contributions, growtand withdrawals uld all be free of any income tax. the proceeds could be spt only on educati or vocational trning, buying a home or starting a new business. and thu.s. should revive the thrift stamps that encouged savings duri world war i. in tiny increments of 25ents each, savers fled a card with worth of thrift stamps. filling cards entitled them to a little bond thapaid roughly 3% interesand was worth $1 five years later. in 18 alone, americans saved $1.6 billion this waor nearly 23 billionn today's dollars, 25 cents at a time. saving moris all about making it easier for peop to spend less. i'm jason zweig. >> sus: and finally tonight, forbes magazine is out wh its annual lisof the world's most powerful women. eight out of the top ten are c.e.'s, while two work in government. angela merkel, germany's chancellor tops the li for the fourth csecutive year. f.d.i.c.hairman sheila bair is the runner up, for her leadership role duri the current econic crisis. also in thtop five are: all 3 were also on last year top ten list. and thc.e.o.

. >> t bigges hope s the new government and e forgners uld bring peace, develoent and secuty. people were expecting a good education and much more freedom. but security turned to insecurity, building came destruction and education ended up as ignonce. >>eporter: in a televised debate lt night, president karzai brushed off the crit same -- criticis saying he'she only one that can bring the taliban to the tle and deal with war lords are the name of nationalsecurity. we found suorters of the president oside the luxurious me outside of the most notorious war ld who returned from exile in turkey la night. in 2001, dtom allegedly allow 2,000 prisoners sufcate to death inhipping containers but no matter,he president needs the voes of the uzbek communi which he heads. >> tod, our commanding gneral

americans uld be just as dead as if he were 25." but other viewer saw it differtly, saying, "it truly frightens me that we tat ildren like adults. en i think of how unsure i w of myself atge 14 and how easily i might have en inuenced i thank my lucky stars that i survived. >>> rning to afghanistan, officials there releasedore paial results today from last week's presintial election. those resultshow president hamid karzai wideng his lead over his nearest ral, the former feign minister abdullah abdullah. withess than a fifth of the vote counted, kaai now leads abdullah 45% to 35%. if karzai winsore than 50% of the vote, he wouldvoid a two-man ruff. abdullah has aused karzai and his pporters of widespread vote rigging. >>> in other news on afghanista richard holbrook, the erican special envoy for the regionhas accused citizens from many of t oil-rich persian gulf countes of aiding the taliba in an interviewith cnn, holbrook claimed that su money is gater than the taliban's profits from opium. "it seems to be more from indivials carryi

think that the idea thathis is happenin simplyecause it's being televisedsn't the issue as much as this uld be happening behind the scen anyway. >> lehrer: the divions are already there. >> the divisions arealways going to be there. >> lehrer: they're redy to be played out. >> that's right and i think it'slways been sort of tting there under the surface, and think we've al own all along the main issue here is therole that government is gog to play in thi wheth we call it a pubic plan or whatever we're going to talk about, there are goingo be the divisions between t blue dogs who fuamentally are fisc conservatives who doeel very cautious aut having too much a government re in the private secr, and more liberal

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so it s a good start, bu it uld berresponsible to call it a definite tipping point yet. but it's very positive. and we hada great quarter. susie: john, do you have a sense of overalltech. spending outside of cis? what is your take on the mood or what you'reearing of tech. spending across the board overhe next 12 months let's say? >> well, i think whatyou're seeing is customers beginning to take their foot off the brake and starting to spend gradlly. the opinion of my peers is pretty diverse from various companies in terms of what they're seeing. i tend to be a little more optimistic based on the customers at i talk with, and part of can be the network is playing a different role with text pending and lays a role ineverything from the data cenr to the homes. so at the se time we're not growing off ofur traditional products, we're growing i areas like a flip camer into the home, allhe way through security and adata center or new server technology. >> susie: many people, i'm sure you've heard thisare sayinghe recession is over and th the recovery has begun. is that what you

he said that tosecond runoff uld make this easier. >> these are the two mo powerfulmen in afghanistan, the president and the special envoy. the retionshipegan ll last feuary. >> we want to learn your points of view. >now the relationship appears to have soured. ey met again the day after the ection. we have multiple sources that describe thiss explosive. the american raise concerns about ball stuffing and fraud. he said at a second round noff could make therocess moreredible. resident karzai reacted very angrily andafter a few minutes, e eting ended. the u.s. embassy deni that he stormed out. >> the hope ontervention uld be t delegitimize a leader i afghanistan who com out of the electoral pross. that cannot help the western alliance that can that help the government of afghistan. that cannly help the taliban. >> assurin that these ections are a viable is vital. now, ubts about fraud and turnout could undeine the mission. there have been more than 1700 colaints about irregulaties. 270 havbeen classified a serious cases. if they are approved, th could have a matial effect on the outcom

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it is n longer a wasteland, but people uld argue tt the recovery is sti slow. >> obviouslythere is a o blame that went on with the evious administration. i think the problem is wh things happen, theres a lot of attention rit away, and then it fadesway. then it becomes likeou are not aring about it, you assume it is all right. when pele heard aboutmy project, people would say,ew orleans? that is four years ago. half the population is still missing. all you have to do is go there nd realize it. i think people are jus not thinking aboutt because there are so many problems inhe world d in the count today. what ally disturbs me is that new orles is a treasure. it is theultural birthplace of ro-and-roll, jazz, blues, food, culture. this should be prerved like a museum. that is theart that really boers me, that pple are not payi attention to ts treasure. tavis: how does a project like ts. through the noe? -- how does it break through ts noise? it really is not noise, it is silence. how'd you get pple to move beyond whatight be descrid as new orleans katra fatigue? >> one of thehings, i wrot

uld he sacrifice th for the bill? how is he ing to pay r it? will hejust taxillionaires' like nancy pelosi once? -- wants? how far is he willing to go to get to thehouse and senate? would he nd a filibusr? on and none of those critical points has there bn any cavity >> andhere is a good reason, i think,or it. you start t with something like health care th has been debated for 50 years. you have to know where everybody is on the sueyou have 535 members up there. you have to know where the stand. he is takintime to flush them out. y need to know wre your vote are on the publi option. you need to know where your tes are on all of these issues before you answer -- time is on his side. i don't think so. >> tim is on his side and we will talk offi next january -- talk about this next january -- >> it has been a long and costly flush if that is the case. let me ask about the letter ted kennedwrote to the governor of massachusetts asking to change in law -- a lawo that there is no vacancy in the senate seat before special election. >> w was behind thch

if you were a favorite journalist, you uld get in and ha some of it your self. >>here is no more board of education. the joey club in house of reresentatives. onhursday afternoons, senats and members ofongress are on their airplaneslying back to th district to make the rounds ofhe bar mitzvahs and the funeralsand whenhey cannot help b, the health-care extravaganza's. >> you did a little pilgrimage to places whe kennedy w? >> it was a vy strange atmosphere in the citol yestery. everyone had lg expecd that senator kennedwould be passing at some point. we knew heas gravely ill, and yet, somehow when we hrd the news that he had passed, it was inexplicably unexpecd, and it does not matter how ng people ha prepared theelves for it. it's still seem very strange walking into the buiing with all of thflags at half staff. already, you had st of a feing that washington is not america had chaed, andalking inside, it was almost as if the aihad been sucked from the building. it seemedhat everything ha just -- a chapt had just completelyhanged. >> do yo think there will be any

if there was anything i uld do, wanted to d it to the last-minute.ur life inour house. >> only two yea ago, greece suffed another outbreak of vicious wildfires that claimed mo than 70 lives. in the wake of that tragedy, dr. nicholas markotos of athens university offered the govement an early warning system but ty failedo act. >> an early warning system to gain 5-10-15inutes would be ve important. if thi fire d been stopped a its start0 kimeters away from here, then this dister wouldn't have happened >> but there a recognition, too, that fighting eery fire across such a hugend rugged region is an almost impossible ta. fighti these fires remains dirty, danrous and fficult. this fire engine was destroyed when it was caught as te flames mped from one side the road to t other. fortunately, all the cw mbers managed to escape a it shows thes fires sti pose a very real that. dominick hughes, bbc news. >> stay with us o bbc world news if you can. still to come,he was supsed toet six lashes for inking a beer. thismalaysian woman has reived a la-minute reprieve

new jobs uld be created. there's so many rasons why this could work. >> reporter: butrouble is tha the u.s. refus to approve legalization of opium poppy cuivation even though supporters of this optiosay it could be the answer to ma of afghistan's problems. >> that was deutsche wle reporting fr afghanistan. >>> shld the united states continue efforts to get riof afghanistan'poppy crop, or buy itp for medical use? you can see what one of our blogger's take on that vy issue by visitg our website, that's worldfocus.org. >>> across theorder from afghanistan, in northweste pakistan, an american drone missile attack today rortedly killed 1people. intelligence officls quoted by e associated press says that the taet was a taliban commander believ responsible for a series of attacks both sis of the border. no word yeif he was killed. >>> it's gotten virtuallno attention, we wanted ttell you night about an important american dlomatic mission th's been going on this week in pakista america's special presentative to pakis

>> i know that is guy, i know his i told you what i knowso you uld save his ass. he's just ather -- you and your -- >>harlie: did you have one or is your character a composite? >> a composite i'm sure. i was asked, o the set by the director if i'd li toeet the real guys and i sai no thanks because i'd rather follow myn tuition anmy own likingor at pattern ofhuman behior and symmetry, if you le, so wilst i knew there wer there, i didn't wantto shake anyone's handnd say,'m playing -- >> charlie: since the fm has been made? >> i was in a bar in belfast, ring the filming, and three really enormous like wdrobes, enormous guys inleather jackets walked istood behind me. here imy guiness he hit anotr one next to it. >> chaie: there storyhat did not wanthis movie to be made at all. the other character. >> martin? he's happy with it. >> charlie: after he wrote the book,hich you did not read ther or did you readhe book? >> i did -- just individuals i didn't meet. i did read the bo. >> charlie: tget thetory. i' read that he having written the bk did not want movie made thennc

>> at this, i would not - at this point i uld not support it. for the one simple rason.this is about political power potics. we are talking about changing a lawin e middle of the game. to suit political enties, to supportpolitics in the democrat house and in the demoatic congress. ey've had the opportunity timend again to be able to change this law wit the interim appointment. did not want to do it then. now it i expedient becse the issues of the day that are sitng in washingt. d this, because they can do it, because they have a supermajority he in boston, they arerobably goingto do it. but i will not support the bill at this point in tim >> warner: we ha to leave ithere. we'll see at happens. the hearinis next week. representative robert koczera and representative george person, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> lehrer: next tonight, the newsoverage of the battle over health carreform, and to jeffrey brown. >>> it's one stateme from president ma that is this contentious augustthat no dot everyone can agree with. the debate over health-care reform has pla

but we uld sacrifice their lives for the se of death. but they don'tcare about gaza, they don't care about lebanon. this would give you the bottom line of wt's going on. >>harlie: do you believe iran plays a destabilizing role? >> i would like to tel you somethin abo iran. iran and the internal probms we have o the country, there is some interrence of other countries, from feign countries, not from ira that pushed the iranians to hold these demonstrations a the stris and all these things. i suppe there i some part interfering with iran. in the meantime, however, until iran, i say to iran, i you complain of the interventions against the forces of iran i will say to you, don't interfe with the home affairs of other arab countries. like lanon,ike hamas and hers. since you complain of this external or foign interferenceso don't do i wi other countries. >> charlie: there is this idea in ts region, the middle ea and the gul that egypt and iran are competi to be the dominantegional force. egypt, iran. >> first, i would not compare ourselves tor

i'msure ben ver imagined that he uld be part of team responsib for preventingnother. but because of hisbackground, his temperame, his courage andreativity, that's exactly what he has helped to achieve. i'd like to express my gratitude president obama or the coidence she's shown in with this nomination. and foris unwaverng support for a strong and independent federal reserve. >> reporter: t white house timi of the annouement deluded the sting fro sme bad news released today. the president's budget director projected cord high deficits for e next decade. of $9 trillion. 2 trillion highe than earlier timates. meanwhile the congssional budget officerojected 7.4 trillion dollar deficits over ten years. the lower figure factors in he 2011 expiration of the bush era tax cuts for wealthy americans. both forecasts said the unemployment rate uld rise to 10%. and remain there through next year. chairman bernanke current term end next janry. he will need to be confirmed aga by the senate in order to serve a second four-year term. the presiden said he had earned it. >> ben approac

if carlos were to pafor his surgery, it uld cost $200,000 to $300,000. tough angle.is a big operation. ú÷ >> heydr. shamie. >> nicto see you. how e you? >> gd to see you. >> you look more upright! u look great. >> yea yeah i look better. >> how you feel? >> i can breathe a lotetter. yeah. fantastic. >> yea i told my wife, at least, u know'm at the same height as you now. because i was shorter u know? >> don't aertise that cause when you're gointo have people comingn wanting to get taller, anit's a big surgery for that. >> right, ght. >>ou gained a little over three inchesn three weeks. >> which ireally good, yeah. >>o this has been a remarkable journey. >> it has been. >>or you and your family. >> a i thank you so much. i have no words to desibe how much i feel. you haveractically saved my life. >> dr. dowli you started our dream, and dr. shamie you end it. >> ironically, it all starte two years o this past weekend. >> y, exactly, two years ago. >> at the medical stent health fair, ich we had again this weekend, and we stilsaw throngs of people wi health problems

so eve few years i uld comen and helpout. and i always wante to do this. but i did feel like i needed to have learned enough. >> rose: wanted to what? >> to make aovie with adam and to make something peonal with adam because we knew each othe so well. always try to figure out how to tap that. but i s didn't -- also didn know how to direct. so needed 10 or 15 years to get tt togher. >> rose: now you havtwo big movies uer your bt. and now the thd one. >> yes. and adam saw "knocked u" and he said whateve the next one is, i --. >> rose: you saw it ansaid this guy can do,e's got the chopto do that. >> i mn i always ew judd was, youknow, we have silar tastes. he has a difrent, -- he's doing movies dierently th i did them. but we always de each other laugh. we alws felt comfortable withach other. always liked the same uff. judd liked a lot of, turned me on to a lot of stuff i never en heard about, a lot music, a lotf movies when were romates. he, what is it, he brought me into a differenworld. i was likehat, wheres is the terminar, i don't understand this. but ye

well, nothing uld be farther from the truth. the people wh always try to are feel when ever you try to bring them health insurae reform are at i again, and thy're takin sentences and phraseout of context and bbling them together to leave a vy false impression. >> ifill:he tr pom the prident d his pty are also confronting new questions abo how to pay for the expensive solutio ey suppo. over the weekend, th treasuryecretary geithner and chief economic adviso summers appeared leave the door openor tax hikes on the ddle class. >> revens are on theable as well? >> we're not at the point yet where we're going t make a judgment about whatt's going to take. >> b you can rule it out? >> i think what the country need to do is undersnd we'll have to do what is cessary. >> ifill: caidate obama, however pledged notto raise taxesn the middle class >> you are familyaking le than $250,000 a year, you ll no see your taxes go up. not your capital gains tax, t your payroll tax,not your iome tax, no taxes. your taxes will not up. >> ifillat the whi

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the counseling with the physician uld be optional and medicare would pay for it once every five years. critics of the democrats hlthcare reform bills have seized on this. on ytube, e-mailhains and blogs online. alaska's former republican governor, sarah palin, hosted thi entry on her facebook page friy. the america inow and love is ot one in which myparents or baby with down's syndro will have to stan in front of obama's dbt panel so bureaucrats can decide based on a subjective judgmentf their level of productivity and societyhether they areorthy ofealthcare. such a syem is down right evil. today, palinrged people to engagin civil diourse when attending twn hall meetings spsored by democratic members of the househo are home on recess. those members found ma seniors across the countryare confus an scared. president obama fielded th estion from a caller at a town hall meing at the aarp last week. >> i have heard ls of rumors going around abouthis new plan, biff told there is a clause in there that everyone that medicare age will be sited andold to decide how they wish to di this bothers

>>e think kraft uld move into the m 30's over the 12-18 months. the company just completed a five-year restructing program that has taken out a lot of costs and we ink there's good room here for main expansion potentia as those marginsmprove over time here it's going increase profitability and raise the dividends and buy bk shares. for the patit minded inveor we think there's potenti here. >> paul: now you saw simar thes at jm smucr when you commended it in may. let's look athat chart. it's up 4 sie then. have to congratula you on that and some of your othe recent calls. for instance in mid july you likediscount retailerollar three and to this ry day wh very strong earnings, the stock is up almost 14% from the time of yourrecommendation. on march 25th you said the spieders were the best to play the recovery and you're right on. u still like these securities as long-rm investments. >> sure, i think the are all still attractive as long term investments. i shoulput e caveat they had tremendous ru at a pace that's not sustained. we would urg investors

what it uld take to revive....and sustain the american neighborhood...that's coming up after this in-the-know message into a nightmare for millions of americans, their nieghborhoods and their communities. foreclosure rates are skyrocketing and mortgage modifications are ow to stem the tide. it may be changing some people's minds about their idea of a sustainable community. john wasik wrote the cul-de-sac syndrome, turning around the unsustainable american dream. we visited two very different communities, a suburb about 50 miles from downtown chicago, and an urban neighborhood two and a half miles from the city center, a neighborhood once known for the maxwell street market, which is now called university village. this is a place that's centrally located. it is tied into the city because it is in the city. you don't have to go far to get good transportation. there are plenty of amenities. a university up the street to the largest health care complex is just a mile from here. it's all accessibility. in terms of property values, they're going to be retained over time because you have all this in

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quite honestly, if people say ted kennedy is miss, he is missed in the sen that ted kennedy uld havevery early on what the proems were and what toobout the his ability t forge coalition is just so impssive. >> also he cld sell. it is gng to be a compromise. he coul have sold it to the liberals. >> the expression that y have heard at the table before [unintelligible] but at's not close the book on this health care debate. sure, there's still opposition, buty one count their 45 hard senate votes for the public an. 45 hard senate votes for the public pl. at is hardly somethi to throw away. at this pnt, barack obama has to find the votes,whether itis up to 50 or a ltle re, but it is not imssible. i think kennedy is. help hi over the top. -- i think the kennedy legacy is the way thelp him push tt over theop. >> ted kennedy wrote a lettero the vernors sayg, i would li this seat filled and i will have the person omise that he or she will not run agai what is the situation? >> the situation is that the democrats are caughtn a hocritical acted in 2004, mitt romneyitting in the gernorship beli

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in addition, we uld expect the woing to be a bit more optimist sounding on the outlook for growth. thiss consistent with the idea at the economy is improving slowly. which brings us tohe second answer: bo traders are antipating higher rates as soon as the fourthuarter. but bob bruscaf fact and opinion economics says we wi not read that e fed believes the crisiss over. >> once the fed go for business as ual, then it needs to start takg out the excess reserves, getting tes back up into more neutral framework, d that's where i don't think we are y. as to thfinal question, the future of thchairman who has taken lot of political heat in recent months inashington. wall strt will get no information whatsoever ithe fed atement, and be left guessing as to his reappointnt chances. >> it's certainly being taed about, and i think ie seen polls this. and the vast majority of economists support bnanke being re-aointed, and i rtainly agree with that. >> the easiest decision th obama has is re-pointing rnanke. other decisis will expose him to much moreisk than he needs toeal with. and frankly, hs

we were sured by the government we uld be paid. inact, it's in the law we must be paid withinen days of submitng the claim, and we have claims th are now a month old and haven't en touched or loed at yet. >> reporter: while the ch for clunrs program officially ends at 8:00 p.m.n monday, that's the deadli for dealers to have all of their papwork in to get pa. as a result,any dealers have already stopd the program or e only doing select deals. consum groups are worried about dealers prsuring customers to come up witextra cash in case clunker dls are rejected. lena pons ofublic citizen says consumers needo know that's ilgal. >> if ultimately theransaction is rejectewith something hang to do with the paperwork submitted incorrectly, that ss isupposed to be sustained by the dealer. >> reporte while the program provided a boost for t industry, somenalysts worry it came at the exnse of sales downhe roa with inventoryow and pent up mand depleted, sales are expected to beeak for the rest the year. stephanie dhue"nightly businesseport," wash

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if you uld see him now, you would realize it is impossie he cou do it. >> tt is not how the briti government seeit. they warned libyans wiin an hour of the plane taki off. a letter arrived from dning street. in thatgordon brown asked the byans to act with "sensitivi." he said the british government expected low-key return. clearly the message w confused or nored. state medi repted the letter concerned only bilateral relations. now it seems that messa is heard loud and car. so far, the has been n reactionrom colonel gaddafi, in televisednterview, no triumph at all. behind me, you see the lights for aelebration in 11 days' time which will mark the anniversary of the up that brough colonel gaddafi to power. it is not wishedhat condemnatio overshadow the event. >> outge. >> i unid stes, the pictes carry the east coast morng shows stokes the anchor. >>hat abo the libyans, s? >> i think it was high objectionable. >> i thk the images that we saw in libya yesterd were outragus and disgusting. we continue to express our cdolencesto the families that lost a led onas a result of this terrorist murder.

still, incoming cerobert benmosche uld earn millions more in performance-based incentives. st fall, taxpayers paid $182 billion to bail oua.i.g. >> paul: just in timfor the holiys, sony is cutting the price ofts play station 3 by $100, to 299 buc. it's also launching a smler model with a 120 giga-te hard drive ne month. play staon sales have fallen behind microsoft's "x-box" a nintendo wii. but sony's c.e.o. thinks coumer reaction to the price cuts will be "phomenal." >> susie: here's a looat what's happeni tomorrow: >> susie: tonight's mutual interestommentator says there's a changenderway in the mutual fund market with grow funds gaining far. he's john waggoner mual fund columnisat "usa today." >> everything goes in cles. the spring, the swallows return to capistrano in the summer, the pseid meteor showe light up the heens. and every n years or so, grth funds return to favor. this ione of those times. stock-fund managers fall int two camps: valuend growth. value managers loofor beaten- up scks that will return to wall street's graces. growth maners look for stocks of comp

in a box filled with old papers, the civil war buff found what uld be one of president lincoln's last signatures. now, an expert on lincoln's handwriting is, quote, pretty sure it's genuine, almost officially authenticating this find. >>> well, i'm christina brown. this is "early today," just yoen >>> and you are watching right now a beautiful picture of the skyline of the nation's capital. it is all lit up and bright. we have 77 degrees right now. it is the 19th day of august, 2009. good morning and welcome to "news4 today." i'm joe krebs. >> i'm barbara harrison. good morning, everyone. we want to start things off, as we always do, looking at weather and traffic. we'll begin with weather since tom is sitting next to me ready to go. d >oo ginoomorng. i hope you weren't kep awake by any nit.gh night. th ee on gnow, but we have a coue sprinkl near northern virginia. we areetngti ang few sprinkle ngci r t ae arhendey off to the northst. those couldea. those could aacropp thhe area in another couple of m area in another couple of we aren is.ur he t we are in the 70s70m fthroe shenandoah

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for clker deal, and once we found out it was near the end, me more pressing to ce in and see if we uld find something. >> reporte inventories are low as consume have snapped up hicles. hanka automotive group's 14 dealerships ha sold about 800 cars under therogram. geoff ponka says it really helped get sales rolling. >>t's given people permission to come shop for aar again. car sales have bn down about 35% since lastear and the industryas pretty much been on its knees. we were looking for shot in the ar and this has been a very sucssful program. >> reporter: but it sn't been withouits headaches. to date, the government has en slow tprocess the clunker rebates. that's left dealers on theook. pohanka iswed more than $3illion. >> cash flow is imrtant to us, and we were very concern with thgovernment about being promptly paid. we were asred by the government we wod be paid. in ft, it's in the law we must be paid within t days of submitti the claim, and we have claims thatre now a month old and haven't be touched or look at yet. >> reporter: while the casfor clunke program officially ends at

meteorologist sathe impact uld be prolonged as it i ving slowly. millions o people in taipei and the north of the island are eltering in their homes, fearful of what weher may co. bbc news. >> stay with us,f you can, on bbc wld news. still to ce -- nothi to apologize for, heaid. silvio berlusconi tony iback. >> first, british woman who deliberately became pregnant in ja in laos. e has arrived back gland to serve h sentence. she faced the death penalty if she had not been pregnanin laos. just a warning- this rort containslash photography. >> herasian or deal finally over, she arrived at heathrow this morning and was immediely taken into the custody of the prison service altugh heading straight for jill, the 20ear-old described herself as -- straight for jail, the 20ear-d described hself as relieved. this afternoon, her mher spoke ofer joy. >> i screa >> did your dahter smuggle drug >> i dnot know. honestly do not know. >> she was facg the death penalt after allegly admiing heroin smuggling, but laos does not exece expectan mothers. but the time of h

i uld not he had the president le on this. ihink, you know, t opening y have come at a lower level. he kind of led on is in a personalay and ahmadinejad sort of rejected this and i think itas a bit embarssing and wead made that js which you are d sort of got trapped into a situation where we're a letit luctant to ph on this since we might have t deal with ahmadinejad and think that got us in this position. i wod have much rher seen us made the gestu at a low level. and to feel i out to se if anything was tre. up? where do you think the cnese and e russians would be if we took this tack? well, again, i think if the chinese and the ruians felt that there was potenti for a polar movement inside in, they wouldn't wa to lose their relationship wh an iran that mighbe changing and be seen, if this regimeere to collapse, as supportive of a regime that was pressive and en rected bythe people. so i think if this tng gs legs you might see them less willing to support t hard lin regime. >> re: if we missed the opportunity athe beginning it's notoo late and now might be the appropria time, asou

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uld be there's a god behi it but i just don't know. >> rose: and ifou don'tnow, that means what?>> well, even though. i mean, in my case... people are different in terms of what gives th spiritualustenance. what would be great is if i coulbelieve there's a god and if i'm good i'll gooeaven althou there's a down side thinkingou have to be good to go t heaven. that would be my favorite. t in the absence of that, pele are different interms of what does give thempiritual suenance. ople like to say "well, we're made of the same stuff as srs and that makesme feel good." that doesn do much for but it does help me to think that there is a purpose unfolding whose dection you can discern and it has a moral dimension. i'll tell you where i think we are inhistory. i think-- and thi gets back to... we'veen the history of relion, as trieto show in thebook. thsocial system is now a global one, okay? ansocial systems are fragile. ey can collapse orcohere. would say the coherence of the social system depends o moral progress. that is to say, depends on people getting beter in putting thselves in