i'm tanya a group of over 200 concerned citizens that united together 6 years ago and welcome place for residents and visitors alike i walk allot and people stop us locals for questions and directions we love answering those questions. many visitors to our neighborhood are san francisco residents come from other neighborhoods in the city specifically and more particular the mission district there's a lot of families that come and have recreation in our area they come for water use and -- this sunday for instance i ran into a family they came to the u.s. from elsalvador 2 years ago their little 2-year old played with my dog they told me how much they enjoyed being at this future park site i see families coming to our neighborhood to recreate at the park. they are mostly large families with children and the families all want to come and this is going to be their park too this is regarding item 20 on your closed session and i'm just going to read an excerpt from chianlin who wanted me to say this land is an open space and acts as a hub between many diverse neighborhoods and clean area and

>>> good evening to you on this monday night as we begin this week together. the united states is making a unprecedented charge against another country, the chinese,

how do you keep the family unit together that way?of tool and resources for us to help us with that transition period. but we have been fortunate enough to get stationed places where we have actually wanted to go and live and experience. so we just do our research before we go, and we always seem to have friends wherever we're sent to, that makes the transition easier as well. >> it is more difficult, though, once children are introduced to the scene because then they make friendships wherever they're living and they're in a school they like and how do you tell your child, look at it as an adventure, this is going to be cool. >> yeah, well, we tell her just that, we're moving to another country, you're going to get to learn a new language, new culture, meet new people, make new friends and we'll eventually see your old friends again once we come back to the states. they adjust pretty quickly. >> you're pretty proud of your wife. >> adoring you. >> i love that. you have a terrific relationship. is it hard to say to your spouse, we have

in nukes at all the national guard units were put together in what was called the rainbow division and they were sent off to fight and they all got to march off to war together, except these guys. i'm not kidding because they were told black is not the color of the rainbow. they got the parade when they came home. they marched up fifth avenue and over 1 million new yorkers of every skin color turned out to welcome them home. the first american, not black american from the first american of any skin color to win the french medal was one of these guys, henry johnson the entire unit one that no. this the more time in combat than any other american unit. they never lost a foot of graphic they never lost a man to capture. at the end of the war when the germans were massing for one big push on paris, one point is nothing between paris and the germans in the sector except these guys. they stopped the kaiser's best. one little side note. their regimental band introduced a previously unknown form of music to the europeans call the jazz. that's the story of the harlem hellfighters and that's the

creates is a whole infrastructure of capableity when it american forces, civilian and military, united together under this effort and creates and works with the south vietnamways government to build up their capable to take on the insurgents. by the end of 1967, coomer and many other americans believed they're beginning to see the proverbial lying at the end of the tunnel. the organization as far as komer is concerned that he formulated, is up and running. still having problems convincing the south vietnamese government to get behind it but is beginning to creates these mechanisms, and today -- he is tricking the ideas of military intelligence and forming them together so they can give intelligence to the south vietnamese government, military and police, and they can track down these insurgents. at the end of the year, president johnson will come to vietnam and he will extol komer for his work, give him the presidential medal of freedom, and in january, 1968, the wheels will fall off the proverbial cart. the tet offensive occurs. some of you may remember that. those images shown on nightly tele

they're going to underwrite the cost of delivering the shows and split revenue 50/50 and sell those units together. sitting in the last two weeks giving we haven't launched the channel. i would tell you we already assumed against our cost before we go live and be into revenue day one. we believe that 23,000 shows and the back stage, the interviews, all of the content coming to life from our so-called studios -- >> what kind of shows are we going to see? are we going to see maybe the on-the-run tour? >> we're going to see them on. we have to do it all. we're going to have the top of the line shows. to the house of blues. up and coming artists. the next lords, et cetera. it's got to be compelling. this is going to be a strategic focus for us and put good bands on the screen. >> thanks for joining us. appreciate it. michael rapena the ceo of live nation. karen you're a shareholder. >> yeah. long timeshare holder. i i'm inclined to hang on to it. >> it's not bs like lord? >> the what tour? >> what is on the run tour? >> beyonce/jay-z. >> can't wait. when does that start? >> summer. phil is listening o

creates is a whole infrastructure of capability within the american forces civilian and military, united together under this effort and creates and works with the south vietnamese government to build up the capability to take on the insurgency. by the end of 1967 komer and many other americans believe that they are beginning to see the proverbial light at the end of the it turns out to be the key element. because president subeightesubeighte in begins to see the power that can be brought to bear if they work together with the americans and as a consequence of his helping with the recovery after the devastation of ted there was a mobilization of capability and there's a dedication on the part of the vietnamese government to begin to focus on insurgency. in june of 1968 westmoreland leaves and is replaced by the deputy and unfortunately the relationship between komer and abrams is not good. it had not been good since they met each other a year earlier. in doing the research at the center of military history and wash it and i was able to under under -- uncover a letter from komer tube general abrams

the united states, the eu, and our allies have made our choice very, very clear. we are going to stand together united not just in support of ukraine but united in support of de-escalating, united in support of a peaceful, diplomatic solution, united in recognition that yes, there are historic and cultural and other ties between russia and ukraine. the way to assert them is that the diplomatic negotiating table, not at the end of a gun. we believe that we will also stand together in the effort to try to de-escalate this situation. next week i will meet in london with our european counterparts in order to discuss what the appropriate next steps will be. also want to underscore that lady ashton and i applaud the commitment and the courage of the monitors of the osce. we're deeply appreciative. the organization for security and cooperation in europe have put themselves in harm's way not on one side or the other but on the side of a peaceful resolution, on the side of de-escalation, and they are tried to enforce compliance of the russian-backed forces to ensure that there is a fair and reasonable a

responsible for the health and welfare of these guys. >> you're as strong as your weakest link, and together here as a unitwork together as one, which makes a strong unit. i couldn't do this without these guys right here, especially with lieutenant fuller and sergeant lee. [ applause ] >> oh. >> he's still not getting more hours. >> the fight investigation in ad seg found both samuels and edwards guilty of mutual combat. samuels has moved to the reception center and is awaiting transfer to another penitentiary in the coming weeks. there he will serve out the six months remaining on his sentence. >> that was on the yard. they were playing basketball. edwards was getting kind of rough with samuels, right, he didn't like the way they were playing, didn't like what was happening to him, so he just swung on him and tried to hit him. from there the fight ensued. he was looking at getting 360 days. credit for this incident, but since it got reduced down to a lesser offense, mutual combat, he received 61 days, which he was satisfied with. >> after working out in the yard, inmate samuels meets with counselor woodfo

russia's actions in ukraine pose a direct challenge to the goal that brought europe and united states together for decades a. a europe that is whole, free and at peace. just as our predecessors stood united of that vision, so will we. chancellor merkel. >> translator: well, thank you very much, barack, for this gracious hospitality and this very warm welcome that you courted to me. i'm very glad to be able to be back in washington and to have an opportunity to address all of these different issues with you. i think priority really is on the current issue of ukraine and that loom very large on our agenda. it showed how important the trans atlantic partnership is also in today's times. i think it's a good thing that all of the steps that we've taken so far we've taken together and today in our talk we again underline that we fully intend to go ahead as we did in the past. what happened on ukraine, what happened on the crimean peninsula? the post cold war order has been put in -- territorial integrity by all. this is why it was so important for us to react in concord. and what is at stake here is

challenging times, russia's actions pose a direct challenge to the goal that brought europe and united states together for decades. all, free and at peace just as our predecessors stood united in pursuit of that vision, so will we. angela merkel. >>> thank you very much for this gracious hospitality and this very warm welcome, and i'm very glad to be able to be back in washington. to have an opportunity to address all these different issues, priority really is on the current issue of ukraine and very large on our agenda. it showed how important the transatlantic partnership is in today's times and it is a very good thing all of the steps we have taken so far we have taken together and today we get again underlined we fully intend to go ahead as we did in the past. what happened on ukraine, what happened on the crimean peninsula. the order has been put into question that rests on the acceptance of territorial integrity by all. and this is why it was so important for us to react. what is at stake here is people in ukraine can as act on self-determination. the 25th of may is a very crucial date in order

unit. we come together and find our consensus our goals and respect for the people who we serve the unit i didn't have purpose is something that maximums san francisco great thanks to edge who's concerned here today (clapping.) thank you leader pelosi i'd like to bring to the stage who partnerships with all of us supervisor cowen >> good morning it's a beautiful spring day i want to share information not long ago we broke ground in 2010 at the site but earlier this year we break ground at the senior seminar the george center and no lesson e less than that we droug on the asian park we're on a role ladies and gentlemen, and every step of the way we've had leader pelosi and mayor ed lee. so thank you. just want to start that off with a fact of history back in 2007 this very site this very development was named the worst housing development by the federal government urban department by hud in a relatively short amount of time we're here going from worse to best. just like everything we do in san francisco we do it the best because we're the best and important to, know who we work for the best

that unit together that company together like nothing i've ever seen. that's leadership. that's stepping up. that's doing the right thing. i have admired lieutenant johnson as my brother has since 1968, and i want to acknowledge lieutenant johnson today. for what he did for all of us and just to further the point on humility his wife, of 40 years and his children and grandchildren, never knew that he received the silver star in vietnam because he was too humble to even tell his family that he had received that tremendous honor. now, that is an individual who lived something pretty special. [applause] that's what leaders do. we face challenges straight up and head on. with strength of heart strength of will, no matter how tough the test is. you're ready for those tests ahead, not only because of your education and your training but because of the way you've banded together and pressed on in the face of tragedy. i know that as we mark this wonderful sell wherer to day -- celebratory day, recognizing accomplishments and those who helped you through your li

, but i thought that it was our responsibility to do as much as we could to keep their family units togetherknew that in the wild that's what happens. ♪ yes, sir, that's our baby >> kalina was the first baby shamu. >> baby shamu, sea world's newest star. >> she had become quite disruptive and challenging her mom a little bit and disrupting some shows, and that kind of thing. ♪ she's got the whole place jumping ♪ ♪ shamu, she's that baby whale >> it was decided by the higher ups she would be moved to another park when she was just four, four and a half years old. and that was news to us as trainers that were working with her. to me it had never crossed my mind that they may be moving the baby from her mom. the supervisors basically was kind of mocking me like, oh you're saying poor kalina? you know, what she's going to do without her mommy? and that of course shut me up. so the night of the move we had to deploy the nets to separate them and get kalina into the med pool and katina was generally a quiet whale. she was not an overly vocal whale. after kalina was removed from the scene and put o

of me, but i thought it was our responsibility to do as much as we could to keep their family unit togetherd that's what happens. kalena was the first baby shamu. she had been quite disruptive and challenging her mom a little bit and disrupting some shows and that kind of thing. ♪ shamu, she's our baby whale ♪ . >> it was decided by the hire-ups that she would be moved to another park and that was news to us as trainers. to me, it never crossed my mind that they might be moving the baby from her mom. the supervisors basically was kind of mocking me like, oh, you're saying poor kalina. you know, what's she going to do without her mommy? and you know, and that of course just shut me up. so the night of the move we today deploy the nets to separate them and get the baby into the med pool. and katina was generally a quiet whale, not an overly vocal whale. after kalina was removed from the scene and put on the truck and taken to the airport and katina, her mom, was left in the pool. she stayed in the corner of the pool. like literally just shaking. and screaming, screeching, crying, like i had n

in our reporting on how it's come to this the united states together with the international community is committed to the libyan people. you have won your revolution people in libya today have an even greater charles of to this news of building themselves a stroll and democratic future. three years after the so-called liberation of libya. u.s. citizens are being told to immediately depart the north african country amid uncontrollable violence and unrest moving towards libya's coast a warship carrying some one thousand marines and several helicopters ready to evacuate u.s. diplomatic missions on a moment's notice that was a step that was taken to be prepared to protect u.s. personnel and facilities and u.s. installations in north africa. the two thousand and eleven western military intervention and subsequent ouster of libyan leader moammar gadhafi turned out to be a gift to militias the country gravely destabilized allow the militants to expand exponentially as the nation's military and police forces remain weak. nato members say oh good at destroying nations but never good at. making

russia's actions in ukraine pose a direct challenge to the goal that brought europe and the united states together for decades, and that's a europe that is whole, free and at peace. just as our predecessors stood united. chancellor merkel? >> translator: thank you very much for this gracious hospitality and this very warm welcome, and i'm very glad to be able to be back in washington to have an opportunity to address all of these different issues with you. i think priority really is on the current issue of ukraine and that it showed how important the transatlantic partnership is also in today's times, and i think it's a very good thing that all of the steps that we have taken so far we have taken together today and in our talk we yet again underline that we fully intend to go ahead as we did in the past what happened on ukraine, what happened on the crimean peninsula, the post-war order has put into question that rests on the acceptance of territorial integritily all. this is why it was so important for us to react. and what is a stake is people can act on the basis of self-determination and can d

that unit together, that company together like nothing i've ever seen. leadership. that is stepping up. that is doing the right thing. i have admired lieutenant johnson since 1968 and i want to acknowledge lieutenant johnson today for what he did for all of us. and just to further the point on humility. years andf 40 children and grandchildren never knew that he received the silver star in vietnam because he was too humble to even tell his family that he had received that tremendous honor. that is an individual that lived something pretty spectacular. that is what leaders do. we face challenges. with strength of heart, strength of will, no matter how tough the test is. not only because of your education and your training, but because of the way you have banded together and pressed on in the face of tragedy. i know that as we mark this wonderful celebratory day, recognizing accomplishments and life,that helped you in we know that today the thoughts are also turning to three midshipmen that the naval academy lost during this year. the class of 2016, re-rem

of the way in which they are understood in the popular culture and the struggle to end the united states together with my collaborators and henry weaver, the undergraduates we studied every american execution from 1890 to 2010 and determine just over 3% of the executions were botched. surprisingly the technologies of the 20th century to execute and here i will pause and you contemplate what they were hanging the electric chair, the gas chamber, the firing squad and lethal injection. surprisingly among all of this technology is ththosetechnologie with the highest rate of things going wrong is lethal injection. so about 7% of injections in the united states have been botched. we are giving th argue in the by have helped propel changes from one technology to another in the course of the period hanging from electrocution and gas and gas to the lethal injection. but yet they play very little role in the overall conversation about whether or not the united states should maintain capital punishment. this is in part because of the law and popular culture is a mere accident on aberration. the rope wasn't

the united states together with the international community is committed to the libyan people. you have won your revolution three years after the so-called liberation of libya. moving towards libya's coast a warship carrying some one thousand marines and several helicopters ready to evacuate u.s. diplomatic missions on a moment's notice that was a step that was taken to be prepared to protect u.s. personnel in facilities and u.s. installations in north africa the country briefly destabilized allow the militants to expand exponentially as the nation's military and police forces remain complete . major livesay so good at destroying nations but never good at making good democracies. however concern over the chaos has spiked after dissident general khalifa haftar launched assaults against the libyan parliament and islamic factions some of the worst violence that country has seen since the overthrow of moammar gadhafi and islamic militant group based in benghazi has accused washington of backing dissidents and fueling unrest. while western forces sold their two thousand and eleven b

>> the economist intelligence unit pulls together in one process, a poll of education rankings.hat you see in scandinavian countries is probably not enough focus on continuously improving the quality of teaching. finland has been good, still good, slipped a bit. people from finland say because they've been coasting enjoying the success rather than continuously improved. >> the reason for occasion countries to be at the top. singapore, hong kong, japan, why? >> in these countries you see hard work and effort pays off. parents expect children to work hard and do homework. in britain, parents think their children are born smart or not n. asia, they say no, if you work hard, you can succeed. work ethic pays off. they have very good teachers that work at improving their teaching skill. >> why is it east asian and not south asian countries? there's a massive education culture. >> there's an education culture among parents. the provision of education for massive poor indians is very poor indeed. >> we're looking at little children in south korea getting on a bus after their school day

did follow up, and working together with the united nations, working together with the russians, theystroyed, he says, 92% of syria's chemical weapons stockpile already and 8% is being controlled for all practical purposes, they're just finding a way to get rid of it. hasn't that objective, the narrow objective of destroying syria's chemical weapons, been achieved? >> meanwhile, the horrible barrel bombs are being dropped, slaughtering innocent people. meanwhile, the iranian revolutionary guard is there. mean meanwhile, the russians have increased their supplies of weapons to bashar assad and the slaughter, hundreds of thousands of people dead, millions of refugees, and we have sat by and watched it happen, while we have the chemical weapons to some degree removed, but there are allegations of chlorine attacks, which are chemical attacks, which are not covered by this so-called agreement. it is -- i can't tell you how it breaks my heart to see us continue to sit by and watch the syrian people slaughtered not just by bashar assad, who was going to lose before hezbollah came in. this ha

all of your gulf states, turkey, european states, germany, italy, france, britain and the united states together, all of them believe assad cannot possibly lead syria in the future because he has no credibility or legitimacy and there's no way the fight will go stop while assad is there. so the answer is that in the recent meeting in london, which took place among those 11 nations, they all agreed to step up their efforts, to increase the support to the opposition, increasing terrorism as a result of assad playing ftse with some of them and attracting others to cause, the fact is that assad is the greatest mag nent -- he remains a serious destationizatidestatio destabilization factor. the president is determined to increase our efforts to have an impact on that outcome. >> secretary kerry, i appreciate your time. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> stay with us. find out what secretary kerry has to say about edward snowden. it's a pretty fiery response. i'll have that right after the break. and we'll have preview of the nbc news exclusive, a sitdown with edward snowden. brian williams spent hours w

understood in law and in popular culture and in the struggle to end capital punishment in the united states. together with my collaborators here today, five undergraduates, we studied every american execution from 1890 to 2010 and determine that just over 3% of those executions were botched. and surprisingly among all of the technologies the news in the 20th century to execute and i will posit what you contemplate what they were, hanging, the electric chair, the gas chamber, the firing squad and lethal injection, surprisingly among all of those technologies come in the most unreliable, the one with the highest rate of things going wrong is lethal injection. so about 7% of those have been botched. we argue in the book of this that this has helped to change technology during the course of his time from hanging to electrocution from the interim electrocution to lethal injection, but that they play very little roles in the overall conversation about whether the united state should talk about capital punishment. in both war and popular culture, a botched execution is being is a mere accident and aberratio

now, on the 25th, we are ready to implement additional sanction, and the we is europe, the united states together. >>> the threat from kerry comes as fighting intensifies in eastern ukraine. ukraine's interior minister says the army killed 30 pro-russian insurgents, but the resistance is spreading. paul brennan has been speaking with pro-russian groups in luhansk. >> the training is basic, and the civilian instructor struggles to reassemble the rifle he stripped down. people gathered around him are keen to learn. if the russians come - there's no indication they will - luhansk could be the first stop. this staunchly pro-russian city would not oppose them. >> translation: it's not a problem. i'm russian and born here. like serbs they were important in kosovo. >> you were born in luhansk, but you see yourself as russian. >> of course. >> this is no picnic in the park. some have sticks and table legs, others have military kits - apparently not supplied by russia. >> reporter: you went into a shop and brought this. >> yes. >> across town at the city administration building the pro-russian leaders hav

we've brought a variety of statesions to the united together with e.p.a., department of interior, department of thegy, to learn from process here. what's great about it is that it's not a monolithic here's how do it. here's how we do it at the federal law, but look at what versus new doing york, pennsylvania or texas. i think that's been very useful actually been, there's a larger interest in that program. there are some countries that announced moratoriums on shale development and exploration. and if that's their decision to toit, and if they don't want explore it that's fine. we continue these conversations even with those countries but have programs with them to important the process if they're going to have a moratorium. one thing if i could, mr. chairman, to that observation. traveled tors ago i warsaw with the principal deputy assistant secretary for the for energy and natural resources, where mr. hochstein works. participated in what was called the session that was held i.e.a., called the golden golden age, and it was a subject for experts from around the world convening to their expe

they will be trying to show a united front in terms of what the european union and united states should be doing together against russia and in ukraine. both leaders would say there is a united front in terms of sanctions in place and sanctions that might still come. there are slight differences between the two. there might be bigger differences in the future when it comes to the attention of sectoral sanctions sanctions that might face whole sectors of the russian economy like the energy sector. germany believes it has more to lose than the united states. this is a meeting between angela merkel and barack obama that would have looked different a year ago. that was before the allegations of nsa spying in germany and more specifically, the spying on the mobile phone of angela merkel. she has wanted to see aagreement put in place between the united states and germany. that will not be the case and not announced here. it is a relationship that has soured somewhat. what you see today will be a move towards getting on with business despite a relationship that has gone a bit south since the first nsa allegatio

russia's actions in ukraine pose a direction challenge to the goal that brought europe and the united states together for decades and that is a europe that is whole, free and at peace. just as our predecessor stood united in pursuit of that vision, so will we. chancellor merkel. >> translator: thank you very much, barack, for this gracious hospitality and this very warm welcome you've accorded to me. i'm very glad to be back in washington to have an opportunity to address all of these different issues with you. i think priority, really, is on the current issue of ukraine and that loomed very large on our agenda. it showed how important the transatlantic partnership is also in today's times. and i think it's a very good thing that all of the steps that we've taken so far we've taken together and today in our talk, we yet again underline that we fully intend to go ahead as we did in the past. what happened on ukraine, what happened on the crimean peninsula? well, the postwar order has been put into question that rests on the acceptance of territorial integrity by all. and this is why it was so importan

. >> and he is the only candidate who can unite the country, bring together east and west, all the regionsogether in the current situation. >> but here, too, local election officials fear the vote could be disrupt it -- disrupted. workers at this polling station are organizing battery-powered lights after warnings separatists may sabotage the power supply during the vote count. the vote is likely to go ahead in most cases despite the crisis, but whether the winner can unite people in the east of the country remains to be seen. >> the prime minister of turkey is the most influential turkish leader since the legendary ataturk. in his 10 years as prime minister, erdogan has transformed turkey, changing the way business is done, giving turkish minorities rights, and he has also cracked down on protesters and temporarily banned twitter and youtube. still, he continued to enjoy a high level of popularity until turkey experienced of the country recently with more than 300 casualties. >> sorrow and doers after the disaster of the coal mine in soma -- the sorrow endures. it might have been an oppor

we have currently put together a database for all of our below market rate rental and ownership units. we are currently putting together a document to solicit bids for a developer to create another database to integrate all of the 100% affordable developments that the city has investments in. we are also entering into some preliminary discussions with the department of public health and the human services agency to see what kind of connections we can have with their direct access to housing units and the homeless access points. as most of you know, each of those different kinds of housing has a different entryway, a different selection process. some of them have lotteries. some of them have clinical assessments. we're also reexamining the hopa wait list. and i think that what we've realized is that for most individuals, unless you have a case manager, it's almost impossible to navigate this system. we've also been working with many of our tenant counseling agencies. and at our last meeting, we asked them what would be most useful in term of access to information and what they told us

unfair for workers to be able to express their, you know, needs to earn a decent living and bond together and unite. >> reporter: workers took to the streets with picket signs and chanting to demand better pay, better working conditions, and fair labor laws. >> right now, as it is, with decent jobs, a lot of us can't afford to live here and we have these contractors that are not paying bay area standard wages on jobs, that just creates problems. >> reporter: workers reminded passersby of the long-standing history of being the union town. >> san francisco, is a union town! >> the city was founded on union labor. i mean, in 1934, there was a general strike where they shut down the -- all of san francisco because workers were being mistreated. >> reporter: workers stood up and police stood watch. mission businesses and residents especially hoping protestors in their fight follow the golden rule of use your words. two years ago that wasn't the case. business windows were smashed, painted anarchy signs defaced restaurants and retail shops on valencia. last year was peaceful and organizers say we can exp

violent manner and suggested particular that our group and his will probably be led to work together to create a united front. >> the italian northern league has already abandoned the parliamentary group to join her. meanwhile, demonstrators gathered outside the brussels parliament building in protest against the french national front. >> and france, riot police have started cleaning out three immigrant camps from the northern city of calais. the camps housed hundreds of immigrants from asia, the middle east, and africa. the evictions, ordered a week ago by the local government, comes just days after the anti-immigration party, the national front, triumphed in european elections. more than 1000 would-be immigrants tried to force their way over razor wire barriers into spain's north african enclave. spanish officials say about 500 managed to successfully breached the border. the enclave is officially part of spain, albeit located on .oroccan territory numbers are now so high that the town's mayor fears it has become impossible to stop. >> they braved razor wire and a series of hyphens is. once they arri

we can be certain that when the united states and the eu act together, we make a tremendous difference in world affairs. we can be certain that expanding our commercial relationship is key to our ability to exert global influence and we can be certain that chancellor merkel will continue to provide real leadership and commitment to a stronger and deeper transatlantic partnership. i had the honor of seeing the chancellor on the opening a of the world's largest industrial fair in hannover last month where she spoke out strongly about this relationship. it is now my great pleasure to welcome her act of the u.s. chamber of commerce. we are all looking forward to hearing her message. ladies and gentlemen, the chancellor of germany, angela merkel. [applause] donohue, ladies and to bemen i am delighted back in washington today and i'm equally delighted to be here as a guest of the u.s. chamber of commerce. we will look at the fact of how closely the united states of america and europe are linked as it applies to social context and political but also to economic context. our transatlantic rela

i think he has to do both a major effort to keep the united states and europe together, understanding that the european dependence on russian energy is going to make it tough, and on trade with russia. german trade with russia is huge and ours is tiny. but, on the other hand, the europeans have 60 years of sort of relying on us for leadership in international affairs and particularly on national security, and they are not yet ready to be co-leaders, and i think a little more american leadership on this would have been important, even while we understand and agree with the point he's making. >> charlie: syria. when the president made the decision not to attack syria after having said it had crossed a red line and with russia made the agreement with respect to the elimination and removal of the chemical weapons, was that the right decision and did it leave people who depended on american leadership questioning american leadership? >> sure, because the process was so appalling, on two counts. one is you never create red lines unless you know, when you enunciate them, what you will do to

we need to unite and face this pain together in unity. >> reporter: the long list of families and families are named over the town. this town is dependent on coal mining. but people here are suiting with emotion over the safety question. whether this will have a political impact on the government is at this stage unclear. andrew simmons, al jazeera, western turkey. >> the turkish government is now facing an angry backlash. they used water canons and carrr gas. four of the country's biggest unions called a strike they say workers lives are being jeopardized to cut costs. and offensive anger and frustration is not being helped by these sorts of pictures that show a prime minister kicking a demonstrator as he visited the mine on wednesday. we have more from istanbul. >> reporter: the timing of this accident in soma could not have come at a worst moment for the government. last year opposition parties in the turkish parliament seeking an investigation into the number of accidents and fatalities in the soma region. that motion was overturned two weeks ago by the government using it's parliament

we've been able to learn from experience here at we brought a variety of delegations to the united states together with epa, department of the interior, department of energy to learn from the process you. what's great about it is that it's not a monolithic here's how to do. here's how we do at the federal level a look at what colorado is doing versus new york or pennsylvania or texas et cetera. i think that's been a useful and there's a larger interest in that program. there are some countries that have announced moratoriums on shale development and exploration. and if that's their decision to do it and if they don't want to export that's fine. we continued those conversations even with those countries but we don't have programs with them to support the process if they're going to have a moratorium i would add one thing if i could to that observation. a couple years ago i traveled to warsaw with the principal deputy assistant secretary for the bureau for energy and natural resources where mr. hochstein works. we participated in what was called the session those held by the iaea called the golden r

. >>> rebel factions in syria are ready to bury their differences and unite, saying that they had grooped together 50,000 fight -- grouped together 50,000 fighters. we have this report. >> these fighters say they continue with the seem of the few remaining military bases under government control. rebels showed the tank taken from syrian forces after days of battle. they told al jazeera they are preparing for an all-out offensive. >> by the grace of god we had liberated fi military positions using weapons seized from the asaad army. only a camp and military post is under their control. the military post will remain under their position. both sides know it. syrian jets provide air support for soldiers surrounded by rebels. the pictures imploded on the internet show supplies dropped for government troops. syrian state tv says government forces have taken more arse on the outskirts of damascus, and aleppo. this is despite recent defeats. some fighters are trying to ignite. five groups who say they have more that 50,000 eighters have decided to work together. leaders of the islamic front and others agr

>>> good evening to you on this monday night as we begin this week together. the united states is making a unprecedented charge against another country, the chinese, charging a team of chinese spies with stealing american inventions and costing a lot of miles an hour jobs. the director of the fbi spoke to pierre thomas today, saying the chinese say, why build it, if you can just steal it. >> reporter: these are the faces of five chinese government spies, indicted today by the justice department, accused of spying on american companies, causing thousands of americans to lose their jobs. >> this is a case alleging economic espionage by members of the chinese military. >> reporter: five alleged military spies, computers hackers with unit 61398 worked out of this office building in shanghai. their alleged target -- the u.s. energy and metals industry. chinese hackers penetrated computers at u.s. steel, alcoa, westinghouse, allegheny technologies, and solar world. the stolen information, invaluable. for example, by alleged by hacking u.s. steel, the chinese styes learned to m

russia's actions in ukraine pose a direct challenge to the goal that brought europe and the united states togetherfor decades, and that is a europe that is whole, free, and at peace, just as our predecessors are united to pursue their version, so will we. chancellor merkel. >> well, thank you very much for the gracious hospitality and the very warm welcome the you have accorded to me, and i am very glad to be able to be back in washington to have an opportunity to address all of these different issues with you. i think priority really is on the current issue of ukraine, and the agenda showed how important the partnership is also in today's times. i think it is a very good thing that all of the steps that we have taken so far we have taken together, and today, in our talk, we yet again underlined that we fully intend to go ahead as we did in the past. what happened on ukraine, what happened on the crimean peninsula? well, the postwar border has been put into question on the acceptance of territorial integrity by all. and this is why it was so important for us to react in concord. what is at stake h

important for the united states and europe to move together on this. we believe that.that requires a certain element of preparation, coordination. you have to do the right april work, the right examination, you have to pull your teams together. a veryproceeding in effective and authoritative way. made it very clear. president obama and chancellor merkel had a meeting the other if, and they said clearly, there are is -- if there is continued interference with respect to the election process, there will be more sanctions and this time they will bite into the sect errors of the economy s of the economy and those will be more compelling than what has been put on the table to this point. obviously when you're trying to keep a door open to find a diplomatic solution, when the other party says they are willing to come to the table and engage in that discussion, it seems to me to be reasonable to try to do that. i think most people in most what's a responsible government not to escalate to the point of creating an inevitable confrontation, but rather to find out if there is a

i think there are five things that would unite and bring together the tea party and the establishmenti think every candidate should reason on this. balance the budget. i like the penny plan. an alternative to obamacare. drilling, energy independence. controlling our borders and doing it first and then choice in education. would those five items would be an inspiring, i guess, vision forthe, quote, republican opposition party? >> i think absolutely. you think back to 94 and the times we have put together a wave nationally. it's when we go out and tell people what we're for. we need to be for the full repeal of obamacare. republicans is too often the party without ideas. they want to know what we're for. we need to tear down executive branch overreach. that's a great five. >> thanks so much. earlier, talked about these very things with a chairman. he joined me to discuss what the republican strategy in 2014 should be and beyond. >> all right. the chairman of the republican national committee is with us. nice to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> you were in contested races to get t