyond it. few people choose to build buildings that are immediately occupiable after an earthquake. most build buildings that won't collapse, which is what the building standard is. they won't collapse and they can be repair side whed is what we reasonably expect. >> potentially repaired. >> that is not what the public may think. earthquake proof. >> earthquake resistant. >> exactly. a lot of streets fill up with a lot of debris. the cornice, signs, glass, all that falls off the building. we have seen that in other earthquakes. the question is will we see that from new buildings as well? actually new buildings are designed so the buildings can sway or drift and there is enough so the glass doesn't pop out. >> my best advice don't run out the door. if it is big enough you can't stand up. probably the b

the new contract we have been intending to incorporate the recommendation as stated in to the new contracts including their recommended provisions in terms. that one is in process. the next one is the aircraft landing data audit. this one is thought of it on the current -- this one is audits on the current billing system regarding revenue accounting, lending, and fees and how we account for the activities. a couple of the outstanding open items in the report is relating to documenting the policies and procedures, and we are in the progress of working on that. also, we are in the process of moving into phase ii of the systems implementation. through this system implementation progress, we are agreeing to implement the recommendation as stated in the report as well. the fifth audit, the concession audits of bank of america, at this contract is expiring in the middle of august, which is next month. we intend to plan on incorporating the recommendations as stated in the other report when we extend the next 1-year option, effective august 16 come 2011. the last audit, which is related to the ren

and that's all the business news for now for more stories you can always add to our website r.t. that com slash business in the meantime states and for the headlines. this is a cable from the u.s. embassy in colombo to talk about here it apparent june seventh incident of extrajudicial executions the military reported to the press that on that day that killed nine guerrillas and desiccation by instructs you including you know that and there are strongly suggest however that the nine were executed by the army and then dressed in military fatigues. explain how you know this kind of phenomenon where bodies are dressed up as guerrillas and presented as killed in action and this and this idea that you need to produce bodies actually encouraged paramilitary collaboration this is a cia document central intelligence agency they knew about these activities they knew they were happening they knew about links to paramilitary groups and yet usaid continued to flow. this is tedious slamming of the social media but society feeling sidelined as david cameron calls for a family of twitter and face

with the setting up of a new government controlled authority. spoke with the country's foreign affairs committee vice chairman to talk about the controversial initiative that might have on the freedom of the press. it's not been long since hungry handed. the presidency to poland and president there is still a ban has been pushing ahead with his controversial new media law we're joined now by the vice chairman for the foreign affairs committee at the parliament here in hungary thank you very much for joining us now press freedom is a fundamental principle of the do you think that hungary some even further away from the. stand with its maybe a little more there has been a lot of talk especially in the last half year about e.u. values and standards we never really know what this exactly means i mean. and i don't think the b.u. has an almighty right to determine where ly be boundaries of such principles we never really heard the clear definition of what exactly these values are what exactly are the fundamentals of these principles and what are the de