this week it was announced that the united states would allow ferries to come from florida to the united states into cuba. it hasn't been announced as a big breakthrough in this country. people are wondering what will come in on the ferries. does that mean the united states will send in thousands without permission. lots of regulations. they are not sure how they'll manage all this. >> the cubans wanted to get off the state sponsor's terror list be allowed back into latin american meetings, they got those things. how come there's not a more developing trust that the united states is working out of goodwill. >> it's history, it's a long history going back to the spanish american war, and the fact that the guantanamo navel base is occupied by the united states. cuba sees that as an injury a wound in its heart. that's how they describe it. this is a treaty signed more than 100 years ago. and it doesn't allow or almost 100 years ago. it doesn't allow the kooubons to tell the united states to leave. it has to be by mutual accord. that and other reasons the political differences that exist bet

a war the united states did not prepare for. a war motivated by american interest in keeping other powers out of this important place. motivated by the desire to in the spanish empire, a war the united states did not plan for. the power has given them new challenges, challenges we may still be a prepared for. we have a rise of a new america that has extended four years of war, a thousand miles away in the philippines. in america that finds itself in the philippines. most americans didn't know why we were there but knew we were there. america that had economic, cold tro, military interest far, far away from the imagination of abraham lincoln 30 years earlier. an america that had opportunities to be an asian power, but now new vulnerabilities and new blood on its hands. they were seeking to use force to protect their new interests in hopes they would need to use more force. these were all preventive wars. they were all preventive wars. wars fought to prevent what was thought to be an even worse possibility if we did not use force.

he wanted to see the state of sonora in the united states. he had very expensive designs on what the united states should take from mexico that were much more than he told him to negotiate for. he recalled him and told him to come home. he refused to come home. he along with scott was a good friend by that point decided making a peace treaty with mexico was the most important thing he could do. he said he wanted to make a treaty that was not exacting to mexico. he wanted to save the mexican people from a continuation of the war and dismemberment of the country. he wrote the president and said i will not come home. he made the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo despite the fact he wrote to his wife that i will probably never work in washington again, my career is over. in fact, his career was over. polk was so angry at him that he withheld his pay when he returned to the united states. his family became incredibly poverty-stricken. it was not until after the civil war when ulysses grant was president that he got another position near the end of his li

was it the united states or britain? h country was going to be the leading naval power of the world? this is part of the history of international relations of the period between the two world wars that is not well known today. i want to highlight this because this is one of the major irritants, points of contention between the united states and britain between the two world wars. about what size should each country's fleet be relative to -- should be relative to the other? should britain remained the dominant naval power? or should the united states be on par -- at least equal with that of britain? so, a naval rivalry emerges between britain and the united states after the first world war. churchill, after the first world war, the british government holds an election and this is churchill going back to his seat, his parliamentary seat in the scottish industrial fishing city of dundee up in the north and here he is delivering a speech at the end of november 1918. the war was over on the western front for a couple weeks. th

this is between the united states and iran. on a range of issues it is very specific agreement. of international norms with the program. at the same time, we made clear we will still be just as concerned with the destabilizing activities support for terrorism and in fact, we will continue to have sanctions imposed for iranian actions and behavior in those areas as well. score this is a nuclear deal we are doing on the merits itself, not as a part of a change broadly in the u.s. iran relationship. if iran in the aftermalt of the deal were e able to conclude one that would be good for the region. but that's not the purpose of the deal itself. >> there would be a change in behavior though. >> what i would always say about this, is we would do the deal, if we are able to get the type of deal that was in the frame work, whether or not iran changes over the next ten or 15 years because if iran is just as difficult and challenging ten or 15 years from now, we will want to make sure they don't have nuclear weapons capability. however, what is also clear is they are more likely to evolve

ambassador to iraq suggesting that the united states may be needed to get involved in order to address threat. what do you think. we agree that the united states has expertise, which is why the obama administration sent advisors, we've been involved since the larger troop drawdown in advising the capacity and support for the local troops. the united states population have vehemently supported a president in the last two elections, and his commitment to drawing out of two wars, long wars, that were painful for the american public, would not be welcome to re-engage, nor would it be the effective way. if local population and leaders are not able to come together and bring the violence and gaffes, it's not a solution that guys from kansas for kentucky about. >> americans don't want to go back to iraq, so is it a military question. >> they don't want to go back to iraq in their hundreds of thousands. my example is tonight we have 10,000 troops in afghanistan. we have them out with afghanistani units fighting in everything but name. rules of engagement, ear power and other combat power. the

not the united states. the fact that they are creating all of these institutions like the brics bank like the asian infrastructure bank. they're planning to spend over a trillion dollars both on infrastructure and equities to align other countries economically toward the chinese long term. the americans have not had a response to that not an assertive one, and i think that unnerves a lot of american allies in the region who unlike a lot of other countries like britain really want to see a lot more america in their part of the world and they're not getting it. the british election was not about let's talk about european leadership. it wasn't about the world. in asia modi's india, abe's japan, joko's indonesia, they're really quite concerned that the united states is not consistent and is not ultimately committed to them, and i think that's an interesting challenge. >> which is why the united states simply has to, has to pass not just trade promotion authority but the transpacific partnership to show that it i

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. >>> as does the united states, china is one of the biggest traders with the united states. actually designed specifically to exincluded china. >>> one that requires yarn, to come from countries that are party to the agreement. and a lost clothing comes from china, and little things like that, that could possibly invite retaliation. on the other side, china doesn't think the tpp is a big challenge as one might think. >>> they'll still trade. china has its own agenda, it's pushing toward the association of southeast asian nations, and the civic road, and it has by sea and land and, launched its own development bank to compete with the world bank, and also cutting deals with russia, which has been cut off. >>> so, you know, it is not keeping china out, the united states and other countries have concentrated on china and we're missing the boat. >>> part of the it is not successful. but china will be a major trade partner. >>> when you look at the list, just about every country is a functioning democracy and, many advanced industrial on the planet australia, canada and, the unit

was a student who decided to come to the united states to pursue a phd in nuclear engineering. he arrived at the university of missouri to study and obtained his phd and decided along with his wife he wanted to stay in the united states and work in the united states rather than returning to iraq. work as aand got research professor at the university of missouri, became an integral part of the columbia community. he and his wife ultimately had five children, all of them american-born u.s. citizens. the problem is beginning of the early 1990's, for the next decade, he had numerous family member still in iraq, including 11 siblings, along with his elderly mother who was blind. millions ofs and iraqis, his family members were not just suffering great deprivation, although they were, they were literally on the boundary of starvation, typically unable to feed themselves in any way that provides major sustenance. this is incredibly common among the regime sanctions. although he was earning a modest salary, he simply could not in good conscious live even what was really a lower middle-c

very few will turn around and come back to the united states. at's why we cannot return all the surplus men to the united states at one time and it may take many months. during the time such men are waiting for their return to go home, a complete program of educational and vocational training will be available to them. while this process of returning men to the european theater is taking place, a plan for readjustment will take place in the overseas theaters like the southwest pacific. men in those theaters will be declared surplus to the extent replacements can be provided. since the pacific is the only active area, we know there are no surplus units of any type there. military requirements will demand and increase rather than a decrease in fighting units. troops in the pacific area will benefit from a reduction of the army not as units but as individuals. the commanding general of each active theater has been a lot of his quota of the numbers and types of men who can be replaced and he will select these men using the same standards you have see

the possibility of ward? would you plan to attack united states if the united states cut the oil? japan would never attack the big united states. we can do this with no aggression. we just cut the oil and japan will withdraw. there will be peace then i christian china will arise. according to the gallup polls 75% of americans were convinced of this argument. you could cut the oil easily. roosevelt said over and over if i cut the oil there will be war. if there are tremendous arguments within the roosevelt administration. 75% of public is for cutting japan's oil and fdr's against it. finally in july of 1941 roosevelt was going to leave the country secretly. he's going to go up to canada to meet with winston churchill in what would later be called the atlantic conference. before he leaves he makes a speech at hyde park. he makes a plea to all americans. he lays his cards on the table why he is going with this unpopular policy of continuing the oil to japan. he says to the public there's a world war ii going on. there's a world world war going on all over the world and one of the thin

states in an attempt to create -- to get the united states to overreact and embroil the united states in a long war against radical islamic extremism, ultimately leading the united states to disengage from the world stop supporting what al qaeda saw as oppressive puppets across much of the islamic word, most notably egypt, hosni mubarak's egypt other, countries across the islamic world as well. and he almost succeeded. so the attacks in -- in response to the attacks of september 11th the bush administration correctly turned to afghanistan asked them to hand over those responsible for those nefarious acts them afghan government the taliban refused to do so and the united states had no choice but to attack that government to topple it and attempt to bring bin laden and al qaeda 1.0 to justice. we fumbled that ball to a certain extent. we sent insufficient troops into afghan and i loued bin laden to escape across the border to pakistan where he remained for the next decade but we did largely through drone strikes nullify al qaeda 1.0 inside pakistan and in afghanistan. but the cre

14 pastors in the state of north carolina from the same denomination supported by americans united are suing the state of north carolina. in the state of north carolina same-sex marriage is not legal. what the pastors wanted is their day in court. that is what the freedom of religious act it does. they give a day in court when there is a disagreement. meryl: let's try to get off of rifra. i am going to turn it over to mike. are these cases becoming more difficult? as we can -- as we become increasingly pluralistic, is that becoming -- is that creating anxiety? are we getting to the situation where religious accommodation cases may be difficult for the courts to deal with? mike: i think there is more at stake here than just details. there's a conflict of vision behind many of these cases. there is a form of modern liberalism that says only the individual in the state israel. -- israel. protect individuals against oppression by other social institutions. then there is the approach i would call principled pluralism. that says a community of communities that allows people to seek a vision

the united states is still the world's biggest economy.t good does it do us to trade with other countries? many mexicans, unable to find good jobs in their own country were looking for work across the border, in the united states. the problem for the u.s. -- how to stem the flow of job-seeking mexicans. what was keeping investment and jobs out of xico? was there a way for mexico to attract the good jobs that would encourage mexican workers to look for work in mexico. mexico's resume as a host to employers looked ideal. it had ready supplies of energy, access to the huge consumer markets of the united states and most important of all, large labor force. but for years, much of mexico's labor force sat idle the result of policies that excluded job-creating foreign investment policies followed by the governments of both xico and the uned states. was there a solution one that would attract investment to mexico and induce mexican workers to look for work at home? the maquiladora was one solution. border factories in which mexican workers assembl

bard . >>> welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we're back with representative tulsi gabbard, a representative from hawaii. if the president of the united states congresswoman, were to call you and said all right's you served two tours in that region, you understand the military and what the region is all about what should the united states be doing next? what would you say? >> well, the first thing we need to be doing is make sure that the primary recipient of our support through arms weapons, equipment, intelligence training needs to go to the kurds and to the sunni tribes. these are proven trusted partners that we have worked with in the past successfully to defeat al qaeda. we need to work with them as our troops on the ground now in this fight against isis in iraq. we need to step up our airstrike campaign and make sure we're dealing these decisive blows against isis in a very targeted way to stop the momentum they have been building. as they capture more territory and capture more gr

this will be a new departure for the united states. afta really never had any document revisions and after nafta was negotiated the clinton administration talked about creating a free trade area with americans and it would be expansion of nafta into the region but for a variety of reasons that ever happen so i don't think we have an example of a big regional agreement that is a living agreement so i do think it would be very much in the u.s. interest and then korea's interest to move as quickly as possible after tpp has been concluded to take that and i would like it to be done before this administration. >> i just want to add a little bit of that because it's hard for me to imagine happening next year but i totally agree with ted that is then korea's interest to move quickly. what i mean by that is if korea gets put into a second round with a bunch of countries that have made changes and are going to be resistant to some of them including some competitors in korea. i won't name them but one begins with t you know much less other countr

>> i can tell you that the united states is monitoring this. what we expect is the humanitarian assistance that iran is willing to offer we will be -- will occur through the process already established by the united nations. but the united nations has done is established a relief effort inside of djibouti where humanitarian aid can be uploaded processed by un experts and effectively and efficiently distributed to those most in need. this has the effect of ensuring there is no accusation of political preference being demonstrated by who receives the eight. we can make sure the a needed gets to the right places. in some cases the priority will be placed on medical supplies in some case priority placed on food fuel. this is basically an effort to try to be responsive to the needs of the local population. they have an expertise in this area. the thing it is also important using this logistic have will allow for the enforcement of united nations security council resolution 2216 which put in place an arms embargo against the hutu rebels. so to process

the united states. this morning nine soccer officials and five sports marketing and media executives in the united states and switzerland were charged in a bribery scheme reaching back to 1991. so why is this all happening now? well the accusations of graft, about soccer officials who get too cozy with sports marketers and media, reached a fever pitch in 2010. that's when fifa opaque bidding process awarded russia and qatar the next two championship tournaments. a qatari official was accused of doling out $5 million of bribes to his,dispied despite summer temperatures that can surpass 110 degrees. qatar denies any wrongdoing but the qatari official was banned for life from fifa, to disclose, al jazeera's home is in qatar and is funded in part by qatar. andy, good to see you. we are hearing that uefa is calling for a postponement of the elections, uefa is not a friend of fifa for a long time. >> uefa is one continental confederation that said they would not support sepp blatter. at the moment absolutely n

ultimately leading the united states to disengage from the world, stop supporting what al qaeda saw asppressive puppets across the islamic world. alieed with the united states, probably most notably egypt mubarak's egypt and other countries in the lahm islamic world as well. he almost succeeded. so the attacks in response to the attacks of september 11th the bush administration correctly turned to afghanistan asked them to hand over those upon for those nefarious acts. the afghan government refused to do so and the united states had no choice but to attack the government to topple it and attempt to bring bin laden and al qaeda 1.0 to justice. we fumbled that ball to a certain extent. we sent ininsufficient troops into afghanistan and bin laden was allowed to cross the border into pakistan. and we nullified al qaeda 1.0 inside pakistan and in afghanistan. but the spread largely as a result of the misguided unnecessary invasion of iraq in 2003. that became a cause celeb that informed the entire claimic world. al qaeda was able to aattract tens of thousands troops in what became what i ca

the active units needed against japan will now be shipped to the pacific. those units required for occupation duty will be sent to their stations. the surplus units will be returned to the united statesquickly as possible. in the unit, the men of these surplus units will revert back to a surplus pool in the ground forces, air forces or service forces as the case may be. it is from these surplus pools that the planned reduction of various types of army personnel will be made. the number to be returned to civilian life is no longer essential will be chosen from among those with the highest priority credit scores. however, the rate of return of surplus men from overseas will depend upon the number of ships that can be spared over and above the thousands of ships required to supply our fighting theater in the pacific. the pacific theater is number one priority. all else must wait. to it we must transport millions of fighting men. millions of tons of landing barges tanks, planes guns, ammunition and food. over longer supply lines than we had to europe. this means most of the ships and planes that were used to supply the once active european theater will now be needed to supply the active

russia says this whole ukrainian crisis was started by the united states in the first place. the united states says it is russia that started this whole problem in the first place. so still a lot of differences between them. >> it will be interesting to see what they say at the news conference that we're still waiting for at the moment. rory challands live for us in sochi. and now let's go to the united states washington, d.c. and speak to rosiland jordan at the u.s. state department for us. ross how optimistic are the officials that anything official is going to come out of these talks. >> reporter: the u.s. is first and foremost very concerned about the imminent start of the humanitarian pause or ceasefire in yemen. last week we heard from the u.s. secretary of state john kerry, who indicated that he had spoken with russian foreign minister about whatever influence russia might be able to extend towards the houthis, and those who are supportive of the former president saleh, in order to basically try to stop their fight to regain or hold on to power in yemen and see if human

outside of the united states, that's not the case and as much as we're struggling in the united states with how to balance these questions, i think outside the united states it's even more difficult because that incentive question hasn't been fully addressed. so when you say you want to drill wells here you're not bringing large checks as they do in the united states. so i wrote all about this in my book and about al yost and terry and all of the different people who created this technology and all of the questions that we're struggling with today. clearly in energy and all of these questions which we talked about and is talked about, should we allow gas exports, oil exports, keystone xl they are all questions that have been set in motion by fracking and this enormous new production of oil and gas. and it's been around for several years and then modified it and completely changed the country's landscape. >> can fracking survive? i think the end of last week we saw the price of oil at about $59.50, price of gas a little over $2.5 and if you look back to july, prices were a lot different

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it has evolved to the point where there was bafflement they were not grateful to the united states for all the freedom we brought them. this to me really underscores how completely muslims are excluded from anything we think about or talk about in the united states. themve debates about without their participation, we have discussions about what they are thinking without actually hearing what they are thinking. we have constant reports about who we are killing and how many people we are killing without ever stopping and thinking about who those people are or whether they have done anything that warranted that violence. so much so it was recently revealed a couple months ago by the new york times the obama administration has adopted a new definition of militants, which says that any military aged male and a strike zone, meaning any male who dies above the age of 16 or below the age of 55, is automatically deemed a militant without knowing anything else about them. this is how we have come to think about muslims, to the extent we think about them all, they die at the hands of our violenc

6 the united states -- the united states in our fact sheet says its limited. iran will not use ir-2, ir-4, ir-5 i rf-6, or ir-8 modeled to produce enriched uranium for at least 10 years. iran will engage limited research and development with advanced centrifuges according to a schedule and parameters which have been agreed to by the p5-plus 1 the group that negotiated all of this. that's what the united states fact sheet says. but what does iran say? iran says no, iran will continue its research and development on advanced machines and will continue the initiation and completion phases of the research and development process of ir-4, ir-5, ir-6, and ir-8 during the 10-year period of the comprehensive joint plan for action." so these are at least -- one two, three four, five, six major points of difference where iran is saying, the deal says one thing and the united states says the deal is saying another. and what my amendment does is it takes what we say the deal is and puts it in the bill and says any final deal must be what you told us it is. not what iran s

has relationships with the united states. are domestic things happening here in the united kingdom which are concerning on the one hand, u.k. says it will arrest me regardless, refuses to reveal whether the u.s. has a ready put in an extradition request. it says it will pull out of the european code of human rights within 100 days. i think it is going to find it harder than [indiscernible] it has engaged in this crazy adventurism in libya. it is introducing new legislation to say there is not enough anymore to follow the law -- that it is not enough anymore to follow the law. this is a credible rhetoric coming out of the premised are's mouth and the secretary responsible for the police. that it is not enough anymore to follow the law, not a matter of introducing new laws, but people who make statements which are perfectly lawful need to be stopped. otherwise, criticism against uk's foreign policy could lead people into the steppingstone to to mystic extremism. -- domestic extremism. once people are named as someone who is lea

. >> the united states will stand by our g.c.c. partners against external attack >>> president barack obama promise military protection to gulf nations from the threat of a potentially nuclear iran >>> international pressure. >> the secretary-general calls on all parties to exercise calm and restraint >>> calling for cooler heads with the violence in burundi after a coup. >>> aerial assaults. >> there's other ways >>> columbia a major source of cocaine to the urks is putting an end to chemical spraying. >>> india's president and china's president exchange warm greetings despite decades of bitterness and hostility >>> good evening, this is al jazeera america. i'm antonio mora. we begin tonight with a presidential assurance after meeting with the six gulf cooperation nations president obama promised the u.s. would defend the g.c.c. countries in the face of aggression. the gulf states have been at odds with the wows's pursuit of a nuclear agreement in iran. more reports surfaced that saudi arabia and other countries intend to match wha

he and pope francis worked hard to bring the united states and ba closer. in the real life and the real story of the relationship tween cuba and the vatican, the three popes have played a role. at the moment -- the moment has come for this last pontificate of pope francis with his own quality to play in this role at this moment because the histories like that, the moment and the pope for the present time. >> rose: we conclude with james taylor, his new album is called "before this world." >> there is a period of song writing where ideas emerge and sometimes, if you're lucky that will be an entire song in one initial event but usually you end up with bits and pieces and fits and starts and you need to get alone with them, spend empty time working on them, court the muse, whatever that means, and finish them up. >> rose: cardinal ortega and james taylor next. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsor

saidthe trident miss ill system, because they'll have to work out not just what the president of the united states will do, but what will the u.k. do. and also n.a.t.o., britain, shoulder and shoulder, second to the united states with influence, that will now start to continue to ebb away towards germany. and the financial center in london will continue to eb towards the european union. they have the code napoleon, london, new york, singapore, hong kong, bahrain, they operate on the anglo saxon system as does new york. we have a problem heading in that direction, and london losing influence in the financial world. >>> john brown is a long-time member of the british parliament for winchester. thank you for joining us on "inside story". the long-standing alliance between the u.k. and the united states has been called the special relationship. a recent u.s. ambassador to the u.k. joins us to talk about whether the special relationship will stay special after the surprising election. you're watching "inside story". >>> you're watching "inside story" on al jazeera america joining me now is a former uni

i was there when the president of the united states decided that we're not going to tell the pakistanisin advance not because we didn't want to. they would've been nothing better for the relationship between the united states and pakistan than to have worked together on this. but we simply couldn't trust the pakistani system, not the pakistani government by the pakistani system, not to delete the information and advocate that the bin laden and having lead -- having lead the compound before the raid ever happened. and i was there when the pakistanis learned about this ever deeply angry with us. and i was sent by the president to pakistan to begin with relationship back together after the bin laden rate. so everything seymour hersh said is wrong. and he says that he got this information from a former senior intelligence official who is very close to the operation. whoever the source was was not in the room, was not in any room that i was in spirit not only was he a single source, also an unnamed source, according to seymour hersh. [inaudible] >> speaking about the pakistani isi come on a

the cuban policy put the united states in the right path. we must remain clear eyed about several issues and we must continue to speak out about them. we cannot ignore the cuban government's record of human rights or human trafficking. every month there are way too many cases where the cuban government jails political activists for what they believe in, what they say publicly. freedom of expression must be central to all of our engagements with the cuban government. i know he led a human rights dialogue with the cuban government earlier this year. and i welcome our witnesses' comments on this development. mr. chairman, as i said initially, we do welcome the witness that's are testify today. i thank you again for this opportunity for our committee. >> thank you very much. now i will -- our first witness is the honorable roberta jacobson. she is the assistant secretary for state for western hem is sphere affairs. assistant secretary jacobson established diplomatic relations and our second witness is ambassador thomas shannon. he is the counsel

the more powerful the united states becomes and this is true , today, the more powerful the united states becomes, the more dependent we are on the actions of people far away. the clearest way to make that point in our world today is to think about energy resources even though we are taking a lot of oil out of the ground now in texas and elsewhere. we are part of an oil market. how much oil the saudi's produce , even though they might be producing less than us affect how much we pay for gas. there are times where we talk about this in the course where middle eastern countries start -- a producing oil in large quantities when our prices went up. what the saudi king decides affects what you pay when you drive. that was not the case in the early 19th century. 19th century. that starts to become the case in the late 19th century. the united states become connected to foreign markets. we profit from those markets. we also are dependent upon decisions. in crude terms people far away people we don't understand people we may not even respect unfortunately, they get a vote in our politics, in our

they petitioned the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit -- here we go ready, to block key provisions of new rules unveiled by anthony foxx, the transportation secretary in the obama cabinet. the petition seeks to -- really go now block the requirement that older tank cars, railcars the retrofitted with new safety features designed to prevent them from spilling oil or rupturing in a derailment. we are carrying more and more oil, that shale business that has to be distributed all over the united states. trains are carrying huge amounts of oil, and if the trains were to derail and if the oil cars are not safe, oh, boy you're going to have burning oil lakes cascading through. the american petroleum institute says we do not want this and they give -- i am meeting from "the times" -- provisions including the new electronic breaks, according to the rules would be, too costly, and would yield to few safety benefits. yesterday, a train in philadelphia derailed. it killed seven people and caused millions of dollars worth of damage. the american petroleum industry

ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the chaplain. >> i invite you all to pray with me. almighty god, we gather today across america, very mindful of the cost paid for the freedom we enjoy. we gather on these hallowed grounds particularly to remember and to honor, with singular devotion, men and women of ignoble claylike like ours who rose above their human condition with noble hearts and steadfast will. despite the brevity or of security of their lives dignified our humanity and the profession of arms, by choosing to stand for something. who declared with their actions that preserving freedom was a cause to live for, to serve for, and even to die for. bless our commemoration here and all of its participants, maintenance of servants render honor to those who remember -- we remember. for what they gain, they deserve more than we can give. we ask you lord, to bestow upon them the gift that this world cannot give. grant of the peace that they felt so elusive in this life and let that peace

." >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin this hour in zurich, switzerland, with all eyes on fifa, the most powerful man in football, sepp blatter has won a firm term as president of that organization, despite two corruption investigations. blatter defeated jordan's prince ali bin hussein who was his only challenger on friday. but the questions still remain as to how much blatter may be connected to the scandal as the investigation gets under way. for his part, though, blatter promised to the delegates at the group's world congress in zurich that he will do his best, quote, to clean up the organization, with their help. >> i promise you, in the end of my term, i will give this fifa to my successor in a very, very strong, strong position. a robust fifa and a good fifa. >> sepp blatter reelected. let's get more on the story from world sport anchor alex thomas who is slive in zurich, switzerland. with more on the vote and the reaction there, alex. good day to you. >> reporter: hello, george, i'm outside fifa house in th

this case went all the way to the support of the united states of america. and it was all because of the chinese exclusion act of 1882. the supreme court did a judicious thing, they ruled in his favor. he was a citizen of the united states of america. and while that might seem like such a small thing today it is really a significant piece of world history in terms of how persons born in this country become citizens because had they ruled otherwise, there are a good many people who could be born in this country but not be citizens of the united states of america. he was the test case that went before the supreme court. and while many persons conclude that the 14th amendment has its roots in those who were freed from slavery in the united states of america to accord them citizenship, and i concur with this by the way, but i also would add this while it was giving birth to the cause of the freed slaves it was given clarity because of mr. ark who was the denied citizenship for a brief moment but finally the supreme court ruled that wong kim ark was a citizen of t

the united states has got to go along with us. and on yemen, the united states did go along, has gone along to support the saudis logistically. i sense some hesitation some doubts about the wisdom of that operation. more in terms of opinion, about the wisdom of the attacks on yemen because it's going to be dread fully hard to pull off a victory in yemen on saudi terms. >> we have one minute left. i'll give you 30 seconds, your thought on the fact that the saudi king will not be here? >> i think it's unfortunate that he decided not to participate because the saudi arabia is leading this whole campaign and it's the most directly affected country and the closest and largest ally of the united states in the region. all this - what will take place next week at camp david has been discussed frankly, so his absence is not going to make a big difference in terms of the conclusion of the talks. logistically and at least psychologically, his presence would have added prestige to the event and propelled it into an historical event that would

in fact, this might bring the united dates into the war. -- united states to forestall that possibility the foreign office concocted an ingenious or perhaps idiotic plan to try to get the united states even more deeply embroiled in mexico's revolution. the united states was already involved pursuing the president. the german idea was that if the mexicans went to war, that would distract the americans and be unable to send troops to europe. the germans decided to try to lore mexico into the first world war. -- lure all of the belligerent powers were playing footsie with neutrals and trying to entice them with promises of territory. for mexico, this territory was the american southwest. the germans had some fuel to play with. the way they played with it was about as dangerous a matter as you could possibly imagine. they sent this proposal to mexico city by way of the u.s. embassy cable. they sent it to the mexican ambassador in washington dc. what the germans and americans did not know was that the british were reading this cable traffic. the british had broken the german codes. that in a