universities and according to a report by the center for social cohesion many courses at british universities wouldn't be able to run without this money. include saudi arabia and china and i'll just take you through a few of them iran has donated a total of around a quarter of a million dollars across major universities in the u.k. daryn since andrews and so us of course that we've already heard about was. the head of the arabian studies program at durham university and he says this is an event organized under the auspices of the deal that they have with the iranian government monopolized by. speakers and he also said that money from iran comes with strings attached so there is an enormous amount of concern about this money and how it affects academic independence and freedom of thinking at british universities. saudi arabia has given a total of in the region of sixty eight million dollars to british universities in edinburgh and cambridge they've used that money to build centers of islamic studies and a saudi prince is allowed to choose members of the management committee at both sentences c

universities and according to a report by the center for social cohesion many courses of british universities wouldn't be able to run without this money. include iran saudi arabia and china and i'll just take you through a few of them iran has donated a total of around a quarter of a million dollars across major universities in the u.k. daryn since andrew's and so as of course that we've already heard about there's a man who is the head of the arabian studies program at durham university and he says this is an event organized under the auspices of the deal that they have with the iranian government was monopolized by pro ahmadinejad's speakers and he also said that money from iran comes with strings attached so there is an enormous amount of concern about this money and how it affects academic independence and freedom of thinking at british universities iran also gave money to which and the money was used to fund to scholarships one of those scholarships was awarded to integrating in a cleric with close links to the regime in iran saudi arabia has given a total of in the region of sixty milli

are improving access to universities. i don't have the figures available. but i'm very happy to give them to him. >> dave miliband. >> mr. speaker, this is an important point because the prime minister reassured people when he was selling his tuition fees policy and it was in his own words that it will be a basic threshold of 6,000 pounds in exceptional circumstances, some universities will be allowed to charge 9,000 pounds. well, of the 23 universities have announced their fees, 18, that's more than 80% are planning to charge 9,000 pounds. it's not the exception. it's the rule. now, i'm afraid -- i'm afraid not for the first time, mr. speaker, this policy has not been implemented in a competent way. now, the next problem that he faces in relation to this policy is it will cost the treasury more money to fund the loans. can he guarantee that money will not come from university budgets or through a reduction in student numbers? >> well, first of all, it is worth reminding the house university tuition fees were first introd

to form cultural and language centers again so sheffield university and the university of edinburgh have benefited from that money and the chinese government refers to those senses as part of its foreign propaganda strategy so really a wide range of money the same suspects in terms of universities appearing a lot big powerful and important universities across the u.k. receiving money routinely from governments. reporting there from london we don't forget you can always have your say on the stories we're covering on our website it's along all the time and. if it's moved from the wave of riots in the world well you can log on to dot com and have your say. and libya maybe but it may be a bone of contention between russia and the us a possibility there where america's vice president is in moscow and he'll discuss the situation an issue which both countries so far don't see eye to eye on joe biden is also key to push for the warming of relations between russia and the u.s. with the reset button facing a serious test artes you got to spin off as the latest details. this is the first visit by j

to form cultural and language centers again so our sheffield university and the university of edinburgh has benefited from that money and the chinese government refers to the senses as part of its foreign propaganda strategy so really a wide range of money the same suspects in terms of universities appearing a lot but big powerful and important universities across the u.k. receiving money routinely from government ortiz or image reporting for us from london don't forget you can always log on and have your say on the stories we're covering on our website today we're asking who benefits most from the wave of riots in the arab world wide on the already castro blog. u.s. vice president is on a visit to russia amid speculation about what exactly he is here to discuss government officials say joe biden is keen to push forward on the resetting of ties between russia and the u.s. as well as focusing on the unarrest in the arab world for more on this we're joined by our. later on in the program we'll be joined by our correspondent europe as you know of with more details turning first of all some

. >> this is the property line of the university. i had the understanding that it was that ankle. >> no, that is correct. that is the property line. >> the broken line is the line of the university. currently on the other side of the trees, there is a short fence or a 10-foot fence. this is the property line. >> that fence right there, that looks to me like that is probably 10 feet. >> i cannot see it. >> you might be able to see that better in person. >> i thought we would follow up on the settlement or the status is on that. >> again, there was a conditional use granted for the interior campus a couple of months ago. there was a settlement entered into which has committed up to $1.2 million. they have presented a plan for various improvements and a range of different alternatives, some of which would be pretty radical. golden gate would be a one-way street. others would consider closing of some of the streets. there is a lot of discussion yet to be tagged. there is a wide range of alternatives which has been presented to the full n

i am the past president of the university association. i think that this should be denied and the property right of way should be restored. this is the property line. all i want to show you are the exhibits. this is the property line. 6 feet over is the fence. usf has always known that this was on the right of way. they confessed to this. you see the yellow pole, that is where the old retaining wall was. this is 3 feed which is where they removed the soil and there were trees. they cover all this area of so that i covered the fence. in 2004, the university did not have a permit but they cut the trees down so that they can move this retaining wall over to hear. they had all of the soil and the roots and then move it 3 feet. they could have taken this retaining wall and put it back where it was. they could have replanted trees. they could move this over here, fill it in, and plant it. thank you. >> do you live in this area? >> yes. i live down the street from mr. -- that he asked me what the history was. rb started the association and i am

cosmology is a study of the shape of the universe. it's a size, expansion, its history from the beginning of time to the end of time, pretty big subject and cosmology, einstein was the one who came up with a notion we have of the universe that is finite but still has no borders, and that enables everything from space travel to us understanding dark energy, expansion of the cosmos, that sort of thing. he loved the notion of looking at the university was a master of the smallest of all things which is how photon's get emitted from the breakdown of atoms, but he also was the master of the largest fall of things which is the expansion of the cosmos. >> senses the woman's national democratic club you could expect us a semi political question. what president bush welcomed einstein today? [laughter] >> do you think there is more antiscience attitude in the present administration than president harding's de? >> obviously that is a controversial subject. i do feel a better appreciation for the fact will science is not something that just this

medical center and our authors are sponsored by the university of arizona press. and so that is the publisher of their book. so this is an exciting time and let me start by telling you a little bit about doug isbell. he has 20 years of experience in science writing and public affairs, and i knew him back in the days of pathfinder when he was actively involved in promoting the various nasa missions. he is also the u.s. national single point of contact began a endorsed beyond the international astronomy 2009. so he has international experience and he did work in tucson for a long time at the national observatory. but he has now moved onto the on to the jet propulsion lab and he is helping i believe -- inform the public about the radioactive sources that are going to be on the next mission. so we will certainly want to hear about that. he has a degree in astronomical astronomical -- astronautical excuse me journalism from the university of illinois urbana and without further ado, doug isbell. >> good afternoon. thank you. [applause] it is a pleasure to be here. as pe

willingham goes over the grandconnian university. what is that degree worth?ou don't see intelligence -- >> i don't think about that. >> you thought grand canyon university. knanyway the brewers beat the a's. show the earthquake thing. soccer field in san jose. they tore down a building, that's where the new earthquake home will be. we had vern glenn out there chronicling every piece that came down. >>> good night everybody. [ female announcer ] shopping with nutrition in mind shouldn't be hard work or cost more money. now there's simple nutrition, only at safeway. green tags throughout the store call out what matters most to you. ♪ there are 22 different nutritional benefits highlighted. ♪ and with our low prices, now safeway makes bringing home the right choices easier than ever. that's simple nutrition. ♪ that's ingredients for life. safeway. you dress like a prostitute.

american university routinely operates. he is now on public service lee, an idea that is new to egypt as the minister of higher education. so we hope that the experience of seeing, from the inside, the workings of a genuinely not-for-profit, private institution and and so forth will have some utility to him as he thinks about the fact that all of the national universities are now in an uproar because the students want all the presidents endangerment because they were all appointed by the president of the republic. that is mubarak. so how do you design a mechanism for the selection of residents and dean's? well, probably won't be constituting a board of trustees and have them run a search for the president which is obviously what auc did but something different from simply saying the president names these people is likely to come out of that. so i think it lots of ways like that, large and small, we will prove to be contributing to the capacity to think about different ways of doing things, from a political science on we can

she has her degree from stanford university in environmental sciences. she was and bachelor of science degree candidate and one of the most distinguished schools historically in the united states for policy issues. she currently is an assistant professor and research policy at the udal center here at the university of arizona. she worked not only in the united states, but in the amazon region and south pacific, and she is a fan of bats which we're about to find out. her book is entitle "conservation of shared environments." she brings us an edited working and this book was prepared by editing with emily mcgovern robert, and carl. [applause] we have a request to lower the lights, but i bet c-span is too interested in that. do you want to lower the lights? yes, i think laura will solve that problem by not using slides this time. [laughter] thank you for the comment. laura? [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you so much for being here. i'm really surprised it's such a gorgeous day outside that i appreciate you all coming inside on such a beautiful day. i'd

the university has reached out to them. the uc system has yet to decide what to do with their students, 80 of them enrolled in programs there. >> what's happening now is that we're in touch with the students and in contact with every program kids are in. and they're making decisions right now about whether or not they're going to continue. >> those 80 university students are currently enrolled in different institutions in japan. six of them, i am told and two of them have been closed. abc 7 news. >> there is a number of companies moving employees out of the radiation zone and even out of tokyo. ikea, h & m clothing and applied materials are moving their employees to the southern part of the island nation. and bmw asked employees to leave the country. >> new technology arriving in the santa cruz harbor today helping teams there get a better picture of the tsunami damage. and noaa deploy aid team to the harbor. the boat has sonar on board creating a 3 d image of the harbor floor. surges triggered by the quake sunk 13 boats an

willingham goes over the grandconnian university. what is that degree worth?ed at me you don't see intelligence -- >> i don't think about that. >> you thought grand canyon university. knanyway the brewers beat the a's. show the earthquake thing. soccer field in san jose. they tore down a building, that's where the new earthquake home will be. we had vern glenn [ female announcer ] why watch regular tv when you can experience the next generation of television service? at&t u-verse tv. tv like you've never seen before at a really great price. go now to the website below and get u-verse tv starting at just $29 a month for six months, dvr included. or get up to $300 in a promotion card with a qualifying u-verse bundle. u-verse tv lets you record and play back your favorite shows in any room. and you can record up to four shows at once on a single dvr. you can even upgrade to over 155 hd channels and growing. get ready for a new kind of tv service. so order at&t u-verse online now. go now to the website below and get u-verse tv starting at just $29 a month for six

university officials are being asked to reduce their budgets by $281 million. if those cuts could lead to fewer court sections, large class sizes and if you were faculty and staff. we will be right back with more news, weather and traffic in a few moments. hey marcel, watch this!

>>> on the broadcast tonight -- parallel universe. tonight we'll show you the strange world nbc's richard engel discovered today inside tripoli. you'd never know war is raging outside the city for control of libya. >>> on the border. a rare look at the daily game of cat and mouse that the u.s. is fighting against drug smugglers. >>> "america at the crossroads." tonight why america's losing some of the best and brightest and how to keep them here. >>> and tired of it all. alarming news about a problem that impairs our economy, our health, our jobs, actually puts us in danger. health, our jobs, actually puts us in danger. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. the president of the united states is now on record. the longtime libyan leader needs to leave and change must now come to libya. this is how the president put it at the white house today. >> let me just be very unambiguous about this. colonel gadhafi needs to step down from power and leave. that is good for his country. it is go

he went to the university of texas. he's a arguably about to become the greatest basketball player in the world. i think he's very close to overtaking kobe bryant for that mantel. went to the university of texas for one year. loved it. and then left and went to the nsh. -- nba. i see nothing wrong it. he had i great time while he was there. they loved having him. he was exposed to a college campus and got to have one more year of a normal youth before he became the great player that he is. i -- i would like to see him stay two years frankly. i think if you commit -- i would like to see a freshman ineligibility ruling so when kevin durant commits to texas, it's actually a two-year commitment. he sits out one year while he finds his classrooms and second year he plays and then he's out. >> we're about out of time. how many kids in your family? >> three, two brothers. >> older, younger? >> one twin brother and one year younger. so it was sort of like being triplets and outnumbered. >> what do they do for a live something >

now they will have it, and soon the university of wisconsin- milwaukee will as well. throughout the budget process, i am open to working with lawmakers from both political parties on expanding this concept to the other campuses throughout the university of wisconsin system. a few weeks ago, i met with all the uw chancellors and expressed my willingness to work with them and the members of the legislature to improve our higher education system. we also remain committed to keeping our university system accessible to every wisconsin student regardless of financial resources. that is why even in these tough fiscal times we maintain our commitment to the state's financial aid programs. plus, we maintain the state's tuition reimbursement for our veterans. as we refocus government, public safety remains a priority. our budget will restore truth in sentencing by repealing the early release program approved by the last administration. we will provide additional resources and positions in our dna lab to assist our criminal investigations. and we will make sure that our children

>> university of michigan and why the year? >> host: never mind. >> guest: 1962. >> host: and you did well in school? >> guest: i did well in school again, and there were 60 graduates in my class from journalism, and everyone had a job at graduation time except me. >> host: the little red hen did not have a job again. >> guest: so i went to work at the chicago public library where i worked every summer from the time i was 15 years old. here i am with a degree, and i'm going back to my high school job, my college summer job, and i was disappointed, but i just felt something's going to happen, something's going to happen, and i got this call from my dean of the school saying that he had lined up an internship for me. it didn't look good for the university to have one black student who did not have a job, so he worked very hard to make that happen, and that's how i ended up to tuskege. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> welcome back to booktv's live coverage of the 2011 tucson festival of books where

we can a university system, not a system of universities. that's what we need. they have that in california. i just stole that line, but that's true. that helps us to reduce cost. the flexibility we want to give the universities if they can move towards a charter university idea, we think can also reduce cost, and i must also say that there's a critical role for our community colleges and technical schools, and you can go to a community college at a fraction of the price and transfer to a four year institution and save a bundle of money. i don't think anybody's really figured all of this out yet, but we want to do that. see, the one thing we're trying to do is to leave no stone unturned. if there's a problem, let's look at it, be hon honest, examine it. you know, you can't fix everything. i think we're rolling pretty well, and i would say to you, representative, please dig in. come and help us to do this, and, you know, on thursday, the president and speaker and capri, who, by the way, went to stanford at the age of 16, i mean, that's unbelievable. i was going t

i think we have to watch out for universal's. s. i hope we are in the business of looking at the constellation of the question presented every time and but but there was a universal standard applied to everything, i am not sure i would know how to behave as a reporter. we do make judgments about what encourages copycat criminal behavior. we make those judgments. what i am trying to get at also is it is not only universal values that there are national interests that are in ball. involved. the anchor as a series of special responsibilities, does the anchor of a special responsibility to the national interest of the country? does that run through your mind, also? >> yes, of course. >> but to the point of saying that because of that, i will not run those cables? no, there were put out there to embarrass the united states and i want to participate. >> would you have run the pentagon papers? >> different story. >> would you have done it? >> absolutely. >> because -- >> the pentagon papers were released to the public by one person angry a

stawnt protestors at uc berkeley agree to leave the ledge tonight after the university gave them what they wanted. lillian is on campus for us tonight outside wheeler hall, william. >> student protestors claiming victory tonight after seven hours they say university officials finally agreed to some of their demands. 8 protestors received victory hug after they emerged from the hall for nearly seven hours they stood on the building 4 story ledge bound together with pvc pipe, duct tape. >> did it seem long. >> no it went very, very quickly. >> do you think you could have stayed there much longer. >> i don't know. i don't know. when you are fighting for a cause you believe in you can do plenty of things. >>reporter: started out with nine protestors but one got arrested soon after when he tried go back in the building. came to protest fighting against since 2009. budget cut for higher education and ongoing fee hook. stun on the ground came to show their support for those about perched above. >> we are the fun days of the university and if they keep pushing us to pay more fee and more fee

you think the university would shout "play ball."nstead a spokesman declined an on-camera interview saying the $9.4 million gift and those who donated still need to be verified. gordon says he was informed the university is seeking a guarantee. >> you've raised $9.4 million. the university wants $10 million. >> correct. >> he believes they won't reinstate baseball until that $600,000 gap is met. >> are you concerned they won't accept this offer? >> i'm concerned. >> so he continues to work his contacts. >> i'm a bit anxious. i'm more than a bit anxious. >> trying to recognize the money by friday. >>> speaking of money, seven bay area cities will see their sales tax rise on friday. some will be above 10%. you will -- you will pay 10% in concord. santa rosa will all see increases as well. voters approved those hikes. >> the new problem with this is if you have cities that are close by, then you're damaging the local retailers . >> well, going to the next town over won't help you if you're buying a car. the sales tax on that is based on

we are all ex cons, ph.d., and professors at different universities. because i'm a convicted felon, i should say i went to federal prison for nine years. >> [inaudible] i came to a public forum, which included a lot of attorneys, to try to rectify these matters. >> [inaudible] >> i am here. i will be outside for five minutes with this information. [inaudible] >> thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. >> continue, dr. richard s. -- dr. richards. >> [inaudible] >> we love the excitement. this is all intentional. >> i'm happy to be in san francisco, and that kind of brings me to the point i want to say. this morning, we were in the courtroom, and we have lawyers, public defenders talking about legal cases, talking about the roles they play. what i think has been lost here, and maybe even this gentleman kind of raised it, is what happens to these defendants? what happens when they go back into the court, into the lock up after they have pled guilty? about 95% of them plead guilty. you know that they are being forced to plead guilty. you a

from 1752 to 1753, the university of which he said the happiest and most fruitful years of his life. i am not the only historian who is ransacked the record of glasgow university to track down the records of their greatest professor and in fact a professor who played an extremely at this part and a very responsible part in the management university business. to get the institutional record are pretty negative. in the same is true if we turn to the end of smith's life. in 1788 he was appointed pastimes in edinburgh. he cares to really treated as seriously as a the job intended to buy responsible public servant. you'd have thought in the records of any government department, even 18th century government department could remain a highly at this time a senior manager must have survived. there is nothing that is going to change the record. what i'm saying is one of the first tasks that smith's biographer faced is this lack of bio graphical validity. in this present a problem in my view come you cannot make a successful biography unless he can have the biographical subjects speak, i'd love

>> stanford university. >> to study what? >> english literature. >> and your work history involves what publications? >> "the washington post" as been my home on and off for 25 years. it's really been my professional home my whole adult life. >> do you write any differently because you're writing for the washington post in a capitol, in a federal town? >> yes. i think you have to. because the business of government is really the core of what the paper covers. one of the fun things about being a sports writer in washington is that you're read by the most interesting people, you know? the mail is fascinating. military guys, generals, congressmen, senators, judges. it's fun to play to that audience. it's fun to write to that audience is the greatest laboratory for human behavior. steve young once said -- i think he's right. it's about ethics. it's about all sorts of neurosis. i think sports is -- it's so knit into american culture and american life you have to view it from a broad philosophical standpoint as a reflection of all

she has her degree from stanford university in environmental sciences. she was and bachelor of science degree candidate and one of the most distinguished schools historically in the united states for policy issues. she currently is an assistant professor and research policy at the udal center here at the university of arizona. she worked not only in the united states, but in the amazon region and south pacific, and she is a fan of bats which we're about to find out. her book is entitle "conservation of shared environments." she brings us an edited working and this book was prepared by editing with emily mcgovern robert, and carl. [applause] we have a request to lower the lights, but i bet c-span is too interested in that. do you want to lower the lights? yes, i think laura will solve that problem by not using slides this time. [laughter] thank you for the comment. laura? [applause] >> good afternoon. thank you so much for being here. i'm really surprised it's such a gorgeous day outside that i appreciate you all coming inside on such a beautiful day. i'd

university of california berkeley campus. testers are there to budget cucuts, with a two-three others are also on the list. and they are also criticizing the arrests last night of 17 protesters. university of police are at the scene and a news crew on the wake. >> we are trying out this evening with some clouds hanging around. coalm conditions expected. with combing conditions and showers overnight expected. - calming this next wet weather will be coming this weekend the stormtracker 4 is showing showers will to the north of us. we are staying dry. and we will as we go towards tomorrow. certainly that break from the wet weather. current temperatures 50s, 60s. san francisco = 58. santa rosa, 52. napa is 65. it is the warm spot. fairfield, mountain view, san jose, 64 degrees. overnight, the law was going to get to the 30's in the 40's. santa rosa will be the cooler spot. overnight, the lower spots. your kron 4 7 day around the bay to break of what weather tomorrow. and again in late saturday near a sunday. we will be right back

welcome some of the most prestigious universities. next up we arrived at the famous old golf university thousand a year twelve hundred fifty seven it's. it's be popular with the students for centuries for a famous person artists or writers of politicians graduated sports here and stay there around one thousand russian students in higher education in paris. and looking at this we can stand case for me as we make the vice chancellor of the university. italy thank you very much for your time that's how many so far has a long history with russian students yes. you can consider that peter to greet was the first russian student in paris because he came just to see the grave of the show you you know vishal you had the well known the prime minister in the seventeenth century was buried here and after his his death and peter the greed was a great admirer and perhaps you know the well known sentence when he said i would have given to you the half my empire just to have such a minister as you well so he was a great admirer and then you have. a s

. >> reporter: university of maryland professor shibley telhami takes opinion polls in arab countries, because gadhafi threatens and embarrasses most arabs, telhami calls this a one of a kind moment for the president to build arab goodwill. >> success in libya is essential. and it does mean, in the end, seeing the gadhafi regime change. >> reporter: regime change in libya is also important to the protest marchers on every arab street. after peaceful protests took down two dictators, first in tunisia, then in egypt, gadhafi changed tactics and made war on the crowds. since then, shooting the protesters has been the rule. many fear that if gadhafi survives and clings to power, his way wins. >> because what will happen is, that a lot of other governments may draw the same lessons as gadhafi, which is shoot the people. >> reporter: but confronting gadhafi also highlights what some see as a double standard. the u.s. is protecting the civilians in libya, but not the protesters against allied regimes in yemen and bahrain. the u.s. is staying close to yemen, because the same regime that's kil

came back to the states and went to law school at the university of pennsylvania. spent three years in philadelphia. came back, and ever since coming back to the bay area,

>> guest: university of michigan, and why do you want the year? >> host: never mind. >> guest: 1962. >> host: and you did well in school. >> guest: i did well in school again, and there were 60 graduates in my class from journalism, and everyone had a job at graduation time except me. >> host: the little hen didn't have a job again. >> guest: i worked at the public library where i worked every summer from the time i was 15 years old. here i am with a degree, and i'm going back to my high school job. my college summer job, and i was disappointed, but i just felt something's going to happen, something's going to happen, and i got this call from the dean of the school saying that he lined up an intership for me. it didn't look good for the university to have one black student who did not have a job, so he worked very hard to make that happen, and that's how i ended up there. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. on the go? afterwords is available via podcast through itunes. click podcast on the upper left side of the page, se

in english from jacksonville university, a j.d. from the j.f. kennedy school of law and of course, on behalf of supervisor cohen, i say thank you and congratulations on this honor. [applause] >> similar to miss yvonne, i didn't know that we were supposed to prepare remarks. first of all, thank you to supervicor cohen for this award and thank you to supervisor chu for directing it. i am the president for emerge. we have trained over 200 women in the san francisco bay area, half of whom who have already run for office. half of them have won. we are very proud of the fact that we have more than 100 points which is important in the bay area because it is usually the first step to get your name out there to run for office. half of the women who go through our program are women of color. so we're very proud of that. emerge california, though is not just about getting more women elected for the sake of getting them elected. emerge california is really about changing the dialogue and conversations that we're having in america. it's about changing the te

and became the first-ever chinese man to graduate from an american university. and here he is graduating in 1854 going back to china, brimming with the audacity of hope. he is thinking to himself, this is an opportunity to remake the country. i had this amazing education at yale. all i have to do is make sure more and more boys such as myself at the opportunity to have the same experience. but china is a very different place. he finds a small house and his native village and across the street from that house very odd things are happening. i told you before china had 450 million people around that time but i didn't say that they were governed by a bureaucracy of slightly over 40,000 clerks. you think our system of government is broken. and it is a small number to govern a large amount of people. corruption was absolute are very prevalent in each local governor had tremendous powers. the governor controlling the region where yung wing lived had a system. he would accuse you of that or some other petty crime and continue immediately to death. if you had the money t

and also teaches at the national defense university. ventura, calif., on our line for independents. caller: good morning, c-span and good morning, mr. sullivan. i have a [unintelligible] that seems to be going on in the middle east. how much has social media and the availability of information for the younger generations coming up -- that seems to be the pushing force behind all this. state newspapers, blah, blah, blah. what is the energy? are they going to be able to maintain the energy? i see all the young people who are causing all of these changes. don't you think it is important from a policy perspective to reach out to these people? especially the youth because this is happening and all the middle east nations. host: ralph, thank you for the call. guest: that is a super question. satellite tv started this thing off before the internet and facebook twitter and all that. people started to see what people's lives were like outside of their own countries. i ran tried to ban satellite tv because maybe it were showing too much of a cont

prove that they really are improving universities. i don't have the figures available, but i'm happy to give them to him. >> mr. speaker, this is an important point because the prime minister reassured people when he was selling the policy and it was in his own words there's a basic threshold of 6,000 pounds in exceptional circumstances from the universities allowed to charge 9,000 pounds, but of the 23 universities who announced fees, 18, that's more than 80% are planning to charge 9,000. it's not -- it's not the exception, it's the rules. i'm afraid not for the first time, mr. speaker, this policy has not been implemented in a competent way. now, the next problem that he faces in relation to this policy is it costs the treasury more money to fund the loan. can he guarantee that doesn't come from budget or reduction in student numbers? >> it's worth reminding the house that tuition fees were first introduced by the party opposite. the point i make is there are two important points on the threshold. first of all, each university has t

the university of arizona. she is received a recognition for her writing as a journalist in this area, primarily in the newspaper community. she is worked on environmental issues and not only in the united states, but in china, puerto rico, and colorado. for the last year, she has focused on important environmental climate issues in the southwest of united states. she comes today as the author of a book entitled life in the hot house, how a living planet survives climate change. melanie? [applause] >> thanks for the nice introduction and for being here. i want to start off by saying this is a project i've been thinking about a long time. the idea came to me 20 years ago when i was in puerto rico and a hurricane came to the tropical island where i was in the caribbean, and so i would never wish that on anyone as was a major hurricane, a pretty terrifying thing, but what amazed me is i came there to study tropical forests and i was on internship there, and i was surprised to see in the four months before i left t

in the arab world i'm joined by belak slifer in cairo he's a professor emeritus at the american university in cairo in paris we have siad my job he is a professor of middle east studies at the american university of paris and in washington we cross to rich galen he's a republican strategist and former press secretary to dan quayle and another member of our crosstalk team gail on the hunt all right gentlemen this is process this means you can jump in anytime you want i don't like to get you to do you a not cairo first we just heard that nato is still thinking about a no fly zone over libya it's going to take a little bit more time to think about it but they are thinking about it so is that in mind the events that have gone on in the country that you're in right now in egypt tunisia and what's going on in the gulf has american foreign policy adjusted in western foreign policy adjusted enough to the changes that are occurring in the region well on a rhetorical level they have a just rhetorical the president united states has spoken out very much about sympathy with the urge for. overthrowing

illusion of this we can stand case for me as we the vice chancellor of the university. there it's we thank you very much for your time that's how many so far has a long history with russian students yes. well you you can consider that peter to greet was the first russian student in paris because he came just to see the grave of the show you you know vishal you had the well known no prime minister in the seventeenth century was buried here after the his his death and peter the great was written myra and perhaps you know the well known sentence when he said i would have given to you the half my empire just to have such a minister as you're aware so he was a great admirer and then you have. the story of many well known russian writers or. scientists coming to paris in the nineteenth century. and then you have a new twentieth century very fascinating history because on the one side you have many russian immigrates of the twenty's just coming to paris and studying in in all the teaching and the sorbonne and on the other side you always had come in and representatives of the