heavy snow could linger for central and western europe into wednesday afternoon. temperatures are not too bad across the eastern half of the mediterranean but thunderstorms and hail and damaging wind, all the threats will likely linger the next few days here. here's your highs still very chilly toward the north, minus 2 degrees in berlin and madrid 8 degrees, 8 degrees colder than seasonal and the extreme cold will likely linger to friday here. now at asia, we can see a long cloud mass from china to northern japan. underneath rain showers to the north and thunder showers to the south. ahead of the system unseasonably warm air and behind it frigid air. we're seeing rain at this moment but could change to snow this afternoon after 30 centimeters likely tomorrow morning. temperatures about 22 degrees in tokyo, 10 degrees higher than we should be this time of year. as the system moves through tomorrow, temperatures should go down sharply. it will reach from the north affecting southeastern china. down towards the eastern side of the indochina peninsula, we will see th

natural gas to that country and now western europe and i think this is. a reflection of the fact that there's this codependency between the former colonial power of italy and libya which ostensibly gained its independence in one nine hundred fifty one the natural gas industry was nationalized under the german hadia government obama market duffy and larger shares of natural gas our resources and profits were taken as a result of this process that had taken place between nine hundred sixty nine in two thousand and eleven of course since the us nato bombing and the support for the rebel insurgents they are attempting in many ways to productize the natural gas as well as the oil industry inside of libya of course the majority of libyans are suffering immensely as a result of this post gadhafi political configuration and as we've seen the clashes between the various militia groups as well as the so-called army that is still simply out of the control of the general national congress is still not going to situation where it could actually bring about stability a

from 1850 all of western europe experienced an ice age. he painted 25 winter landscapes during the most severe period of relative cool summers and cold winters. most of europe is experience is a cold winter so she's dragging her suit case behind her to make sure she got here for the open exhibition. there are actually 2 famous dutch painters ruisdael whose paintings we just looked at. he's also represented in our exhibition of this gallery. health and safety here is his view of his painting from 1648 which is in our own collection. if we compare the two paintings, we see similarity in the cloud t low horizon line and the small scale in the figure of the boat and the small scale of the natural world and the beautiful reflection on the water. these two paintings demonstrate the very best paintings. another pioneer of this genre is january van joeg an from 1653 and this is thunderstorm from 1541 at the collection of the fine arts museum. this painting and van rios painting i showed you are in our other building in linkin park. here we see the

delay in their efforts to join the zone, an end to border control for bulgarians and romanians to western europegermany said it would block the two country's entry. peter frederick cited organized crime, and austria also voiced objections. >> a court in italy sentenced one yearrlusconi ti one yeao in prison. he was found guilty of publsihin hing wiretaps. the charges will expire before the hearings are complete. he will face charges of tax fraud and sex with an underage prostitute. >> leaders from latin american gathered in venezuela to bid goodbye to hugo chavez. the president of belarus was invited to join the guard of nejad.with amadejad. it wil lbl be embalmed and put on permanent dispaly folay r the venezuelans who want to show respect. maduro was sworn in -- criticized by the opposition on constitutional grounds. he has called for immediate electiosn. ons. >> rebel fighters in columbia freed two german tourists held captive for four months. columbia's second largest rebel group took them in the northeast of the country in early november. >> ariza lost three sons in the seige. the body was

we will never bend to the social and economic agenda of western europe. it is an interesting place example of government. we will continue to pursue a uniquely american vision seated in liberty, personal responsibility, and individuality. god bless you, and may god continue to bless this country. thank you. >> more from cpac now. next, newly appointed south carolina senator tim scott addresses the political active conference. a reminder, washington journal starts at the top of the hour. >> ♪ >> good afternoon. thank you. that was good to hear, governor. when you are old and trying to be beautiful, you have to talk about somebody else's hair. thank you all for being here. how many red blooded conservatives are in the room? [cheers and applause] i cannot hear you over here? [cheers and applause] . we will continue to expand the opportunities of conservatism and i will tell you how and why. a quick story. anybody willing to listen to a quick sry? good. one of the mostin m life happenf 1982. i was a 16-year-old rising senior and a football star in my own mind

the reality is that moscow is heavily involved in the bailout of western europe in recent years. we all now know about the loan that cyprus was given of $2.5 billion in 2011. we had negotiation winot that lg ago. russia is involved. it will be involved. this country has $500 billion of reserve. third biggest reserves in the world. it has 10% of gdp as total sovereign debt. it's completely natural culturally that they are looking to russia. >> very valid points. understating the role of russia in this. the flows of money into cyprus and from cyprus transferred back to russia are absolutely enormous. many are taking advantage of low corporate tax rates around 10% in cyprus. i want to draw on liam's knowledge of russia particularly and especially the administration of putin. i'm just wondering they have questions over capital flight. we lost $60 billion of capital out of russia last year. how happy or unhappy is putin with the situation where the biggest provider for russia is coming out of russian money in cyprus. surely he would prefer that money to stay in the country and be inve

policies with respect and worked with american jewish relief organizations to find safe haven in western europe. this is before the holocaust on the war. in britain and france and belgium and the netherlands was safe. the whole story at the st. louis has been badly distorted. he'll surround palace time during the second period. they needed a third roosevelt after the up rate of world war ii who was tightfisted and worried about spies. imagine if they'd gotten in. it would've been a political disaster for the roosevelt administration. it might have undermined top priority, to prepare the nation for a possible war and immediately for aid to the allies. he does syntax to the british to keep the germans from overrunning egypt and palestine. they would've been no israel, no jewish state without that. then you have the fourth roosevelt, the final roosevelt who sets up a war refugee board,

. >>> there is a snowstorm in western europe, robert speta has been following it. >> yes, under the gripsf a late season storm. we have the cold air pouring in out of the arctic. it is about 90 kilometer per hour winds. it is really kicking up the winds here. i want to show you some photos coming ut of the uk here. people in their vehicles got stranded here. some commuters were stranded for more than eight hours overnight. and they claim to not have seen any energy services. but authorities did work throughout the hours there and rail services also were affected, just a overall hazardous travel here. flying across the area will be a rough go. many flights delayed here around paris and germany. excessive delays on tap. it will continue to affect the area throughout the day especially here into the darker colors. very much like what we see here in japan, the sea effect snow. we're seeing thunderstorms and rain showers due to a westerly flow of moisture. down there towards the house, and towards the north, ber lynn at minus one here on your wednesday. let's look at eastern asia, we're lookin

europe, most of western europe, you have been above average for some time now. things are starting to cool off. we have cool arctic air coming in from the north. in germany, you have seen reports upwards of 30 centimeters, into france, pretty heavy around 20 centimeters. and temperatures in london dropping down to the freezing marks through mid-week. on the flip side of that, though -- across much of southern spain, you will first see some rain that will shift over to snow. you're going to be seeing thunderstorms in italy. so continue to watch out for that. temperatures in the teens south of the alps to the north here. london, you're diving down to four here for your high on your tuesday. that's a look at your world weather, here is the extended forecast. >>> we spent much of the day covering the second anniversary of the march 11, 2011 disaster. sir vie vors on the northeast have taken steps forward on the path to recovery, but they have faced challenges. before we leave this hour, we wanted to hear from some of them. >> translator: the house i used to live in

hree percentage sixty percent of western europe's industrial output this was blackmailing. why did not a single government say anything about the deck or taylor hicks. or about the other frets that followed. they were elected representatives. but we felt that this was a betrayal and we wanted to do something about it it's important for a bigger public to know about this and we decided to publish a book. and besides collecting data we started to make interviews. undercover interviews. and finally in spring one thousand nine hundred seventy we assembled the results of our investigations and interviews into a report europe. rescheduled the book launch for the big east summit in them so that all the media would be there we were excited as. we had prepared the book launch and half an hour before the first friends started arriving . very little or no press showed up. so unfortunately our first public events that's really not noticed by the pope. jumped into the writers down this road block today and groove a key exercise the strength of the rules by a system of multilateral craig

across central, western europe, rainshowers on tap.ven in italy, thunderstorms in france, aa cross spain. this is bringing gusty winds. 80 kilometers per hour winds. the wet warm air pushing on shore. there will be a change. dry cold air coming in. temperatures cooling to the freezing mark around the start of the week. quickly into the americas. the southwest, see the low spinning there? rainshowers actually across los angeles, even higher elevations snow. that will work toward the northeast bringing 34 centimeters of snow here into the southwest, the four corners regions across nebraska and severe weather into texas. anybody with flights out of the southwest, do call ahead of time to the airport and make sure you don't have cannes lags or delays. that's a look at world weather. here is the extended forecast. >>> we're back in 30 minutes with more of the latest. >>> once again, shares on the new york stock exchange climbed to a historic high this week showing signs of a recovery of the u.s. economy. policymakers and market players are

much of western europe, you've been bathing in warm temperatures. cold arctic air will start to filter in. high pressure over the scandinavian peninsula. that is filtering all this cold air from the north. berlin, this area in here, that's snowfall you've been seeing. could see about 30 centimeters of snow in total here across northern germany. about 20 centimeters in portions of northern france. localized, generally ten centimeters, though. all that cold air is also bringing in gusty winds into the british isles and eventually pushing over towards spain. you could see snow here going into madrid. look at temperatures dropping down. berlin, you're staying below the freezing mark. you're already seeing the snow. into paris, you'll have snow possibly on tuesday into wednesday, dropping down towards the freezing mark. definitely do want to bundle up here. it's going to be a rather cold week looking ahead. that's a look at your world weather. here's the extended forecast. >>> and that's all for this hour. i'm shery ahn. thank you for watching.

today all of latin america, all of western europe, and almost every big city in america and most of the states are smoke free. this is another thing. obesity is going to kill more people this year in the world than starvation. we have to do something about it. >> what about sodium linked deaths in new york city, 23,000? >> you look at the packaged goods manufacturers are now advertising low sewodium and th reduced the sodium in their products. everybody is better off. >> where is the line? would you ban the salt shaker? >> we're not banning anything. we're trying to urge them to tell the public -- our job is to educate. it's the public's job to decide when they look on the grocery shelf or have the lever on a soda machine which thing to take, which product is in their interest. all we're trying to do is educate and then hopefully if they understand they would be better off with one product or another, they'll make the intelligent choice. >> you could do ads for education as the executive of new york city, you are telling people what they can and cannot do. why is that government's job t

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if they are able to do that the way that the united states was able to unite with western europe and create a nato bloc after world war two that would be interesting i don't know if they're capable of that anytime soon well let me ask you a question and let me answer the question now. let's look at the look at the crisis the crisis in cyprus i mean could you see one day we're a country like cyprus we go to the brics for a loan and not the i.m.f. oh it's definitely possible and i think what we can today china's sort of functions like the i.m.f. in respects anyway or like a world bank where they have been providing hundreds of millions billions of loans to african countries and then for gave them when they were unable to pay them back and so creating one that's a brick bank enables china to basically say ok we're we don't want to stick out we've got friends who also are on our side and and so that this way they feel like they're more. international more integrated brian you want to jump in there go ahead. yeah i think i think it's considered again we're at the beginning stage of the br

statistics and the state of the church, the places where the church is thriving and vibrant are not in western europe. they may be looking how is the church doing so well in certain parts of the world. and thank you. hopefully we will have an answer by the end of the week, well in time for easter. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> watch the glasses of chianti and other things. coming up, why companies are spending billions to turn abandoned buildings back into bustling factories here in the united states. >> in the wang fu rivers outside of shanghai, some unpleasant scenes emerged. as many as 3,000 pigs have gone found floating in the water. this is the river which supplies the city with drinking water. tests on the water have been carried out, and authorities maintain it hasn't been affect. here is the story, and a warning. you may find some of the images upsetting. >> it is not what you would normally expect to fish out of the river. but close to shanghai, officials are busy pulling dead pigs from the water. more than a thousand have been retrieved from the river since the operation began

. >> we're 50% more likely to have a stent than in western europe where they have similar disease ratesmore likely to have a knee replacement or cat scan or mri. and that's because our system reimburses people for doing tests and doing procedures. not for necessarily making people healthier. >> i think what doctor nicen is describing is a fee for service sort of model. you get paid for the service you're doing as opposed for the overall care of the patient. this is what you do for a living. is that how you get paid? so if you have a patient who comes in, you get paid a certain amount because you do a stent. are you incentivized to do more stents? >> well, me personally, i'm on a salary. >> it doesn't matter. >> it doesn't matter if i do one stent or five stents or ten stents. my job oh is to provide the right care for the right patient at the right time. >> so you're salaried. >> yes, sir. >> i'm salaried too as a physician. and doctor, you're salaried, as well. how big a problem is it, then, these perverse incentives. >> we're not saying people are doing these procedures for profit. we

many here share the mood of the adriatic fisherman -- they fear competition from western europe and say zagreb does not protect the interests of the little people, but it is traditions like old-fashioned fishing that attract tourists. this restaurant owner says niche markets are croatia's strength. >> i think our future lies in exclusive tourism like golf and conventions and less in mass tourism. >> he is looking forward to july 1 when croatia is expected to join the eu. he says a wave of foreign investment can only do the country good. >> the european commission says croatia is ready to become the e you's 28 member. some people, though, as we heard in that report, doubt this. we asked our correspondent in brussels. >> yes, somebody told a cruel joke today, they said croatia still wanted to join the eu like a swimmer swimming toward the titanic as it is sinking. the serious point is look at the example of romania and bulgaria. both countries are riddled with corruption and difficulties, and the political imperative in brussels was to get the member states in. when there were complaints,

norway, the western europe, is obviously -- scores very highly on the social development index. not as highly as north america. the index is actually rather an interesting way to think about some of these debates about your future is likely to led uss in 1900 western europe arguably was the core of the west and did have the highest development scores. i think the inaddress possibly might -- index possibly might be useful to why the balance of power has shifted in the west. so thank you for the questions. >> i'm chris. i thought it interesting that you picked 2103. but i want to give you your opinion what you think the future is beyond that? many hundreds of years or a thousand years more. >> that's a good one to -- difficult one to answer as you probably imagine. for the sake of argument, you assume everything i said is correct, which is always a good assumption, by the time we get to 2103 and a world of 5,000-points, we're looking at a planet absolutely unlike anything we can imagine. the next -- if that's what happens, the next hundred years is going to see much more change th

we're 50% more likely to have a stent than in countries in western europe where they have similar diseaseates. have a knee replacement or mri. because our system reimburses people for procedures. >> you get paid for the service you're doing as opposed to for the overall care of the patient. this is what you do for a living. is that how you get paid? if a patient comes in, you get paid a certain amount because you do a stent. are you incentivized to do more stents? >> i'm on a samurai. >> so it doesn't matter. >> it doesn't matter if i do one, five or ten stents. my job is to provide the right care for the right patient at the right time. >> so you're salaried. >> yes, sir. >> i'm salaried too as a physician. >> and you're salaried as well. >> yes. >> how big a problem is this then? >> we're not saying that people are doing these procedures for profit, we're saying that the system has created incentives in subtle and not so subtle ways drives more procedures. if you get a bump on your head as a friend of mine had, you go into the e.r., in america, you get a cat scan. if you have that happe

many here share the mood of the adriatic fisherman -- they fear competition from western europe and say zagreb does not protect the interests of the little people, but it is traditions like old-fashioned fishing that attract tourists. this restaurant owner says niche markets are croatia's strength. >> i think our future lies in exclusive tourism like golf and conventions and less in mass tourism. >> he is looking forward to july 1 when croatia is expected to join the eu. he says a wave of foreign investment can only do the country good. >> the european commission says croatia is ready to become the e you's 28 member. some people, though, as we heard in that report, doubt this. we asked our correspondent in brussels. >> yes, somebody told a cruel joke today, they said croatia still wanted to join the eu like a swimmer swimming toward the titanic as it is sinking. the serious point is look at the example of romania and bulgaria. both countries are riddled with corruption and difficulties, and the political imperative in brussels was to get the member states in. when there were complaints,