journalist set himself on fire. the journalist who posted a video online calling for a revolt over unemployment and what he saw as unfulfilled promises of tunisia s 2011 arab spring revolution. earthquake triggered by the mount etna volcano left ten people injured in eastern sicily. the quake damaged several world homes, cracking highways and toppling a statue in a church. authorities in indonesia urging people to avoid coastal areas. a tsunami killed over 400 peopl people. the catastrophic 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed 230,000 people across asia. the government of japan announcing its leaving the international whaling commission to resume commercial hunts for the animals for the first time in 30 years. the government says the whale population has recovered enough to warrant resuming the hunts. it did say it would no longer go
a very good reason. japan also says local whale stocks are recovering so can there be such a thing as a sustainable whaling practice. insurgent grossly oversimplifies a lot of what it says about a lot of things and it s true that the moratorium on commercial whaling which it was agreed in in one hundred eighty two and which japan has fought hard against have a sense has allowed some whale population to recover so that s great and that s good news not all of them are not back necessarily due to pristine levels so we have to it we have to be really careful about those simplifications. and there are lots of good and bad things and what they re saying but breaking outside of the international whaling commission rule is a problem for us and it s a particular problem with other countries were to follow suit and that could be the case what about this argument that hunting and eating whales in japan is part of the culture and that the i.w.c. had kind of failed to see that how do you view that
they want people to work cheaply, more cheaply than native born citizens and on the left want to further argument or an agenda for big government. these demographic changes partly explain the emergence of socialism in the united states. a gallup poll from august found young america s ari more positive about socialism than they are about capitalism, 45%. that s a 12-point swing in only two years. bret. bret: doug, thanks. part to go tomorrow. up next, an old foe with a new threat to our airlines. first, beyond our borders tonight. at the government of japan announced today that it is leaving the international whaling commission to resume commercial hunts for the animals for the first time in 30 years. government says the whale population has recovered enough to warrant resuming the commercial hunts but the japanese did say there were no longer go to the anarchic for hunts, which often had a belief criticized by conservationist. tunisian authority say 18 people
any stretch of the imagination. but it s warming up. there s a big difference. and they are threatened. alaa has its fair share of endangered animals, but at the top of the list are six species of whales. starting in the early 1900s commercial whaling, which is the hunting of whales for profit, nearly depleted alaska s whale population before it was internationally banned in 1986. but long before commercial whaling existed, bare error barrow s native tribes hunted whales in a tradition called subsistence whaling, which is the harvesting of whales for the survival of the community. this way of hunting is still popular today. in fact, crews are allowed to harvest 25 whales per year because not one ounce is sold. and tonight i m going to the home of herman ashic, a local whaleboat captain, to learn about why whaling is still important in the increasingly modern barrow, and to sample a local delicacy. mmm. whale blubber. the other other other white meat.
george zimmerman at $1 million. you might remember he is the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in the death of trayvon martin. zimmerman s earlier bond of $150,000 was revoked after prosecutor told the judge that he misled the court about how much money he had. it is not clear how soon zimmerman is going to post bond or when he will be released. a florida lifeguard has been fired after saving a man from drowning. yes, that is right. thomas lopez says he was let go from his job in hillendale eare beach when he rescued a guy outside of his area of the beach. i am going the do what is right and i did. he says that several other lifeguards have quit to protest the firing and my colleague erin burnett is going to talk live to lopez tonight live on cnn s erin burnett outfront at 7:00 p.m. president obama kicked off this bus tour in a politically critical state of ohio. the road to the white house has run through ohio and the president has made