that you govern your own country it means the british people at general elections put people into westminster and it's those people and those people own the decide what employment regulations are the decide what our overseas trade policy is the decide what we should be doing about britain's looming energy crisis and that that parliament is able to take those key decisions and at the end of a four or five year period with the british queen because assess them we can boot them out and we can pick somebody else with a completely different manifesto and one of the reasons why general election debates in britain are now limited basically to schools and hospitals is because on virtually every other area the legislation that is made at brussels level cannot be changed by a british government or british parliament it's narrowed in political debate in this country so the defender of independence the scottish independence referendum well i can't understand anything out examiner said for twenty years because isn't he the scottish nigel for isaac ali you know he's a con job isn't it because he's been say

winning those elections nationally i think it unlikely that we're going to the biggest party in westminster in twenty fifteen. but what we could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british politics whilst we draw our votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through i think just just about its deepest crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative party they don't agree with each other on virtually anything and i think if you get gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting in british politics thank you very much for joining us thank you. live. my juggling job to. do hack work and get caught when lobbyist money and lawmakers are combined together that's where the problem of corruption comes from. i don't know the document's. keep up a smart look. there is also. another well behind that which is how to influence these situations steer clear of provocations don't answer any question. came into the office and found banners hanging around the of

a man during the westminster show called it cruel.ennel club downplays the likelihood of deliberate poisoning, saying none of roughly 2700 dogs at the show had any problems. adding, we have never, to our knowledge, had an incident at our show where a dog has become ill or was harmed as a result of being poisoned. back in 1865, "the new york times" reported that eight dogs were poisoned the morning before the westminster competition. the motive? jealousy. what happened to cruz may never be known since the owner declined a necropsy leaving questions unanswered. the owner didn't have further testing done because she was upset at the time and she was advised tests probably wouldn't have shown anything if the dog was poisoned days pr. so the answers of what really happened will never be known. >>> next, a controversy about how this model is portrayed. take a long look at it. african queen. and then take a look at her face. >>> and the white house gets its full geek on and makes a death star sized faux pas. for over 75 years people have sav

they all marry each other sisters i think it unlikely that we're going to the biggest party in westminster in twenty fifteen but what we could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british politics was we draw our votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through i think just just about its deepest crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative party they don't agree with each other on virtually anything and i think if you get gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting and well as you can imagine and piece of the prime minister's party furious and the pressures on david cameron to do something about it to paris could he runs a center right think tank within the conservative party is on the line now joining us from london either ben good evening to you oh dear what exactly is making people turn to this new party were of course the core of what they talk about is immigrants in europe that's something your party used to talk about what went wr

one of the westminster's finest is found dead days after the dog show. was it a case of the poisoned pooch? >>> plus how a helicopter used its downward wind thrust to save a deer. who is the latest ranked to lose to the unranked in sports. "early today" is back in two. newwishg, newkirk, today." here's some stories making news this morning. the house has voted to reauthorize the violence against women act. it passed by 286 to 138 with 199 democrats joined 87 republicans in the gop controlled chamber. the bill had run into some republican opposition for inclusion of lesbians and native-americans. >>> a 26-year-old man is under arrest in connection with last week's deadly maserati shooting on the las vegas strip. amar harris was tracked down by a team of police and federal agents thursday in los angeles after a week-long manhunt. the faa is investigating an incident after this video was posted from aboard a frontier airlines flight. it shows colorado college students performing the harlem shake some 30,000 feet in the air. notice the banana by the way. the

that you govern your own country it means the british people at general elections put people into westminsterand it's those people and those people own the decide what employment regulations are the decide what our overseas trade policy is that decides what we should be doing about britain's looming energy crisis and that that parliament is able to take those key decisions and at the end of a four or five year period we the british people can assess them we can boot them out and we can pick somebody else with a completely different manifesto and one of the reasons why general election debates in britain are now limited basically to schools and hospitals is because on virtually every other area the legislation that is made at brussels level cannot be changed by a british government or british parliament it's narrowed in political debate in this country so the defender of independence the scottish independence referendum well i can understand anything alex i'm going to sever twenty years because he the scottish nigel for as you call it you know he's a con job isn't it because he's been saying w

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we'll go live to westminster. ross westgate will have month reaction to the uk budget when we come back. stay with us. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >>> british chancellor george osborne is under fire this morning for a budget. the number in the shadow cabinet claims he sucked the confidence out of the uk economy and should waste no time in changing course. but then i guess you would expect that from the opposition. ross westgate is joining us. he's down there, you know, ross, putting questions, i guess, to people about just how much the british budget is actually going to help growth. there were lots of measures that seemed aimed at pleasing people, everything from a penny

creeping toward the ukip to shake is one policy party image and while it's tapped into the anti westminster critics say it offers little more than a protest fete concerned about those so some popularity you can depend no no really i mean you have people living in his. exactly where they are there right down the heel somewhere because they know any one of the supposed issues like immigration world they say that but what are they going to deliver the big question for any liberal infirm oratory and high deliver anything they are never going to be in a lot of people there with a school you can't will not be they may not be in power you keep scott britain's major parties on the run and is predicted to leap frog the next year's european elections i do four hours himself admit number ten is an unreachable call but now i think it unlikely that we're going to be the biggest party in westminster in twenty fifteen but what we could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british politics while as we draw votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservativ

is an unreachable call but now i think it unlikely that we're going to be the biggest party in westminster in twenty fifteen but what we could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british politics was we draw votes from across the spectrum and he's pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through i think just about as deep as crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative party they don't agree with each other on virtually anything and i think if you keep gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new. and really quite exciting in british politics the pilot action has been a litmus test of what voters we really think at the parties might not change the price of bread in terms of how government runs but it served as a good opportunity for everyone to get their point across and love them or hate them you could certainly lighten things up surface r.t. eastley. u.s. lawmakers have just left to avert a crisis they created thanks to becoming on capitol hill automatic budget cuts with eighty five billion dollar

in 1985 there were eight dogs the at westminster show that were poisoned.. well over a hundred years, big mystery. >> megyn: and bringing in our panel to discuss it jonna spilbor and mercedes colwin. >> megyn: let me start with you, jonna, your fake client is the dog and his owner. and how do they figuring out whether this was murder? >> in my mind, it was murder. there's a whole lot of circumstantial evidence that would point to murder. the problem is we've got no dog that we can test and nobody saw anything, but, megyn, if it did happen at this dog show i imagine there had to be cameras all over the place. maybe if they took a look back to see if there's anything weird going on we might see somebody throwing a treat, a poisoned treat in this dog's cage. that's what i think happened. >> megyn: they have it down to a four hour window when you're a dog like this, a handler at all time, not like our dogs. there was a four our window he wasn't attended immediately by the handler and believe it's the time he was poisoned. only a limited suspected pool of people

also, a show dog dies only just days after the westminster dog show.oisoning and his owner suspects foul play. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> $85 billion of forced spending cuts about to kick in all across the country less than seven hours now all because republicans and democrats here in washington failed to come together once again to stop it from happening. a feisty president obama entered the white house briefing room and laid the blame at the feet of the gop. >> none of this is necessary. it's happening because a choice that republicans in congress have made. they have allowed these cuts to happen because they refused to budge on closing a single wasteful loophole to help reduce the deficit. as recently as yesterday, they decided to protect special interests tax breaks for the well-off and the well-connected and they think that that's apparently more important than protecting our military or middle class families from the pain of these cuts. >> chances

eight dogs poisoned at westminster. jealousy believed the motive. impossible, says the handler. >> i don't believe it was another competitor by any means. i believe it was somebody who is sick. >> reporter: so, then, maybe cruz ate rat poison unintentionally. however, the people at the hotel where he stayed say they don't use the stuff. and, according to the westminster kennel club, the same thing is true at the facility where the dog show was held. okay. so what now? the owner has called the nypd. but it's too late to have the body examined. the owner was so confident that cruz had been poisoned, she said she immediately had him cremated. his life, impossibly cute. his death, perhaps, impossible to solve. >> thank you, dan. >>> we turn now to a truly one of a kind rental opportunity. in the heart of beverly hills. perfect for a large family or every single one of your friends. 29 bedrooms, 40 bathrooms. your own nightclub and all for just a cool $600,000 a month in rent. abc's nick watt takes us on a tour. >> reporter: who could possibly live in a

. >> murder at the westminster dog show?oisoned? now trending, which one of the jimmys might host next year's oscars? and rihanna in a mask and breaking news about having a baby. then bachelor sean under interrogation by renee. plus david duchovny's lavin with maria. >> that's a great laugh, like the female equivalent of horshack. >> "extra, extra!." >> hey, everyone, welcome to "extra" at the grove, i'm mario lopez. >> i'm maria menounos. the case nine murder mystery rocking westminster. was one of the dogs poisoned? >> first i was sad about bonnie franklin losing her battle with cancer. i used to love "one day at a time". >> it's sad. we have bonnie's last interview

get managed just ability allowance he's got a bone to see one know which call boehner a genius westminster now wants to make it clear that benefit on to a career path and coming through the doors of your local job and say yeah in and year out filling in a few forms and claiming your money is no longer an option but for people that have been through the experience of claiming unemployment benefit they say it's all too easy to get no money and no one's really checking whether or not you're genuinely looking for was. azzi london coming up in a few minutes are to travel to russia's freezing cold city of murmansk one of the best places in the world with the astonishing northern lights that's after a short break. through. this friendship believed. to be a packed congress this sunday. not everyone can say they've been on top of the world but if you're in russia you could have better chance than most there are only eight countries on the planet that stretch above the arctic circle and this is one of them and if you go to the right spot you can see the most spectacular light show on a deal or boy a

katy tur, nbc news, westminster, maryland. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. >> announcer: nbc bay area news starts now. >>> right now at 6:00, a trip home for spring break college student ends in death. he was gunned down in the bay area. tonight, what investigators say led up to the shooting. also -- >> it's really important that the guys from the area give the ultimate sacrifice in vietnam. >> it's called the sons of san jose. a new memorial that drew a crowd today. >>> spring showers could affect your plans for easter sunday. >> good evening. i'm terry dwyer. >>> police are looking for a person who shot and killed a 19-year-old student. it happened on 24th and bryant street. kimberly terry is there with more for us tonight. kimberly? >> reporter: diane, that young man was shot right in front of his home and his family tells us tonight that it was his father who heard the gunfire and went downstairs to find his son. he was taken to the hospital where he later died. his family h

. >>> and so many people fascinated by last month's westminster dog show. now a serious side of that. a mystery tied to one of the dogs that competed. it's been found dead. there are some starting claims about poisoning. coming up, that dog's owner speaks out. >>> let us start with today's sequester deadline and the battle between the white house and bob woodward. kristen welker is in washington. good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning to you. that fight between the white house and bob woodward has been brewing all week. it really started last sunday, when woodward wrote an op-ed, saying that president obama moved the goalpost in the sequester fight, at first saying tax increases should be off the table and now asking for new revenue. woodward says the white house is trying to shut him down. the white house says that's just not true. now the exchange is becoming heated. veteran journalist bob woodward isn't backing down in his criticism of the obama white house. on fox news thursday night, woodward again described a testy phone call last month

. >>> now, to the unfolding mystery from the westminster dog show. says there's a chance her prize samoyed named cruz was deliberately poisoned at the show. the dog died several years later. the owner suspects an animal rights activist may have slipped rat poison in his cage. a spokesperson says they would never condone killing an animal. >>> in indianapolis, a judge is expected to decide. a woman who claimed the $9.5 million prize is being sued by seven fellow hairdressers. she says she purchased the ticket for them as a group. but she says the ticket she bought was on the side and that's the winning ticket. >> i don't know about that one. >>> how about this one? a plane full of people may be in trouble with the law. all because of this latest dance craze. this new movie of "the harlem shake" sparked an faa investigation. wait for it. that's because it took place on a frontier airline flights. the faa says they may have broken the rules by interfering with the flight crew. they were just having some fun. >> no fun allowed on the plane. >>> call them

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when i think it unlikely that we're going to be the biggest party of westminster in twenty fifteen butwe could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british politics while as we draw votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through i think just just about as deep as crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative party they don't agree with each other on virtually everything and i think if you could gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting and. as me who else across really prepares to stand down as the leader of georgia later this year the question turns to what his legacy will be some say his main achievement is an attempt to rebuild the country literally by but while i should say the new construction across the capital was meant to attract new investors their real impact on the economy has turned out to be superficial as artie's alexei yourselves keep discovered. over the past five years georges has changed dramatically poor dizzy o

moving to a one bedroom every time i've been told but can't move me to one bedroom nevertheless westminstersays the twenty three billion pound housing benefit bill needs to be slashed people are being told they should move to a smaller flat but in my constituency there are fewer than a hundred places people could move to a much fairly typical across the country as a whole if you can't move to a smaller property you can't avoid it you just have to pay the money and you're left with very very little i'm not just does seem very unfair the government is saying they won't have a tax on big mansions but they are having a bedroom tax on the poorest people in the country the department for work and pensions declined to comment on the controversial policy the impending changes of course such widespread concern that the government announced the parents of those serving in the armed forces foster carers and parents of severely disabled children will now be exempt from the changes as for the rest of the body in this situation is being blocked into a corner and until the council finds him a smaller flat

ruth drops of westminster behind me but because this is an american crime because it's an american crime they're allowed to get away with it because the people who control the so-called mainstream media are fully on side with the agenda of the obama administration top u.s. general down calling for hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the u.s. detention facility when c.n.n. finally turned its focus to get the so-called worldwide leader in news ignored the hunger strike is there anything wrong with trying to improve it fix it spend a few hundred million dollars to get it ready for maybe a new generation of terrorists instead focusing on the money. to update the facility where one hundred sixty six detainees are still languishing you know that more than half of the. kuantan now have been cleared for release i use the area. you know i didn't i had no idea that. i did. as more than one hundred prisoners reportedly continue their hunger strike the u.s. military continues to dispute the figures however when r.t. first broke the story on march twelfth u.s. officials were denying that a str

they all marry each other sisters i think it unlikely that we're going to be the biggest party in westminster in twenty fifteen but what we could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british politics was we draw our votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through i think just just about as deep as crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative party they don't agree with each other on virtually anything and i think if you get gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting and on capitol hill there is still no deal in sight to avert the eighty five billion dollars worth of cuts which will kick in later on friday if they're in washington as the sequester and would see significant reductions on military end to mest expanding but republicans and democrats just can't agree on what to do and it to can now explains why this could prove a worldwide headache. let me begin with where the sequester comes from for a long time congress has been in gridlock

westminster now wants to make it clear that benefit on to a career path and coming through the doors of your local job center a year in and year out filling in a few forms and claiming your money is no longer an option but for people that have been through the experience of claiming unemployment benefit they say it's all too easy to get money and no one's really checking whether or not you're genuinely looking for what. r.t. . news continues here and thirty five minutes notice that we invite you to follow our documentary crew crew as we journeyed to the northernmost city in russia where long polar nights and little by the spectacular northern lights great pictures come when a breeze. that . her mother. could speak. with. her. mum is a good. amount. come out of. mission free clinic a should three times for a judge is free to make amends three.

next stage just briefly what happens here in fact in a lot of elections not really at the top of westminster yet where do you see it the folk are going it's a step by step process this is my we have council elections you know local authority elections around the country not in london where i am outside of the country the fact that we did so well now it's in been in the you know it's been on the t.v. it's been radio television will mean that more and more people will fill it with a vote ukip we will get i'm sure local councils elected which will give us a voice locally in politics which will also help us build constituencies for the parliamentary election in two thousand and fifteen and also in two thousand and fourteen next year we've got a european parliamentary election now we came second in that in two thousand and nine and our leader nigel clough it's been on television today same it's now our goal to become first in that election so that we will have more any peace than anybody else and of course only you can any police job is to argue for britain's withdrawal from the european union an

westminster now wants to make it clear that benefit on to a career path and coming through the doors of your local job center a year in and year out filling in a few forms and claiming your money is no longer an option but for people that have been through the experience of claiming unemployment benefit they say it's all too easy to get no money and no one's really checking whether or not you're genuinely looking for work. artsy london. so he's right up so far and back in thirty five minutes after the break which is next we look at why hoffa all h.l.v. infections in the united states happen in just thirteen percent of the population. i've got a lot of messages from our t.v. yours who are very concerned about drones living under skynet is not the american way and many are concerned about their safety and privacy congressman ted poe has introduced a bill that may address some people's concerns about drones this bill is the preserving american privacy act what's clear if i see how the government can use these drugs so basically the act adds bureaucracy to drone usage in order to restric

westminster now wants to make it clear that benefit on to a career path and coming through the doors of your local job center a year in and year out filling in a few forms and claiming your money is no longer an option but for people that have been through the experience of claiming unemployment benefit they see it's all too easy to get money no one's really checking whether or not you're genuinely looking for work. artsy. there are the weekly here in our city this hour in a few minutes we look at why half of all entirely in factions in the united states affect only thirteen percent of the population stay with us. there's an old urban legend that says that the u.s. army stopped using circular targets for rifle practice because the soldiers would be hesitant to shoot people on the battlefield the logic is that if you practice shooting something that looks like an enemy soldier you'll be desensitized to a killing real enemy soldiers so again the logic is to practice shooting at what you want to kill so you won't hesitate and speaking of not hesitating the law enforcement targets incorp

ahead with of the government's austerity drive i believe that these are live pictures coming out of westminster way george osborne is talking about a better budget. barack obama has arrived in israel on his first ever visit to the country as you as president and home obama has been repeatedly criticized by a pro is lady lord we lobby is for distancing himself from tel aviv and there's a little chance of the eyes of four we be tween the two governments any time soon policy or reports. when former american president george bush visited israel for his trip with clear skies pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white now it's a bar mr. we've called to visit then shakable alliance it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the trips official emblem but relations between the two leaders are strained and many believe the positive p.r. is nothing more than cave a spin there are policy differences. on the palestinian issue on the boards the rise of islamist forc

they all marry each other sisters i think it unlikely that we're going to be the biggest party in westminster in twenty fifteen but what we could well do is we could well catalyze some sort of realignment of british politics was we draw votes from across the spectrum it is pretty clear to me that the conservative party is now going through i think just about as deep as crisis in history there are two distinct wings of the conservative party they don't agree with each other on virtually anything i think if you keep gets much stronger than it is today we could see something really new and really quite exciting. well it was even worse news for the party that is supposedly leading nationally right now labor came a disappointing fourth one of its m.p.'s jeremy corbyn is concerned that you keep gaining statement that prime minister cameron may play in their hands on key issues like immigration ukip doesn't actually offer very many answers to anybody except it's sort of general narrative of them to europe and to foreign and. anti every other party and i think one should be quite cautious about ukip