graves of warrior women, those ancient writers understood that among the know -- nomadic people in western asia, the women lived the same rugged outdoor life as the men. these warlike tribes have no cities, no fixed abodes, wrote one greek historian. they live free and unconquered, so savage that even the women take part in war. amazons, remarked others, were as courageous and fearsome as their husbands. so, from very early times the ancient greeks realized the amazons of their myths were somehow related to the the living women of cithia. nomad women were described in detail in 470bc by the historian, heroditus. i was intrigued to learn 100 years later the philosopher plato stated the amazons offing mic times and the contemporary warrior women of cithia, inspired plato's idea that greek women should serve as soldiers alongside men in his ideal republic. thanks to recent and spectacular archaeological discoveries we now have overwhelming proof that girls and women fitting the description of amazons in greek literature and art, really existed. they were members of tribes who ranged over the lands

but for another, more importantly, pomegranates were not native to egypt at all, but to western asia. the egyptians adopted foreign designs and styles of workmanship and applied them to their own needs. whatever the sources of egypt's art, the results continue to this day to fascinate travelers and museum visitors around the world. the archaeologists began their search for the pharaoh here. where i'm standing, they found a flight of stone steps leading down to a sealed doorway. in the plaster were the seals of the ancient neopolis officials. inside the doorway they found this sloping passageway filled from top to bottom with stones and rubble. clearing this took time because, mixed in with all the filling, were numerous objects. one of these was the head of tutankhamun as a young child. this rather extraordinary sculpture has a very specific purpose and meaning. tutankhamun is seen emerging from a blue lotus, just as the sun god did at the moment of the earth's creation. through this recreation, tutankhamun, too, would be able to be reborn as thsun god every day throughout eternity. w

paul is now president and ceo of north america western asia holdings and joins us from inside iraq.aul, you know, the biggest thing that remained unclear after the president's speech last night is who inside syria is going to help us out? this seems to be the big question many people are asking today. and david fromm tweeted this out last night. said, who are these forces on the ground the president cited? in syria, it's hezbollah, and iran's revolutionary guards that are fighting isis. are these our two options here? and if that's the case, don't we have every reason to be skeptical? >> well, i think that you have the same problem on both sides of the border. in each case, the structures we may have been able to rely upon that are indigenous among the sunni communities in both of these countries have been worn down or allowed to atrophy in the case of iraq to a state they don't exist anymore. and in syria, to whatever set of processes have unfolded here over the last three years, the moderate opposition we would hope to work with is really in the act of being reconstructed. a simil

the warm waters collect in the western pacific near asia, deepening the boundary between the warm surface the cold ocean depths. back east, off the coast of south america the warm surface waters flowing toward the west are replaced by colder waters upwelling from the deep ocean. this cools the air above creating an even greater temperature variation, which in turn makes the trade winds blow even stronger. cane: in other words this temperature contrast between east and west, which was generated by the winds was also helping to generate the winds. a positive feedback between the ocean and the atmosphere. narrator: bjerknes also realized that the feedback could operate in reverse. roughly every four to seven years, the easterly winds slow and the warm water that was piling up in the western pacific sloshes back toward the east. this creates a warm current of water that moves from west to east. as the tropical-ocean temperature gradient disappears, the trade winds slow or even reverse, allowing warm water to accumulate off the coast of south america. this is el niÑo, and its effects are far-r

culturally and ethically and geographically, this is central asia, but the western edge of china's frontier is also the setting for release extremism. but human rights groups say that it's intrusive rules for muslims. for people like him, he makes knives for a living, but the problem is nobody is buying. >> they are not allowed to carry knives on the streets, and we were not allowed to sell knives longer than 20 centimeters. >> been criticism of the rules, because some say that they could help to radicalize moderate muslims. such fears are not knew, but the enforcement is intensifying. and at the airport, evidence that drone technology is now part of the growing surveillance arsenal. china admits that it's confronting what it calls a serious terrorism problem. this year, more than 300 people have been killed in attacks blamed on fighters. the men in this video are ethnics, an amateur attempt to copy that produced by isil. china said that it's groups overseas. one was stabbed to death after speaking out against the groups. this is his replacement, who now has around-the-clock protection. tha

asia. the western edge of china's frontier is the setting for a complain against religious extremism.hat means intrusive new rules for ordinary muslims. >> for this man who makes knives for a living business is slow. >> uyghurs are not allowed to carry knives. >> such restrictions are not new, but the heavy security on kashgar streets shows that the enforcement has intensified. at the airport evidence that drone technology is now part of a growing surveillance arsenal. china admits it's confronting what it calls a serious terrorism problem. this year more than 300 people have been killed in attacks blamed on uyghur fighters. the men in this video are uyghurs, an amateurist attempt to copy isil. proof they say of the link between uyghurs and those in the middle east. kashgar is now preparing for celebrations on october 1st, but it's fair to assume that not everyone here will be in a mood to party. adrian brown, al jazeera, kashgar, western china. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry is holding talks with iran's foreign minister over that country's nuclear program. they hoped to work o

europe i mean i lived a long time in east asia i was correspondent there and was eastern asia knows about western europe they get through english language channels the same is true all of what happens in eastern europe we get this through edits is dead most of the time have made up their minds about it because mainstream media are not scold mainstream for nothing so this is what and how you agree with everyone who says this is so so so this is such a sort of stage because karl let me let me go let me go to nearly i'm going to go to neil in london yes you good yeah you know neal the last time we did a recording of cross talk we did a program on ukraine and i left the studio in my producers said c.n.n. and the rest of the world says russia is invaded ukraine and i said what. well the dead make any sense to me it all does make it and so i you know i went up to my office i went to my office and i just did a quick review where you thought and i said will someone check the russian wires for me i mean has russia invaded ukraine completely silent and then for the rest to go three or four days up until ri

culturally, ethnically and geographically this is central asia, but the western edges of china's frontier say there is extremism, but that also means intrusive new rules. the problem is nobody is buying. >> weigers are not allowed to carry knives on the streets. we're not allowed to carry knives longer than 20 centimeters. >> some say they could help modernize radical muslims. at the airport evidence that drone technology is now part of a growing surveillance arsenal. china admits it's--proof of china's government of the link between the weigers and armed groups overseas. in july a man was stabbed to death for speaking out against the groups. now kashgar is now preparing for celebrations on october 1st, but it is fair to assume not everyone here will be in the mood to party. al jazeera, kashgar western china. >> ashraf gandhi will be sworn in, the latest violence is in eastern province where 70 people have been killed in the last week alone. jennifer glasse has more now from kabul. >> reporter: local officials in the district in the west of ghazni say this fight has been very brutal going

western codes. he pushed a country moving closer to asia in the direction of the west. it's a remarkable story to explain turkey's ambiguous role in the fight against islamic militants. >> a member of n.a.t.o. since 1952, turkey is the only majority nation to be in the organisation, and has the second-largest standing military force in n.a.t.o. turkey is surrounded by long simmering conflict and hostile neighbours. >> to the south turkey, once a solid ally of israel has been sending money to the gaza strip. the palestinian enclave considered a terrorist group by israel and the united states. some reports suggest turkey provided hamas with as much as 300 million in aid. >> that support coming to a head in 2010, when the turkish sponsored freedom flotilla was intercepted and boarded by the israeli military. it left eight turks and one dual national american dead. >> there's a lot of sympathy among the turkish public for palestinian rights. it's not to suggest that all turks are supporters of hamas, but the ruling party has been able to allied that public sympathy with pol

terrorists groups have metastasized and made gains in otherern and western africa, middle east and south asia. we need a comprehensive strategy to meet this enemy. we need to renew our resolve and focus to confront and defeat them. >> turn it over now for opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to our witnesses today. each of you brings a remarkable expertise and experience. we eagerly await your views on terrorist threats and what we can do about it. let me be clear. america fights because it has to, not because it wants to. when it fights, it fights hard. after 9/11 we have to take dramatic action against al qaeda over years that action is very effective. we have global capabilities, we have gotten bin laden and captured thousands of al qaeda terrorists. we have our military intelligence, law enforcement and diplomatic attacks only when necessary. because of the programs congress set up, funded and everseen, there is no atobactack on our homeland. new terrorists threats emerge and threat. spread. and the worse of them, isil. isil is a truly barbaric group that is the worst

western plan. on may 22nd the planning commission approved that for the former trans bus lot and they allowed an agreement where $1.8 million will be used asia in loop pavement to had had small business improvements which have been identified as a consultant for the lgbtq social district for the western unit plan. of the $6.2 million plan $1.8 million will be spent by the developer to present be this to the neighborhood. just wanted to recognize that the officials look with the dispensary did the outreach in the neighborhood we got letters or e-mails of support within 3 hundred feet radius of the project the only concern to make sure that which one see of the polls are hanging down and we make sure that the underground happens in a timely manner but no opposition and want to thank the planning commission and also to the developer who will actually be coming up to speak so far really working so closely with the community on autonomy building the residential for the west sylmar but making sure it's a plan that the neighborhood supports whether to have an increase in two and three bedroom units and figuring out how the growth and development is

terrorist groups have made gains in northern and western africa, and south asia' we need a comprehensive strategy to meet this enemy. renew our resolve and focus to confront and defeat them. over now to mr. rupersberger. you.ank thank you to our witnesses, each remarkablegs expertise and experience. let me be clear. america fights because it has it wants to, but when it fights it fight hard. after 9/11 we had to take against altion qaeda. over the years that action has been very effective. degraded al qaeda's global capabilities, we got bin captured or killed many terrorists. because of these professionals congressrograms that has set up, funded and overseen, there's been no successful since 9/11.r home that is no accident. al qaeda,even as core new threats emerge and spread. worst of them isil. isil is a truly barbaric group that represents the worst of human kind. they're strong, organized and they seek bloody conquests and they seek to attack us, they pose a direct to us and our allies. like the fight against al qaeda, this willt over yet, not be i short battle, it will be a long camp

fueled by growth in asia pacific, the middle east and africa and latin america. while western europe sees declines and north america remains flat despite a boom in craft brews. as the consolidation dance moves forward there's another name to keep an eye on, molson/coors. it could be a takeover target or a buyer if sab miller is forced to relinquish its stakes in the merger. >> what does one well known business leader think of all that dealmaking activity? james tisch, ceo of lowe's corporation tells me he's open to acquisitions but it hasn't been easy. >> it's been difficult to find businesses to buy. we work very carefully. we kick an awful lot of tires. we've come close on some. but just luck of the draw we haven't completed one yet. >> and we'll have more of my interview with tisch and his thoughts on everything from the federal reserve to the economy. that's coming up a little later in the program. >>> meanwhile, on wall street today the major averages ended the day mixed as investors anticipate the start of the federal reserve's policy meeting on interest rates tomorrow.

. >> reporter: but russia isn't the only country eyeing central asia as a power base. pressure from westernctions is also forcing iran to look locally for business. but for all of these leaders, afghanistan, the growing instability there, and conta containing idealogical extremism are key. this represents hundreds of millions of people around the world. individually and collectively the leaders gathered here have the potential to affect the outcome of global crisis from syria to ukraine. and some are hoping the strengthening numbers could evolve into a force that can stand up to increasing western aggression. >>> still to come, it's one of mexico's worst environmental disasters, and now the company responsible as agreed to pay for the damage. >>> and there the cat walk to the worldwide web, we'll tell you how high fashion is not only preserved for the front row. >>> and in sport the united states has a physical challenge in the semifinals in the basketball world cup. ♪ >>> but first south african olympian, oscar pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide for fatally shooting his g

would have culminated in membership in the european union and being a western-facing country, the fact that they straddle europe and asia. that is not going to happen, europe has turned its back on welcoming turkey and that turned i feel the turkish people inward. their relationship with the islamic world and i.s.i.l. in particular. >> well, turkey is very cost mow cosmopolitan, there isn't a general view, there is a diversity within the political side and actually we've seen that come to light particularly over the past few months where on the one hand turkey has welcomed not only tens of thousands, perhaps over 100,000, refugees, believe that the government has kind of got them wrangled into affairs that they shouldn't be concerned with. but to understand this you have to understand the father of this political point of view, he is the current prime minister, former foreign milpitas, redoglu, who had the idea of no trouble with our neighbors, which is an attempt to open up good relationship with all the neighboring countries with turkey. that ended up being more trouble for turkey because what they did was sided with

reawakening nationalist pride, abolished islamic institutions and introduced western legal codes and pushed a country now moving closer to asia firmly to the west. it's a remarkable story that explains turkey's ambiguous role in today's fight against islamic militants. a member of nato since 1952 turkey is the only musli muslim-majority nation to be in the organization, and has the second largest standing military force in nato after the united states. but turkey is also surrounded by long-simmering conflicts and hostile neighbors. to the south, turkey, once a solid ally of israel, has been sending money to the gaza strip since 2008. the palestinian enclave hamas is considered a terrorty group by israel and the united states. the support came to a head in 2010 when the turkish sponsored gaza freedom flotilla was intercepted and boarded by the israeli military. that left eight turks and one dual national american dead. >> there is a lot of sympathy for palestinians rights. that's not to suggest that all turks are supporters of hamas, although there ar certainly are. >> turkey has the poorest 800-mile border, a smugglers haven

western carriers. that would mean that european airlines, for example, that fly to asia would have to go around russia. that would make the trips longer and more expensive, and mr. medvedev says that would lead to the bankruptcy of a number of western airlines. he also said that sanctions wouldn't work, wouldn't bring peace to ukraine. he also used china as an example of a country which also faced western sanctions after 1989, but didn't change its course. in other words, to say that sanctions wouldn't force russia to change its course on ukraine. >> and russia possibly building its own warships similar to the french helicopter carriers. this is not a good time globally, is it, for these rifts to deepen, and yet it's very hard to know where this is going. what indications are you getting about where things will head this week? >> well, the indications we're getting is that there's simply no communication really between russia and the west, about a way out of this. and i spoke to several kremlin officials and foreign policy experts over the last few days, and the feeling you get is a complete breakdown

western nations are lurching toward second class status, they really are. asiag the tear them apart. why? they've been giant welfare systems with high taxes, they've welcomed foreigners with no skills, so here's the real, real deal can. when you get up in the morning and you grind away and work hard and take risk and make it happen only to have someone tell you that you didn't do it on your own, you get fed up. tracy, that's where i think the west has gone wrong. >> i think everyone is loony tubes. first of all, venice is in the reek with sicily, and they were both ranked the same according to moody's. they both suck. nobody's paying their bills, no one. charles: but -- >> no. charles: i know you're trying to protect the sicilianos -- [laughter] >> it's laughable. and scotland, this whole scottish thing, are they going to come up with their own army? they get subsidies from london. charles: have you looked at norway? >> this is like a 14-year-old that wants to move out because he's mad at his parents. charles: absolutely not. you don't get bogged down with race

yemen, al qaeda in arabian peninsula, with direction from south asia, ayman al-zawahiri and number of multinational died operatives, and westernmay have recruited, targeting global i have i have y vision aviation. heather: this is dark time out there. peter brookes, thank you very much. >> thank you, heather. jon: in response to isis, some stories we're working on in the next hour of "happening now." the u.s. announces devastating airstrikes in iraq and syria, all focused taking away isis's source of income. we'll have latest from pentagon on the strikes. >>> a main suspect behind bars today after being denied bail. the search for missing usva student -- uva student hannah graham is still on. can this decadent, fruit topped pastry... ...with indulgent streusel crumble, be from... fiber one. new fiber one streusel. jon: very, very big news day. we'll work on next hour of "happening now," including updating this word out of the united nations. haider al abadie, the new prime minister out of iraq, saying his nation's intelligence service uncover ad plan for isis attack on subways of paris or united states. perhaps both. i don't t

western carriers. now, that would mean that, for example, european airlines flying to asia would have to go around russia, and that means a huge detour, of course. much longer flights. much more expensive. and mr. medvedev in that interview suggested that could lead to the bankruptcy of a number of western airlines. he also said there was no way in which western sanctions would bring peace in ukraine, and he used china as an example of a country which also suffered western sanctions going back to 1989, but didn't change its course. his message being that russia wouldn't change its course on ukraine as a result of western sanctions. >> is it possible to put a figure, a number on how much damage could be done, though, to the russian economy? >> not really. and i have to say at the moment, you don't see the effect of western sanctions, but it is quite early. we've only had the sanctions in place for about a month now. i think the biggest damage at the moment is psychological. because sanctions and the threat of further sanctions adds to the general economic gloom here, which has been building for quite some

asia. is that right? >> absolutely. and we've always thought of m&a being a western things. so the u.s. still does most of the deals. his is a lot of deals coming out of asia now. asian multi nationals are doing deals and they're outperforming enormously. they've had double digit outperforming over the cities. interesting, you were starting to see what is more cross border deals. so asian companies coming out. a lot of domestic consolidation with rush ya. >> thank you very much. steve allen, m&a leader. >>> we're going to be joined by one of the biggest bulls on wall street to tell us why he thinks the s&p 500 is trading higher. that's upcoming next. xkç >>> european markets trade lower. washington says it puts the action to imminent attacks. >>> shares in astrazeneca, share and smith & nephew sink after the obama administration take actions to curve tax inversion deals. >>> both services and manufacturing in the eurozone come in weaker than expected. >>> share in more weekend chemical firm surge after it's reported to merge with a u.s. industry creating a $27 billion fertilizer firm. display you're watching "worldw

organization to terrorist groups have metevastasized and made gan in northern and western africa, the middle east and south asia. >> with ded between the two leads or their designees, with the republicans controlling the first half. mr. cruz: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cruz: mr. president, i rise today to ask that republicans and democrats in the senate come together and unanimously pass legislation to address the threat of american citizens fighting for isis and bringing our statutory system into the 21st century to protect the national security interest of our nation. as the american people are now painfully aware, the so-called islamic state in iraq and syria, or isis, has emerged as the new face of the radical terrorist threat that has bedeviled the west in recent decades. this virulent jihadist group so extreme that they got kicked out of al qaeda, which i will note is not easy to do, is rampaging across syria and iraq in a campaign of oppression and genocide, including the relentless targeting and murder of christians, of jews, of muslim minority sects, yazidi, any w

western airlines from flying over its air space. we know about 1,600 flights between europe and asia a week. if that happens, the biggest hit for european airlines would be for air france. we're going to have more coming up on "gmt" in just over an hour's time. >>> also, it is a big, big day for these guys. yep, for apple and apple fans, because the tech giant will announce its latest range of products. let's just take a look at some of the ideas being bandied around by tech experts. widely anticipated is the launch of its newest iphone, the iphone 6. it is expected to be larger than previous versions, potentially coming in two different screen sizes. 4.7 inches, and 5.5 inches. also, many experts expect apple to wow consumers by launching a completely new gadget. the speculation is, yep, it's going to be for something like this. an iwatch. it's been four years since apple's launched a new gadget. everybody asking does apple still have the magic? we'll wait and see. that's happening later on in the afternoon our time, u.s. morning time. follow me on twitter. you can get me @bbcaaron. >> next

asia. you notice a lot of cloud cover over the korean peninsula, already 100 millimeters of rainfall has fallen in this area, and that is continuing to spread toward the east. so westernapan, and hokkaido into northern japan you'll be seeing the rain falling as we go throughout thursday, and then eventually by the weekend in the kanto plains you'll be seeing the rainfall as the front pushing toward the east. you'll see the rain in seoul. also back toward the west the monsoonal front continues to be a big problem. chongqing a high of 24. here's your extended outlook. >>> and that's all for now on this edition of "newsline." i'm raja pradhan in tokyo. gene otani will bring you the latest at the top of the hour. thanks for joining us on nhk world. >> you are watching france 24. time now for 60 minutes live around the world. these are the headlines this hour. barack obama is in estonia. he is giving a firm show of support for nato's newest members in the face of russia's growing pressure on ukraine. this, as confusion reigns over whether or not a cease-fire deal was really reached. a second american journalist has been beheaded by militants from the islamic state organiza

. >>> joining us now from london to discuss the western campaign to stop isis, will get tis. and to john gohel, director for the asiank you for joining us, gentlemen. i want to start with you, sir john. we just heard from anna corn that air strikes are effectively containing isis. as we discuss a move into syria, these rebel forces will have to be trained and armed. that will take some time. is there that -- does the world have that good fortune? does it have the benefit of time to train these rebels? >> well, training is, of course, a very important security sector reform has been done in iraq. it has been done in afghanistan. but then you also need the political will on the ground. you need the new iraqi government to be able to work together with all the different factions that operate in iraq, the sunnis, shias, getting them onboard and we have to remember that we're entering a third iraq war. this time, syria is being brought into the mix. it means whatever cooperation takes place, you need to get the syrian army involved as well. they've been taking a lot of hits from the assad regime and isis. this is a very

asia. it's called myak and in english, that means lighthouse. >> but on the streets, the tone is very different. >> local people don't want your western kind ofut gays and lesbians. >> does he mean execute, put them to death when he says round them up and punish them? can you ask him that now? >> behind me is the equivalent of new york city hall where people from far and wide come to tie the knot. good old traditional values. the values that some members of parliament feel are being threatened by the lgbi community, so much so they'll be voting on the new legislation. if successful, this law would become effective on january 1st, 2015. >> and the bill has many vocal supporters. >> lgbt makes it a crime to advocate any form of gay life through any form of media by anyone. >> homophobia has been here, but in recent years it started becoming associated with physical aggression. >> the word gay here in kyrgyzstan, usually they think of someone who has to be cured or killed or who has to leave the country. >> reporter: the terrible irony is that in 1998, more than five years after independence from the soviet union, kyrgyzstan became the only coun

western states of starting the extremism in the middle east. >> translator: strategic mistakes of the west, in the middle east and sen central asia has turned thesearts in to extremists safe havens. >>> retired army colonel derrick harvey was a top u.s. military official in iraq, he worked alongside david petraeus. he is in tampa tonight. colonel welcome. >> glad to be here. >> we heard from the iraqi prime minister about the supposed plot. fbi says they don't have anything on it. aren't these two countries working together? >> yes, they are, and i think we're working closely with our iraqi friends, but access to the prisoners that provided this information, and getting our people over there to get the collaboration and the details in order to a verify the -- the degree of the threat that has been identified by the iraqis is an important thing. so i think we're in the very beginning of this. it could turn out to be nothing, but it fight be something so we need to follow all leads. >> you lead the intelligence in iraq during the invasion, is it fair to say the u.s. underestimated the rise of groups like isil? >> i think it's fair to say we underes

asia from the i.s.i.l. forces, they seem to be firing artillery from the little hill in the west. i.s.i.l. has three flanks, the western side is where they are closest, ten to 12 kilometers to the east, it's a still very fluid battle and humanitarian help has been extraordinary. it is an incredibly difficult situation, they are terrified of these advance he but i have to tell you at the moment, the kurdish forces have been able to keep i.s.i.l. from reaching the town. >> stephanie decker. in an interview of 60 minutes televised earlier this evening, pouch said the u.s. forces underestimated the strength of i.s.i.l. >> i think the head of our intelligence community jim clapper said they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> he didn't say they underestimated i.s.i.l, he said we overestimated the ability of our allies the iraqi army to fight. >> that's true, that's absolutely true. >> national security advisor also indicated that the u.s. wouldn't be using forces to fight i.s.i.l. >> it's going to be more sustained because we are working with partners on the ground not sending in hundreds of thousands of

asia pacific forecast to increase over 26% through 2016. middle east and africa 27% and latin america 18%. on the flip side western europe set for declines of 4%. north america near flat around 1% and that is despite the boom we are seeing in craft brew. sab miller's rejected bid kicks off what is considered a new phase for the brewers. >> global consolidation in the beer business has been going on for about 15 years. this is sort of the next iteration. you have four players that are almost half of global beer volume but more like 60% of global beer earnings. now we are to the phases sort of like the dance of the elephants where big companies have to go after the big companies. >> that dance is really just getting started. others could be up for grabs including molson coors on speculation it could be a target or that it could also be a buyer if sab is forced to divest its stake in the joint venture. i think the only thing to make the graphics better is if we could just hold this down. >> gush out like a fire hose. >> it would be worth it. >> this isn't the first time you served beer. you spent some time behind the

western world. rome's immense wealth flowed from a vast empire along the mediterranean sea. an amazingariety of goods came to rome by ship from spain, france, asiaminor, north africa and egypt. transportation expert ross hassig. it was closer is terms of the cost of transportation to get to egypt than it was to get a hundred miles inland in italy. you couldn't bring food from a hundred miles inland to rome, because even with carts, even with oxen, it simply cost too much. so rome was able to tap into the production of other areas because it was able to use ships where the cost of transportation was extremely low. keach: but roman seagoing merchant ships carrying upwards of a thousand tons were too large to navigate the tiber river, so cargos were unloaded onto smaller vessels downriver at the port city of ostia. ostia was once a bustling commercial city, with shops and restaurants... villas and apartment houses for merchants and shippers... theaters, parks and enormous warehouses crammed with every possible commodity. archaeologist amanda claridge. it's clear that the merchants, the many, many thousands of people involved in the supply of the ci

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western democracy stand up for these demonstrators and protesters, are we? >> that's been a theme of the obama administration. i was in hong kong when the president came to asiawhen he went to china, he talked about climate change, he didn't talk about human rights. you saw the same weak response out of the state department this week. it's notable when the u.s. does speak about hong kong, they speak about the freedoms of the hong kong people. president obama should be talking about the freedoms of the chinese people, including those on the mainland. lou: you agree with that, michael? >> absolutely. i think what this is showing us is all of us who kept arguing by liberalizing china's entry into the world trade organization or globalizing it that that would translate into political evolution, not only is it going to happen in hong kong, it's not going to happen in tibet, it's not just about what's happening in central, it's about china clamping down on any demands for separatist, that is going to make for a worrisome china over the next decade. lou: interestingly, i don't see or detect that impulse towards separatism as you put it, i see insistence upon honorin

asia. being threatened with a similar form of death. so the isis call for jihadis around the world to join it, to rise up and to kill westerners wherevernd them with knives, stones, with whatever, seems to be -- and it's interesting, you know, at a diplomatic level, president obama has gathered together a coalition of nation states, certainly more than 40. isis is calling for exactly the same, a coalition of islamists, action groups of jihadi groups who will commit atrocities against western civilians. as i said, it hasn't been confirmed yet, but it does appear that french hostage has been killed. >> thank you so much, bill neely in irbil. and as we approach october, which, of course, is breast cancer awareness month. joan london is reaching out with a message, bald is beautiful. on "people" magazine's cover calling into the "today" show after her own breast cancer surgery. >> it was such a tough decision. knowing you were going to be seen by everyone in a vulnerable way, i knew it was the right decision. of shrimp flavors! like new wood-grilled sriracha shrimp or parmesan crusted shrimp scampi... as much as you like, any way you like!

a word that may not mean much to us in the western world but whose influence extended all across what we today consider the middle east and some of central asia and southern spain. caliphate came into existence as an islamic nation state presided over by a leader who is both religious and political as an authority. the first caliphate was established in 632 a.d. after the death of the prophet mohammed and existed until 1924 when the last one was abolished follow the disillusion of the empire. it was the four caliphates who carried on his vision united under a single state and used military force to extend it to one of the biggest empires in the history of the world. this is the history isis was aligning it self this summer when they renamed itself as simply the islamic state and pronouncing its leader as the caliph and the prince of believers. to some the notion of isis could turn back in time to reclaim the glory years of an institution whose influence waned more than thousands of years ago may seem possible. the original caliphate included a period known as the golden age of islam. renowned for its embrace of multiculturism and intellectual

%rs this guy has been all over asia and knows the native languages. this is an attack on westernwe have a choice. >> and he knows he needs boots on the ground and xlenlgs gathering information from sources on the ground. >> nobody wants to deal with this. no other american wants to fight isis. we are going to be talking more on this developing story after isis struck overnight. >>> we are also following other stories, payoff at the hard rock casino in tampa. eight people injured after a temporary construction wall collapses. the most serious injury is a broken arm. the casino is reviewing security footage to see what caused the crash. >>> it is football season and the redskins are back in the spot. the professor at george washington university has classified the word redskins as an unofficial name. the repeated and unnecessary use of the r-word should also be because it similarly offends many indians. >>> and is this the most obvious study ever? it turns out happy life, happy wife shls. if a woman is satisfied with her marriage, she'll do more for the husband making him happy, to

asia, the same trend and same theme holds. the idea of owning asian stocks selling into the u.s. as opposed to western >> the headline here we should recap is you believe the s&p 500 will rise 8% during the next 12 months. that's where you are coming from. a lot of the commentary you have here is around the way which the stock market behaves in advance of rate hikes from the fed. it usually does typically well before the fed starts hiking. after may struggle. the other central projection is they are not going to raise rates for one year. if that is wrong and they raise rates earlier than one year from now, i'm assuming a lot of the other projections are what the stock market could do could be wrong. >> the way we want to think about positioning equities relative to bonds in the rate environment is to think about it in the following way. in the year ahead of a fed hike, in the six months ahead of a fed hike and in the three months ahead of a fed hike, first initial fed hike after a period they were not raising rates, the stock market tends to do well. we respond to your observation. perhaps if the fed