investors remain unconvinced. and their first bond issue, italy was forced to pay a higher interest rates on almost 8 billion in bonds. demand was lower than in previous auctions and interest is over 6%, a record since the introduction of the euro. on today's market action. the german blue chips brought a positive close to the best week in more than a month. we have this from the frankfurt stock exchange. >> it has been a late for a so- called morning after feeling but in deed investors started some profit-taking later this evening. no wonder after the big party that traders had been faced with on thursday. the dax closed slightly in positive territory while investors have been reminded that the debt problem in europe is still remaining. italy tried to issue new bonds. this is in the amount of nearly 8 billion euros of the yield. italy must play more than 6% for its 10 year bond. this is the highest yield since the beginning of the euro. >> we will take a closer look at the numbers. the dax finished the week at 63

investors remain unconvinced that it will work. and for more, we're joined now by natalee, standing by in athens. natalie, this referendum comes as a surprise. what prompted george papandreou to run this risk? >> the weak government, the socialist party. they have fallen to one of their lowest approval rates since the creation. the second bailout, should call for some dialogue with his people, as he has been accused of depriving greeks from this need to approve the austerity, all of these measures. on the weather side, as well, his government and the prime minister himself have been accused of lagging behind when it comes to reforms, and now the greeks have to bear the brunt with excess of austerity. it is as if george papandreou is setting the record straight with them and offering them a chance to have a say. >> how are the greek people reacting from this -- to this? >> there was talk of some sort of referendum months ago. it was unclear of what that would be. there were also all sorts of questions about what the question in the

member of the commission are unconvinced he's sorry. the commission said they didn't know about his past when awarding him the contract. it has scheduled a meeting for next week to discuss options. if the city rescinds its contract the president of the arts commission told me doing so would be unprecedented. he says, considering the character of an artist has never been part of the contracting process. lillian kim, abc7 news. >>> this morning the santa clara county d.a.'s office is set to announce results of an investigation into accusations that baseball players raped a teenaged girl. the previous d.a. declined to press charges citing lack of evidence. the d.a. promised he ran he would take another look at the case. he will release the results 10:00 this morning. >>> oakland has a new interim police chief this morning. assistant chief jordan taking over immediately for batts who resigned tuesday. jordan will take charge of an undersized police force facing a budget crunch and rising murder rate. the mayor says he's the right man for th

but the okinawa governor remained unconvinced. >> translator: it was very disappointing to learn that the government is pushing for relocation to henoku and not outside of okinawa. this must be resolved based on the wishes of the people of okinawa. they have been struggling with the u.s. bases for the past 66 years. >> meanwhile, the mayor of nago expressed his opposition to the two governments' plan to relocate the marine base to his city. >> translator: as a matter of fact, the people of okinawa disagree with any relocation to henoku. it's not realistic. it's impossible. in this regard, i would really implore the government to reconsider the u.s./japan agreement. >> the futenma issue is considered to be a major problem area. at a forum in tokyo to exchange ideas on the state of the alliance, former u.s. deputy secretary of state, richard armitage conveyed the sense of urgency that is being felt in the united states. nhk world reports. >> reporter: i'm at the venue where forums from u.s./japan relationship is about to take place. the longstanding alliance has been under pressure rece

promising even more pressure for society mohammad marandi from the university of tehran says he's unconvinced by the claims of involvement. in the more pressure that the united states tries to impose upon iran the iranians will push back as well the united states as being part of the dishonest iran has absolutely no motive to carry out such an operation if you ron did hypothetically want to carry out this operation they could have done it in the middle east in an area where there are more high profile figures and where it could be carried out much easier why would iran want to create extra sensitivity with the united states so it's absolute nonsense and obviously iran gains nothing from it the only people who do gain is the united states by distracting attention away away from its problems at home such as the economic hardship that people are facing its decline in the middle east it helps israel come out of isolation it helps the saudis the saudi regime try to unite its people against some theoretical hypothetical foreign enemy. you're watching our in the program this hour it's two decades si

i think the economic proposition that labour puts at the moment is unconvincing. if he can't convince his open party, how can he convince the country? >> ed miliband. >> the conservative chair o his select committee says his policy growth is inconsistent. he can't convince him and, of course, typically he didn't answer the question on women's unemployment. so let me -- so l me tell him, women's unemployment is at its highest level since 1988. since 1988, the last time there was a conservative government in power. and, mr. speaker, i have to say instead of apologizing four months late to my right honorable friend for calm down, dear, he should be apologizing to women of our country for what he's doing for the country. the chancellor announced a flagship policy on growth. he saithe national insurance holiday for startup firms would help 400,000 businesses. can the prime minister tell this house how many businesses have actually taken part? >> 7,000. >> and on the issue -- and on the issue -- and on the issue of women in work, of course -- of course -- of course, i w

on the road it still shows a very unconvinced because there are no real that are you know true with their solutions but they have a traffic. problem which is their home before. before so they increase in other countries so if you have to trouble just pop expenditure trade income in them that's a tough one of tensions and so just opened an office here in russia so does that mean there's some optimism concern in this country where the time of crisis to open an office. on the long run the uncertainty for conference the ability to compromise will it work russia i think it over let's see if i can change. you know definition stronger growth from russia for example which you that's why we need. to try to get involved in those types of markets you're going to have some sort of. russian law but you're saying you. but judging by the crisis we've seen russia's always been hit hard what about this crisis how different it is for the country i don't think necessarily from. what you know. it's stronger down so it's a bit stronger the possible in the us for a good home let's pull money out of the major m

i think the economic proposition that labour puts at the moment is unconvincing. if he can't convince his open party, how can he convince the country? >> ed miliband. >> the conservative chair on his select committee says his policy growth is inconsistent. he can't convince him and, of course, typically he didn't answer the question on women's unemployment. so let me -- so let me tell him, women's unemployment is at its highest level since 1988. since 1988, the last time there was a conservative government in power. and, mr. speaker, i have to say instead of apologizing four months late to my right honorable friend for calm down, dear, he should be apologizing to women of our country for what he's doing for the country. the chancellor announced a flagship policy on growth. he said the national insurance holiday for startup firms would help 400,000 businesses. can the prime minister tell this house how many businesses have actually taken part? >> 7,000. >> and on the issue -- and on the issue -- and on the issue of women in work, of course -- of course -- of course

and the purists on the other hand, who unconvinced, won't be happy until ronald reagan rises from thead and hits the campaign trail. those people say that mitt romney is not a principle executive. and they're right. he is not a principle conservative. >> bill: he's not an idealogue. >> he's not a principle conservative either. you can make a case that he's not a principled politician given all his flip flops, but the realists, they follow the bill buckley school and that is they want the most conservative viable candidate, somebody who can win. if anybody cares, i'm in that camp. the others -- i have a question for my purist friends out there. one of the questions is: who do you think, besides romney, could beat barak obama in a debate? i don't think any of them can. the second question is more important: name two conservative presidents in the last 80 years. name two. you can't. there is only been one. ronald reagan. >> bill: he wasn't that conservative when he came in. >> he won partially because of the conservativism. but because of his personality. >> bill: right. but i believe th

maybe that's why i find his concern for the poor so unconvincing.his week we sought the president out, promoting plans to help america's students. >> i want us to win the future. that means we should be doing everything we can to put a college education within reach for every american. that has never been more important. >> you hear that? a college education has never been more important. but for the second day in a row, paul ryan's party has slammed the president's initiative to help students. >> i think that it was unwise for the president to make the suggestion that he did, and i believe it's abuse of power from the executive. >> the ponzi schemes, even by governor perry's standards. a plan to help our nation's students is a ponzi scheme? mr. ryan, we see right through your party. the only scheme is the one you're trying to pull off on the american people. joining me now is bob shrum, nyu professor, and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee and msnbc analyst. thank you both for coming on the show tonight. what do yo

if he doesn't, i'm unconvinced he wants to be president.a conservative whose looking for somebody to emerge as the principle challenge to romney, texas governor didn't do it last night, did he? >> he didn't. and i've seen him speak before. i know that he can speak very well and i know that when he wants to, he can be very aggressive. i didn't see any fire in his belly. he seemed as though he didn't want to be there. he could have jumped in and be very aggressive. i like perry as a person. i haven't decided on anyone in the primary field yet. but this is the time. debates like this, this is when you have to convince the voters of your platform and if you cannot adequately convey what you believe and the things that you have accomplished to the voting audience during a national debate, i don't know how you can expect it to do it from the white house either. this is the time when you really have the candidates and i realize that he hasn't been debating as long on the national stage. he missed a lot of prime opportunities and i noticed a marked

democrats are scrambling to rewrite the paid fors in the jobs bill in order to bring some of the unconvinced members of his party onboard. so complicated legislative maneuverings all delivering and dishing up what the country has said they're sort of tie tired of when it comes to watching congress. >>> as the president and republican leaders accuse each other of playing games, new polling shows americans hold out little hope the two sides can come together to help the economy or create jobs. south dakota senator john thune, chairman of the republican policy commit. he joins me now. all right. senator thune, we saw this games playing that we know goes on in the senate when it comes to attaching a bill here, bring it up for a vote saying hold off and the back and forth and it becomes this leadership maneuverings. the fact of the matter is nothing can happen in the senate until the house deals with it. isn't that correct? >> well, on a revenue measure that is correct. what senator mcconnell tried to do is say the president is in virginia saying pass my jobs bill. senator mcconnell said, okay, w

it is so unconvinceal to see a campaign person star in a candidate's ad at a time when most americansis record. they don't understand 9-9-9 or apples and oranges or whatever he was trying to explain the other night. they know mark block. this is going to hurt herman cain because voters are looking for a serious alternatives to the economic policies that president obama's proposed and i don't think that the voters are going to get it with republican candidates out there running ridiculous ads like this and rick perry talking about being a birther again. >> mark block is the chief of staff. david, have you ever seen an ad like this? it would have been fine without the cigarettes, but go ahead. >> the whole point of making these ads, how do we get wolf blitzer to show our ad? what if we make the worst ad ever made. blitzer will have to show that. and indeed, you just did. and so, in a funny way, it worked. it is so awful. it's so bizarre. it's so funny that we all watched it and we're talking about it and it has an impact. it is a little -- it is seen by a few more people than have heard

i think the economic proposition that labor put is unconvincing. how can he convince the country? he says it is inconceivable. civic the, he did not answer the question on women's unemployment. women's unemployment is at its highest level since 90 and 88. the last time there is a conservative government in power. he should be apologizing to the women of this country for what he's doing to this economy. last year the chancellor announced its flagship policy in growth. the national insurance holiday would help 400,000 businesses. can the prime minister tell us how many businesses have taken part? >>? 7000. >> and on the issue of women and work, of course i want to see more women in work. there are more at them when i was an election. but this free talk care for all honorable two-year notes, that it is acceptable. they announce that we will be giving child care to all people working less than 16 hours. they are helping hundreds of thousands of women and families out of poverty. he cannot convince the corneforr secretary that he has any idea what to do with the economy. to not be work

the chair of the georgia institute technologies school of earth and sciences says, "i have been unconvinced by the arguments i have seen that attributes a single extreme weather event, a cluster of extreme weather events or statistics of extreme weather events to forcing". second is myles allen from oxford, 245 got a lot of publicity back during the climate game saying, "when al gore said last week that scientists now have clear proof that climate change is directly responsible for the extreme and devastating floods, storms, and droughts that replaced the displaced millions of people this year, my heart sank." lastly, professor of the environmental studies at the university of colorado said, "to suggest that particular extreme weather events are evidence of climate change is not just wrong, but wrong headed." now, he goes on, and i ask unanimous consent to submit his statement -- >> sure, sure. >> thank you, madam chair. >> thank you. well, i'm going to respond in this way. we have worked closely together on infrastructure, and we don't work closely together on climate change, so for the re

"i have been completely unconvinced by any of the arguments that i have seen, a cluster of extreme weather statistics of extreme weather events." second is miles alan. that was the one that got a lot of publicity back during the climate. "when al gore said scientists have proved that the climate change is responsible for the extreme and devastating floods, storms that displaced millions of people, my heart sank. " lastly, "to suggest that particular extreme weather events are evidence of climate change is not just wrong, but wrongheaded." i want to cement the rest of his statement. thank you, madam chairman. >> i want to respond in this way. we have worked closely together on infrastructure and we do not work closely together on climate change. for the record, let me say, i do not know anyone who is planning what happened on climate change. i do know this. that is exactly what the climate scientist warned us about. we do have all eyes, we do see what we see. of course we do not know whether this is climate change. it takes a decade. it is not about the weather, it is not about a day today.