i think turkey sees the role in the region very differently. and i think like i said, in my talk, i think the way the conception lose foreign policy now israel as long as it continues in the current policy the palestinians falls like outside of their framework. so i think it's hard to talk about this, you know, until there is movement on the palestinian issue, and until israel makes some serious strides. so, you know, in that sense, even the situation with syria, i don't see it right now bringing the two countries together again in the strategic allowance to protect their borders or, you know. i think for the decision for turkey has been made without any -- without israel changing the policy, they see little room for close or normal relationship. >> robin, back to you. the issue that you racessed, which is that many arabs are looking at the turkish model as source of inspiration for their own political system obviously with the assent of slammist party egypt we have a islamist party in the sort of lead in the government. in mor crock koa. tunisi

these are articulated and the regional transportation plan, or rtp. the rtp has typically carried t wo regional priorities, based on past experience on what an estimate they can reasonably expect to receive during the life of this. and for many years the region's two priorities have been the central subway, in the first part of the san jose project. both of those projects are at the tail end of the new starts progress, which is a full funding grant agreement. it is a guarantee from the federal government's for a certain specified amount of federal funds and significant federal funds for construction of the transit expansion project. they receive sfga and april, and the central subway is on the cusp. it is expected to occur later this summer. in this we have a little bit of background about this program, but the key point is that it is up by far the largest discretionary funding stream that exist for funding base ig ii of the project. this is the most significant opportunity that has been out there and something we've been targeting for many years. gett

is responsible and is acting as the, well, chief troublemaker in the region. is shared by many people, it is true that the u.s. is supporting the opposition. but, nevertheless, the root cause is his unwillingness to share power with the opposition in his own country, and both sides, both him and the opposition, do still believe that they can solve this issue by military means. >> ok. next, we look at section of the interview where jÜrgen todenhÖfer asks president assad about the role that the u.s. is playing in the conflict. >> what is the role of united states in this conflict? >> it is part of the conflict. they offer the umbrella and political support to those gangs to create this instability. >> you say the united states is politically supporting the rebels, is that correct? >> exactly. >> you say these rebels, who you call terrorists, kill civilians. this means you are accusing the american government of being at least partly responsible for the killing of innocent syrian civilians, correct? >> of course, exactly. as long as you offer any kind of support t

one of the biggest and the deposits in the region. nd after a short track a glimpse of the local sign told me i'd come to the right place the kaliningrad region is home to the largest deposits on the planet in fact it's so important around here i named the town after it. the word tar in russian means and here indian ptolemy the precious resin is literally just below the surface so this is where it all comes from the largest open pit in the world they've been mining here industrially for over a century and a half and they're still pulling out hundreds of tonnes every year. sounds like a good place to do a little prospecting doesn't. i headed down towards the quarry and on to the sand banks. that amber washes up along the beach here all the time so i hoped i wouldn't have to do too much to get. their work. the. little. is lurking in the song. but finding the roll materials is just the start in time to me also has a thriving jewelry and souvenir business and everything is crafted by hand. dr a lot of hard work this is where all the pieces

the government will have to bail out six regions in the first term, the first one is the region of valencia. the next one which is not expected, according to a local newspaper will ask for 200 to 300 million euros to help repay its debts in the next couple of weeks. and of course all the focus on the concern is not on the region of catalania needs to repay 750 billion euros. there's two consequences. first is the emergency fund set for the regions will be enough, obviously not or probably not. 18 billion euros, that's to compare with 36 billion euros repayment just in the second half. the second question is will spain need a food bailout. if you look at the yields and the record level of yields we're seeing this morning it's clearly unsustainable for the spanish government and if we continue at this level of course spain will need probably -- spain will need a full bailout or any urgent action in the foreseeable future. >> all right. stephane, thanks for that. joining us now for the first half of today's program, will oswald. thanks for joining us. how quickly is this unraveling? what's the

>> reporter: we have some light rain in the region. it's primary through during the afternoon and evening hours. there are heavier showers in far western maryland in allegheny county, in northwestern cumberland. there's brief downpours. the rest of the region is light rain but because of the threat of later tonight. there could be heavier showers that would cause minor flash flooding. as far as the rainfall amounts, boy, tim has them. some are extremely impressive. >> we're going to go back to storms that hit extreme flooding. our first warning weather coverage continues with mike schuh. >> reporter: with the city county line, b.t.e. is getting it contained by the storm energy. baltimore has torrential rain flash flood that hit the region and casualties were immediate. >> we had this massive storm come in. lightning, thunder. it was actually really, really exciting. >> reporter: in canton, the storm knocked down the tree and eyewitness news received this that shows how water buckled the ceiling flooding the lobby. >> better to get it ou

or nato intervention would only further destabilize the region. all of this of course is related to the war that was waged against libya last year during two thousand and eleven which brought about the displacement of many of the two iraq forces who have been settled in libya for many many years they were well armed and of course with them entering the situation inside of northern mali is further destabilizing polarize the situation and sad north of the country and of course affected the capital up of moscow as well the nato forces led by the united states destroy the social fabric and national infrastructure and the national economy of libya libya was the most prosperous of the most stable state on the african continent as a result of the destabilization activities on the part of nato the twenty six thousand air missions that were flown over the country over a seven month period ten thousand air strikes against libya the naval blockade the freezing of foreign assets this is of course dislodged and displaced hundreds of thousands of people inside t

something unimaginable those are the words of the regional governor as he flew over just one of the affected regions hit by a massive flash flooding in the southern russia the rains came at night a month's rain fell in just a few hours and that meant that when it hit three towns near to the coast of russia's black sea coast the rain came in huge quantities it came fast and it came without warning the numbers of dead and the numbers of people displaced have been rising by the hour people were drowned in their homes or trying to escape from cars five people were electrocuted when a electricity transformer fell into the water and thousands have tried to escape the deluge of water by climbing on to their cars on to their houses to try and get some height we heard from some of them. follow your stream of water hit my car lost control of the car turned over and he did tree he just managed to climb out of the back door and cling to the tree which is a good meeting. local ports of navarre seas has suspended oil shipments but that's really the least of the trouble i witnesses reported traffic lights

more with the front across the region. across virginia and more showers and storms tomorrow kind of an in between day. a risk of more storms. a lot cooler, maybe in the upper 70s but a risk of more showers and some places with 1 to 2-inch os of rain and that could be a really welcome thing. friday, much cooler and drying out just in time for the weekend. by the way, winds at northeast. the bay temp stuck at a warm 83. tomorrow, scattered showers and thunder activity in the east. 74 tomorrow and low 90s. maybe upper 80s and maybe a heavier thunderstorm as well on your thursday. >> okay. >> yours too. >>> still to come on wjz eyewitness news, internet cafe confrontation. tried to rob the business when the customer is armed himself. >> reporter: defending the dream. i'm pat warren coming up. those in favor of the dream act urge voters to vote yes. >> reporter: i'm alex demetrick and coming up, hot weather, hot water. what the heat waves are doing to the bay. that story as eyewitness ,,,,,,, this is wjz-tv, wjz-hd and wjz.com,

again, i want to point out again, this is the wealthiest region in all of spain. kelly said, it accounts for some 20% of the gdp. look around you, i mean, tourism is booming. it's the industrial heartland, but at the same time, it's also the region with the highest debt load. 48 billion euros in debt. that's the estimate for 2012. and in the second half of the year, it's facing refinancing needs of almost 6 billion euros. so, there is growing consensus that sooner or later catalonia will have to tap this liquidity fund. >> obviously, that was part of an interview we had a little earlier. >>> let's get over to stephen in madrid. the big question is, now they have to add in the cost of the regions to their funning needs. how much more money do they need to raise this year? and how likely is it they're going to get that? >> reporter: not only spain has to cope with restructuring of banking sector, now has to deal with the autonomous region. the government set aside 18 billion to republic the region but perhaps it's not enough. there's speculation it could cost a lot

in the region. today is a day of grief and a day of mourning for the victims of flash floods in southern russia the search for bodies does continue as does the cleanup operation made more difficult by the lack of supplies of electricity gas and fresh water the water came into the town on friday night in the middle of the night with huge force and with no warning it flooded and destroyed houses and flipped cars over in the street many of the victims were elderly people unable to escape in time so rapid was the deluge all across the town people tried to escape and get to help on roofs and on fences wherever they could find any shelter of a criminal case has been opened into why so many people died and it's also been found that a flood warning system did not work properly people here are very angry both at the lack of the warning and because they say local reservoir and its dam caused the flooding by opening its gates across the internet there's also been a lot of discussion with some people criticizin

the u.s. in a regional ally seeking to subvert diplomacy and the warning from damascus it will use chemical weapons in face with foreign intervention it would appear the syrian civil war is that it chipping. can. start. to cross talk serious possible endgame i'm joined by carl show in london he's a middle east blogger in chicago we have stephen lemon he is a blogger and author and in los angeles we cross to ravi said he is a policy analyst and an ambassador for the national iranian american council all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want karl let me go to you first where do we go from here damascus says it has chemical weapons and the u.s. and its regional allies have no interest in diplomacy anymore where do we go. i think. let's clarify one thing that all this talk about tipping point and game i think is very exaggerated it all started with the explosion last week that killed several of like a former and current defense minister and security leaders and now is basically a very high quality or peroration though is really a dramatic operation but in

temperatures around the region are pleasant. most of the rural areas are in the 60s as well as shenandoah valley and in the mountains around the tidal potomac and near the bay it's in the mid 70s now and for the day, here's your day day. by noontime it will be turning less humid by noontime. we should be in low to mid 80s by then and then by mid afternoon we'll be peeking in the upper 80s to around 90 degrees. and then by early evening back down to the mid 80s. only a slight chance of an isolated thundershower or maybe downpour popping up and that looks like mainly in the mountains and not locally around the metro area. and then by dawn tomorrow down to upper 60s again and thursday another day like today. a little bit cooler. we'll have some clouds in and out. partly sunny day tomorrow with highs reaching the mid 80s. and then on friday an increasing chance of needed rain and we'll have highs reaching the mid 80s. maybe some thunder and lightning too from the morning and off and on through the day. occasional showers and maybe th

guam, australia, and the rest of the region. we've made clear that we do not want to go back to the old era of sort of traditional bases. but are looking for state-of- the-art joint opportunities for training, for joint facilities and the like. we think that's the right way forward. >> tokyo has japan is absolutely critical in what we want to achieve regionally. we want japan to stand up and play a more prominent role but the japanese have been very wary of that. despite statements. regional partners have been wary of that in part because of japan's world war ii history. what role do we want japan to play and what role is japan comfortable in playing in the broaders strategy? >> i think your first point is that we want a japan that's more confident. people forget that one of the most substantial players in afghanistan in providing assistance behind the scenes has been japan. japan has gone through a series of challenging domestic circumstances. the prime minister recently moved forward on the tax policy that's consumed an enormou

no all i think every country in the region wants to secure its own national interests you have iran's is saudi arabia there is the shia sunni confrontation there is the influences of iran in their region and there is hezbollah the all these. intricate relationship i think play a role but. i don't think it's the way you characterize it that they are some sort of. some sort of a playing in the hand of the united states or russia or saudi or israel directory. carol in london you want to jump in go ahead yeah because i think that's a very important angle i think since the beginning of from tunisia and egypt the beginning of the arab uprising we've seen that saudi arabia and qatar have actually kind of broken free from this american reason order so to speak which has completely collapsed and we can see very clearly that the declining u.s. influence over here and the lack of clarity about how to restore it which is kind of breathing a this competition between qatar and saudi arabia and again both of those countries kind of put it meddling more aggressively and affairs of other countries i m

the spotlight where the hezbollah they are rainy and this bring a regional war i don't think the for obama one that this war especially his running for election nobody wanted to see the price of oil is going up above two hundred where you have europe is collapsing economically and the united states go in and such and i think it's merely rhetoric and i wouldn't put a lot of money on what netanyahu will say and he's very good at what he does using this propaganda to gain popularity inside of israel but i don't think anybody believes that they are really in our hezbollah behind what happened in this against civilian israeli been reading some media reports suggesting that. is an algerian swedish jihadist he spent two years in detention in guantanamo those the allegations we're reading in the media how likely is that wouldn't a man with such a profile of that be under some form of surveillance. i think that's probably the case i read some statement there was a he had some ideas from like from america and they'd probably be they have actually they had their video of the man. and if they kn

really good news for the region and the state. the state legislature approved the high-speed railat least thef billion dollars that will help the state pull down the match, $3 billion or so from the federal government to make the first significant steps on that. the governor will be signing the bill in san francisco here tomorrow. certainly a lot of leadership from him to get that done. great news for san francisco and for the bay area to get high- speed rail moving, which includes the electrification of cal train and from cal train to the trans bay terminal. part of what got approved work connectivity funds, some of which were designated to muni and were part of that funding plan. you may remember a few months ago, there was the resolution talking about how we would address any shortfalls with these resolutions, which i do not think has been rendered moot, so that is very good news. some smaller stuff, where we initiated some additional reroutes three union square, as well as ax and bx, kind of like the 30 and 45 and 91 owl as we

the asia-pacific is one of the world's fastest growing regions. instability here risks upsetting the entire global economy. a nuclear-free korean peninsula and peace in the south china sea are crucial goals for the international community. this week's meetings have underlined how important it is that nations come together and compromise to find lasting solutions. that's all for our special coverage of the asean meetings here in cambodia. thank you for joining us. i'm dhra dhirakaosal. >>> myanmar used to draw the kind negative attention north korea gets. but that changed once its leaders started implement regforms. now u.s. president barack obama is recognizing the southeast asian nation's transformation. he's conditionally eegs investment sanctions. obama says the decision is a show of u.s. support for the country's transition to democracy. his administration considered relaxing restrictions when myanmar held by-elections in april for its national assembly. his secretary of state hillary clinton hinted in may this policy change could be coming. bu

certain countries of the region where the arab spring has occurred. it's still a long way it's still a long way let's take for instance i mean pretty much all of them but let's take for instance libya let's take for a little when you talk about better like our human rights ensured at all when we were better off before the need to live in nation or now i don't know what will the new government in libya do you know the elections and. when i see the new government there is a. government and you are thought to use they expressed their willingness to build the democratic libya to build libya which will live here to the basic human rights and democratic freedoms which is positive it's a long way and the picture once again is pretty much mixed because what we see now is unfortunately the violations of human rights to be to continue. in the way it is a result of the military conflict which raised in the country but still future is ahead of this country and we hope that this future will be democratic we hope that human rights. in their you know in their entire

heat still prevails in the region. a heat dome. take a look at these temperatures, soaring in the 40s. average is just about mid 30s and much of the regions are really for your standards, going to be hot. moving over to the european continent, now we have a storm system coming in to the british isles. you will be targeted about very gusty positions as well. but for london, you will look at dry weather on your wednesday and even some sunny on your thursday and friday temperatures not looking bad at all. but the wind will be very strong, especially on your friday. here is your extended forecast. >>> well be back with more updates in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani in tokyo.

athis is the region of amsterda. this is the inner city of amsterdam, and the rest of the city are the suburbs. the whole city, there are 2.2 million people, but the real city of amsterdam, there are less than 800,000, which i think is about the same as san francisco. i will also pass around a few sheets. the important thing is that amsterdam is one of the five major economic central's -- economic centers in europe, and we want to stay that way, and we are an attractive city for international business, like the american and asian companies that like to have business in amsterdam. it is a real nice place to stay. experts like to live in amsterdam, and is accessible from all parts of the world. it is also very important case of cycling. what irony said, 2.2 million and happens, but the last line may be the most important, about 120 kilometers per day traffic jams. that is qu7?) a lot. this distance is not more than 25k. we have a real problem. that is not good for business. for us, it is active transport, really importa

flooding the worst to hit the region in seventy years is causing upwards of four billion rubles in damage or more of the world's top stories for you now more than a hundred people had been at it inferred zero in nigeria's oil producing niger delta they were trying to scope up the spill fuel from across petrol tanker when it caught fire women and children are among the dead according to witnesses crashes are common areas poorly maintained roads. at least nine pakistani trainees policemen been shopped at in a gun attack in the city of before the taliban with said it was responsible earlier this week gunmen from the group killed seven security personnel at a campsite in projet province. former bosnian serb military chief rothko melodic has been hospitalized after complaining of feeling unwell at his trial in the hague a lot of traces eleven charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the eucharist slavia war in the one nine hundred ninety s. including the one nine hundred ninety five separate needs massacre the seventy year old former general denies any wrongdoing you kn

flooding the worst to hit the region in seventy years it's causing upward of four billion rubles in damage. but i'll get over to the business task a to joins us katie tell us more about spraying and another in you economy which is being of course that it shrinking absolutely that is ireland and these are actually the country's finance minister added that debt will hit one hundred and twenty percent of g.d.p. in twentieth comes the head of violence crunch talks with the european union the european central bank and the international monetary fund today. want a progress report on spending cuts as part of the bailout. and i'm afraid it's small news in the region hundreds of farmers have bought the streets of brussels over e.u. overproduction policy that's caught the prize of a liter of milk to twenty five year a sense whereas to use it cost almost forty no dairy farmers from across europe sprayed hundreds of liters at the european parliament building saying they're going bust now the so-called milk a leg running down the duff to symbolize the oversupply in the market now let's have a

flooding the worst to hit the region in seventy years it's causing upwards of four billion rubles in damage. or so during carry out the business to ask and we've seen protests and spraining are of another country now feeling the pain to absolutely need so the country has been dealt another blow and this time by the finance minister saying that debt is likely to hit one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. in twenty thirteen ireland is facing crunch talks with the european union the european central bank and the international more to fund day who want a progress report on spending cuts as part of the bailout. now they say there's no point crying over spilt milk bought their way been exception to that wall as hundreds of farmers have blocked the streets of brussels over e.u. overproduction paulo says the price of a liter of milk is now twenty five euro cents but it costs almost forty to produce so in response dairy farmers from across europe have sprayed hundreds of platers out the european parliament building saying they're going bust the so-called milk leg running down the gulf to sym

flooding the worst to hit the region in seventeen years as cause an output of four billion rubles and damage more of the world's top stories for you now some hundred people killed in an inferno in nigeria's oil producing niger delta they were trying to scoop up spilled fuel from a crashed petrol tanker when it caught fire women and children are among the dead according to witnesses crashes are common on nigeria's poorly maintained roads. at least nine pakistani trained policemen have been shot dead in the gun in the streets city of love for the taliban has said it was responsible for this week gunmen from the group killed seven security personnel at a campsite in job problems. former bosnian serb military chief a lot of has been hospitalized after complaining of feeling unwell at his trial in the hague a lot of faces eleven charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the eucharist slavia war in the one nine hundred ninety s. including the one nine hundred ninety five need to massacre the seventy year old former general denies any wrongdoing you know how it has affected

crossing the region and the timeline of a tragedy that swept through southern russia is available on our web site and there's plenty more on this story at all to dot com here and there you can see photos and footage from the scene of the disaster that devastated towns and communities in southern russia. they are now un observers probing a mass killing in syria's home our province have confirmed the regime's claims that its military was targeting rebel fighters in the area this contradicts the opposition's reports of a civilian massacre something the u.s. and its allies rushed to support more of a notion of brings us more from the capital damascus. but your enemies are attrition hit syria has visited the village of tremseh in the syrian central province of hama hours after the news of much about the alleged massacre there and they've confirmed fierce clashes between the rebels and the governmental forces took place on the ground but this concludes is that an attack apparently by the governmental forces appeared targeted at specific houses and specific groups especially amita faxes and

the victims of a devastating flash flood in the region which killed over one hundred seventy and affected twenty four thousand it's become the area's worst natural disaster. and bravery in the face of horror we have the stories of those who miraculously escaped the deluge as well as the people who rushed to provide help with the rescue efforts. a special envoy. to the syrian leadership point fingers of what it calls america's role in the civil. worldwide news live from the heart of moscow with me will receive. a day of mourning has been declared in russia for more than one hundred seventy lives lost in the flooding in the southern resort region of cross it was on friday night thousands of houses were hit by what locals describe as a tsunami like deluge caused by. in the region with this report tom bot. today is a day of grief and a day of mourning for the victims of flash floods in southern russia the search for bodies does continue as does the cleanup operation made more difficult by the lack of supplies of electricity gas and fresh water the water came into the town on friday night in t

is in the devastated region. we're trying to get through the flood stricken area which isn't easy with all the roads we destroyed going to war so jammed with clean car five months worth of rainfall within twenty four hours turned a beautiful seaside resort into an emergency aereo fateful danger throughout the day the number of victims kept growing by the our bodies were being found along flooded and upturned roofs many never managed to get out of their vehicles and flee the elements many were called by surprise when rising water filled the ground force of houses trapping people inside going through predominantly rule community there are almost no multi-story buildings so there is a literally nowhere to run from the flood the lot you want to manage supply involved to roofs and trees and wait for emergency workers to pick them off several people were electrocuted when the choir failed into the water that covered the pavement to local supermarkets who were completely destroyed getting altitude dry ramps isn't easy ei

paraguayans neighbors in latin america called it an institutional that threatens democracies around the region just three hours and paraguayans predominantly right wing parliament voted for an on a low out of office analysts say it's partly because these powerful opposition didn't like the fact that president who was working to expand trade in partnership with other latin american countries like or ally venice well argentina brazil as of now regional trade groups you know sore and marcus or suspended because of president moves the impeachment in an exclusive interview with my colleague from r t spanish ousted president or not a little told us that he was basically threatened by the opposition to accept the terms of this parliament trial he said was warned that if he didn't stand a trial the military and some of the opposition groups would take to the streets with weapons and create havoc take a listen but in the event that i see people out in the square and they wanted me to go because of the ministers i knew that a new massacre was being prepared i am a convicted pacifist i didn't want to see