thatcher. -- question about mrs. thatcher. what was her take on alternative medicine? and how would she compare ideologically to david cameron? host: as to the first question, i am afraid i don't know what her stance was on that. she was a tremendously practical woman and i would suspect she would accept anything that would work and reject anything that did not. as to the second, she seemed to have had a lukewarm relationship with the current prime minister. she didn't embrace him like she embraced some of her other ministers, former leaders of the tory party. at the same time she was not as disappointed in him as she was in her immediate successor, john major. i think prime minister cameron is the perfect example of the new tory, somebody who embraces the free enterprise way of the tory party, but also reaches back to the one-nation idea of a caring, big society. host: new carollton, maryland. caller: my question for amanda is, what would you describe as margaret thatcher's policy toward africa? from my understanding, all the years she was and how where she did not pr

. >> meryl streep takes on margaret thatcher on the big screen. she talks exclusively to the bbc about her role as the iron lady. >> i wanted to in some way capture what ever it was that drew people to her. >> welcome to our viewers on pbs and around the globe. it is not too often that you get dinner with an icon of peace but today the u.s. secretary of state makes history when she had dinner with the nobel prize laureate, aung san suu kyi. hillary clinton is the most senior official to visit the country in more than half a century. where is the guarantee that this new openness will actually last? our reporter is traveling with mrs. clinton and her report has flash photography. >> an american secretary of state shaking hands with the president's, thein sein. then a meeting with the opposition leader, aung san suu kyi. both were unthinkable merely months ago but this is a sign that things are changing. the burmese president laid out his program. he seems keen on the outs had expertise on this unfamiliar path towards change. -- he seemed keen on the

. >> meryl streep takes on margaret thatcher on the big screen. she talks exclusively to the bbc about her role as the iron lady. >> i wanted to in some way capture what everett was that drew people to her. >> welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. the u.s. secretary of state made history when she dined with nobel laureate aung san suu kyi. hillary clinton is the most senior official to visit the country in more than half a century. she met with the most famous political prisoner. is there a lasting guarantee that this new openness will last? >> an american secretary of state shaking hands with burma's president, thein sein, a former junta leader. then, face-to-face with aung san suu kyi. this was all unthinkable even a few months ago. this is a sign that things might be changing in this country. in the morning, at the capitol, the burmese president laid out his program for reform. he seemed keen on this outside expertise on change. the american diplomat gave some praise but said that more work was required. she offered inc

>> safer: margaret thatcher is 86 now. her daughter carol has written openly about her mother's slide into the darkness of dementia. the film tackles the issue head on. did you have any concerns about showing this once remarkably vital woman having lost it all? >> streep: well, that was the part that most intrigued me. first of all, i don't... i don't feel there's any shame in dementia, in people that suffer it. >> and you're not prime minister anymore. >> streep: to tell an honest story about a big life in its ebb, you have to... you have to deal with this part of it. >> safer: there's one observation that gets her back up-- when people note that she's played a lot of strong-minded women. >> streep: no one has ever asked an actor, "you're playing a strong-minded man." we assume that men are strong- minded or have opinions, but a strong-minded woman is a different animal. >> safer: she's the public face of a movement to build a national women's history museum in washington. >> streep: margaret thatcher said, "if you want s

thatcher era? were issued back in popularity are back in the news. >> the "newsweek" team felt very strongly that the issues that help to bring thatcher down, ironically, are the very same issues that confronting europe today. the most important rule is the question of your european integration. as you know, the euro is sinking. there is a desperate attempt to keep it afloat among the countries of the portugal ireland, spain and greece. and that proposal is for a european super state, where there will be complete escalon political integration. that is the very topic that margaret thatcher put her stake in the ground on. and she says that the greater fiscal and political integration would lead to a stronger undemocratic no enterprise, high unemployment entity, where individual countries would not be allowed to control their own destiny because they would not build a center in interest rates. they were not able to set their own currency exchange. and she fought against that at last. that is why the p

margaret thatcher. it is called the iron lady. >> plus, have you gotten a parking ticket in d.c. lately? if so, you're helping to contribute tens of millions of dollars to the city coffers. makes you happy, doesn't it? we'll be right back. >>> welcome back, everyone. you definitely need to bundle up, stepping thought morning. forecast stays chilly. temperatures in the 20s and 30s. our day planner will keep us in the 40s later on this afternoon with some increasing cloud cover and then another cold night tonight. monika? >> taking a look live at the scene of a deadly crash in langley park inside the beltway. university boulevard at piney branch road, it happened overnight and it will remain closed in both directions of university boulevard here at piney branch road for several hours. please plan early for your alternate routes. i'm also getting word of an accident on the beltway in tysons. i'll have that coming up at 5:48. >> d.c. is writing record. as of parking tickets compared to other cities of a sim

. >> tell me about margaret thatcher. these are the days of thatcher. thatcherism is rising in america. >> this terrific piece by the historian amanda foreman who wrote one of the best five books of the year. she's an amazing writer and spent a lot of time talking to all the leaders. she's got an interview with cameron, all about how mrs. thatcher is actually becoming more relevant than ever. there's this big new movie out with meryl streep who is absolutely good in the movie. but what i think is interesting is one of the points she makes is how thatcher has been completely rejected in a sense by feminists even though you could say she's one of the great feminist icons. in 2009, the deputy leader of the labor party launched this poll which talks about the 16 most influential women in british history, she was left off the list, which is unbelievable. >> that's a joke. >> she's never been claimed in a sense as a woman as well as a leader. >> well, because she's a conservative. it's because she's a conservative. it's just like conservative minorities who a

that's exactly how margaret thatcher really speak. >> meryl transformed into her. ronald reagan sent alexander haig to buy her off the falklands. you do not need to do this, keep it peaceful, and we'll cut a deal. that's the turning point for reagan, he had such incredible respect. in a charming way, she showed alexander haig the door. >> i met her a few times. i've written something about her she didn't like, it was about some economic policy she had. she came up and began jabbing me with her bony finger really hard. listen to me, young man. boom, boom, boom. she had this huge tumbler of whiskey. it's uncanny, she looks like her, and speaks like her. that's exactly how margaret thatcher really speak. >> meryl transformed into her. ronald reagan sent alexander haig to buy her off the falklands. you do not need to do this, keep it peaceful, and we'll cut a deal. that's the turning point for reagan, he had such incredible respect. in a charming way, she showed alexander haig the door. >> i met her a few times. i've written something about her she didn't like, it was

margaret thatcher made tough decisions. she put people line of work and stood up to labor unions and a lot of things i did not like. some of that turned out to be the right decision. here is a principal leader. this is where i am avoid by the fact that conservatives love this movie and liberals love this movie. at the beginning, as the movie was progressing, you had a situation where they would not see the movie. people close to you her would say, how dare you. because they read the script and we did not center. the liberals would say, if you do not demonize her, i do not show up. you will see one of the most awful bloodied performances in movie history. barbara walters said, and she was leaving the theater, it was one of the best performances she had ever seen. it is also a movie that deals with the top staff. tavis: i am not a margaret thatcher fan, either. but because it meryl streep as an amazing actor, i want to see what she does. to the question i wanted to get back to, this notion of how it is, it is a good fortune t

then the police show marget thatcher was -- margaret thatcher was warned more was to come. what started in liverpool in july spread to other cities and continued tire days. this shows how quickly is due cart to reconstruct at the time was exactly what crowded their minds. not least the flickering moment when they chose to arm the theaters then changed their minds. >> every new year here at the national archives, secret government papers from 30 years ago are released. i've been looking at them over the past year and this is never did -- overshadowed are the events. this year, like 1981, will be scarred by the riots. "bbc news." >> you're watching "bbc world news." with me, david eades. the headlines this hour. in a bid to improve trade ties with australia and new zealand, is a moet et has moved time zones crossing the international date line skipping out friday entirely. north korea's new lineup warns foolish politicians around the world, there will be no change in its policys with the sfreem new leader. now london olympics getting closer, aren't they? seven months ago befo

>> tell me about margaret thatcher. i had the pleasure of knowing mrs. thatcher and met her quite a few times, actually. and she was a formidable woman. i mean, she's still alive, obviously. but she's in her dotage now. but at her peak really one of the most impressive, formidable people i've ever met in my life. >> when i first came on the show, i said i don't know if anybody will ever invite me out to a dinner because the conservatives told us if you do not saint her, do not expect to go anywhere on our side of the fence. and the liberal friends of mine to me if you do not demonize that woman then don't expect anything. so i figure i'll be in a cave somewhere. >> let's watch a clip from the movie. let's see meryl streep in action here. >> we will stand on principle, or we will not stand at all. >> but margaret-w all due respect, when one has been to war -- >> with all due respect, sir, i have done battle every single day of my life, and many men have underestimated me before. this lot seem bound to do the same. but they will rue the day. >> i mean, i -

was no longer viable by by by the by the notions of reagan and thatcher basically. would it not be more correct to say that it was because there was so many people who wanted to be included in it was breaking the back of the deal would it not be more accurate to say that it was that the deal was no longer viable if there was still to be a and over which class. well yes exactly i'm not saying it isn't the going all the hole that they would have had to change the economic system and in fact not only did they have a new bridge class but they had a new bridge across which seemed to want more and more of a share of the pie which in fact since reagan and thatcher they've been getting i mean the division of wealth has been dramatic as specially in america the impact has been a spate of massive lowering cost mobility people don't seem to realize that we're no longer nearly as much a land of opportunity as we used to be places like sweden actually have much higher class and ability than we did in fact among the thirty four e.c.u. countries i think we're either at the bottom

that's exactly how margaret thatcher really speak. >> meryl transformed into her. ronald reagan sent alexander haig to buy her off the falklands. you do not need to do this, keep it peaceful, and we'll cut a deal. that's the turning point for reagan, he had such incredible respect. in a charming way, she showed alexander haig the door. >> i met her a few times. i've written something about her she didn't like, it was about some economic policy she had. she came up and began jabbing me with her bony finger really hard. listen to me, young man. boom, boom, boom. she had this huge tumbler of whiskey. she'll slug it back, bang you with her fingers, very churchillian i always thought. >> and she lasted longer than churchill. the great thing before -- and the research is, the name the iron lady -- it came from the red army newspaper because she made a speech that was anti-soviet. >> that's right. >> so they called her the iron lady. the great thing about margaret thatcher it was meant as an insult. she loved the name. she sent a letter back to them and said, i totally ap

thatcher, can you tell us how you wrote this book? >> yes. i had to decide first whether i wanted to do it in one volume or two. i had already thought that the first thing i must do is to tell the story of the years when i was in number 10 downing street. they were exciting years, purposeful years. we changed the entire economy. we had a war to fight. we had the libyan raid, the end of the cold war, we had the gulf. how should i do it? and so, i thought, instead of telling it in enormous detail, as some people do almost a diary of every day, i would take the main themes and follow them through and try to but them in a tiny frame of the three elections which i fought. the first thing i had to do was to get the whole structure of the chapters right. then i sat down and wrote as much as i could remember about each without, in fact, referring to documents, major leaguing a note of what i needed to look up. and then for accuracy, there are masses and masses which must be consulted, every meeting i had with the foreign states, internal ministers, w

it is being revealed that margaret thatcher was advised that regenerating the area was an advantage. it is a surprise to those who live in the area and remember the trouble. >> the government was trying to deal with militancy. in their eyes, they were losing ground no matter what they did in liverpool. there was nothing to lose. >> government documents referred to advice given to the prime minister. she was warned not to overcommit and send economic resources to liverpool. the option of decline here is one that should not be forgotten. the chancellor at the time said economically abandoning liverpool was never seriously considered. >> i was not advocating managed decline. it was a misunderstanding of specific objectives. >> following the riots, the conservative leader this is in liverpool and supported degeneration. what the documents do we feel is that financially abandoning a bridges city over a time was discussed at the highest levels. >> this is bbc world news. top stories at this hour. syrian security forces are reported to have killed at least 35 people. an explosion in nigeria

thatcher not to overcommit scarce economic resources to liverpool. the option of managed decline is one that should not be forgotten. the chancellor at the time said economically abandoning liverpool was never seriously considered. >> i was not advocating managed decline. there was a misunderstanding of specific objectives. >> following the riots, the conservative leader did visit liverpool and support regeneration. what the cabinet documents to reveal is financially abandoning a british city over a period of time was discussed at the highest level. >> the president and the prime minister of turkey have expressed regret and sadness at the deaths of 35 civilians killed in an air force attacked. thousands of people attended funerals for the victims. the smugglers were thought to be mistaken for kurdish separatist guerrillas. >> thousands gathered for the funerals of 35 people killed. they went up is not in past to get fuel and cigarettes. they mistook them for kurdish rebels. they were taken on the past one last time. many of them were not yet 20. the

it's like watching an alchemist because she just becomes margaret thatcher. then you can do anything. the fair treatment of her, political treatment of her. marilyn goes from 40 to 85. so you watch meryl play every different age and each age has a walk or movement to it. we do all the politics. i'm thinking about entering as a republican in a race because she said, thank god for harvey weinstein in the post. all these conservatives, bill. >> let me tell you how many times i voted republican. >> i voted republican for giuliani, governor petacki. in my life, when a candidate is good, i don't care what they are. >> it's just called leadership. >> that's what i think tharg ret thatc thatcher was like. she turned out to be right about so many things. i would see her and detest her, and it was like medicine for bad school kids. and so much of what's going on in europe with the euro, i mean, if you read her speeches, it's uncannily scary how she predicted this cries. you'll laugh, you'll cry, rir lynn is kreet and the. >> i thought i had the best job. i think you ha

newly released files showed the prime minister, margaret thatcher, was warned of worse to come. a secret paper said spontaneous disorder was likely among ethnic minorities. it started in liverpool in early july and spread to other cities. files showed's own how closely she followed the events. >> it's very hard to reconstruct. it is exactly what she knew and when and the thoughts that went through their mind in terms of possibilities, not least that flickering moment when they considered using the army. >> instead, she made certain the police had the equipment they wanted, including plastic bullets, water cannons. >> every year, a secret government papers are released from 30 years ago. i have been looking at them for about the last decade or so. this is the first year i can remember where there has been such a close parallel between events and then and now. civil disturbance on this scale overshadows other events. this year, like 1981, will be scarred by the riots. bbc news. >> >> let's get the headlines on "bbc world news." after one week of building violence across syria, rep

today she compared to herself to britain margaret thatcher. griff jenkins talked to her and she talked about what iowa voters are saying on the trail. >> it's like an electric light switch that went off the last debate. after the sioux city debate in iowa, they could see the way i talk on ron paul. on whether or not iran could have a nuclear weapon, that is very important issue. they want to make sure we don't have a problem with national security and a of all the candidates in the race i am most current with national security experience. the world is a problematic place right now. we are probably more vulnerable than we've been in 40 years. so the next president is very important they see me somebody can stand up for the country. together we need to stand up for ourselves across the world but stand up with the economy. >> reporter: if you don't finish in the top tier, top three or new hampshire as you go, at what point do you begin to evaluate your bid and go back and run for congress so you can continue the fight that you've led in washingto

. >> andrea: margaret thatcher should be number one. >> kimberly: i said guys and you said margaret thatcher. >> andrea: sorry. abilit.billy graham. bill clinton. there is margaret thatcher. we are all over the place. >> kimberly: okay. we're going over the men. what do we got -- a full screen for the guys? president barack obama is on top. then president george w. bush coming in second. third, president clinton followed by as andrea referenced reverend billy graham and the warren buffett in that order. i can't believe buffett is that high. >> greg: no carrot top. >> kimberly: who cares about that? >> bob: eric said while you talk about that, this is what we're doing. when the men are up, we do men. when the women are up, we do -- >> eric: i'm confused. >> bob: you are on top of this game. >> eric: there are some women that may be -- i don't want to go there. >> greg: are they allowed to offer generic, it doesn't have to be a famous person. it could be like somebody that you know has a parent or -- they never do. who gives them the list. >> kimberly: medal of honor -- >> bob: when people, al

. >>> and what do michele bachmann and thatcher have in common? today's moment you missed. >>> we begin with mitt romney's beef with big bird. he says the public can't pay for public broadcasting anymore and "sesame street" will have to pay its own way by running commercials. >> my test is a program so critical that it's worth borrowing from china to pay for it? i can say -- so some things you might say, i like the national endowment for the arts, i do. i like pbs. we subsidize pbs. look. i'm going to stop that. i'm going to say pbs is going to have to have advertisement. we're not going to kill big bird, but big bird's going have to have advertisements, all right? >> jim, it's not much of a bumper sticker, is it? i will not kill big bird? >> reporter: no. elmo is not tickled by what mitt romney has to say about killing big bird and eliminating federal funding for pbs, but this is something conservatives have had their budget knives out for many years. as a matter of fact, earlier this year house republicans talked about eliminating federal fundin

this just an amazing picture of meryl streep portraying margaret thatcher. of course, the first and only female prime minister of the united kingdom. the film takes a look at the times from meryl's ascension to her role there. the struggles that she faced to overcome classism and sexism. a clip from one of the more dramatic scenes she has dealing with some of the members of parliament. >> we will stand on principle, or we will not stand at all. >> margaret, with all due respect, when one has been to war -- >> with all due respect, sir, i have done battle every single day of my life. and many men have underestimated me before. >> and from that performance, rotten tomatoes gives this one 66%. from "l.a. weekly" saying the film fudges the damning and incidental as relevant on this, saying it gives justification for thatcher's life as a real in 60 years. >>> another option you have is "war horse," one of the new steven spielberg movies opened up over christmas weekend. basically a story about the loving relationship between a young boy, albert, and his horse, jo

stay tuned for insomniac theater. >> it is like an uncanny resemblance she has to margaret thatcher. >> she is great in everything she does. let's face it. we are talking meryl streep. >> the pro. first this friday morning, a dramatic rescue of a man and his dog dangling from a cliff in southern california. >> it started with littering and involved a dog a little too trained. abc's clayton sandell reports from a rugged hillside in los angeles. >> reporter: it started as a normal family hike that in an instant plunged 19-year-old ivan into a nightmare. ivan was hiking with his brother and father when his dad threw a bottle over the edge of a 300 foot drop. that's when lola, a german shepard mix, fetched. she slid down the side of the ravine, 150 feet from the bottom. ivan tried to rescue her and then needed his own rescue. >> the terrain was very steep. >> 35 fire fighters responded as ivan and lola waited 90 minutes dangling as rescuers inched closer on an unstable hillside. they wanted to use a helicopter to hoist them out but the wind from the rotor blade forced them to plan b. >>

i think we need an american margaret thatcher, an american iron lady. i am presenting myself as that candidate to be a very strong, resolute woman who will stand up for our country. i know exactly what needs to be done. i will do it. i will repeal obamacare. i will repeal dodd/frank and put in place a pro-growth tax code. as a former tax lawyer, i know exactly what to do with that. i am looking forward to being america's next, hopefully, margaret thatcher. >> monica: there are a lot of negative ads, newt hitting mitt and ron paul mitt hitting everybody, apparently. have you focused on running a very positive campaign and very strong in the debate. you have hit romny and gingrich on policy. but your whole campaign has had a very positive note to it. given the fact that negative campaigning really does work, and we are seeing it in newt gingrich's numbers starting to slide because he's getting hit, do you regret staying positive and not going negative? >> you know, i think, again, the best way to campaign in iowa is person to person. we are working extrem

and in it margaret thatcher was talking -- who doesn't? in 1975, margaret thatcher was talking about how the tories lost two elections in a row. and she said the reason why we lost two elections in a row is because we were more focused on macro economics than we were on average britons. and she said we can never again lose sight of how policies impact average britons. >> yeah. first of all, i listen to my margaret thatcher speeches on audio book, not read them, we're a little different, i guess. >> it is a generational thing. that's where republicans sit. even if they were right in substance, they were wrong -- >> i think we need to step back for a second and look at where we started, which was obama came out and said, pass my jobs bill. $450 billion jobs bill roughly. and he said, pass it, i want it passed in full, so on and so forth. republicans were able to get him to only pass $30 billion of that, that's 1/15 of the jobs bill. and yet they come out of this debate looking terrible. and the reason why is because they stopped focusing on