efficient. safe. protected. controlled. a utopian city-state run like a multinational company. welcome to singapore incorporated. this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder shchlt ah la la la la sha la la la singapore. one could be forgiven for thinking it s a giant, ultramodern shopping mall. an interconnected, fully wired, air-conditioned nanny state, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. and those things are kind of true, especially if you read the papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think, or you could be forgiven for thinking, gee, maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain t my sy
in the light of her faith, in his first christmas message. it is in the life giving light and with the true humility that lies in our service to others, but i believe we can find hope for the future. millions of people in the us and canada are spending christmas in the grip of a severe winter storm. it s brought extreme frost, heavy snow and strong winds. at least 35 people have died in weather related incidents, and around 175,000 homes are without power. 0ur north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, reports. a very white christmas has turned more into a deep freeze. the city of buffalo in new york state is used to tough weather conditions, but this storm has left it paralysed. many don t even have any power to cook their christmas lunch. i m really glad that i have a fireplace because otherwise i d be freezing right now. 43 inches of snow fell here as of christmas morning. driving is banned as the blizzard conditions leave roads impassable, power substations frozen and at l
Is expected to appear tuesday for an arraignment and phoenix unless he has granted a delay by the court hello again everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Ive heard Rica Whitfield and we begin this hour with break the news. Israeli war cabinet member and former deputy Prime Minister benny gantz delivering an ultimatum to Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu, saying he must choose between victory and disaster, and telling him the war cabinet must agree on a plan for the Gaza Conflict by June 8th Gantz is threatening to leave the Coalition Government if netanyahu does not meet his expectations, cnns Elliott Gucken is in tel aviv for us and were here now that theres a response from netanyahu there is a response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus Office Deriving Dismissing benny gantz as words, as washed up words, and saying the gantzs plan would result in a defeat for israel against hamas and also the abandonment and all the hostages who were abducted by Hamas On October the sevent
oh, man. they show us what s behind that map are some real trends they have to pay attention to. number one is the economy. look at this. that was the big issue that everyone was voting on. 51% of the people that we surveyed said that was the big issue for them there. look at what happened there. we break it down by how much money they make. various categories. the biggest group is here. look n all of these groups, rick santorum won every one except for the people who make more than $200,000 a year. and he won big. if you look at this group, 30 to 50,000, he won 49% to romney s 21%. newt gingrich did better than mitt romney in this category. go to the lowest end group here and look at this, 65% to 13%. sure, mitt romney won a little bit, but down here his win not so impressive. 46% to santorum s 31%. when you are talking about one of the state s in the country with some of the lowest per capita income, winning with people that make more than $200,000 doesn t get you very fa
north korean, as president lee indicated north korea is already under an extraordinary battery of sanctions. they are the most isolated country in the world. they are cut off from basic commerce and exchanges beyond their borders that every other country almost every other country takes for granted. their people are extraordinarily impoveri impoverished, the contrast between living standards in the north and south could not be greater and could not be a greater testimony to the benefits of living in a free society. and so the real consequence should they go forward with the launch is they will have missed an opportunity because what we presented to them and what we ve consistently presented to them is an opportunity for them to take a different path than the one they ve been taking which is resulting in not simply hardship for their people, but a state that is decades behind their counterparts in the region in terms of development, in terms of economic strength, in terms of