Central square in bahrain s capital city, just days after riot police opened fire on marchers. david lee miller is streaming live from bahrain with more. david? reporter: heather this is a notable day in bahrain, for one reason, there was a dramatic lull in the violence, but, still, the conflict here remains and the conflict that is pitting the majority shiite muslim population against the sign muslim royal family. at this hour there are still demonstrators camped out at the square where the violent, bloody clashes took place last week. the demonstrators i talked to this evening say they are prepared to stay in the square as long as it takes to get what they want and the crown prince has said it times for dialogue and time for the government, anti-government, demonstrators to sit down at the table and talk, and, the protesters say they are more interested in action, than words. and they want certain assurances
Better than 20% unemployment. if it were even possible to eliminate these obligated funds all you will see is less construction, less spending on sewer treatment plants and all over the country, and, create more unemployment and i don t believe the republicans are serious about this in any case, they wouldn t have spend the entire week dealing with every other issue like abortion and like health care, like environmental protection regulations. there is really no effort on their part to try to address jobs at all. it is really a social agenda. and, that is what we have done with gregg: i want to ask you both, i only have a minute left. we are facing a potential government shut down here. in 12 days. and, congress is deciding it is taking off the whole week. i mean, congressman mccotter what in the world is up for that. if there is a time for congress to be working and working hard,
Have all been kind of borrowing and doing gimmick and now, sort of run out of time and don t forget what happened to federal stimulus money, it tied the cities and the tides the city and states over, and that is ending and the new republican congress said states will not get a bailout and the focus, naturally, falls on all kind of spending, and, i think, particularly, on the employees, because, the employees, the government employees unions have really not sacrificed in the last 2-3 years, the way ordinary workers and taxpayers have, for example in new york city you saw a loss of over 100,000 jobs at one point and i think in the public works force a loss of 6,000 jobs, and so those kind of mismatches are what people are talking about. many private workers of course have lost their pensions, and many are facing foreclosure, or just a real tough time, and meanwhile the government is kind of entitlement complex keeps rolling on, government workers getting raises and their pension
Compromises about 70% and we have businesses and government. if we look the last two years, can consumers and business have pulled back on the spending side and coming back in the economy but if we look at the federal government, state and local they are running huge deficits. there is an effort to pull back on the spending and i don t know in the consumer and big owners are going to have enough to bring that back up. heather: bloggers are calling bullish prediction, we do know small businesses are not hiring and unemployment numbers have not shrunk. why would people start spending again. what is the incentive for them to get out and buy? the first incentive to just confidence. the belief that the world. economic world is not going to come to an end. the economy is truly coming out of the recession. you know what, we feel better about going out spending. when you are looking at unemployment numbers on a day-to-day basis. we got recent numbers that were
Gadhafi is hazy, and the state department spokesman p. j. crowley saying we have received multiple credible reports that hundreds of people have been killed and injured in several days of unrest. and the full extent of the death toll is unknown, due to the lack of access of international media and human rights organizations. officials at the you wez csuez s the passage of iranian warships is delayed two days and israel calls it provocative and yemen, protests, now raging for the 11th state day. the nation s president proposing to hold talks with those calling for the government s ouster. the opposition groups are rejecting the offer. the rulers of bahrain offering to talk to opposition groups there, but the opposition leaders say they want assurances this monarchy will actually carry out any proposed reforms. demonstrators have reclaimed the