so aren't se credit unions at risk of failure? >> any bank, any cred union, y company that is dependent on payments from a conser whlosesheir job is going to have problems. but we've been very fortuna. as was mentioned we' very conservative iour underwriting, an we've wked th our members and our customers are our membs and they'rour owners. where as oths may just write off a loan, we try to mod file i extend the terms, change the tms. we do everying we cano rk with a member, d therefore we haven't hadthe ki of default rates. i indicated, 1 t 1.5%on mortgages is extremely low in thisinancial situation. >> sus: what about credit unions thatre operati in the big housing hot spots lik florida, california, nada? w exposedre they? >> well, obvisly those are ouareas of conce. but even there we're seeing whate uld call green oots. we'r seeing areashere it's starting to stablize, it's not as good as i should be, but many cret unions in these areas are dng very well. some are having difficult time, but ty're working it outwith their members

credit unions. >> some of the credit unions out there have significant exposure to these exotic mortgages. the same mortgages-- option- arms-- that got washington mutual, wachovia, and others in trouble, many credit unions have these same mortgages. >> reporter: there's also opportunity for credit unions with money to lend, when consumers need it most. >> we're looking for borrowers. people who need loans are welcome to come to brightstar. we're writing mortgage loans every day, car loans, home equity loans, consolidation loans for high debt consolidations, credit cards-- you name it. we've been available, we're conservative. we're not taking on additional risks. we've done things as we've done them always and our doors are open. >> jeff: some experts see another risk ahead for credit unions. they're worried the wave of job losses at big companies, school systems and local governments will make it harder for members to stay current on loans. >> susie: joining us now to talk more about this, dan mica

credit unions are doing extremely well. we are like everyon in this economy seeing some collateral damage. but we're very strong we are lending, we're growing, in fact the population ofhe s. is growing at 1% of the year. this firstalf of this year we'verown at.5%. savings islowing in t highest we'vseen in 18 years. so the are a fewpots, as there are in every indury or business, that he some rough edges. but edit unions by and large are doing extremely wl. >> susie: butou her jeff's report where he's saying that with many credit union members are now at risk of losing their jobs, many of them there's a cnce th'll fault on their loans. so aren't some credit unions at risk failure? >> any bank, any edit union, any company tt is depennt on payments from a nsumer who loses their job i going to have problems. but we've en very fornate. as was mentionede're very conservati in our underwritingand we've worked with our members and ou customers are our mbers and the our owners. so where asthers may just write off a loan, we try to mo

unions are wreakenned and workers are not able to form unions anymore. host: what is the corporate campaign to kill the employee free choice act that you write about? guest: well, it's not as big as nafta, if you can remember back to nafta and even a little after that, the campaign to win permanent -- oh, i'm blanking on the term -- but it was to give china permanent trade relations with the united states. there were massive campaigns. the corporate campaign was behind both of those issues. on the employee free choice act it is the same situation. business is bitterly opposed to this measure t has united business in a way few bills do. a lot of issues where the business community is pro or con but don't feel passionately. on this issue, they are dead set against it. there has been a huge, huge lobbying campaign. it is not just lobbying. it is public relations an advertising. you have got non-profit organizations who represent the business community, and where you don't have any sort of real requirements to report how much money you're raising and how muc

glenn: the labour unions? we are counting on our labor unions? -- the labor unions?ent's program is in real trouble, and i think once he starts losing, like he will on health care -- glenn: i am telling you. this guy is dangerous. he has never lost before. "who are you to question me?" this guy is practically an imperial president now. when he starts to lose, and people start to push him back against the wall, he will not know how to react. >> that makes me more optimistic, because i trust in the inherent goodwill of the american people. i think they will react even more strongly against him. glenn: all right, tell me about this. the commerce secretary said it is important that the people who consume the products made all around the world to the benefit of america and its own consumption, we have to pay for that. we know, china, you are not going to do the genhouse gas thing. we will pay your tax for you. i think we have to borrow money from the chinese have to buy their products and then borrow more to pay the carbon tax. >>ç let's stop here and underle this point.

western union.u for all you home gamers. the number one company in the money transfer business. and a play on something that i think is about to explode. increased immigration. and, of course, an economic recovery. i have to like this stock now given that obama said he wants to make immigration reform a priority. saw that in yesterday's "times." how do i make money? western union. this week the congressional democrats want to introduce comprehensive immigration legislation by the end of the summer, it would offer a legal path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegals now living in the united states, none dare call it a amnesty. that would be a real boost for western union. i don't think you can wait for congress to start debating it. i wouldn't wait for the bill to pass. you need to get in the stock ahead of it. plus, as the economy rebounds and the remit answer market grows again, you can bet this company will be a huge winner. remember, obama wants to make hiring illegals a civil penalt

that is why he was going to the soviet union, to deliver the message that if the soviet union established rules that business people would be able to adapt to them and follow them, even if they did not like them, but if they understood that there was a reasonably level playing field, rules event -- and a court system to enforce them, that business would come and business would flourish in russia, and the soviet union would progress as the u.s. administration and gorbachov administration wanted it to go. in the first panel, it was said one has to pay attention to appearances. 18 years later what you have now is a lot of government and business people saw what was the appearance of adherence to the rule of law around the turn of the century and the millennium with russians generating wonderful clothes and rules, taken from some of the best that were available in other nations, but now what we have seen is a turn away from the appearance to the rule of law. this task force that the heritage foundation has put together and the position paper it has sent to decision makers. it will hopefully h

think buy western union.he uncontested king of the remittance market that's also a terrific play on a global economic rebound. harvey in oregon? harvey? boo-ya, harv. >> caller: boo-ya. >> what's up, chief? >> caller: jim. >> yeah. >> caller: boo-ya to ya, jim. >> i'm liking that. you're kind of an oregon poet. >> caller: yes. a poet, a writer, stock market investor for 50 years. you know, all of those things. >> every one of those i approve of. >> caller: good. my question is on housing, jim, with obama's new or at least his immigration policy, and the fact that, well, we had a little jump up today. are you still down on housing shares? >> i've been having a debate on real money.com, ron insana has been taking shots at me because he came on with his market movers to say buy the home builders and i dissed him. he went like this home builder. i went like this home builder. i'm starting to be on shaky ground. here's the truth. you're absolutely right. i think the untold story about the housing decline was the e

it is all union backed an all induced by labor unions. eric: acorn, are they unionized? >> it's interesting. the national labor relations board ruled against acorn saying they were violating the rights of their own workers to unionize. acorn has fired employees for trying to unionize. it is hip kit cal. they provide support for everyone else but try to stay above it all themselves. eric: we will leave it there. kevin mooney from "the washington examiner." thanks for joining under the circumstances. coming up, small business is the heart of the economy responsible for 7 out of every 10 american's jobs. yesterday we showed you how cap and trade puts the squeeze on them. today, healthcare, next. decisions, decisions. which beneful prepared meal tonight? roasted chicken recipe? - savory rice and lamb stew. - [ barks ] you're right. tonight is a beef stew kind of night. [ announcer ] beneful prepared meals. another healthful, flavorful beneful. wait wait, one more thing, one more thing! one more thing. all right. thanks. ( oboe/piano music playing ) announcer: why throw away

and union bank. >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide variety of businesses from small businesses to corporations. what can we do for you? >> now, "bbc world news." >> enough about the moon -- time to reach for a mars. so said the astronauts who did the first moon landing 40 years ago. we remember the man from the soviet union who made space history of his son. hillary clinton shores of ties with the world's biggest democracy, india, and those responsible for hiding the 9/11 attacks are hiding in pakistan. >> we are looking for information that will bring us to them. >> courtroom confession for the mumbai attacks. the suspect changes his plea to guilty. welcome to "bbc world news" -- broadcast on pbs and in america and around the globe. coming up -- >> you did not want to grow up about bragging in a slum. you were not proud of it. >> in winning fans -- fans around the world and some fury and ireland. and the world prerogative -- centuries-old but fascinating -- queen elizabeth. hello. never mind the teselle should -- where is the ambition -- that was the gist

it's not the unions. they can help set work rules, et cetera n the end it's the employer who has to come up with and meet the bottom line its the employer that is going to have to live with the arbitrator's decisions. for example in canada some provisions allow for this card check process in arbitration. wal-mart went into arbitration and the arbitrator came back with a one-third increase in the workers' wages. wal-mart in that case couldn't pay that, those wages and so they closed down. money is... it's easy for an arbitrator to come up with a decision and say, oh, just raise everybody's wages. the employer has to come up with a way to pay those wajs not the unions. >> the chamber, corporations dispute resolution in every other area but this one. they want it in all kinds of liability situations. why in this case can't we have a fair process so that employees know after going through all this, they don't sign up to work to make this their career. after going through all this at the end of the day, they'l

he has been a leader in the european union and in parliament. he has been a leader in championing of the directive which provides an important it relevant example of an effort underway to create a more efficient regulatory structure, and yesterday's op-ed in "the washington post" by larry summers and tim geithner noted the importance of international coordination among regulators and reiterated the administration's commitment to leading the effort to improve supervision around the world. unfortunately, with their fragmented regulatory regime over insurance we are lagging at this point. we are not leading the rest of the world. as solvency to work to unite the insurance markets and 27 member countries and the e.u., we continue to struggle with a patchwork system of 50 plus state regulators. with the implementation of this directive nearing, it is becoming more apparent that the framework potentially will be at odds with the u.s. regulatory structure. it is unlikely that the edu would find the current balkanized state based regulatory structure eq

macarthur foundation, and union bank. ♪ >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wideange of companies. what can we do for you? >>> "bbc world news." >>> hillary clinton increases ties with india. she says that some behind the 9/11 attacks are hiding in pakistan. >> we are looking for additional information that would lead us to them. >> there's a courtroom confession of the mumbai attacks. the sole suspect changes his plea to guilty. >>> enough about the moon, it is time to reach for mars. that is according to the astronauts that took part in the first lunar landing 40 years ago. as we recall that there feat, we also remember the man from russia. >>> welcome to "bbc world news." >> coming up later -- >> you did not want to brag about it. you were not proud of it. >>> his memoirs got him fans around the world and some fury in ireland. we will look at his legacy. >>> the royal prerogative is centuries old. what is fascinating queen elizabeth? ♪ >>> there is no doubt that afghanistan and pakistan are at the top of the foreign policy priorities of president obama. there i

>> union dues from union member dues, just another example of the billions an billions unions use onpolitical activism, taken from hard-working american men and women every day. glenn: barack obama says, you know, during the campaign, i was listening to audio from him during the campaign for something i'm working on tomorrow and he says "if you want to know my policies, look at who i surround myself by." you want to know who this guy is and where he is headed, look at the people around him all the time. this guy is in the white house, meeting with barack obama. this guy is also one of the guys that met with the healthcare providers and the prescription drug companies to try to broker a deal, right? >> right, exactly right. i'm glad barack obama said it so we didn't have to. he's surrounding himself with union goons. this whole healthcare thing is just smoke and mirrors because they don't want the american people to know that one in every 160 union workers doesn't have a properly-funded pension. why doesn't he focus his time on that instead of this outlandish healthcare plan? glenn: i

the european union, will talk about that later, seen as a threat in moscow.ere i think they have been more successful since 2004. third, which is the ultimate option, outright territorial position, which is the last resort, if the ukrainian authorities were to veer too fall was and is the western open to that of veering. now to russia and georgia. i'll be brief. russian authorities, i think, in middle of last year calculated they would gain several long- term advantages from military invasion. a defacto partition of georgia is the effect. first, holding georges progress toward nato, as several european union states contend membership in mask, let alone in nato, itself, with further provoke moscow to generate european relations. georgia has stiffened its position in your against offering nato maps to any other post-soviet states including ukraine. second, undermining the government of saakashvili, which is depicted in the kremlin as the property of washington. third, highlighting the limits of american-nato protection of a partner state, in the face of moscow'

and he is a union guy. charles, union guy to help car makers? >> come on. let's be honest.utely not. but what is interesting, the management there i don't think is going to help a lot because when the management starts coming out saying we will rebuild the company and this is a new company and make fuel ever cars, it is not going to work. it doesn't follow what americans want right now. essentially what we are seeing is the companies will be run in a nonprofit sort of way and as long as they have of cover of the government and unlimited access to taxpayer dollar but when it comes to competing i don't see how they can be truly independently publicly run corporations with so heavily stacked to unions. >> i will choose to be optimistic. first of all, ron blome is not a union guy. he is a career investment banker. as far as my optimism, the key fact that we need to remember is g.m. and chrysler took billions of dollars off their balance sheets. that will help them be more competitive. they have professional managers. the task force is to keep the eye on it. >> doesn't anybody s

up all sorts of terrible things in tour of the union lines, but also blew across the union lines ofall these things who had been working as a counter minor and was a slave who have been down there in the pits and he was alive and and he landed in the union lines. and they asked the man have five you thank you have to go because everything is blown up. they change the topography of vicksburg. these are about 5 miles which is probably not so [laughter] but there was an iowa regimens or maybe wisconsin and they put the men and in a tent in charge of $0.2 for people to look at him. [laughter] so general mcclernand saved him from this and made him his ballet or something until the end of the war but this went on really bad stuff going on because it was constant artillery. in the union had the river filled with the watersheds and somebody said in the show was the side of a full grown haugen. day and night to their shooting these things into vicksburg and the citizens rich and poor took to living in caves because it is so hilly there they can dig caves, but at the same time at that would p

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and he landed in the union lines.they asked the man, well, how far do you think you got blown 'cause at this point everything is all blown up. they changed the topography of vicksburg. he said about 3 miles, i think. which was probably not so. [laughter] >> with you there was an iowa regiment -- maybe it was wisconsin where they grabbed a man and they put him in a tent and charged 50 cents for people to look at him. [laughter] >> general mcclellan saved him and made him his valet or cook till the end of the war. this is the kind of thing that went on. there was bad stuff going on because it was the wisconsin artille artillery. the river was if you would with his mortar ships and somebody said the shell was the size of a full grown hog. well, day and night, they're shooting these things into vicksburg and the citizens of vicksburg, rich or poor, took to living in caves 'cause it's so hilly there they could dig caves into this and trade them up. but at the same time, that wouldn't protect them from the big old mortar bu

it toward the union lines, confederates and parts of confederates but it also blew across the union lines and of all things a live man, who led been working as a counter minor and he was a slave who would been down there in the pits. he was alive and he landed in a union. and they ask the man, how far do you think you got blown? at this point everything is all blown up. they change the typography of expert. he said, about 3 miles i think which is probably not so. [laughter] but there was an iowa regiment, maybe it was wisconsin, they put a man in a tent in charge 50-cent for people to like him. general mcclellan saved him from this and made it his valet or cook or something until the end of the war. this is the kind of thing that went on. there was very bad stuff going on there. the union had the river filled with these mortars ships, with great big 13 and boys, like that. someone said a show was the size of a full grown calpirg coday and night, the ships would be sailing into vicksburg and the citizens of vicksburg, to living in caves because it is so silly there they could dig caves in

that's all ahead in this hour of state of the union. you're looking at live pictures of the white house. a beautiful sunday here in the nation's capital, up on the other end of pennsylvania capitol hill, the u.s. congress, where they're debating health care reform while president obama spent the past week overseas tending to global matters. his administration pressed ahead with the effort to revamp the health care system. the vice president joe biden announced a new agreement with the hospital industry to help pay for reforms, but there are still major issues to resolve, including whether to tax health care benefits in order to finance that final reform plan. here to outline the obama administration's view is the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. madame secretary, thanks very much for joining us. >> great to be with you. >> how are you going to pay for $ 1 trillion if not more? >> well, president obama has outlined his preferred payment plans about $660 billion in savings out of the existing system. so money that's

i am a son of a union ironwork. i have nothing against unions.i actually think they do very good things, particularly in trades where youisk life and limb. i juston't e it in bank ing being one of those trades unle yo count paper clipas an occupational hazard. t i did this story speaking with a lot peopleery close to ken lewis and asking about the threat that this poses, and for all the things we're talking about, maria, as you know, he's come under pressure for shareholders. the shareholders have put pressure on him. regulators aren't too happy with him. you know, they fear this union the most because of its plugs within the obama administration, and they fear it because they're basically holding a sword over his head. they're going to push with the political people to get -- to basically force him out unless he does something which they believe would be very bad for the bank, and that's unionize. we're talking tens of thousands of workers. and this is a place, maria, where let's just say they can't afford it. but like every bank they have cost

the rank and file is where the union is on solid ground. the senior brass is where they have the issue. charles: i don't think it mixing apples and oranges. the bottom line is government interference, you have the government controlling the top 100 jobs at citigroup they are trying to stay competitive with the rest of their peers. >> i'm not defense attorney for citigroup after what they have done the last couple of years, but you have to deal with market forces. if you are not paying well enough to one company, great talent will move to another company. i want the market to bear itself out and wages and commissions or whatever they get paid for will work itself out over time. if you get -- once again, governor mandates will screw it up. as far as these unions, what is it their business? they have nothing to do with it. i don't know why they are talking about it. let them make the dollars they make on a daily basis. charles: and the unions though, going by the same policy, there's a lot of hypocrisy. >> you could make that argument but i th

, union member maxton drop from a quarter of the workforce to 12%. hughes bring back to 16 or 80% and give those people the discipline of being in a labor union to try to control their votes. now right now the way you get a union election is to check off on a card, yes i want the election and if the majority of the people check yes, the workers in a factory, they could to have an election which is by secret ballot. now, what is the point of the election? a majority have checked it off already. what the needy election for? well, the fact is three-quarters of the time the union loses the secret ballot election, because people are coerced into checking off the cars. the person who is in charge of their employment visits them and pressures them to sign that card. and then they turn right around in the secret ballot in bodaken the union so obama has a simple solution. he is going to eliminate the secret ballot and the check of cards will be enough to form a union and then if the employer does not reach a deal with this union in six months the federal gove

macarthur foundation.] , and union bank] >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide range of companies. from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> canal, "bbc world news -- now, "bbc world news." >> headlines this hour, the end of hope for two british hostages in iraq. they are likely to be dead, victims of a shiite militia. don battles in nigeria, -- gun battles in nigeria. progress on a military front, but with elections next month, can politics be effective? a car bomb in northern spain. seeing the good in global warming. the green land community celebrates every time an iceberg melts. not even the greatest olympics -- olympic swimmer of all time could beat this swimsuit. michael phelps comes in second at the world championship. it is 7:00 a.m. in washington, 2:00 in the afternoon in baghdad, mid day in the u.k. where the families of two british security guards have waited and hoped against hope that their family members would be released from captivity in baghdad. the bbc has learned that there very likely to be dead. seized at gunpoi

all of my family were factory workers and union members. this country seems to want to trash the unions. we make good money, yes. we spend it. we always thought a new car. we put our kids through college. we saved money. when we went on vacation, we spend money here and in other places. i do not know how they think that people are going to live like that on $10 an hour. the whole thing is in the name of greed. the cars come back and the foreign cars do not sell any cheaper than ours do. their insurance is paid by their country. we are still alive here. we are trying hard to keep our heads above water. i am so tired of people bashing autoworkers. we put 45 years in there when other people did not want to spend their time standing in a hot, sweaty place in the summer. i'm just tired of people bashing the unions and bashing the car industry. it is not our fault that they shipped everything overseas. you talk about exports. guest: i agree with arlene that the autoworkers in the automobile industry was very important in terms of creating the mid

a guy goes to a non-union shop. a guy goes to a union meeting. he comes to work the next day and he sales to the boss, "i went to a union meeting last night." the boss says, "did you go? what do you think of it?" that, in your book, is coercion. that is intimidation from management. that's how your lawyers see it, and i know if for a fact. >> no, no, no. >> what you call management manipulation and intimidation is wrong. >> stuart, you listen to me for a second. i listened to you, you listen to me. >> i'm listening. >> that figure comes from the national relations board and it's from workers who have been denied money, fired, disciplined, demoted, had their shift changed, denied money by their employer. and it is more than 20,000 workers a year for the last 15 years. stuart: do you think the pope is a leftist? >> no, i don't think he's a leftist. stuart: does he support income redistribution? >> no, the pope does not support income redistribution. stuart: are you using the pope to legitimize your -- >> i believe in jesus christ, do you, stuart? s

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although the situation is different, and russia is not the soviet union. there are some applicable lessons, and i want to speak to three of them one of them is, as was the case in the cold war, u.s. policy-making for russia should be informed by the deepest possible understanding of russia as a system, as a country, as a state, as a culture. during the cold war we devoted enormous resources to understanding the soviet union comprehensively, not just militarily. and that investment paid off. it was a substantial contributor to our successful management of cold war relations. a deep understanding of russia is a requirement for the conduct of a sensible policy today. despite the transparency, despite the much more open condition of russia as a country and a stake in the soviet union ever was, i would submit that our understanding of russia is weaker than it should be. this is partly because it is a confusing reality. it is also varied considerably because russia does not get the attention it deserves an academic, think tank anti- government analytical circles

the second thing is to coerce people into labor unions, union membership, union membership dropped from a quarter of the work force to 12%. he is going bring it back to 16 or 18% and give those people the discipline of being in a labor union to try to control their votes. now, right now the way you get a union election you check off on a card, yes, wasn't the election, and if a majority of the people check yes, the workers in a factory, they get to have an election, which is by secret ballot. what's the point of the election? a majority haven't checked it off already. what do you need the election for? the fact it that three-quarters of the time the union loses the secret ballot election because people are coerced into checking off the cards. their visited at their home by the shop steward, the person in charm -- charge of their employment and pressures them to sign the card. then they turn round and vote against the union in the secret ballot. so obama is going eliminate the secret ballot and the checkoff cards will be enough to form a union. then if the employer doesn't reach a deal w

this is "state of the union." john king is off today, but he did find some time earlier in the week to sit down and enjoy some coffee and a meal and to listen to what's on your mind as washington debates the price of health care reform and whether the economy needs more stimulus spending. john sat down for a meal over at howard's cafe in san francisco and the conversation focused on the harsh realities of living through a tough job market. >> the unemployment rate here was 11.5% here last month. higher than the national average. why? >> i have been unemployed for four months now and in my industry it's mostly about downsizing and consolidating the resources in a company. so, in terms of my company, we got bought out by another company because they're trying to consolidate their assets and then, of course, the ensuing layoffs happen and i happen to be one of those. >> what's the job market like right now? >> it's pretty rough. i've been searching pretty actively now for the last four months and i had maybe five int

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"state of the union" with john king begins right now. >> this is our state of the union report for this sunday, july 12th. i'm wolf blitzer in for john king. president obama wants congress to deliver a health care reform bill for him to sign this year. can the united states afford to implement ambitious and expensive changes with an ailing economy? and what role does the government have in any final plan? the health secretary outlines the obama administration's case. >>> james carville and mary matalin, they're both here together. they'll weigh in on the health care reform battle. plus, news today that former vice president, dick cheney, ordered the cia to withhold information from congress. also, president obama in africa. our own anderson cooper brings us an exclusive interview from someone who was at the center of the slave trade. it is a remarkable interview with america's first african-american president. that's all ahead this hour on "stast the union." while president obama spent the past week overseas attending to global matters, his administration pressed ahead with its effort t

macarthur foundation, and union bank. >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> nl, "bbc world news." -- and now. >> challenging the president. government workers in south africa hold a day of strikes and marches. a warning to iran. israel says all available means should be used to prevent it from building nuclear weapons. economic recovery. china and the u.s. debt to gather in washington for talks. the relationship they say could shape the 21st century -- china and the u.s. get together. welcome to "bbc world news", on pbs in america and elsewhere around the world. it is now nearly 1 months since u.s. forces in iraq officially came to an end -- it is now nearly one month since then. it has got a distribution deal. you will hear from a young filmmaker behind a new movie. jacob zuma tapped into the mood and took over as president. just a few months in and despite his election promises, he is facing a challenge from constituents. thousands of workers went on strike today, cr

fritz ermath mentioned that russia is not the soviet union. unfortunately, many people in the russian elite and decision makers believe that russia is the soviet union because it has inherited its nuclear weapons, its security council, it has inherited a large part of its territory and its political elites and political mentality. if we look at the russian political mentality, it still remains very much motivated by the cold war stereotypes. i would say that the [unintelligible] what is good for america is that for russia and vice versa is still very much there in russia decisionmaking. and the approaches towards forms control and many other issues are very strongly motivated by this zero sum game. if we look at the forthcoming negotiations on arms control, including the issue of strategic nuclear weapons reductions and the issue related to the abatement of the ballistic missile defense in europe, we see that there is a certain contradiction in side of this. i'm. does russia really need the reductions -- a certain contradiction on this side of

the second thing he's going to do is force people into labor unions and union membership. union membership dropped from about a quarter of the workforce to 12 percent, he's going to bring back 216 or 18% and give those people the discipline of being in a labor union to try to control their boats. now right now the way you're going to the election is check on a card is i want to luncheon in the majority of the people check yes, the workers in a factory that get to have an election which is by secret ballot. now what is the point of the election? the majority checked it off already, what you need the election for? the fact is three-quarters of the time the union loses the secret ballot election. because people are coerced into checking of the cards, they consider it their home by the shop and the person in charge of their employment, visit them and prescience them to sign the card and the internet iran in the city ballot and those against the union so obama has this solution. it and the check of cards will be enough to form a union. if the employer doesn't reach a deal with

macarthur foundation, and union bank. >> union bank has put its strengths to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> challenging the president. government workers in south africa hold a day of protests and marches. waiting for an answer to u.s. defense secretary, iran is urged to respond to diplomatic overtures from the u.s. by september. economic recovery. china and the united states get together in washington for charts and talks, a relationship that could shape the 21st century. welcome. coming up later for you, it has been nearly a month since combat controlled by u.s. forces in iraq came to an end. we will see the reality. and $75 and stop the distribution deal? we will hear from a young filmmaker behind the new movie. zuma tap into a change in the mood of the poor black majority when he won the recent elections, taking over as president. despite his election promises, he is facing a challenge from his constituents. thousands of south african government workers went on strike today,

macarthur foundation, and union bank. ♪ as we recall that there feat, we also remember the man from russia>>> wcome to "bbc world news." >> coming up ler -- >> you did not wt to brag out it. you were not prouof it. >>>ismemoirs got him fans around the worl and some fury in ireland. we will lo at his legacy. >>> the yal prerative is centuries ol what is fascating queen elizabeth? ♪ >>> there is no doubt that afghanistan and pakistan are at the top of th foreign policy priorities of president obama. there is so nouestion that india has felt overlooked by white house strategy towards south asia that is until now. secretary oftate hillary clinn hasoncluded her five- day visit to india ty have signed des on trade, defens and nuclear cooperation. there were disagreements on climate change. they believe they can work through the differens. our correspondent is tveling with mrs. clinton. she sends us this repo from delhi. >> no matter how she triedo ke it about ties, kistan trapped into that picture. in the interviews, theuspect -- the subjectas inescapable. the concern india had been that washing

macarthur foundation, and union bank. >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide range of companies, from small business to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> killed at birth friday prayers. bombers attacked five shia mosques in iraq. at least 30 are dead. nigeria's interior minister tells us there will be an investigation into the controversial killing of an islamist military leader. >> what is important is that we have acted swiftly, have succeeded. >> a british man loses his latest bid to avoid extradition to the united states. welcome to "bbc world news," broadcasting to our viewers in the united states on pbs and around the globe. coming up, the photographers behind the most iconic shots of the century, who are fighting a losing battle against technology. and baseball on valium or a chance to build bridges in new york? the story of cricket, the nypd, and the big apple's muslims. >> it may be the game's most hallowed ground, but it was right here in manhattan that cricket's first international match was played way back