Hello and welcome to news room international. We are going to take you around the world in 60 minutes. Here is some of what we are working on. Those relentless fires continue to burn across huge areas of southeastern australia. Lance armstrong at the center of controversy again this after reports that he tried to give 250,000 to an antidoping agency. First president obama making another cabinet pick. The president will nominate white house chief of staff jack lew to replace Timothy Geithner as treasury secretary. Tell us about jack lew. Jack lew is the chief of staff known as a tough negotiator, someone who the president has complete trust in. In fact, when he was announced as the white house chief of staff the president talked about the trust that he had in him, talked about how he had taken a part in helping to right the ailing economy. This is also someone who has worked in a couple of administrations as the budget chief in this administration and the Clinton Administration and help
Forth. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection. Ms. Heitkamp i ask further that the committeereported amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Heitkamp i ask unanimous consent that the Energy Committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 2440 and the senate proceed to its consideration. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk s. 2440 a bill to expand and extend the program to improve coordination by the bureau of lefthand management and for other bureau of Land Management and for other purposes. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. Ms. Heitkamp i ask unanimous consent that udall new mexico amendment whic
Companies should be required to cover overthecounter Birth Control because they dont do that now. A couple of things. One, i see this becoming more common in many different races. You see colorado and North Carolina in particular. A couple of senatorial candidates. I think that the fact that the left has reacted so loudly shows you that its working. I think they realize this is no longer a tactsic they can use. They can no longer caricaturize our position. When i originally offered this idea, we were following the recommendations at that time, the recent recommendations, of the medical societies themselves. The doctors themselves think this is a safe product, should be offered over the counter. Two things. One, allowing the product to be offered over the counter doesnt stop a woman from being able to get the product with a prescription through her doctor, therefore it would still be covered. Some of the democrats are trying to attack these Republican Senatorial candidates saying the In
Well, i think we have ignored it too long already. Its one of the big mistakes we make is assuming its a single block. There are billion 600 Million People in the muslim world, half in four countries, bangladesh, india, snowshower ya, indonesia and pakistan, and life for muslims is very defendant in each country. In the arab world, daytoday life is different in moore morocco than saudi arabia, and even if you assume theres one percent that has very stringent interpretation of islam, thats 16 Million People. A whole country, and not being engaged in the ideological and theological war with them, not dealing with elements that are reconcilable within the islamic world is a tragedy that is going to come to bite us and it may not be as doug said an existential threat, but its a threat where you can see casualties and hundreds of thousands through terrorist activity, and its something we have to worry about a great, great deal. Okay. Were out of time, but ive got a final question for the pa
And and sharif double the salaries and a were doubled. My question to you is based on your recommendation on religious pluralism and law enforcement, my question is in most of the cases in pakistan the Prime Ministers became Prime Minister after an accident. If you become Prime Minister and if you are asked to make the recommendation of the Prime Minister pragmatically what a something specifically the three or four steps you will do to bring this kind of terrorism and instability to a close . Thank you. Thank you very much. You are right it is an issue but the reason i would really like pakistan to thoroughly investigate and figure out who killed Benazir Bhutto because in the absence of a very clear answer it continues to become more popular and is those who are behind the killings think they can continue to kill and get away with it. We have seen in the recent past many of the politicians were killed. People of the National Party the pashtun in that area, many of the leaders, there w