u.s. state department spokesman told reporters the man was the u.s. citizens working for the consulate but did not confirm whether he had diplomatic status nor whether the official was authorized to carry a firearm. he promised that america would work hard to ensure the tragedy did not damage relations. with dozens on the streets blocking the roads in protests, they will be concern -- there will be a concern in washington that the incident could add to anti-american sentiment in pakistan. questions will be asked why he was not provided with our protection if he was a diplomat. >> belarus is clamping down on political dissent despite the threat of sanctions from the european union. they are pushing ahead with plans to put more than 30 political activists on trial. they were arrested last month in protest against the president. >> there has been no changing of the political guard in belarus but there has been a change in the temperature. the country's authoritarian leader seems to be turning his back on the west. when violence broke debt at protests fol

u.s. state department's retaliation against france more missing billions in afghanistan and a shopping frenzy in britain. stars are this is the kaiser report we're on the front line markets and finance there's a global war going on savers versus speculators financial terrorists versus the rest of us and the front line on this markets and finance extends past just banks it also includes companies like mom santo symbol m o n new york stock exchange stacy herbert more max kaiser they are in the first headline wiki leaks u.s. ambassador planned retaliation against france over a ban on one santo corey so apparently former ambassador craig stapleton was concerned about france's decision to suspend cultivation of month santo's m o n eight ten corn and warned that a new french environmental review standard could spread anti biotech policy across the e.u. he said quote country team paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the e.u. since this is a collective responsibility but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits yeah i want to point this out

u.s. state department is providing chartered planes to evacuate americans who want to leave. let's go to carol han who has reaction from one couple who managed to get out. >> reporter: we're hearing that 42 u.s. embassy workers and their families have landed safely in sigh -- in cyprus. now, according to the state department at last count, some 52,000 americans were registered with the u.s. embassy in cairo and it will take several flights over several days to evacuate all of the people who want to eve. one stranded chicago couple who managed to escape to london describes the obstacle course to get out of the country. >> it took us at least an hour to get from our hotel, which was only a mile away, to the air. once you got to the airport, it was upper chaos. >> reporter: now, the military is stepping up its presence as the curfew has ended -- entered the second hour. they are gear you for a million- person march tomorrow. in the meantime, the state department is scram welling 0 -- scrambling to get more americans to greece, cyprus, turkey. we're still waiting on one plane expe

u.s. state department spokesperson told reporters the man was a u.s. citizen working for the consulate, but did not confirm whether he had diplomatic status or if the official was authorized to carry a firearm. he promised that america would work hard to ensure the tragedy did not damage to relations. with the dozens on the streets blocking the roads in protest of the killings, there is concern in washington that the incident could lead to an anti-american sentiment in pakistan. questions will be asked as to why the american was carrying arms and why if he was a diplomat, he was not provided with armed protection. bbc news. >> still ahead, dancing the night away at a club. metropolitan police have promised to leave no stone unturned to investigate fresh claims regarding a newspaper. attempts were made to access messages last week according to one person. >> they are famous faces that once helped sold news around the world. now they want to know if their personal lives were hacked. lawyers say one person may have been targeted as early as last year. thi

tonight, the state department is making plans to evacuate thousands of u.s. citizens on chartered planes starting tomorrow. and signs today the white house may be distancing itself from the mubarak government. president obama said the u.s. supports "an orderly transition in egypt." we have special coverage from cairo and across the middle east this evening, beginning again with our chief foreign correspondent richard engel in cairo. richard? >> reporter: good evening, kate. we've been hearing bursts of automatic gunfire tonight as soldiers fire on looters who are trying to raid a church. this is a situation now where no one is truly in charge, not the police, not the government, not even the army. the army has sent tanks into the streets, and today, fighter jets buzzed cairo. egypt has gone from a police state to a state of chaos. but the show of force isn't stopping thousands of demonstrators. >> no one is afraid of the curfew. we have been afraid for 30 years and no one is afraid now. >> reporter: and with each day, more soldiers, the backbone of president

u.s. state department raffles fifty thousand green cards per year. the wife of alleged russian arms. she claims that she was detained along with her children in question for our customs officials in new york meanwhile preliminary hearing has been pushed back to the end of january. one of the two ships stuck in ice off pacific coast vessels have been stranded for over a week. in the sea of authorities say the fishermen no immediate danger have enough supplies to see them through the rescue. those are the headlines i'll be back in about thirty minutes with more but first up next is a special report on the difficulties facing the muslim community in new york. work. now her oh i. know you more mall know. guys getting. this stuff. all of their. arab speakers hijacked the clip. that's where it starts. and muslims were always stereotyped but after two thousand and monday after nine eleven there were the scapegoat for everyone's fear else. we go through periods of time like this where this hysteria sweeps the country. as it you can i sit quiet like hope group is being profiled. org the whole

u.s. state department fifty thousand green cards per year. the wife of alleged russian arms trade faces interrogation ahead of her husband's trial she claims she was detained along with her children and question for. officials in new york meanwhile . has been pushed back to the end of january. a russian ice breaker reaches one of the two ships stuck in ice off russia's pacific coastline the vessels have been stranded for over a week. in the sea of a port authorities say the fishermen are in no immediate danger supplies to see them through the rescue. those are the headlines and telling up in about thirty minutes i'll be with you with a full look at your news but up next is a special report on the difficulties facing the muslim community in new york. work. now her oh i. do lawyer. guys getting. this stuff. all oh. yeah. arab speakers hijacked a clip. and that's where it starts. and muslims were always stereotyped but after two thousand and monday after nine eleven there were the scapegoat for everyone's fear else. but. we go through periods of

u.s. state department is asking people to contact the state department or the u.s. embassy but she tells us we can't get ahold of anybody at the u.s. embassy and it is difficult there in cairo. we will have more on that part of the story coming up at 11:00. for now we're live in the newsroom. >> all right. thanks. the search for a missing central valley boy and the man who kidnapped him is shifting this weekend. dive teams made their final underwater search of the stanislaw county canal this afternoon. today they began air and road patrols for the bodies 46-year-old juniani cardenas seen there and jose rodriguez. the boy allegedly took the boy from his grandmother's arms nearly two weeks ago and drove off in the silver corolla. cruise pulled that car from the canal seen here on friday. >>> in san francisco, with demand and donations down, a longtime women's health clinic is slated to be closed but a last-minute push sunday way to raise the $250,000 it needs to stay open. live from san francisco where they are holding a fund-raiser. hello, kimberley. >> reporter: all

u.s. state department adviser contacted twitter to ask them to a proposed -- postponed their planned maintenanceter that the i iranian regime became convinced the internet was an arm of the u.s. government. the man who made that request was jared cohen. >> i look at the 60% of that part of the world under age 30 and see the window that will not last forever. these kids will be the adults soon. i look at the digital age and think this is the first time ever won from education institutions and young kids -- everyone from education institutions can have a stake in this. >> the editor of one magazine says if we discount brokers selling the internet has become a reality. there was a very naive view from washington that the liberal approach to spreading the internet internationally would bring down the bad guys. it does not mean because politicians have misunderstood the politicians -- it does not mean open connection to the internet is a way for alternative viewpoints. often this is long term. to make the population of a place that is quite a crescive understand that they have some power. -- that is

u.s. state department spokesperson told reporters that the man was a u.s. citizen working for the conflict but did not confirm whether he had diplomatic status or whether the official was authorized to carry a firearm. he promised that america would work hard to ensure the tragedy did not damage relations. with dozens on the streets of law or blocking roads and protests, there will be concerned in washington that the incident could add to the anti american sentiment in pakistan. -- with dozens on the streets blocking roads in protests. the diplomat, why was he not provided with armed protection? >> this is "a bbc news. the letters that offer a new take on the j.d. salinger. was he really such a great riklis? -- recluse? the british police are investigating fresh claims of phone hacking. attempts were made to access phone messages last week of a minister. >> they were once the famous faces that helped to sell the news of the world. now they want to know if their phones and personal lives were packed -- hacked. one might have been as targeted from last year.

u.s. state special envoy for european for eurasian rather energy why is this issue of your asian energy so important for the state department that they have a special envoy to deal with these matters and you've been with it for food for for some time now wife had experience really in all aspects of it because i did work in the caspian area in the ninety's i worked with russia earlier than that with respect to various programs that we've had in russia after the breakup of the soviet union and then i was ambassador to the european union so i have a combination of experiences which made it. a good i think a pretty good fit for this position. but. our interest as we have several interests one relationship that the united states and europe have is obviously very close our economies are fully interdependent. there are millions of european jobs that are with american companies millions of american jobs that are with the european companies. that a an energy secure europe and a strong europe economically is in our interest just as an energy secure united states is in is in europe's interest for the same reason. a lot of the work tha

u.s. state department says stephen bosworth will visit seoul on tuesday, beijing on wednesday and tokyo on thursday. the u.s. envoy to the six-party talks on north korea sung kim will join the meetings in seoul and beijing. the united states, japan and south korea want the north to take concrete action toward denuclearization as a precondition for resuming the six-party talks. the u.s. delegates are expected to urge china to press north korea towards that end using the influence it has as an ally. >>> in pakistan, the coalition government has apparently collapsed. its second largest party says it will leave the ruling coalition. this could deprive the government of its majority in parliament. the mutahida qaumi movement announced on sunday it will withdraw from the governing alliance. it cited dissatisfaction with prime minister yusuf raza gilani. economic policies and security measures. the coalition government led by the pakistan people's party would fall short of a majority in the lower house. the prime minister denied speculation that he may dissolve parliament. he told reporters the g

u.s. state department aide -- urged leaders to focus on what is best for the people of haiti. >> i think we are in a time of some uncertainty in haiti. current or former political actors and their supporters should be focused on not what is best for them but what is best for the people of haiti, and that goes for anybody, either as i said in power, or formerly in power. >> the chinese president is arriving in washington for the start of a four-day visit. he will meet president obama on wednesday. this at a time of growing tension between the u.s. and china, the world's biggest economies, over trade and monetary strategic issues. this is obviously important. it could also be difficult, could it not? >> certainly, it has been a difficult year for the united states and china, a rather fractious 12 months. a lot of things have gone wrong in the relationship, things the obama administration were hoping they could manage well have not been managed well. tension in the eastern chinese seas. the military chafing at each other. tensions over chinese currency. americans still demanding the chinese do

u.s. state department fifty thousand green cards here. the wife of alleged russian arms faces interrogation ahead of her husband's trial she claims she was detained along with her children and question for hours by airport officials in new york meanwhile boots preliminary hearing has been pushed back to the end of january. one of the two ships stuck in the ice off russia's pacific coastline the vessels have been stranded for over a week in. authorities say they. have enough supplies to see them through the rest. those are the headlines coming up next in our special report on the difficulties facing the muslim community in new york. when chile is a place that represents the world community. the opportunity to teach arabic to students here in brooklyn i think is an opportunity that we we shouldn't we shouldn't miss. and so when people made statements that were truly discriminatory of course of pain me and said me. certain feel mongering groups the play of the disco all would be a religious school which is a public school in america it could

u.s. state department is warning hundreds of human rights activists, foreign government officials and business people identified in published wikileaks cables of potential threats to their safety. administration officials have moved a handful of them to safer locations amid fear they may be attacked or imprisoned as a direct result of the disclosure. >>> in the country's first execution of the year, last night the state of oklahoma put to death a 39-year-old man convicted of killing a store clerk during a robbery. billy don alverson was among four men found guilty of a 1995 murder. >>> a u.s. navy ship has a new home in the bottom of the ocean. scuttled in the caribbean waters off the islands. the sunken vessel will now serve as an artificial reef and tourist attraction. >>> and a washington state couple are the envy of the nation this morning after coming forward to claim half of tuesday's $380 million mega million jackpot. the retired boeing worker and his wife who are the parents of 6 and grandparents of 23, say their immediate plans include buying a new home and an rv. >> and now here's an

u.s. state department plans to send a senior official to japan, china, south korea to coordinate policies on north korea's nuclear program. deputy secretary of state james steinberg will visit seoul tokyo and beijing over a three-day period january 26th. the announcement came shortly after north korea's leaders announced high-level military talks with the south on thursday. the north wants to explain its artillery attack on yeonpyeong island in november and its alleged sinking of a south korean ship in march. in response to the proposal, the south has suggested the two sides hold preliminary talks. meanwhile in washington, chinese president hu jintao expressed concern about north korea's uranium enrichment program for the first time during the summit with barack obama on wednesday. an nhk reporter says the united states wants to use the tour by the official to boost collaboration among the three asian countries and persuade north korea's government to take concrete action towards denuclearization. >>> japanese prosecutors have decided not to indict a former coast guard officer who leaked v

u.s. state department is expected to begin airlifting thousands of americans out of egypt over the next few days. they will be taken to europe, turkey, or athens, greece. any american inside of egypt is eligible. the state department is now encouraging those who have commercial airline tickets in hand to actually use them. we have the team in cairo, including christiane amanpour later on "good morning america." >>> well, another major storm is poised to blast three quarters of the country. it is bringing heavy snow and ice to the rockies and midwest first, but the east coast will not be spared. >> and that, of course is unwelcome news here in new york where garbage is being picked up today for the first time since last week's storm buried the city under 19 inches of white stuff. accuweather's ava dinges is keeping an eye on this. >> reporter: good morning, rob and vinita, a massive storm system over the overnight, 3 to 6 inches of know in denver all the way back to minneapolis. blizzard conditions expected in chicago and detroit overnight. and then the storm continues to build north and eas

u.s. state department is urging those who can to leave, and it is also going to be putting planes on to get as many people who want to leave out. we saw dozens and dozens of americans and other tourists stranded at cairo airport when we arrived here last night. it was nighttime, well after curfew, when we landed in cairo. we found the airport full of stranded tourists, desperate to leave the country. and residents returning, but afraid to venture into town until the curfew was lifted in the morning. we've got a small car, as you can see, all the baggage is being strapped to the roof of the car. and we're going to try to get to our hotel tonight. it's a long drive from the airport into cairo and at first it was eerily quiet. but every hundred yards or so, we were stopped. we're driving from the airport into town. it's practically deserted. very few cars, but there are bands of vigilantes, ad hoc neighborhood watch groups, young men and boys out with wooden batons, metal bars, even machetes. they are watching out for looters and any kind of crime spree because there is no security. they had g

u.s. state department democratic finger pointing to the other contraries abroad the us on demining the whole least stick and integrated us foreign policy britain's pension is going bankrupt faster than any other group in the country the u.k. and solvency sevenths findings highlights how seriously the sixty five a struggling to keep their homes running as costs rise. or entry points most of the people's budgets have already been cut to the bank. retirement depicted as a golden age where older people get more time to enjoy their families and hopis it's a new survey shows a different side of old age and britain a worrying picture of a country where more and more elderly people can't afford to retire pension or lydia portsmouth will say how much money she gets from the state but she's forced to dip into her limited savings to pay her monthly bills like many others she wasn't able to push away a lot of money for her retirement and what she does have is now earning so little interest in the bank that she regularly has to spend the capital. if you know that within. the. coming nothing back in again

u.s. state department issued the open-door notes. a statement of america's hope that the imperial power does not carve up china to the exclusion of the united states. and then roosevelt's decision to try to mediate an end to the russo-japanese war before the japanese got too strong. that was the basic idea there. but that was as far as the eye states would go. as roseville discovered americans wouldn't pay to tears in their own economy in the philippines. which is why the united states eventually decided to give it up. >> thank you so much. you described more of you in the american economy. and during the lastno tw have we american economy. it seems to me there's a few things going on here which indicate a paradigm shift. one, americans don't have skin in the game. emotionally. and there's a lot of outsourcing of what would have in the past few of the american economy. could you speak to this paradigm shift how you see it playing out the? >> yes. whenever the federal government spends money on anything their costs and benefits. when t

u.s. state department wants to make sure americans don't get mixed up in this. following days of antigovernment protests in egypt, official will begin flying u.s. citizens out of the country to destinations in europe today. roughly 100 people have died in the demonstrations so far. but there are fears the toll is much higher. still, protestors angry over government corruption and widespread poverty are vowing to keep up their fight until egyptian president hosni mubarak steps down. adding to the chaos, looters have taken over the streets. sunday night authorities showed off scores of people who have been arrested. over the weekend, president obama called several foreign leaders to talk about the crisis. officials say he encouraged the peaceful resolution and urged the egyptian government to listen to its people. on cbs's "face the nation," secretary of state hillary clinton also tried to keep up the white house's delicate balancing act. >> what we are focused on now is a transition that will meet the needs of the egyptian people. >> reporter: sunday mubarak swor

u.s. state department obviously and of course you know according to the israelis but. we seeing a showdown here because this is it seems to me this is exactly what the united states wants i mean actually they must be secretly very happy that has well have a lot more control in the government even if it's not a hezbollah government because of the hostility that they have towards hezbollah and against iran and against the syrians i mean bombing you know has another war on its hands and plenty of people in the states would just love to go down that path especially israelis. oh well you all right it's exactly as it's addressed and all you know life is the go ahead allister alister. it was exactly the us it was the old form of domino theory that if you could weaken his boiler it would be a slap for syria which would be damaging to iran and all of those together would make israel feel safer in the region and that was how it was conceived first of all targeted on syria and now it is on hezbollah and it is being a political instrument and it was devised as a political instrume

u.s. state department expressed concern over what it says is an increase in violence against christians. the department cited recent attacks on christians in iraq and nigeria as well as in egypt. >>> in pakistan, funeral services were held for the governor of the punjab province who was murdered by one of his own security guards. the guard saide killed salman taseer because of the governor's open opposition to the country's blasphemy laws, which can carry a death sentence for defaming islam or the prophet mohammed. a group of more than 500 muslim scholars and clerics who support the laws voiced their approval of the assassination. pakistan has been under increasing international pressure to reform the blasphemy laws after a young pakistani woman, a christian, was sentenced to death for reportedly defaming the prophet mohammed. >>> ne weeis their anniversary of the earthquake in haiti that took an estimated 230,000 lives and left survivors and relief workers, many of them people of strong religious faith, with a daunting and lingering crisis. our managing editor kim lawton visited haiti a

u.s. state department raffles fifty thousand green cards per year. the wife of alleged russian arms trader victor boot faces interrogation ahead of her husband's trial she claims she was detained along with her children and question for hours by airport and customs officials in new york meanwhile boots a preliminary hearing pushed back to the end. january. a russian the ice breaker reaches one of the two ships stuck in ice off of russia's pacific coast line the vessels have been stranded for over a week two meter thick ice in the sea of authorities say the fishermen are in no immediate danger and i have enough supplies to see them through the rest. of next peter lavelle and his guests debate how long the world can remain addicted to oil and cross talk that's coming up after this short fifteen second break. if you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle it is probably the greatest debate of our time energy security how we use energy in what kind will most likely determine our energy future the decisions we make now will define how we li

u.s. state department is set to fly thousands of u.s. citizen to europe. we have more on the situation in egypt. >> reporter: war planes soared over the capital in what seemed to be a government show of force. below, the streets cairo continue to be a caldron of political change. thousands of protestors flooded the city square to call for president mubarak to leave from office. egypt's ambassador to the united states says reform is coming. >> the president has indicated a willingness to continue the national dialogue. >> reporter: the dissidents say otherwise. >> the people will choose the president. not mubarak. mubarak can't choose for us. >> reporter: secretary of state hillary clinton told abc the u.s. wants a peaceful transition to democracy. >> we want to ensure there is no violence and no prove vocation that results in violence, and we want to see reforms and a process of national dialogue. >> reporter: state-controlled television showed president hosni mubarak at a military command center. whether he succeeds in holding on to power depends on what

u.s. state department sought to punish france and the french people by the way the french people are the ones that are forcing their government to adopt these policies against genetically modified seeds so punishing these people we would not have known if it weren't for wiki leaks releasing this information and in fact we would not have known if it were not for a few alternative media outlets no mainstream media and you can look here at this little image here i tried to i looked up a washington post not one single result for wiki leaks months sento revelations not oh yeah ok just to review here with wiki leaks and retaliation so the u.s. is threatening retaliation so us on behalf of an american corporation is threatening retaliation against france and other countries not to let in a corrupt genetically modified debt currency from monsanto into their country and then wiki leaks which you know i understand this and the people in the us are in the alternative media space are trying to disparage wiki leaks they should be celebrating wiki leaks because wiki leaks is now the only entity that has ta

u.s. state department raffle's fifty thousand green cards for year. the wife of alleged russian arms trader victor boot faces interrogation ahead of her husband's trial she claims that she was detained along with her children questioned for hours by airport and customs officials in new york meanwhile boots a preliminary hearing has been pushed back to the end of january. but russian icebreaker reaches one of the two ships stuck in ice off of russia's pacific coastline the vessels have been stranded for over a week in two meters thick ice in the sea of off faults authorities say the fishermen are in no immediate danger and have enough supplies to see them through the rescue. now it's over to our washington studio for a round up of some pressing current affairs in the u.s. on the show it's next. up in the lone a show we'll get the real headlines with none of the mercy where we live out of washington d.c. now the new jobs numbers came out today and it's good news and there's bad news but unemployment rate has dropped to nine point four percent but that c

u.s. state department warned gaut maila is a violent country with armed gangs. the 9-year-old and 5-year-old have been in therapy after losing their mother. >> and two therapists have report it's been dangerous for ongoing therapy they've been involved in this the past year. >> they lost their mother, they cried their eyes out. and and they fear to go to the same community where mommy was killed. >> the oldest child made her feelings known. >> i don't want to move to guatemala. because that would -- i don't like tlit. >> neighbors have started writing letter was only days left. the hope is for a postponement. >> i think our government has a heart. >> the family is weight for a decision. >> this is a huge problem. and it has to be addressed. >> a san francisco restaurant paid tribute to a fitness guru, jack lalanne. today setting aside a table in his honor and surfed his signature salad. former governor and exbody builder arnold schwartzeneggar calling lalanne an apostle forfeitness all over the world. >> and he was an inspiration. >> terrific. >> i used to watch