ultraconservative muslims gain influence in turkey and increased pressure on the christians. hello everyone i am george thomas. >> and i am wendy griffith. five years ago five were murder. and nothing has happened. >> the company is moving towards islamic fundamentalism. gary lane has that story from istanbul, turkey. >> reporter: april 18th, 2007, three are stabbed at a bible print shop. their throats slit. one year later the widow said the anniversary is just another day of remembrance. >> everyday i have to live without him. >> five suspects went on trial. five years later, still no conviction. church attendance dropped immediately in malt i. >> they documented 12 attacks against christians in 2011. this has led u.s. commission on international religious freedom for the first time to list turkey as a country of particular concern. nina shay says the turkish government is suppressing christian worship. result christian numbers are dwindling. >> they are very frail. we are going to see them vanish if turkey doesn't give them religious freedom. >> turkeys ambassador in washin

he has ultraconservative economic policies.ca not going to want to go backward and keep going forward. and the problem is no matter how good the words are, the nomination, he's got a lot to account for. i think the rye appear budget itself is a ticket to oblivion. >> the carter people knew they couldn't win, so they tried to make ronald reagan unacceptable and he was going to start a nuclear war. does mitt romney, acceptable? does he clear the bar? i think he already cleared the bar of the american public, and i think kellyanne is right. >> i don't think the general public knows now or ever will know what the ryan budget is. >> right. they know what -- >> this is why he likes to use words like right wing or ultraconservative. >> he is very clever. >> in the beginning of what he said, mark, with all due respect. obama inherited the economy. the thing about he inherited the economy is sounding like the dog ate the homework. >> obama right now has more credibility than romney. >> on what? on the economy? >> i've got it go. >> ever

also staking their claim, ultraconservatives. they had abolished the treaty with israel and curtailed women's rights. political discourse here is dominated by islamic parties. egyptians from all backgrounds, secular and religious, fought and died in this very square a year ago to oust the mubarak regime. many secular egyptians say that their revolution is being stolen from them. this is where the muslim brotherhood draws much of its support, running clinics and schools for the poor and needy. but moderates warned that the darker side to it -- but moderates warn that there is a darker side to the islamic parties. >> we really do expect a lot. if they try to do that, i think another wave of violence can erupt here and the instability will continue. >> a year after the popular uprising, egyptian islamists have outmaneuvered their secular rivals and a pattern that has been repeated across the region. >> security forces in bahrain have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of protesters who rallied in support of the l

some have described him as ultraconservative.was to make sure church teachings and traditions play a key role. >> i would describe myself as a person recognizing challenges of all sorts, but especially a kind of large cultural challenge. i think we address that in the most creative of light. >> another challenge, coming to maryland or the catholic governor supported and got lawmakers to pass the same sex marriage. he says he looks forward to meeting with governor martin o'malley, but he and other area church leaders will work to get it tossed out by referendum. >> with a lot of determination. >> he is a strong defender of religious liberty. he believes religious freedom has eroded over time because of court decisions and legislation. >> we may or may not agree with everything the church teaches, but one thing you know, we don't want the government massing on the inside of any church, where the catholic church or a mormon church or the muslim faith. >> he comes to baltimore after serving as before connecticut. he will be installed

ultraconservative. on the secular side, the former foreign minister and arab league head is running. and the one-time vice president and chief was a last-minute industry. he handed him his papers less than a half-hour before the nominations closed. this election set islamists against officials who served under hoss no mubarak. with very little campaign time, it's not so much policies as personality and religious values that will decide who wins. people across egypt mainly voted for islamist parties when they went to the polls to select a new parliament after last year's popular uprising. now they're weighing their options again. >> i would like the political masses with good international and domestic relations. >> we want a president who fears god, who is pious. i hope this will make things better in egypt. >> for thousands of years, egypt's been ruled by strong leaders. whoever comes next faces huge challengs and high expectations. >> that's all for the moment, but you are watching "bbc world news." >

>> i used to be ultraconservative when i was younger. i lost a lot of arguments. i am an independent i guess you would say. >> who disagrees with their parent? living in their homes, taking their food? >> detroit. >> what is the difference when you enter parent? >> my family is fairly liberal. i see unions as more as a safeguard in between the people and their employers as much as the federal government is between the people and tyranny where my mother does not. >> does that mean you will join a union? >> if i have a job that merits it. >> how is the disagreement working out? >> as far as they know, it is fine. [applause] i consider myself a libertarian. my mom considers herself a very strong republican. we have had disagreements over the patriots back from civil liberties. we would get into big arguments about them. >> what is a libertarian? >> we believe in not interference from the government in both social and economic issues. you treat a government that only protect from the harming of rights. i would keep you from harming others in the government. everything

. >> some call him and ultraconservative.he archbishop says he is just going to keep things moderate. k >> in this medical alert, mammograms may be causing an over diagnosis of breast cancer. they enrolled in a breast cancer screening program. this is thought that this disease would go down, but it found it did not change. 15-020% of the women were over diagnosed. research reserve lending more about why some children with autism become high-functioning teams of listed the same period it turns out about 10% of children improved rapidly. the still treat -- these children tend to be diagnosed recently. routine trips to the doctor may be changing because of recommendations. raising questions about frequent use tests and procedures. >> every year, millions of americans pay the price. a panel of national medical experts are tries to a door that says it is always better than sorry. >> many of these tests and treatments have side effects, have risks to patients. and are not necessary. >> nine organizations representing three and 75,0

there is a coordinated attack by the ultraconservatives in this country to take our rights and stealur democracy away from us. more you get collective bargaining rights, voting rights, women's rights, civil rights for americans in this country, there is a coordinated attack by those in the republican party to support the 1% who have wealth and power in this country and ignore the other 99%. as far as the varieties, this is an attack on the -- the voter i.d., this is an attack on the people that died to get the right to vote. when they talk about problems with the voting system, when they talk about problems -- and that is so disingenuous. if you look at it, you will see that fraud within the voting system is less than 1%. but they want to take away and want to institute these voter i.d. laws. that is going back to the jim crow laws of yesterday. we want to go forward, not backward. [applause] >> we do not have much time left. moving along. >> i wanted to ask a question in relationship to the voters id. if we're wanting to make sure that this law will be nullified by us getting identi

where a lot of tea partiers and ultraconservatives were elected. we cannot let that happen again.e've got to wake up, and i believe we have. we have awaken. but we've got to work our communities. we got to take advantage, even though we disagree with all this money being poured into politics. but we've got to take advantage of the law so we can educate and mobilize our own members. but also educate and mobilize our communities and that's exactly what we are doing. >> let me just say i agree with lee, but i think we know, and we have all been saying it, that we cannot do it by ourselves. we need to create alliances with everybody in this room. so let me just say how i think we could win. they've got lots of money, but there's lots of people in this country. african-americans and latinos and api are 100 million people in this country. well over one-third of the population. then labor, then women, then conservationists, we are the majority. the problem is we have never worked together. we have always fought our fights on isolation of each other, and there's that old rule of divide an

he has received widespread backing from the ultraconservative muslims.lite immanualry suggests north korea moved the first stage of the rocket to a launch stand. the nation says it will put satellite in space in the celebration in mid-april. the west says it's cover for test of a missile that could reach the u.s. we are new information about the effort to avoid military confrontation with iran over the nuclear program. chief washington correspondent james rosen on the lines of communication. >> from south korea last mont month, to deliver message to iranian regime. so then david ignacious avoided privilege access to and classified leaks from the senior officials across several presidencies. he says when they met with the ayatollah khomeini in tehran last week, the turkish leader conveyed president obama's message that the u.s. can accept nuclear iran if tehran can prove the nuclear program for energy and not weapons. they hardly need private channels. >> they are entitled to peaceful civilian nuclear power, not entitled to nuclear weapons. >> it's been t

it's ultraconservative, resistance to change.these things are long overdue they're in the best interest of patients and certainly for the... addressing the health care crisis economic issue. so the problem is there's no enforceability so it's unlikely will make a substantive change in the short term. >> ifill: at least not in the short term. dr. eric topol, dr. glenn stream thank you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: next, a california couple develops a small and innovative solution to a power problem that's causing thousands of deaths a continent away. "newshour" correspondent spencer michels has the story. >> reporter: in crowded hospital emergency and delivery rooms the pressure is on and so are the lights. in fact, electricity powers dozens of medical devices keeping patients alive: heart monitors, refrigerators for bags of blood, ventilators. but imagine if a doctor was delivering a baby or performing an operation and the lights suddenly went out. >> this baby is about five minutes old. welcome to the world. whoa! and th

there is a coordinated attack by the ultraconservatives in this country to take our rights and stealur democracy away from us. more you get collective bargaining rights, voting rights, women's rights, civil rights for americans in this country, there is a coordinated attack by those in the republican party to support the 1% who have wealth and power in this country and ignore the other 99%. as far as the varieties, this is an attack on the -- the voter i.d., this is an attack on the people that died to get the right to vote. when they talk about problems with the voting system, when they talk about problems -- and that is so disingenuous. if you look at it, you will see that fraud within the voting system is less than 1%. but they want to take away and it wants to -- want to institute these voter i.d. laws. that is going back to the jim crow laws of yesterday. we want to go forward, not backward. [applause] >> we do not have much time left. moving along. >> i wanted to ask a question in relationship to the voters id. if we're wanting to make sure that this law will be nullified by us

school prayer and we have seen from that moment until now, an effort, a movement effort by ultraconservativesals at every level, including the supreme court, who will essentially impose a political agenda on the rest of the country. >> is the problem, this is where i think it gets interesting and also dicey. because the problem that they're doing a better job? there's two ways of thinking about this. fundamentally let's get rid of this silly delusion that judges are umpires and they sort of beam down from some space where they neutrally arbitrate. and say they're political actors. and our side, liberals are doing a bad job. they're just getting beaten. or do we have some conception that somehow the nature of these judges departs from our conception of what a judge should be. >> i like to think of judges as more than political actors. they're individuals that we hope approach each case with an open mind, a fair mind. people, some humility and understand most importantly, that the cases they're deciding affect people's lives in very direct ways. what we have seen, however, is that the selection

the first thing that comes to mind -- on the one hand, we have an ultraconservative probably taking marching orders from rush limbaugh. on the other side, if you get people are looking to make the country and opened funnel for anybody who wants to run in here. i am a 46-year of republican who always votes democratically. we in the middle have nobody representing us. we want to see the immigration laws in force. if they cannot do it through the federal system, then they should be helped out by the state systems, period. host: ali noorani, what do you think? guest: there's a growing consensus in the middle about the need for immigration reform. i'm sure we will hear that the majority of americans support senate bill 1070. if you ask the same group whether or not they want to require people to legalize status, requires them to learn english, requires them to pass a criminal background check, the majority of the group says yes, that's what we want. at the end of the day, the caller is correct. we need a middle that says we need rational, humane immigration reform that protect our borders, and se

listen to the white house and the president's political team, it's really mitt romney who is the ultraconservativef the united states. it kind of changed tacks, at the suggestion of bill clinton of all people. >> gretchen: let's do news for you because we have a stunning fox news alert. new developments in the case of natalie mccan. the little girl who disappeared on vacation with her parents in portugal, could she be alive? british investigators say there is new evidence she is alive and are asking authorities in portugal to reopen the case. the photo you see on your screen right here, this is an image of anal progression. this is what experts believe madeline would look like today at the age of nine. remember she was only three when she disappeared from her hotel room. this is her photo then. her parents were having dinner with friends nearby at the time. remember they left her in that room with her siblings by herself and they we want back to check on her and she was gone. >>> republican senator marco rubio getting special police protection at his home in florida and in washington after a credi

and in egypt, there's someone called salvis who are ultraconservative, muslim brotherhood has evolvedver the years and it's saying now that it doesn't want to rewrite the constitution any more than it was under president sadat who first talked about having islam as a basis for all legislation and in the south, he's won about 25% of the vote even though they only formed their party in the summer of last year. and the two groups don't like each other and i went to see them in january as the election results were coming in and the muslim brotherhood would say about them they're extreme and naive and they're not a legitimate reflection of the mature outlook of islamic parties now and what they said about the muslim brotherhood, oh, they've proceed economized all their islamic principle and they're rivals and it's been fascinating to see the new islamic spectrum emerge in the region. host: our next caller is carolyn joining us from louisiana. good morning to you. caller: good morning. i would like to talk about how the islamists want to either convert or kill you that would be you on tv, t

the first thing that comes to mind -- on the one hand, we have an ultraconservative probably taking marchingers from rush limbaugh. on the other side, if you get people are looking to make the country and opened funnel for anybody who wants to run in here. i am a 46-year of republican who always votes democratically. we in the middle have nobody representing us. we want to see the immigration laws enforce. if they cannot do it through the federal system, then they should be helped out by the state systems, period. host: ali noorani, what do you think? guest: there's a growing consensus in the middle about the need for immigration reform. i'm sure we will hear that the majority of americans support senate bill 1070. if you ask the same group whether or not they want to require people to legalize status, requires them to learn english, requires them to pass a criminal background check, the majority of the group says yes, that's what we want. at the end of the day, the caller is correct. we need a middle that says we need rational, humane immigration reform that protect our borders, and serves