united states president obama said exactly the same. twenty nine standing ovations to these really prime minister's speech before congress among other things showed just how powerful these really lobby is in washington despite president obama's support of a two state solution for israel and the palestinians his party members at their convention this fall called for moving the capital of israel from tel aviv to jerusalem it remains evident that there is no daylight between the two parties of israel obama was the guy who gave the impression with his cairo speech and others that he was willing to begin to renegotiate america's policy. on. israel and palestine but in fact when he came down to hard political realities has backed off but will he back off when israel decides to attack iran whoever is elected as america's next president will have to walk on the same reasonable weight which is between its road that is it going to bomb iran and the american people who don't want another costly and devastating war based on phony red lines in washi

united states receding but staying on the on the periphery because afghanistan for the united states is strategically important piece of the iran and also toward containment of china so that the united states is going to want to let the regional powers basically come in and do their thing they will probably moderate the taliban somewhat because of that interactivity but ultimately the united states is going to think about working alternately with what emerges from this from this chaos that we're seeing right now mike in beirut when you think about that it's just going to get worse and worse and worse so why should the west stay there. when indeed what we shouldn't i mean i agree with agnes point that the west is basically it's a bankrupt check in negotiations now with the taliban because it's already said it's leaving in two years so as i said before what do you say is your question the goetia sitting face to face the taliban would you say stop killing more troops or leave in two years it is a conscious make no sense in that sense that any right. i do i think what we're looking at le

and welcome back one more story tonight about the election and while the polls in the united states may show a dead heat in the race for the white house when you ask foreign nations who they want the next president to be well it's a landslide the b.b.c. surveyed more than twenty one thousand people in twenty one different nations and on average fifty percent of respondents shows president obama and only nine percent chose mitt romney france was the biggest supporter of obama with seventy two percent hoping for a reelection the only country that supported romney over obama was oddly pakistan and i'm guessing that has something to do with the incessant drone strikes that are killing innocent pakistani civilians around the clock of course with former bush war advisors like john bolton those drone strikes will only ramp up under a romney presidency and when you take a closer look at the numbers in pakistan they don't really want either of the two candidates in the white house who can blame them but still romney edges out obama in that country which has to mark the first time ever that pakis

come back to the united states to the federal reserve once inflation in the united states they want negative real rates that one flesh and they want to lower the value of the debt by inflating it away they want to force people into spending money if you think inflation is going to take off you're going to go out buy a car or buy a house or a refrigerator whatever it is that's what the fed wants the problem is the inflation has not been coming back to united states we haven't had very much inflation that's because it's showing up abroad because these other countries in brazil and china are good examples they're trying to keep their currencies low so they're printing the lowering rates and printing money absorbing these. capital inflows but bernanke you say we're not going to give up you know q.e. two doesn't do it you know we're now into q e three or you know they're just going to keep printing money and buying securities and flooding the world with dollars until these countries let their currencies appreciate at that point our imports will be a lot more expensive because our dollar

i start in the u.s., enof the u.s., and i feel as the this story is particularly needed in the united states. i don't believe that people in pakistan or china need to hear this because they see it. even a grown up like pakistan struggled. there's so much potential. it's the noangs growth style. if i had enough resources, i wouldn't tell people that and reap my dividends forever sharing it with other people. it is on the cusp of happening. very exciting. there's really three people in the country, and it's for anybody who believes there's possibility in the future and wonder why it's not happening more quickly. >> why are china, india, pack tan, why are they where they are economically if they are on the cusp? what's beginning not right in those countries that's going right here in the united states. >> well, pakistan does not have the moe men them of china and -- >> host: take brazil. >> guest: again, highly growing, evolved, but the thing that con trains growth in every country, and the simple -- you know, i go to places like the world bank, and if i'm invited to share thoughts with

president of the united states. mitt romney is laying out his foreign policy platform in just about 20 minutes from now and we have the live cameras trained at the virginia military institute. will you hear him as he takes to the mic and possibly a global audience. you will hear it here on cnn and from our unmatched team of correspondents and analysts from d.c. to beijing to beirut. we have you completely covered and we'll begin with wolf blitz inner washington. when it comes to foreign policy credibility, the obama camp is comparing mitt romney to chevy chase and our most recent poll shows voters give the president a 7-point edge on world affairs. is a challenger, any challenger, be it mitt romney or anyone else, obliged to do this, obliged to become the commander in chief like more a moment and give a foreign policy speech right before the election? >> yes. mitt romney has been aggressively pursuing the foreign policy area because he thinks the president is vulnerable. yes, the president did manage to kill osama b

she was flown there by the united arab emirates. the sheik says the attempt on her life was an attack on her and every girl's right to a future. her assailants must be brought to justice. the cdc and the fda have confirmed the presence of fungus in unopened vials in a steroid produced by the new england compounding center. it further links the center to the recent outbreak of fungal meningitis. the cdc says there are 257 cases linked to contaminated steroid injections. they're a confirmed case in new york, and that brings the total number of states affected to 16, and 20 people have died. >>> google had an odd day today, so it has to come out with its quarterly numbers and came out with them before they were supposed to. everybody got to see their disappointing numbers three and a half hours early, and they came in pretty much below everybody we spoke to, what they were expecting. that sent google shares plunging 8%. that's a lot in a very short amount of time. obviously, putting that out early while the market was open was a mistak

the first concern is the size of the unit, they feel the two-bedroom units should be made larger even if it results in less than city; they would like to see a driveway entrance on market street frontage to alleviate traffic on fifteenth street; respond to that quickly this is a transit preferential street as well as apedestrian preferential street. policies includeprohibiting new curb cuts on market street. they don't want to see in exceptions for the open space on the parcel and the revised project in front of you, there are no longer seeking a variance for exposure to the open space, relocated to the-- in full compliance with the open space requirement. this concludes my presentation. i am available for any comments you might have. >> thank you. >> project sponsor please. >> good afternoon commissioners. thank you for your time and for reviewing this project. i think as mentioned previously the market/octavia plan is a tender process -- katie o'brien, project sponsor -- is a 10 year process, 65-ft. high on market st., 70-ft. depth. (audio cutting in and out) also providing active c

the units? we do have minimums, but we do not have maximums. we are still operating within prescribed limits of unit sizes. nothing in this project is below code, is that correct? >> the project is before you, seeking your conditional use authorization; as such, you have the opportunity to determine if the project is or is not necessary or desirable for the neighborhood, or the city. that is one of the factors that goes into your determination. >> i will consider the process necessary and desirable because it creates an innovative solution for a difficult side. part of the idea of complying with sb 375, is to create units smaller than what we are used to. whether or not this plays out in the market is an altogether separate discussion; i do commend the architect that dealt with a difficult project in a way that this project offers us to look at it. another way that strikes me as an innovative idea was mr. cohen's idea that this exploit intersections and the difficulties all along market street,

by the united states especially at a time when in two thousand and eight the united states has reactivated the south atlantic and now we have a very strong military presence throughout latin america in the south atlantic just as. you have engineered insurrection and civil war which seems to be washington specialization in the so-called arab spring in the theater here and that we will be seeing a latin americans with different characteristics but where the united states will meddle in the internal affairs of just like them is where the and they will even activate a generalized latin american spring with will be turmoil social unrest and even civil war. there as president is being sued by chinese owned company for blocking its plan to wind farm investments only with territory the firm believe that barack obama acted lawfully when he banned the operate on national security concerns with only a month left before the us elections professor joseph chang and believes obama is just trying to score cheap popularity a point there is to contain china not to are now trying to church out of there where

up in the hands of the groups which they were hoping it would end up in quite on the contrary the united states officials are now saying that in fact the money that they keep sending over which then goes towards the purchasing of arms end up in the hands of the islamist extremist groups the arms are being purchased by qatar and saudi arabia which have a tendency to prefer the radical movements such as the sellers who then end up with these top notch extremely expensive weapons which they then use against the troops of president bashar also even groups the secular opposition groups within syria itself are saying that they simply cannot afford to buy the same type of arms which are being used by the radicals neither do they can they afford the cameras which are being used by these radical groups such as the free syrian army who are then using it to broadcast their accomplishments or failures on you tube and the like of course the united states administration at this point is concerned that the arms are ending up in the hands of the extremist groups because they fear death in the future the

united nations, our office in the united nations, either. it's just the way it works. it's a system. it's almost mechanical. it's hard to short-circuit. in addition, the cia director would be calling the white house and videoconferences, calling the national security council. i have never seen an attack on the united states that was not immediately reported to the white house. >> but you say it's amateur hour to allow ambassador rice to be sent out with the limited information and to say what she said, why? >> well, somebody dropped the ball. i mean, those situation reports should have been going to her office in new york. she should have been stopped from taking, you know, saying what she did. it's a true blunder in a case like this, as we've seen. you know, who did not get her the paper. if she did get the paper and still went out on the talk shows and said it was a demonstration, then she should lose her job. >> david, you're right there on the ground in benghazi. as we get a bit more information about who knew what, when, as you talk to

he went into the united states senate in 2001 with the biggest surpluses in the history of the united states and six years later, left with massive deficits. during his time in the senate, national debt went up by $16,000 every second and in an earlier debate, he conceded spending was a problem when he was in the senate. we also have people who know how to work together. as a nonpartisan mayor in richmond, i worked to cut crime, build schools, and grow the economy, and as a governor in a tough time, we worked to win all kinds of accolades for the state. my opponent, when he was governor, said his job was to knock democrats soft teeth down their whiny throats and took a similar position in the senate, siding against compromise efforts led by then virginia's senior senator john warner. we need to join together to move forward and that's what i'll do as your next united states senator. >> mr. allen, your opening statement. >> thank you, bob, and thank you all for listening and watching this debate. folks, i envision a much better future than what we're having to endure these days and tha

we only have the findings and the study for units that are five units or more, i think, are the requirements of section 415. so, i think in order for this -- for the planning commission to be able to impose this condition, we'd want to determine that this nexus existed and that it was roughly proportional. in this situation there may be other ways of defining portionality. one may be, just by way of example, definitely apportion alpha silt. i think that's a situation the staff would need to work with project sponsor on establishing what the comparable level would be. there may be other ways of establishing that nexus. i don't have enough information, and i think we'd have to work with staff to figure out what that was. >> i'd be in favor of that kind of thing. it seems as though, although not speaking necessarily to the for sale, commissioner moore talked about all the variances. many of these variances deal with the lot as it is now. many of these variances are applicable to the existing situation with these two even larger because some of the variances deal with a deck over the property li

the security council were not simply vetoes against what the united states wants it was an attempt to prevent war and there's no way to get around that unless you can drum up some kind of an international incident that would look like put in an elaborate have egg on their face the interception of the syrian plane by herself already is a signal that nato countries are ready for open military confrontation with damascus that's the view of u.s. based on how war activists and journalists don de bar bunder international law this is an act of war and that turkey would be emboldened to commit this act makes me very nervous about what's going to happen going forward this is crazy i have no idea what the thinking is behind this other than to try to intimidate everyone involved on the other side of this nato would venture in syria that either back off or we're going to take it to the max i think that's the signal of washington is trying to send because turkey isn't doing this without an ok from washington and it's frightening that that's actually how aggressively they're playing at this point e

that the united states will be the strongest of the world's rich economies. u.s. growth is forecast to average 3%, much stronger than that was germany or france, at 1.2%, or even canada at 2.3%. increasingly the evidence suggests that the united states has come out of the financial crisis of 2008 in better shape than its peers because of the actions of its government. perhaps the most important cause of america's relative health is the federal reserve. ben bernanke understood the depths of the problem early and responded energetically and creatively. the clearest vindication of his actions has been that the european central bank after charting an opposite course for three years with disastrous results, has now adopted policies similar to the fed's, and thus avoided a potential lehman-like clapgz in europe. the leading experts on financial crises argue that the united states is performing better than most countries in similar circumstances in history. consumers are paying down debt, and consumer confidence is at its highest levels since september, 2007. every

three units, large house proposed on the two units. so, the proposal, i think there is a little confusion here. the proposal that is actually before you wasn't necessarily reertionved in the staff report. i do hope you looked at our letter. i think the crux of what we're talking about here is the replacement of the units and the replacement of two exiteding rent control dwelling units with two brand-new code complying below market rate units that mr. -- dennis is willing to restrict with a recorded nsr as below market rate units. i'd like to focus on that. i think that's what makes this a special unique opportunity and special project where we're actually going to take what is presumably affordable housing. we all know how rental housing works and represent control works in san francisco. rent control is vacancy dee controlled. once the unit is vacant the landlord can move to market rate. so, i completely agree many of the city's policies with respect to planning code 317 and the retention of affordable housing centers around the reten

the united states and european union as well as the united nations have impose sanctions on iran to persuade iran to stop the pursuit of a nuclear weapon. of major target is iran's oil industry. what you may not know the painstaking diplomacy when into making the sanctions first adopted then the effective. we need to convince consumers to stop wars significantly reduce purchases. many countries were worried reducing purchases would put them in a very difficult position. we reach out to other oil producers to encourage them to increase production to find alternative sources of oil for their help to that here in the united states we increased oil production by 700,000 barrels per day. weekdays countries as a national security matter. the approach has worked. we have certified every single one of iran's oil importers have cut or completely ended the purchase of iranian oil. and put increasing pressure while minimize the burden on the rest of the world. this strategy influence our engagement like sudan or the will stop flowing to get it going again matter to both of them and to us. both the econ

current use, and the usability of the units before, during and after unit merger. there is no information on the size of the building, two floors individually and together which is a major omission to even talk about livability and comparable which we often look at how far we -- when someone wants to merge various buildings into one. using the criteria by which we need to look at unit mergers, the common denominator which we agreed on. however that particular project has as i recall the existing condition as part of the middle; this project [indiscernible] only talks about the dream layout, i asked that we continue this project and look at it for that particular information to compare apples to apples. it would be less, easier for us to determine what it really it is that we are merging and reconsider doing that. i'm not opposed to consider it. am not prepared to consider it based on what is in front of me. >> commissioner antonini. >> i'm confused here. i am looking at the plants. we are looking at what exists now. it was merge many years ago. what was presented a

the united nations. now, once there, we could have continued those inspections. we had saddam hussein trapped. he also promised america that he would go to war as a last resort. those words mean something to me, as somebody who has been in combat." last resort." you've got to be able to look in the eyes of families and say to those parents, "i tried to do everything in my power to prevent the loss of your son and daughter." i don't believe the united states did that. and we pushed our allies aside. and so, today, we are 90 percent of the casualties and 90 percent of the cost, $200 billion -- $200 billion that could have been used for health care, for schools, for construction, for prescription drugs for seniors, and it's in iraq. and iraq is not even the center of the focus of the war on terror. the center is afghanistan, where, incidentally, there were more americans killed last year than the year before, where the opium production is 75 percent of the world's opium production, where 40 to 60 percent of

the mls unit on the title report --. >> i understand. you have accepted checks from the tenant since march? >> we did. >> so you knew there was an illegal unit. >> we knew there was unwarranted studio. this is only the second apartment building that we owned at the time. we've never had the case of an illegal unit. we, you know -- frankly, if someone had pointed out to us earlier that the situation was of that type, we would have acted sooner. but we are, you know, we are not real estate professionals, we hold this as an investment property. we actually thought unwarranted studios were, i didn't know the details of the law with regard to this. i didn't know that there was a 9 times penalty for not acting in the situation. i didn't know that there was, you know, there's a procedure you had to follow to make this happen. so we are as much a victim of the previous land lord as the tenant. we're acting in perfectly good faith and you follow the timeline, as soon as we met with our lawyer to understand the law, we obeyed it. >> thank you. >>

the largest group of the latino population in the united states. most people are not aware that since 1820 when the united states first started gathering immigration statistics there has been no nation in the world that has sent more people to the united states than mexico. and we're talking about legal immigration. more legal mexican immigrants have come to this country since 1820 than the irish, than the germans, than the french, than any other population. the reality is that great swathes of the united states and the west were originally part of mexico. california, nevada, parts of utah, texas, new mexico, arizona, colorado. that was all the northern territory of mexico, and there were mexican citizens living on that land before it became part of the united states. as they say in south texas or in northern new mexico, southern colorado, we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us. >> mexicans have a big presence here and they have had a big presence here. and it just does to show you how this country is a country of immigrants. so it's ver

the sea, the united states, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history. that britain could only aspire to be its junior partner, as the british foreign office recognized at that point in 1945. the united states had literally half the world's wealth, incredible security, controlled the entire western hemisphere, both oceans, the opposite sides of both oceans. there is never been anything like that in history. planners understood it. roosevelts planners were meeting to the second world war, designing the post world war. they were quite sophisticated about it in their pens for pretty much implemented. they wanted to make sure the united states would control what they called a grand area, which would include routinely the entire western hemisphere. the entire far east, the former british empire -- which the u.s. would be taking over -- and as much of eurasia as possible as well, crucially, its commercial and industrial centers in western europe. and with this region, they said, the united states should hold and questioned hour with military and economic supre

some will sue in the united states, others in the united kingdom, others in the netherlands? >> well, it -- it is possible that the plaintiffs could have sued in other places. they sued here because this is where they live. this is their adopted homeland because of that. the united states, under international law, clearly has jurisdiction to adjudicate claims between parties properly before them. >> is there some -- is there some super body that decides what constitutes a violation of the particular norms of international law? that is to say, these other countries that have jurisdiction, they decide for themselves, don't they, what -- whether there's been a violation of the international norm or not? >> well, if -- if there are proceedings with respect to those norms or violations, yes, they do. and then in domestic courts, there are international tribunals that have a limited jurisdiction, and they decide. there are some ad hoc tribunals that decide other cases. and the national -national courts have always been engines of decision making on -- on international law. in fact,

that so there's a much broader but the bait in the united states in t.v. channels and newspapers almost every day they want to have what impact does it have when the political parties agree that they like the status quo with campaign financing their way i mean there's no matter what the public says it doesn't matter what the probably about but you know why it's i mean of course you can say is that they all agree they don't agree the democrats don't like the new law so that you don't have to tell if you are a political organization the issue of the money the money they will say you have money going they don't tell anybody where they got it from you it's difference how both are you ready for a soldier to the campaigns and short of the campaign the issue of campaign finance has been complicated by the decision of the united states supreme court called citizens united which held that there's a first amendment right for corporations labor unions to spend unlimited amounts of money as long as they don't coordinate it with a particular candidate the coordination

it would be the united states. that would be the strongest place that you could put your money. and also he said, businesses make mistakes in addressing the london whale issue. he said that's what business is about. you make your miss tatakes and learn from them. >> he also sort of says, in a way, that government is headed towards making a very big mistake. jpmorgan's jamie dimon, never one to mince words, speaking at the council of foreign relations in washington this morning. he warns legislators that going off the so-called fiscal cliff is an unacceptable option for the nation and the economy. >> there are all these potential outcomes. i would defy any one of you to really know what they are. therefore, it is irresponsible policy just to say, let's see. let's not see. i mean risk management says let's try to avoid that. >> dimon says he has even bigger issues with the tone in washington regarding american business right now. >> if you think that washington and business can go to war with each other and it is goi

it is the legacy of the post colorado war period and in many ways the cold war, demands that the united states maintain, deployment all over the world and maintain military capacity to go into many regions of the world and defeat regional adversaries, maintain diplomatic influence and presence to be able to resolve many crises in the world, in short, it has the u.s. as the basic world solution to many problems, and my argument is that that posture is becoming insolvent, for a variety of reasons, not only are domestic economic problems that are making our current level of defense expenditures unsustainable but also transit world politics that are leading to a world of increasingly assertive emerging powers that definitely still want american leadership, but are yes, sir and, less and less tolerant of a world in which america dictates the outcome of problems so for those and other reasons i think that the default paradigm we have relied on is becoming unsustainable and we need to begin a dialogue about new options, new concepts that would underwrite a more sustainable vision for u.s. lead

the united states well let me correct myself the united states used to be america america it was a fantastic idea it was a unique idea unique in the world that's why everybody wanted to come to america but now it's no longer america because america is the idea and that idea has been. vanished from the geographical area known as the united states which is increasingly just one of two hundred other nation states that are covering the face of the globe skin disease so i'm very unhappy with the evolution of the u.s. what was the tipping point in your view where america was no longer america where you feel that freedom is been eroded more and more that's a very good question because you can make the argument that the united states or the idea of america which is what i prefer has been going downhill since just after its founding because you may recall that in seventeen ninety two not long after the country was in going downhill a long time well is the day they had arrived. yes. because in seven hundred ninety two they passed the alien and sedition acts which were horrible and. it basically made t

this is compared to the overall pipeline . the red bars are numbers of units. you see a spike in 2007 and a drop off in 2008. this correlates much more closely to the overall crash in the market as opposed to the reduction in five to nine. we have seen similar reductions in other small scale developments but we see acute decline in applications in the five to nine level. now, what is certainly true is that five to nine unit buildings do not represent a significant -- that you see predominant in south of market or mission bay so the smaller five to nine developments is a kind of development, a product that can be produced throughout the city, and thereby help meet our in fill housing goals. this is from the housing development that speaks to this neighborhood's sensitivity issue and infrastructure and apply these projects throughout the city indeed and this map which is a map of five to nine completed projects since 2001 you see quite a broad distribution across the city which is something that we ideally like to encourage moving forward. in addition a number of

so you go to great rationale it's the same basic it's the same basic rationale the united states the obama administration was looking for places where it could appear to be on quote unquote the right side of history and take the arab awakening when i mean if i didn't hear gentlemen i'm sorry we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria today with our. what's the strangest attempt to put the true take on. these u.s. president trying to overthrow the foreign country's gulf but his strategic game. merica recognized the district. wants to speak cuba takes to cope with the expectorant all don't talk at all but he will get a lot of heat i leave you q where you go but the russia. the cuban missile crisis games and brianna. you know sometimes you see a story and it's. and realized everything is. welcome to the big picture. sigrid laboratory was able to build the world's most sophisticated. tim's mission to teach me. this is why you should care only. i mean so only a city in europe the hosts of the twenty fourteen which are the picket. see. saw. a

the united states constitution treason against the united states shall consist only in levying war against them or in here or in adhering to their enemies giving them aid and comfort. by releasing the names of the libyans who've been working with the united states in a very dangerous part of the world has provided aid and comfort to our enemies in that region those same enemies who attacked our consulate on september eleventh and killed our ambassador another diplomat and his two security guards this is treason they're all eyes that should be stripped of his gavel on the oversight committee and kicked out of congress let him go back to making millions in california selling car alarms made in asia he's doing too much damage here in washington d.c. and that's the way it is tonight on the big picture monday october twenty second two thousand and twelve. for more information in the stories we covered visit our website. www dot org dot com and if you missed anything i'd show you can now watch it. at hulu dot com slash big picture also check out our two you tube channels or links. also to all th

the interests of agriculture and the united states are aligned. i am appalled that neither governor romney or president obama is talking about agriculture in this campaign. it is the foundation of the u.s. economy. i fought for ethanol since i was governor. it has been a great success. it has lowered the price of fuel, improved the quality of economy. it has created tens of thousands of jobs. it is a great example of bipartisan efforts. there is a new company with 100 yards. -- with 100 jobs. the governor and senator worked together with the champion better of commerce and brought the jobs here. this isn't a threat to our economy. the interests of agriculture and the united states of america are completely aligned. there is no need to choose. >> senator fisher? >> thank you very much. you know, i grew up in lincoln. my husband and i have been married 40 years, and i have lived in cherry county for those years with our family ranch, our three sons and denali. agriculture is important in this state. what is important is that we always work together

would you do differently as if knowing and saying that as the president of the united states he would do exactly the same what do you think well. i think that we have a choice between the iron fist of american empire and we have a the largest military in the world it's larger than the accumulated militaries of the whole rest of the planet at least in terms of budget and so there's that iron fist which is what romney would project or at what he has said let's go back to the cold war let's be bellicose let's threaten people with a war or do we put a velvet glove over the iron fist which is basically been the obama policy you know we'll help you out a little bit will be we'll talk conciliatory but get out of the way and the drone is going to drop a bomb on your head what do you expect from this debate monday night romney will basically say whatever he thinks it's going to take to get himself elected that's the problem he's got two constituencies basically that he's been appealing to want is basically old white male constituency. well his age people there fifty's sixty's seventy's who rem

has not the same relationship to israel than the united states of america. but this is a very big concern. what's going to happen in the region. we have to take this seriously. it's not only political or economic. this is the second point, the economic vision coming from the arab world. when i was talking, to the current president in tunisia i was with him recently, i don't have a problem as long as they deal with rule of law and democratic transparency for all this is is fun. my main problem with them is not the fact that the refer to islam. i'm -- my main problem is take on economic liberal economy. so this is my problem. he's a secular he has a problem with islamists because they're very, very conservative on religious terms and very liberal on economic terms. it's the same with muslim brotherhood as you know, recently dealing with world bank and imf. second thing. third thing is about education. very quickly, this is where we need to have a very deep discussion. there will be no democracy, no change over to work on education. i mean by education, educati

the kurds in february of one thousand nine hundred one one of the many reasons the united states used to justify their invasion of iraq so what does that apartment defense have to say about this a spokesperson told r.t. quote we are not aware of any official reports indicating an increase in birth defects at alba's or or fallujah that may be related to exposure to the metals contained in munitions used by the u.s. or coalition partners we always take very seriously public health concerns about any population now living in a combat theater unexploded ordinance including improvised explosive devices are a recognized hazard in other words at this point the pentagon doesn't see lead mercury or depleted uranium as recognize hazards in about a month the world health organization or gonna zation is set to release its long awaited study on the lingering health effects in iraq and it's expected their findings will make the same link that exposure to toxic medical's metals excuse me a result of repeated bombings has not just ravaged the country cities but its future generations bodies as well a

confrontation between the united states and iran over the nuclear, the united states did strike. of course, i'm not advocate -- very few people would advocate a strike, but if it did come to that, i really doubt that hard anybody in the region which every single tier over it. i do not think you are going to see mass demonstrations in the region, you know, arguing that iran has been wrong, iran is the victim here, you know, any such strike would come after much due diligence, many more talks, and that many more opportunities for iran to take a compromise. and the idea that iran is somehow going to become hailed if there is a strike i think is quite, i think it really contradicts what even a cursory read of the statements from the persian gulf leaders would say. so in conclusion i suppose i'm not overly optimistic but it would say that the united states and its partners have offered iran a way out. i think these offers have been genuine, well thought out. i think they are not maximalist. they are not i think as trita says, trying to change the regime. the regime accepts the deal on

so you go to great rationale it's the same basic it's the same basic rationale the united states the obama administration was looking for places where it could appear to be on quote unquote the right side of history and take the arab awakening wait a minute i didn't hear gentlemen i'm sorry we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria today with our. sacred laboratory to kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't do the doing about anything tombs mission to teach creation why it should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the r g dog. fever. sounds good to see. my son but also a month brother falls to the mines and since i started working at the moment i stayed. i think that in this country. as an environmental cost which is a local business mislabeled illegal and controlled by criminals. to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups. to pay. the full effect on. the a. system. we're talking about the syrian civil wa

we can't confirm any of that at the united nations today the country's foreign minister slammed the united states plus britain, france and others claiming the nations are responsible for the blood shed. >> we also wonder to what extent the states -- statements made by cut tar, saudi arabia, turkey, the united states and others, who what extent do these statements which clearly incite and support terrorism in syria with money, weapons and foreign fighters, to what extent are these in line with the international responsibilities of these countries in combating terrorism? >> shepard: of course, human rights groups blame the syrian regime for much of the killing in the 18-month uprising. in fact, observers say as many as 30,000 people have already died since the conflict began. "the fox report's" correspondent jonathan hunt life at the united nations for us again tonight. jonathan, the foreign minister's speech must have raised a lot of eyebrows in that place. >> to say the least, shep. it amounted to an argument that syria is involved essentially in a battle for survival of its government. it

well let's take a look at what's happening on the markets first to the united states where the official labor department reports has come in and it's an initial jobless claims are at three hundred sixty seven thousand for the month of september which was a bit better than expected and therefore we're seeing positive dynamics over in europe but we've also seen a pretty flat day looking mixed at the close of the session and that's on the back of the e.c.b. keeping its a key benchmark rate unchanged at no point seven five percent. in russia we've had another bad session up to choose day and wednesday so the third consecutive day of loss is that says oil prices remain a below ninety dollars per barrel and on the currencies markets the euro is seeing a massive gain at one point three two the dollar as you can see the key level and the russian ruble is losing value towards the euro and that's after mario druggy said that basically pledged support to the currency saying it's irreversible and say when a guy who's the deputy head of russia's central bank talks about his outlook for the. soon a l

that the united states and the especially the united states needs to start thinking outside the cold war era i think we're still very much thinking cold war terms i think russia has to become more involved in a positive manner in getting a cease fire and change in imposed in syria russia still has a lot of influence with syria it's probably the only ones with along with the iranians and the chinese to some degree but i think russia has for historical reasons a very important role to play and i think the americans are missing the opportunity there and instead of using the russia as a partner therefore they're trying to think along cold war terms and it's upsetting moscow of course ok you know if i go to omar i mean anything they just said there you know with the arming and saudi arabian every day now that's all bad for lebanon it always is bad for lebanon when stuff like this is happening. well yes yes it's bad for lebanon and any any any involvement of the lebanese in the syrian conflict is bad for lebanon are there on the side of the regime or on the side of the rabble i just want t

the links with united kingdom. and most of the weapons being smuggled to the syrian rebels from abroad are bolstering the strength of islamic extremists that's according to u.s. officials who say radical elements are poised to take over syria if asked of falls argus renegotiate has the details. the u.s. has admitted that the aid which they have been sending towards the syrian rebels actually does not end up in the hands of the groups which they were hoping it would end up in quite on the contrary the united states officials are now saying that in fact the money that they keep sending over which then goes towards the purchasing of arms which end up in the hands of the islamist extremist groups the arms are being purchased by qatar and saudi arabia which have a tendency to prefer the radical movements such as the cell if you screw them end up with these. extremely expensive weapons which they then use against the troops of president bashar al assad's even the groups the secular opposition groups within syria itself a

for the president of the united states to equate horses and bayonets, to ships in the united states navy, when the problems we face, you united states is engaged in commerce all over the world. that requires freedom of the seas. the problems of drug trafficking, problems of privacy, the problems of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, all of these things require that we have a capable navy. and, the fact that the navy is shrinking is an important, serious subject that merited a thoughtful, serious, important discussion. and all it got was a dismissive, arrogant answer from the president by someone who has never served in the military. i found it, really, disappointing. bill: the word sequestration was mentioned last night. that's a deal that apparently the folks in washington cut. they cut about $500 billion out of the military by the fist of january if you don't get a deal. -- 1st of january. what the president said last night, sequestration won't happen. first of all sequester is not something i proposed, it is something congress -- it will not happen. does anyone else in

west particularly the united states. you know this is certain arrogance in u.s. foreign policy and there's no question about that and you can play with it but the reality is that there is not a lot of space between obama's policies and the intentions of romney it wouldn't matter with the president is and i think it's important for your viewers to understand that he was has a particular orientation and you can take exception to a particular deny it it is what it is but it's interesting is that what we saw in the debate is that romney to blockade or or pander to his right he pandered to the middle because the way is going to get elected if he's going to be elected is he's got to grab the people who last election voted for obama and so he's got to move closer and closer to the center and we saw the that move yesterday i think it was a hugely important in this last debate if it's a hugely important strategy from his point of view and it might indeed be successful because moving to the center is how you get the swing voters a

united states where 98% of the customers lie? what is your job besides the actual transaction itself. >> one of the things we've done, gavin, is we've done 40 global access forms. we've gone around the country. we did one with you. >> gavin: in fresno. >> that's where we're building awareness. the president has used a large megaphone, if you're a business owner, if you're going to be happy with 2% to 3% growth don't export. if you want more than 2% a year you need to look at foreign markets. i think that has certainly broaden. that's one of the reasons why we're doing so well. more companies are exporting to more merging markets, which is tougher, and we still have a big banking crisis. a number of those things, but i would say the biggest issue that we still face as you identified is still awareness. too many companies i find the same thing in brazil. a large company. 200 million people. they speak portuguese. the rest of latin america speaks spanish, and they have a low level of exports considering it's gdp like the united stat

it became part of the united states. as they say in south texas or in northern new mexico, southern colorado, we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us. >> mexicans have a big presence here and they have had a big presence here. and it just does to show you how this country is a country of immigrants. so it's very difficult when you hear people say american values and american values are being threatened by the influx of immigrants from other countries. what american values? american values are values of immigrants that made this country. >> i'll throw out it's easy to argue for an open border, right, like the european community. it is never going to happen here. i don't think so. >> why? >> because the economic differences are so big. when an immigrant here in the united states can make in half an hour what they make a day in mexico, about $5 a day. still immigration has to do with economic forces, it's an economic problem. i don't think i'll live to see an open border between mexico and the united states even t