. >> warner: and i'm margaret warner. on the "newshour" tonight, we look at whether austerity measures can work to spur economic growth and help solve the european debt crisis. >> brown: then, we have a newsmaker interview with white house chief of staff bill daley about the stalled debt talks, a day after the president scolded congress. >> warner: betty ann bowser reports on a colorado hospital where medical mistakes are rare. >> one in three americans are at risk of a hospital acquired infection or will become a victim of a medical error. this hospital in denver is doing something about that. >> brown: ray suarez explores the prospect of another tech bubble. this time from social media websites. >> warner: and we get a rare view of dissent in china, following a new surge of protests by young people and labor union members. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> auto companies make huge profits. >> last year, chevron made a lot of money. >> where do

margaret warner has that. >> warner: the attack on broadcast journalist lara logan in egypt's tahrirexual assault and harassment of journalists in other countries. now a recent report, spurred in part by that attack, is opening a bigger window on that the problem. it's titled the silencing crime. it comes from the group the committee toçç protect journalists. the report is baseded on accounts by more than four dozen journalists, mostly women. they told of their experiences ranging from rapes and other sexual assaults to harassment and threats. 27 were local reporters in the middle east, south asia, africa and the americas. 25 were international correspondents assigned overseas. lauren wolf is the senior editor who wrote the report. she joins me now. lauren, thanks for being with us. you heard some pretty horrific stories from some of these women. give us an idea of the range. >> içç really did hear some terrible stories. they ranged from gang rape to street harassment, groping, to sexual assaults while women were in captivity or men were abducted. >> warner: your report identifie

let's just play a little ♪ ♪ ♪. >> warner: so what kind of thing was he saying?well, he said to the president, we're suffering like dogs. half the people living in shame. missery everywhere. people are eating from garbage cans. today i'm speaking for the people, crushed by the weight of injustice. it's that kind of challenge that just wasn't found anyplace in tunesia and other parts of the arab world. >> warner: and i think you wrote that this really became almost an anthem to revolution, not only in tunisia but elsewhere. >> it was song by many of the protestors across tunesia as the revolution spread and was picked up in egypt and bahrain. >> warner: other hip-hop artists are wrapping not just-- rapping about not just their rulers but also about which direction islam is going, against extremist. >> in places like morocco n iran, you find the young who are challenging religious rule, challenging the extremist ideologies of all kinds of groups. and this is fascinating. it's trying to recapture what it is that ises lamb is about and the direction of their society.

mark warner? >> i just would add that i think both of the commentators pointed out the ups and downs of specific things. i frankly think the american people are way ahead of us. they will do their part if we actually work together. i think half the american people would be for whatever deal as long as it was bipartisan and everybody looked like they were trying to put the country first and it was a little bit of everybody having skin in the game. we both gotta give on this. i come back to what mike and i and the others have been working with. i think we've got something to add to that. i hope we get it into the mix. we won't get a solution if it's only a democrat or republican-only solution. war war senator crapo >> i would add tohat mark is exactly right. but the discussion that weust heard from lori and julianna shows how complex this i we've been working at this for six months and we've all been doing in the good faith but it's incribly complex when we think about putting social security, all o

margaret warner has the story. >> warner: the news electrified britain-- sunday's edition of "news of the world"-- the most widely read english language newspaper in the world-- will be its last. in sun valley, idaho today, media mogul rupert murdoch-- owner of parent company news corporation-- had no comment on the tabloid's closure. but his son james murdoch said in a statement to staffers: fundamentally, action taken a number of years ago by certain individuals, in what had been a good newsroom have breached the trust that the news of the world has with its readers. >> warner: those mistakes first came to light in 2005 when "news of the world" was accused of hacking into cell phone messages of members of the royal family and famous actors. other revelations followed, amid an ongoing but fitful police inquiry. this week, public outrage exploded with leaks from that inquiry, that the family of a murdered teenager milly dowler had been victimized. a private detective working for "news of the world" allegedly hacked her voice mail after she disappeared in 2002, and deleted some message

margaret warner begins with some background. >> warner: on may 14, the worlds of global finance and one of its stewards, the international monetary fund, were rocked by the arrest of i.m.f. managing director dominique strauss-kahn on sexual assault charges in new york city. days later he resigned the post he'd held for four years, touching off a battle to replace him. the victor elected by i.m.f. members on june 28, french finance minister christine lagarde. she's the first woman to head the i.m.f., for 65 years a pillar of international development and financial stability. she takes the helm as that stability is sorely threatened. three european countries-- greece, portugal and ireland are mired in sovereign debt crises; the i.m.f. has already contributed to bailouts of all three. two larger, debt-laden european economies spain and italy are struggling to avoid needing bailouts too. late last week, the euro-zone's leaders approved a second, $157 billion rescue package for greece which, for the first time, forced private investors in greek debt to accept losses. added to that volatile m

margaret warner has the story. >> warner: the nearly four- month-long uprising against president bashar al-assad showed no sign of abating today, with some of the largest protests yet. >> ir-hal! >> warner: in the city of homs, marchers thundered cries of "ir- hal", or "go", a demand echoing across the arab world this year, aimed at longtime rulers. elsewhere in homs, security forces fired on protesters from roadblocks. large crowds also turned out in most other major syrian cities, in the now-weekly protests after friday prayers. in hama, one sign told assad "sorry, president, game over." activists said more than 200,000 people filled the streets. in damascus, demonstrators marched near the great mosque of mezze and in other neighborhoods. the protests appeared peaceful, but clashes and deaths were reported as well. in the north, the syrian army reportedly staged new attacks, aimed at stanching the flow of refugees toward the turkish border. more than 10,000 syrians are now at camps in southern turkey. during a visit to lithuania today, secretary of state hillary clinton issued a new w

and secondly, warner's disease. i'm wondering how you got into writing about that? and the characters were wonderful. >> okay. your first question, first. you know to be totally honest, when i sat down to write dreaming water i thought this is the book that -- i had finished language of threads and written 4 books that took place in asia. because language of threads was a hate this word, the seekial to women of the silk i felt i came full circle and my asia period might have been done i wanted to write a book that was contemporary and set in california. i knew i wanted to write a mother daughter story line. that's what i began with. it was the first time i said, this character not necessarily has to be asian. none of these characters necessarily have to be asian. i was of mind opposite of what you are saying happened through the book. what happened was the more i started to research when i discovered warner's, ime wantedo write. i was feeling older as a person and wanted to translate that into a book. when i thought i would write about the care taking situation and

kyl; and two members of the so-called gang of six who forged one of the first plans-- senator mark warner and saxby chambliss. it's all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. we start with white house chief of staff bill daley. mr. daley, the republican speaker john boehner now seems to be thinking of a two-part plan here. first, congress would agree to cut spending over the next ten years by a trillion dollars and raise the debt limit enough to meet the country's financial obligations through the end of the year. then, a 12-person bipartisan committee would be formed to find $3 trillion more in savings and making significant cuts in medicare and social security and overhauling the tax code. congress would then take another vote to raise the debt limit before the 2012 elections. democrats and the white house have already said there will be no short-term increase. you said that yourself. but speaker boehner just now appeare

we spoke with senator mark warner who is in the gang of six. to 2006 he was governor of virginia which does have a balanced budget provision in its state constitution. nice to see you. there's three plans, senator reid, speaker boehner and the gang of six. any prediction about whether any is going to carry the day? >> i sure as heck hope so the alternative to so drastic if we default on our loans and the incorrect tax increase that would have on every american, decline in the stock market. i think the so-called gang of six plan which is to date the only truly comprehensive bipartisan plan knocks four trillion off of the debt. i hope whatever solution gets us over the debt limit we have a chance to bring this plan back, get it fully vetted and get an up or downyy.o vote on . >> greta: you are former governor with a balanced budget amendment that guided your executive decision. do you understand or see the passion why some people want in the federal governmeáxenñ a balanced budget amendment? >> i understand. i also say virginia for example has a

fellow gang member senator warner and barney frank. breaking news in norway, an explosion rocks the prime minister's office building. two people are reported dead. 15 injured and an historic change here for the military. a major step towards finally getting rid of don't ask, don't tell. >>> plus unspeakable tragedy unfolding half a world away in the horn of africa. the faces of famine. pictures that are hard to watch, but impossible to ignore. actress and human rights advocate kristin davis just returned from the region and will join us this hour. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. the balanced budget amendment now shot down in the senate. and the mcconnell-reid fall back plan short of votes, there's only one plan left the plan crafted by the president and speaker boehner. but it's already underfire from the left and right. luke russert covers capitol hill and joins me now. luke, you've been doing a lot of reporting. there was an exclosive meeting yesterday and they were still venting this morning. that and the repub

warner executives outlined plans how they want to maintain the harry potter gold mine.n expanding the harry potter theme parks around the world and invest in harry potter v 0 games and harry connic--harry potter webb sites. this will reveal greedier background on characters and settings that the author says that she has been courting for years. they will turn of the place where they shot the film into a tourist destination where he hopes that fans will pass the stories down to the next generation. >> a live look outside from the golden gate bridge this afternoon, the fog has returned to the coastline not quite so thick, but it is still clinging to the coastline into an area of of pressure that keeps our sea breeze in place. this evening if you have plans, the city will be foggy in oakland as well. already spilling down into the bayshores and then through the rest of the bay area in the overnight our housewives spread fog and drizzle as well. later morning hours it will start to scale back by the noon hour. so, temperatures have been kept cool all week long thanks to the

. >>> joining me now, democratic senator mark warner of virginia.banking, budget and commerce committees. senator warner, i was wondering in the course of the -- as we get closer and closer to the deadline on the action of the debt ceiling legislation, why are we not hearing from big business? why are we not hearing from tom donahue of the u.s. chamber of commerce demanding action to avoid a default? >> ychris, as you know, and man of your viewers, i'm a pro-business democrat out there. i'm pulling my hair out on that same reason. we've seen the power of the business community to weigh in on issues. there's not a business leader i've talked to. i've talked to the chamber, the brt, every business group i can get in front of. many times what saxby chambliss was saying, be a balanced approach, both sides of the sheet, revenues and cuts. we get a lot of atta boys, but we don't get the meaningful involvement i think will convince some of our republican colleagues and our reluctant democratic colleagues that we're driving over the cliff and can't let this

senator warner, what is the ultimate compromise that you think is going to emerge this weekend in the, andrea, i believe that after the boehner plan gets over here, it will be voteded down. i then got to hope and pray that cooler heads will come together with some combination of senator reid's initial proposal and senator mcconnell's proposal, and some type of commission. our hope is still, you know, still the only bipartisan effort in the whole city at this point that has more than one-third of the senate weighing in. you know, that our plan still gets a vote at the end of the commission process, but it is very dicey at this point. i never thought that we'd be 3 1/2 days out from driving over the cliff. >> and senator, do you think that the the end of the day, the president might have to accept something that is shorter than carrying us through to 2012 and some two tranche, two-step deal? >> well, i don't see what that gets us other than an immediate debt downgrade and months of paralysis with the economy and playing it out for the next couple of months. if there needs to be a proces