so i'm hopeful that as egyptians understand a friendly united states but a unified united states, that there will be at least a turn of thinking. i hope that will occur promptly. but in any event i join the chairman in welcoming you ambassador powell back to the foreign relations committee where you have spent many happy hours i hope. this hearing process offers us an opportunity to evaluate your record but to examine the current state of our ties with india. i start from the premise that enhancing our relationship with india is a strategic and economic importance. india is poised to be an anchorer of stability now and into the future. the middle class is larger than the entire united states population. it's already the world's second fastest growing economy. the united states and india are working to build a strategic partnership that will benefit both sides and we have an on going cooperation with india on many many fronts. this ensures security in south asia. india and the united states have strong incentives to cooperate on counter terrorism in the region and beyond. we share conce

so i'm hopeful that as egyptians understand a friendly united states but a unified united states that there will be at least a turn of thinking. i hope that will occur promptly. but in any event, i join the chairman in welcoming you, ambassador powell, back to the foreign relations committee where you have spent many happy hours, i hope. this hearing process with us offers an opportunity not only to evaluate your distinguished record, but also to examine the current state of our ties with india. i start from the premise that enhancing our relationship with india is a strategic and economic imperative. india's poised to be an anchor of stability in asia and a center of economic growth far into the future. it's a well educated middle class, larger than the size of the entire united states population. it's already the world's second fastest-growing, major economy, and bilateral trade with the united states has more than tripled during the past ten years. the united states and india are working to build a strategic partnership that will benefit both sides, and we have an ongoing cooperati

group a nonprofit whose sole profit is to educate local state and federal agencies about the threat of the unified islamic movement here in the united states and right here i would show you video from the training session which was a free seminar for the community but this is actually what happened when a local news crew try to film it. we don't want to hear a rumor that you know. the way that we use our. troy. now the man in that video is one dollar himself and although he would let the news crew in he was nice enough to let the reporter state observe and according to her topics included hamas was plan to destroy western civilization from within at islamic centers as potential military compounds the second part is particularly interesting given that this training was happening in murfreesboro tennessee some of you might remember the controversy that erupted in murfreesboro a couple years ago over the building of an islamic mosque. from the outset plans to build this new mosque have been slow roche asli contested for reasons like traffic congestion zoning liabilities even suggestions that islam is a political movement disguised as r

unifying leaders like george washington today? >> first of all, read the farewell address. washington never believed that the united states would be without political differences or political parties, factions, whatever you want to call them. what washington's whole presidency was about, whether it was staying out of european conflict or trying to avoid as long as possible the evolution of these intense partisan differences, washington's whole presidency was about buying time. washington was enough of a visionary to know -- washington was a strong leader of a weak nation, and given that situation, he also had enough faith in the future of this nation, given 30, 40 years of peace, that it would develop to the point where, frankly it could defend itself against any foreign power. likewise at home, washington allowed himself to be pummeled, not only by the press, but literally to have his effigy burned in the streets of philadelphia. washington took risks for peace and for political peace at home. it was a self-denying kind of leadership. and the irony is -- and i may have overemphasized the doubts, the fears, the concerns t

months but it would promote huge international backlash against israel and possibly the united states. they would unify their people ahead of election outrage against the bombing. there are political calculations in iran saying maybe it is worth going to war. jenna: you get social unrest in the street but coalesce that unrest in one direction at least for the time-being which would be an interesting strategy. you say iran potentially under estimates the president. why do you say that? >> well, over the years the united states has drawn lots of red lines with both iran and north korea, don't do this. this sort of step towards getting a nuclear bomb, don't do this, don't do that. each time they crossed so-called red lines we really haven't reacted very much. we never really bombed them. never gone to war with them, it is unclear is how seriously they're taking obama's rhetoric on this. whether or not obama is basically said i will not allow you to get a bomb under my watch. certainly with all the republican candidates ahead of the u.s. elections there is just no way obama could allow iran to get this bom

united states debt was down graduated gras, downgraded, so that is the confidence. the united states is can do -- i mean if the political bickering stops in both parties and is unified, i could also what happened between reagan and the republicans and democrats, between can clinton and gingrich and now able to consolidate and work together, i think there is no way but for republicans and tells to work together, even in election years. >> rose: how do you see china? >> in china everything is controlled and managed by the government, as you know. >> rose: yes. >> and. >> rose: they can create a stimulus overnight. >> sure. and look at china, you have the economic system is very much capital-lific capitalistic. >> so these two cannot go forever and clearly china has to grow by seven, eight percent at least so no social upheavals take application or social unrest, so china has no choice but to grow at that rate, because if you look the east coast is growing by good rates and the capital is high there, the more you go west the wage is 50 to $100. >> rose: yes and that creates a social tension. and it might even create unemployment for those people who went to the coast t

states, and turkey and syria in opposition. that will be aimed mostly at supporting or building up support for the opposition as well as dealing with humanitarian issues. to get unified action from the united nations, there are very slim chances of that and the vote today was a substitute for that. >> thank you very much for joining us. from syria to libya -- one year after the revolution started, celebrations are being held to mark the event. but while the toppling of the regime may have brought hoping for freedom and stability, a new report by amnesty international says both are under threat by armed image -- by armed militias still committing a torture and executions. we've got this report on where the country stands one year on i. >> they have been celebrating for days, ahead of the official anniversary. this is where it all began. the protests that turned into a vote. eventually it toppled one of the most entrenched dictatorships of last half century. this is the birthplace of the revolt that ousted muammar gaddafi. the people here are seriously proud of that fact. this is still a country where groups of armed men wield disproportionate influence. when you're on, this still feels like

unified position at the security council today as we've been reporting top notch diplomats spearheaded by the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as well as her british and french counterparts descended upon the united nations headquarters here in new york city to try to convince the rest of the international community including russia and china who do not support the position that the west and the west and the arab league are taking when it comes to the syrian crisis basically have been attempting to get the countries to agree this is not been the case of course one of the key elements of this resolution that we're talking about here is a regime change in syria and this is something that russia has been very vocal in saying it would not support the russian foreign minister says it's just not russia's job or the international communities for that matter to call for regime change take a listen. but it's not a part of russia's foreign policy to ask leaders to step down regime change is not . the decision must be solely syrian only syrians groups of syrians must gather at the negotiating table and hammer on to deal with the good if the demand is for him to go and he doesn't then what's next we call in

the arab states support them last sunday the arab league vote for full political and financial support for the opposition. to unify its ranks it is similar call from the leader of al qaida. to unite efforts to help overthrow bashar al assad recent reports suggest iraqi weapons qatari troops and libyan rebels are role in syria on the opposition side this makes for a volatile and highly dangerous makes. many western powers interested in fomenting unrest and syria and so they'll turn a blind eye to extreme weapons coming in through borders like lebanon and turkey to create the very militants i won't call them terrorists but very dangerous armed groups but the west has its eyes wide open when it comes to the reported death toll to come of the lone figure of more than five thousand employees civilians only but that's bigger leaves out any mention of pro-government forces killed in the conflict some say the numbers are destroyed to meet a political objectives. our number. six of them six thousand but you would be surprised to know that over two hundred. this is. good commented foreign pressure has focused on the assad regime but the syrian government and its international supporters sa

united states. they now believe obviously that was quite a mistake. so, those angry parents have met with the school -- the superintendent of the unified school district. very tense meeting whereas you mentioned the school district announced that they are going to replace everyone in that school over the next two days. now these teachers and staff members are not being fired. they will actually be retrained, the school district tells us, and sent to another school that is now being constructed not yet open. they are bringing in an entire new set of staff members, when school resumes after this two-day closing period to allow sort of a cooling-off period and for these investigations to continue. school will resume on thursday. now, here's what some of those parents had to say after they heard the news at the meeting. >> i'm stunned by the news, but it's something i needed to be done. >> oh, disappointed because they didn't tell us, and we want our old teacher not the new teacher. because we don't know how it's going to affect our kids. >> one thing the school district does know, however, is that these parents have lost confidence in the staff at the sc

united states across the globe. what is the main mistake we've made as a country? >> you remember we got a good start. president bush did a good job. we were unifiednd divided us and also led us to sort of this country by country strategy. i compare it to the game of risk. instead of looking at an organization which the president himself said was active in 60 places in the world northern africa and indonesia, so we got off thinking wrong about it. the next phase was stopping talking about foreign policy completely. that's what i'm really worried about. ever since the tea party came along and brilliantly said we're not going to talk about social issues they also didn't want to talk about foreign policy. partly because of the bush legacy. partly because president obama has done pretty well. so now what we have is a country basically being told the threat's over. you can relax. you know what? we can't relax. we can't go back the threat is still there. >> absolutely. >> what is the biggest threat to the united states right now? >> well, we have a variety of threats. obviously the iranian situation, the competition with the chinese, but to devalue and