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His body will lie in state for three days. his funeral will be this friday. mark potter with more. >> reporter: hugo chavez was first elected venezuela's president in 1998 and became a polarizing figure on the world stage. he was loved and hated at home, respected and ridiculed abroad. born to a family of teachers in 1954, chavez joined the venezuelan army where he despised the ruling elite. in 1998 chavez was appalled by orders from the then president to shoot civilians. in 1992, chavez led 12,000 troops in a failed coup against peres, chavez was jailed but pardons two years later. by then a ...

David, always great to see you, always every time i see you, i feel like some horrible environmental catastrophe has befallen us and we once again return to the question of why our political class, our rulers, the ruling elite, do not -- are not more focused on environmental concerns. you would think that this happening in washington, d.c. would spur some sort of action or at least thinking on the subject. >> you would think that would be the case. it's obvious, when i first heard this story i thought hang on, april 1st, that's past. it can't be an april fool's story. i think what's happened i...

amazing images i have seen in the history of modern royalty. ♪ >> a choir on the deck in the pouring rain, one of the great choirs. >> one of the great orchestras singing "royal britannia." let's listen to this. ♪ [ horning horns honking ] you are watching live pictures of the culmination of a remarkable 90 minutes, the queen's diamond jubilee here in london t is pouring with rain it has been horrendously cold, but nothing has dampened the spirits of the occasion. it has really been something incredibly special and you see her majesty, the queen there a fitting image with a lar...

which appears to hope that syria's president assad will negotiate his own departure, seems utterly doomed. instead, america, the western world, indeed, the civilized world should attempt to dislodge the assad regime. but is there a smart way to do it? for a number of reasons military intervention is unlikely to work well in syria. unlike in, say, libya, syria is not a vast country with huge stretches of land where rebels can retreat, hide, and be resupplied. syria is roughly one-tenth the size of libya, but with three times as many people. perhaps for this reason the syrian rebels ha...

why lyndon baines johnson could get things done in washington and the lessons for today. and is china changing from a company into a country? i'll explain. first, here's my take. whatever you thought of president obama's speech on afghanistan this week, it is now increasingly clear that the united states is winding down its massive military commitments to the two wars of the last decade. we are out of iraq and we will soon largely be out of afghanistan. osama bin laden is dead, al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. threats remain, but they are being handled using special force...