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palestinians and one israeli soldier. gilad shall late is free after being held for five years. officials handed him over to the egyptian authorities a couple hours ago. egypt is expected to transfer shalit on to israeli custody. israel set free hundreds of palestinians held in its jails today, tuesday. a total of a thousand are expected to be released as part of this exchange in two groups. an initial group of 477 palestinian prisoners are going free on tuesday in exchange for sergean...

Like japans should bounce back. we shouldnt see a huge economic crisis other than the human and economic devastation in the area of concern. >> and if im right, the prefecture which is the geographic or this sort of governmental unit where these tsunami hit and where the power plants are, only constitutes 2% of the total japanese economy. so its a reasonably small number and the overall expanse of an enormous japanese economy. >> yeah. weve seen estimates up to 7% or 8% of the aekt iff affected ...

They pulled out the israeli businessmen. a source in foreign ministry told me they would wait and see before they pull out the diplomatic mission from there inside egypt in cairo. talked to a keen observer, moment of history in tehran in 79 when the shall fell. the shaw was also an ally of israel and he said the iranian revolution feels like the egyptian revolution. we know how the iranian revolution ended up with the ayatollah taking over a hardcore right wing islamic state in iran. that is not...

But there is that mythology that props up this notion that, you know if we rise up, then god will do the rest. and i am not so sure, therefore, that we can make strong parallels between whats going on in places like egypt and what could be reignited in iran. >> there are other totalitarian, autocratic regimes in the middle east, of course. what is going on in saudi arabia, is there fear within that kingdom that somehow this revolution that began in tunisia is spreading eastward is going to make ...

Parallels between whats going on in places like egypt and what could be reignited in iran. >> there are other totalitarian, ought doecratic regimes. what is going on in saudi arabia, is there fear within that kingdom that somehow this revolution that began in tunisia is spreading eastward is going to make it as far as saudi arabia? >> i think its a mistake to even think in geographic terms. like its spreading this way or that. thats part of the ageographic world of facebook and the internet and ...

Up saying you should have, you should have, you should have. i think we have to step back and ask two things. what has changed since 2001? the first thing that has changed is weve gone from a threat that was basically hosted in the real afghanistan, al qaeda basises bases in afghanistan and a threat that is in the world wide web. if you look at the last three attacks that hit us in the united states, all three attackers were really inspired on jihad onel online or jihad at different web sites. o...

Foreign staff and closed down its mission in the city. the u.n. says security in kandahar widely regarded as spiritual and geographic cal home of the taliban has been deteriorated in advance of a major nato military offensive in the coming weeks. nato forces will work with afghan army and police units as part of the presidents surge in the region. but if the u.s. cant control kandahar, some say it cant win the broader war. lieutenant colonel anthony schafer is a senior fellow at the center for...

Legal case against him, how could you just look at with two separate incidents with women coming forward? >> i think its because its the person. hes the quarterback. and its pittsburgh and its just become such a negative thing that -- >> are you saying there have been any other city? i mean, dallas is a big football town, too. >> im not saying lets not use the geographic. i believe because of where hes at and like i said, the power that -- the influence that the steeler nation has. >> real quick...

Any groups of americans, for whatever reasons, economic, geographic, occupational, or other, we must find a way to meet their needs and fulfill their hopes. dwight david eisenhower in 1955 said, clearly our nation must do more to reduce the impact of accident and disease, two fundamental problems confront us. first, high and ever rising costs of health services. second, serious gaps and shortages in those services. so said dwight eisenhower in 1955. and in 1945, harry truman said, millions of ou...

Universal national health insurance program is one of the major unfinished items on americas social agenda. the american people, he said in 1992, have waited too long. gerald ford in 1974 said, let us affirm that this national legislation is only the beginning of our efforts to upgrade and perpetuate our total health care system so no individual in this country, said president ford, will lack help whenever or wherever he needs it. john f. kennedy said in 1962, whenever the miracles of modern med...