her connections with the united kingdom are intimate. she has been the symbol of resistance to a regime which even in an imperfect world has been exception al. i can myself attest this is a cabal guilty of rape as a weapon of war, extra judicial killings, cupulsory relocation, incarceration of opponents in unspeakable conditions and exconstructie excrutiating torture where fear run ares through society like blood running through veins. one woman has depriprived such two decades. that is why she is with us here this afternoon. [ applause ] however, there is room for cautious optimism. the recent election to parliament of our guests accompanied by 42 of her colleagues are welcome signs of reform. we hope that ferver and fundamental reform will lead to the freedom democracy and rule of law which we have so long enjoyed and the people of b uflt burma have too long denied. a journey of 1000 miles must start with a single step. we are proud that one such step will be taken in this parliament today. it is my privilege to welcome the consense of

corruption i think the united kingdom the governments of united kingdom and the united states should really stand away from work so you. can read it actually have had a hand in this mess and i think it's. all right we are now indulging in a bit of business hi katie so speculation seems to be the word of the day on the markets exactly right marina and it's all to do with the federal reserve considering further moves to stimulate the economy and that's as they enter their second day the meeting in the u.s. with the federal reserve they're going to be talking about extending operation twist which is a program the selling of short term security as well by a longer ones and essentially what that means is it just puts a lid on interest rates it stimulus and that's what investors like to hear some more of that later let's see how the asian markets are responding right now to all of this speculation as you say but there is again you got to make a around nine tenths of a percent and around the heart of that for the highest talk about stocks that have got the most company there operad one of t

the governments of united kingdom and the united states should really stand away from. this created actually they have had a hand in this mess and i think they should stay away. right turning to the world of business and joining katie now so we're looking this is the first look at the financial markets across the globe traders counting on wall street whispers they are indeed right now marina we're looking at. particularly for the markets that are indeed but as you say is those wall street as well that's all the speculation that the federal was out all considering all the moves to stimulate the. on a may that's as they continue their two day meeting over in the u.s. says talk of the feds extending their operation twist program which is essentially just the selling of short term security as well born longer term ones as well but what i really means is it just keeps a lid on interest rate so that's one of the possibilities of moments of look at the asian markets will we ever see how they're responding at the moment and they are indeed on the rise just now over because of t

scarcity of water supply is against inflation and corruption i think the united kingdom the governmentsof united kingdom and the united states should really stand way from clarkson you. created actually that had a hand in this mess and i think we should stay away. all right straight to the world of business and the opening bell has rung for them our russian market so we're turning our attention there what's happening there absolutely we're going to focus almost sky right now marina is that time of day let's see how the r.t.s. and the i say it's all before me and it is pretty much a flat performance so far must despise oil making a comeback and we've had a successful asian session today which the moscow markets often follow the lead as you can see they're pretty lackluster already today the r.t.s. just one basis point down the my stakes also they came pretty far at night is there perhaps already gearing up for the st petersburg economic forum it takes off tomorrow so that's where we're going to be focusing our attentions on this way to forget of the ruble that too is moving and shaking a

the governments of the united kingdom and the united states should really stay away from pakistani politics earlier today they expressed concern they were not happy about it there are some editorials in mainstream american media for example against what happened i don't we should stay away from from the from this created actually that had a hand in this ok and i think it's time we should stand up to my question thanks very much indeed for that to live there from pakistan that's now a return to our breaking news here on and that is the news concerning ecuador's foreign minister. the foreign minister has said that the will stop whistleblower joining the sanchez almost a full political asylum in ecuador he's currently in the latin american republic embassy in london let's not talk to he's on the phone from london. so an unexpected move on a sunday is paul wouldn't you say it's come as quite a surprise well i expected that it is cool to be pretty ruling on make it. sweden with little people being really asuncion his legal team were running out of options the. train a bit sweden and the

he came from the united kingdom to compete. he walks away with $1,000, a trophy and a year's worth of dog cookies. >> he's got $1,000. that's good. >> google's home page is in honor of allen turing sh a mathematician and code breaker. goog le is letting you break th binary code. >> he's credited for createding the first -- >> let you know if you can figure it out. ♪

her connections with the united kingdom, reinforced in oxford yesterday, are intimate. she has been the symbol of resistance to a regime which even in an imperfect world has been exceptional in its barbarity. as the un has documented, and from three trips to burma's borders i can myself attest, this is a cabal guilty of rape as a weapon of war, extra- judicial killings, compulsory relocation, forced labour, deployment of child soldiers, use of human minesweepers, incarceration of opponents in unspeakable conditions, destruction of villages, obstruction of aid and excruciating torture. burma has become a beautiful but benighted land where fear runs through society like blood flowing through veins. Ññ:? one woman has now defied a dictatorship of such depravity for two decades. that is why daw aung san suu kyi, a leader and a stateswoman, is here with us this afternoon. however, there is room for cautious optimism. the recent election to parliament of our guest, accompanied by 42 of her colleagues, and the release of many political prisoners are

trips and i did not ask you this question, what is the difference between the common wealth, the united kingdom and in the past the empire? >> she is the queen of the united kingdom of england, scotland, wales and northern ireland, and also the queen of 15 rounds from the world that include canada, jamaica, australia, new zealand and others, and then there are 14 foreign territories. the commonwealth is the former british empire that started in the late-1940's, led by india, ireland, and others, began to become republics and they became independent. the commonwealth has stayed together. it now has 54 nations. it is a voluntary association dedicated to promoting good government, the environment and a range of issues and the queen is the head of it. that is a ceremonial role. >> could countries opt out? >> sure. and they can be kicked out for human rights violations as zimbabwe was, for example. they can also apply to be admitted. >> she played a behind-the- scenes role in seth africa, did she not? >> -- south africa, did she not? >> she did. i had conversations with the former prime minister of

the english pound in gold lasted until 1914. so, with all respect for edwards' dating, we had a 200-year constant unit of value established as the currency of first england and then of course the united kingdom. the gold standard was prevailing in the united states by virtue of the coinage act of 1792. in 1792, it was a bi-metallic system, gold and silver, which edward suggested itself had certain flaws which we haven't time to get into. but by 1834, gold was the sole established weight unit of the dollar, and it was defined in law as the currency of the united states. it was constant in its purchasing power and in its definition, but for the interruption of the civil war, until 1934. so the value of a currency defined by statute in gold weight had many examples in this feeble, imperfect laboratory of human history of a very stable purchasing power. what edward i think is getting at is that there were always bankers and politicians who wished to prorobe the monetary system in order to finance political subsidies to privileged classes, including cartalized banking systems or military establishments. for example, it is a fact that the bank of england was established not to be the lender of las

the manufacturing industry in the united kingdom is shrinking at its fastest rate for three years as demand for british goods falls at home and overseas. the latest survey from the purchasing managers institute is serious blow to hopes exports will revive the economy. >> hello, this is bbc news. these are the headlines -- stepping up the diplomatic pressure on syria. the u.n. calls for an investigation into massacre at houla, paving the way for war crimes charges. will world stock markets fall after worse-than-expected job figures in the united states. a british woman under arrest in bali suspected of drug trafficking has been taken to hospital for treatment. rachel dugal claims not to have slept properly or eaten for days. she's being held along with throw other britains, julia ponder, paul beals after police seized cocaine worth more than $1.5 million pounds. from bali, nick brian reports. >> for a british woman at the center of the drug trafficking allegations, the awfulness of the situation has made her fearful and fragile. concerns for her physical and mental state today led the

we have the laced on the conversion controversy in the united kingdomment >> george: and welcome backo christian world news. a british christian therapist has been disciplined for counselling a man who said he wanted to leave the gay lifestyle. >> he real motive was to discredit a type of treatment called conversion therapy which is supposed to help homosexuals go straight. >> reporter: ruling on an appeal, the british association for counselling and psychotherapy decided christian therapist leslie tilltincon will lose her senior status after she was tricked by a gay activist posing as a client. >> i was approached by a young man, and he said his name was matthew. that he was gay, and he was very unhappy and he was depressed. he wanted to leave the lifestyle, and would i be able to help him. >> reporter: his real name was not matthew stims. it was patrick studwig, and he was lying to her. >> i totally believed everything he said. i had no reason to suspect anything else. he seemed to me to be very anxious. he kept asking a lot of the same questions, and i thought if he was trying to d

the united states fought a global war against great britain and its colonies from june 18th, 1812 and nearly 200 years of between the united kingdom and the united states of america have existed since the conclusion of that war and -- >> where as. >> the -- the colonies unified and by virtue in 1931 achieved recognition as an independent nation and -- >> where as. >> -- the current board between the united states and canada stands as the longest unguarded border in the world and -- >> where as. >> -- the national parks service and parking canada are working together as part of an international effort to recognize and commemorate the bicentennial of the war of 1812 and -- >> where as. >> -- canada, great britain and the united states became strong alleys in the 20th cently as they provided the world support necessary to obtain victory and -- >> where as. >> -- these three nations are pleasantly in accord in their efforts to wage the ongoing global war against terrorism. now therefore we, on this 18th day of june, 2012, on the bicentennial on the united states declaration of war in a conflict that became known as the war of 1812 com

france and britain have responded with surprising enthusiasm to this nuclear renaissance that the united kingdom is going to pretend that it needs nuclear weapons for its survival or its security who is attacking the united kingdom so i have got the very strange idea that because there is terrorists in the world we need to have nuclear weapons can be used nuclear weapons against terrorists but it would that not be rather like shooting musk eaters with chemicals i think the british would make a much bigger splash in the history of the world if the decider that they let the program expire. we are still fighting the polio war between britain and france because when i finally cornered. any senior british military man these days and ask him why do you need nuclear weapons they say every time it's nothing to do with security it's nothing to do with the russians it's to do with the french we cannot allow france to be the only european nuclear power. and there is this fear that britain will become like resilient if they're going to be free they will be of no consequence in the world. even though i do th

ian duncan smith, secretary of state for work and pensions for the united kingdom. we're appreciative he's joined tus d. the united kingdom is undertaking significant reforms to its tax benefit programs and reduce marginal tax rates. this is an issue that i've cared about for many years. we've been watching closely many of the developments in great britain as these reforms have been undertaken in a bipartisan manner and he's agreed to share with us information about these recent reforms in the uk, which will be useful as we consider the effectiveness of our own program. mr. secretary, we did a little digging through our archives, and we're not able to find another example of a sitting foreign secretary appearing before the ways and means committee on non-trade matters. so this is a historic occasion. honored to have you join us today and please proceed with your statement. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much indeed. it's a pleasure to be here and rather satisfying in the surroundings. i'm used to doing my answering across the dispatch box and the house of commons be

use the surveillance equipment to target people politically in libya they targeted people in the united kingdom using french equipment that would be illegal to run in france and they saw that no no they do that before they were caught or there are documents in the spy about ready to commit state sponsors of billions in aid and major issue with challenges due to the structure of a democrat sees in the way they do it with with functions but. is it proper time now to to a vocal so that there is private servants and potentially useful private mass collection of data and actually just look at google. google knows if you're a standard google user google knows who your community taking with who you know what you're researching potentially your sexual orientation your you clearly more than thousand advantage you know that your so more than your mother and maybe more than yourself who knows when you're online and when you're not what did you. you know what you look forward to two years three days and four hours ago given that google no no i should try not to the news that we're going to war for these ve

he wrote was in response to things like the you know the regulatory investigative powers in the united kingdom where the basically the state has decided negative regulation is the solution to cryptography where they can you know you know take it take your passport of course in julian's case when they created this it was because oppressive regimes would torture people for a phrase you had to be able to give up different past phrases in order to comply with their torture and i realized when i saw that this existed that you could use technology to empower everyday people to change the world and the cypherpunks are going back i mean this is this is really that it goes far far back. you know the old mailing lists the cyberpunk mailing lists with ten men and reading your old posts on us iraq's mailing list i mean that's what started a whole generation of people who are really becoming more radicalized because people realized they weren't atomized anymore and that they could literally take some time to write some software that if someone used it they could empower millions of people and there are jus

of course, scotland as part of the united kingdom is an attractive place to invest in. and i congratulate many scottish people and businesses on their work. they have that much harder work to do if scotland were not part of the united kingdom. >> thank you, mr. speaker. while welcoming the students who come to this country to get a world-class education, then return home to benefit their countries, will my right honorable friend look on vice chancellor sibley they cannot compete unless students are given an additional incentive to stay on in this country legally or illegally? especially last your 120,000 students sought and were granted the right to extend their stay here? >> yes, mr. speaker, as my right honorable friend knows the government is in radical forms to stamp out abuse and restore order, more out of control student visa system. making the immigration system easier for students, universities a

on that basis, talented students from around the world are welcome here in the united kingdom. >> can i welcome the fact that the right honorable gentlemen have his ambition thwarted in 2001 as the chairman of the clattering trade. would he take this opportunity as we have two asian nobel prize winners to invite a third, currently right -- rotting in a chinese gulag, coolidge won the nobel peace prize last december. invite him here to london. >> nice words are being exchanged at prime minister's question time. i welcome the questions. we do raise individual cases with the chinese and do so publicly. i will assess which ones to raise and when to do so. the human rights dialogue we have with china is very important. it is important that in china there is an understanding about our deep concerns. and you can rest assured i will be raising them. >> in the court of reduction, the government is reducing funding to the police by 50% over four years. can my right honorable friend assure me that in the cause of deficit reduction that he will be insisting on the european union's budget by more