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President Bush Speaks At Ground Zero - 9/14/01

In het programma 'Newsnight' schetste de Britse BBC dinsdag een portret van Herman Van Rompuy, de favoriet om de eerste president van Europa te worden.

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Swedish European Affairs Minister Cecilia Malmstrom, walking in to a meeting of European foreign ministers tells journalists that she expects EU prime ministers and presidents will choose the first-ever permanent president of the European Union at their dinner meeting on Thursday evening. Among the unofficial candidates: Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, Belgian PM Van Rompuy, Dutch PM Balkenende, and several others. Sweden currently holds the rotating six-month presidency of the union, which puts their ministers and prime-minister in charge of the key EU meetings during the second half of 2009. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is mentioned as a possible candidate for the post of European Foreign Minister. Source: BR-TV

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the eve of his inauguration to discuss corruption. Gwen Ifill reports.

Gwen Ifill speaks with Afghanistan experts about the government's corruption and what that could mean for U.S. war strategy there.

Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is taking her new book, "Going Rogue," across the country. Judy Woodruff gets reactions.

From the first U.S. presidential visit to China by Richard Nixon to President Barack Obama's current trip, each president has weighed foreign policy priorities when dealing with the communist nation. Historian Richard Norton Smith describes the balancing act U.S. presidents have played over the years.

Talks between President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao yielded a promise of slowing down climate change and nuclear proliferation, but fell short of making progress on human rights. Kwame Holman reports.

In other news, the U.S. Department of Energy reported that global carbon dioxide emissions rose 2 percent in 2008, and Iran sentenced five people to death for inciting June's mass protests.

Jim Lehrer speaks with a human rights activist and a China expert about the state of the struggle for human rights in China.

The vice chair of a government health panel that released controversial new recommendations for mammograms says the study's findings have been "misinterpreted" and apologized for a "lack of clarity."

John Merrow of Learning Matters revisits the Washington, D.C., public school system, which is struggling with budgetary constraints and teacher layoffs amid reform efforts.

A new report found that almost 15 percent of U.S. households had trouble finding enough food in 2008. Jeffrey Brown speaks with experts for more.

In other news, the U.N. nuclear agency reported that Iran plans to open a uranium enrichment plant by 2011, and the head of French forces in Afghanistan narrowly escaped a rocket attack in Kabul.

GlobalPost correspondent Josh Shin gets reactions from Beijing residents about President Obama's three-day trip to China.

Elizabeth Brackett of WTTW-Chicago looks at the economic benefits and the environmental costs of oil production in Canada's Alberta province.

Jeffrey Brown talks to author Robert M. Edsel about his new book "The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History."