the old tongue, which you hear mentions of there. and across the northern sea there s the high valryian. really it s a neat thing that they did and populated the entire world with languages. even if they don t actually exist, it s not just a blanket of english. personally i would love to keep creating languages for project like the game of thrones, for tv shows, for movies. that s the dream to sit down and create a language. that dream is quickly becoming a reality. game of thrones is in the second season, and recently david fielded a call from another production team. this one from the sci-fi network. in late 2011 they were putting together a new show for the sci-fi network that was going to need a couple of invented languages. i looked at the initial script and said, yeah, this is something to do. i came up with a translation for spirit writer. you can still use the english writer. how do you say it? long form or short form? you tell me. that s easy for you to s
could delay negotiations on europe s debt crisis and that could impact the u.s. economy. more on that story later on. and then there are the parliamentary elections in greece. state tv says early exit polls show steep losses for the two main parties that have supported painful austerity measures. polls show an ultra right party making significant gains. today s vote is expected to have an impact on u.s. markets tomorrow. cnn s chief business correspondent ali velshi joins us live in a few moments to tell us how the markets might be reacting to this and what impact exactly these two elections, both in france and greece, just might have on the u.s. economy. back in this country now, a homicide investigation is happening right now at churchill downs. less than 12 hours after the kentucky durby, the body of a hispanic man was found near a horse barn. police suspect foul play. but won t know for sure until an autopsy is finished tomorrow. sergeant robert biven is a spokesman w
in damascus. annan is the highest level diplomat to meet with president bashar al assad since syria s violent uprising started a year ago. the former u.n. secretary general annan asked for a cease-fire and wants syria to allow relief agencies access to people caught in the fighting. i ve been here for a very short period. almost everyone i met wants peace. they want the violence to stop. they want to move on with their lives. while the two men talked peace in damascus, violence raged across syria. opposition activists say at least 25 people were killed in fighting today. hundreds gather in japan today marking the one-year anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami. nearly 16,000 people died in the disaster. another 3,000 are still missing. cnn s kyung lah shows us one city one year later. reporter: this is one area, still burying the scars of when the tsunami roared ashore a year ago. there is so much rebuilding to be done. for just one moment, this city paus
more people hurt, more people killed today across syria. this is the city of ham ma where nine died in street battles before security forces and anti-government fighters. violence has not let up despite today s nationwide vote on whether to change syria s constitution. much more on that in a minute. an update from michael holmes who is in beirut. nelson mandela, founding father of democracy in south africa, is out of the hospital. he was discharged today after being treated for an abdominal ailment. a family member said it was hernia surgery. the 93-year-old was impressened 27 years for fighting impar tied. he was awarded the nobel peace prize. turn to politics. mitt romney got what could be a much-needed boost in the tightening race for the republican nomination. arizona governor jan brewer publicly endorsed romney. she made the announcement on nbc s meet the press. he has that pro business background and that political history that i think that he would serve amer
nato authorities and u.s. authorities in afghanistan have issued a statement saying that, indeed, a drone went missing late last week over the afghan/iran border. so that, of course, eastern iran, western afghanistan. this drone, as all drones are, on an intelligence gathering mission. what the u.s. and nato will not say is that it was shot down by iran. they say it has gone policing, they believe it has gone down. they believe this may well be the drone that the iranians are talking about, but they also say that the crew operating the unmanned drone, had reported a loss of flight control, a loss of control, and ability to guide the drone and that it drifted. so their working theory at this point, if the iranians are telling the truth about it being inside iran, it may have drifted into iran. so far they are saying they cannot confirm on the part of nato and the u.s. it was shot down by the iranians, but there s pretty good reason at this point it appears to be that the drone