but i now have a genuine friendship with the prime minister of india. and i think that he and i share a level of understanding and interest in working together that didn t exist when i first came on to the scene. i think the same is true for a lot. that doesn t mean there aren t going to be differences, but the same is true for my relationship with president hu. it wasn t easier to talk about currency when i had just been elected and my poll numbers were at 65% than it is now. it was hard then and it is hard now. because this involves the interests of countries and not all of these are going to be resolved easily.
wisdom in washington. that s probably right. it doesn t hurt to have a couple successes under your belt. the health care bill, the domestic side, the arms control treaty on the foreign side. certainly give you a sense that perhaps this is not a lost presidency that some people had been talking about prior to a couple weeks ago. that doesn t mean there aren t huge challenges ahead, though. he s got real rough sledding ahead to get some of these priorities through congress. as we just talked about with iran, a lot of rough sledding ahead to achieve any o of these foreign policy initiatives. look at the middle east. he hoped to be a lot further along in terms of reviving the peace talks there. now he s stuck in this squabble with netanyahu over settlement housing. there s a lot of challenges ahead. he ll need a lot of that confidence in order to get anywhere on some of these other priorities. peter baker, thank you very much. what political story will be making headlines in the next 2
come out quite clearly and said that these two attacks that rocked the moscow metro system in the early hours of the morning local time here in moscow were carried out by suicide bombers, female suicide bombers, said to be from the north region. the finger of blame pointing pretty squarely at that region and the casualty figures are now 35 people confirmed dead and about 40 injured. some of them very seriously indeed, john. mathu as we saw in the london bombings back in 2005, there were several plots that were triggered to sort of take place over a period of time. are they concerned there could be other bombers out there still at large this morning? reporter: yeah, that s certainly a concern. just because there s been two suicide bombers detonate their explosives today this morning, it doesn t mean there aren t going to be more suicide bombers this evening in the rush hour
group. there s a lot of similarity between actually their recruitment into kind of a quasiterrorist framework and the manson family, you know? it s really very much the same thing. jane: well, neil, obviously, we look at these women, and they don t fission fit the profile of what we think of as an islamic terrorist. how dangerous do you think they really are? well, the profile is still the profile. most of the people that we re looking for are young males, muslim males between the age of 17-35. that doesn t mean that there aren t females, it doesn t mean there aren t people that are from western europe or the united states and have nonmuslim named. but the fact remains that we have to keep our antenna up for the aberrations as well as for the core threat as we see it today. but these women really don t change very much. they might have gotten embroiled in something where they actually were present when someone was harmed or killed like this swedish cartoon itself, but
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