the u.s. invasion of grenada remains a symbol of how far the united states will go to keep socialism from spreading in this hemisphere and while grenada may be a distant memory for some the recent interventions in haiti that as well as hunter s. and ecuador silverman fresh in those people's minds for an artsy washington d.c. . now islamophobia is an vogue when it comes to the united states muslims are the fashionable new boogie man of our society kind of like communist word during the days of the red scare say something idiotic about being terrified of all those scary muslims in their garb and you'll get instant street cred with the bigoted far right for a hefty new fox contract but of course i digress now in this line of thinking that turns all mosques into terrorist training centers and all brown people who happen to read the koran into crane's suicide bombers by that logic the obama administration's proposed sixty eight billion dollar arms deal with saudi arabia should have been front and c

now with the u.s. having dismal jobs numbers you think it might have a global impact but it turns out that that might not be the case recent reports show that other countries are boasting much more profitable economies right now so we'll speak with our chief financial correspondent lauren lyster about the stats and a little word called decoupling next we'll tell you about a new trend on the campaign trail candidates especially g.o.p. candidates are getting money from foreign sources there's a lot of secrecy around it but we're going to uncover it today with reporters. and in a world where fox news gets great ratings and people listen to glenn beck we found one guy who wants to take him off the air his name is matt sky and he's in protesting beck's program on the streets of new york so we'll speak with him and ask why he thinks the glenn beck hates america then we'll debate prop nineteen it's a measure to legalize marijuana in california if it does pass in the november election what side effects could c

if the u.s. doesn't win the war this way if the rest of the world decides you know what like for example china says and i've talked about this on this show before. if china is the first to monetize their gold supply they would affect be the winner as per the nash equilibrium or game theory because a lot of money would suddenly flood into china they would have a gold backed currency and they could win this gold and currency war if they were the first to move but i'm not sure if china is that agile on its currency feet well jim rickards to put this into context he is a man who has advised to a u.s. government on many occasions he does meet with the treasury so this could be seeing into the mind of what is going on behind the scenes and we do know that many central banks have been buying gold in the past year for the first time in decades central banks are now net buyers of gold. on the other hand you know the other big story going on in the participation of the currency wars is the collapse of the

u.s. so they need more money to combat the efforts of america's enemies and on that list of enemies they included r t we're going to give you guys more on that coming up just ahead. seven thirty am in moscow good to have you with us here on our team using your headlines the thai government set to discuss the fate of alleged russian arms smuggler victor boot who is facing extradition to the u.s. this comes after a bangkok court dismissed charges against the businessman effectively removing the main obstacle to his extradition who is wanted in the u.s. on charges of terrorism and money laundering if convicted he could face life in prison. we can't allow ourselves to be out communicated by our enemies the vanguard of u.s. international broadcasting calls for more the battle rising media voices around the world according to the broadcasting board of governors america's voice is being drowned down by independent foreign media its head has come under criticism for what's being labeled as a cold

shifting away from the u.s. empire over to something in asia and remember geithner is coming out tomorrow with his report about whether or not the chinese are manipulating their currency headline reads suddenly everyone wants to know what the plaza accord is so this is from joe wiesenthal a business insider and he's referring to people searching and this is the chart you see here is google trends they're searching for plaza accord which is the one thousand nine hundred five intervention in the currency markets but if you look at who's searching it's mostly from hong kong and singapore where all of the world's wealth and capital and savings reside well look the u.s. is going to wake up one day in the very near future and find that ghastly this two or three times higher and prize food is already skyrocketing in price and they'll have nowhere to turn their government is not controlled by corporations barack obama is a puppet of the corporations he is completely an empty suit these are manchurian candidate up there

within minutes, u.s. officials orders every plane with any package from yemen to be intercepted and searched. the packages were sent from yemen to chicago by fedex through dubai and the other by ups through england. early today, british authorities at the east midlands airport, north of london, seized a large box with a printer, whose toner cartridge appeared to have been tampered with. loaded with almost a pound of white powder, where there should have been black powder. the president's lead counter terror adviser said it was an explosive compound that officials said was going to be somehow detonated by a cell phone. >> they were not letters. they were larger than that, think about bread boxes or so in terms of size. we don't know yet how they were intended to be activated. >> reporter: officials believe the powder may be the homemade highly explosive petn, used in the failed plots by the so-called shoe bomber and the underwear bomber. even a small amount of petn can cause huge damage, as seen in this de

i think u.s. commanders see the time ticking out on their mission in afghanistan knowing that unless they close the safe havens, they've got trouble. >> warner: so that brings up afghanistan front and center. do the two governments actually have different... a key difference in their aim there is? what's the end state they'd like to see? >> i think pakistan, like most countries in the region, heard the president's speech at west point last year and saw july, 2011, as the date by which the american military would begin withdrawing and the speed is not clear. but that's what they heard and that's what they a a hedgigi their bets on. clearly they don't see a military solution to the conflict in afghanistan. success will be defined by how quickley the afghans take over the fight and how much reconciliation can bring back people like haqqani or other elements of the taliban. >> warner: but, i mean, petraeus and karzai are saying the same thing, essentially, it has to be a political solution. so what's

u.s., astoria and hong kong. some prosecutor are reluctant to introduce videotaping thinking it may discourage suspects from speaking truthfully. but the controversy is now leading to more pressure to reform investigative matters. >> thank you very much for your report. >>> three japanese nationals released by china have returned to japan. they were detained for ten days on suspicion of entering a restricted military zone. at a news conference, they claimed they unknowingly entered the area. china freed the three men on thursday. they have been detained along with another man since september 20th. the men worked for the japanese construction firm fujita and its subsidiary. they were accused of entering a restricted military zone in shijiazhuang province. and videotaping military facilities. they arrived at the airport on friday from tokyo a airport to shanghai and held a news conference at the headquarters of the firm. >> translator: we didn't find any warnings or signs saying it was a res

but u.s. authorities plan a law enforcement surge this week along amtrak routes across the country, an exercise called "operation railsafe." all part of what authorities call an abundance of caution long in the planning. even so, the show of force comes as the u.s. took to the air today to attack a suspected center of the plot in pakistan. the target was one of the terror training camps where a contingent of german citizens of afghan and turkish descent have been preparing for jihad against europe. u.s. officials say some have already been dispatched. likely those with their faces obscured in this propaganda tape. but pakistani officials told abc news at least eight germans, including a group commander, were killed today by u.s. missiles launched from an unmanned aircraft. >> i think people involved in the plotting have been targeted and the others are certainly on the radar of u.s., pakistani and european intelligence services. >> reporter: u.s. authorities say they have tracked one of the su

thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare side effects serious life change and side effects. would be soon which brightened. soon from fans to the christians. who threw stones on t.v. don't. cross talk is coming up here in our team but first let's get you up. to date on today's top stories two israeli soldiers face up to three years behind bars for forcing a palestinian point to search for booby traps during the gaza war five years ago israel reinforced the ban on using civilians as human shields but palestinians say it's constantly breached. iraq's prime minister is getting out wiki leaks saying it's trying to sabotage his struggling bid to form a new government on line whistle blower publish classified reports linking him to death squads who tortured and killed iraq u.s. . and russia says the worldwide web site of not b

and how the u.s. government is treating their own americans so it's interesting to see amnesty international speak out about what's happening in other countries but yet say so little about what's happening here at home all right marina well thank you so much for bringing us this important story other outlets may not be covering it but we know they are on it thank you so much now still to come in tonight's show according to the mayan calendar of the world is going to come to an end in twenty twelve but with the mines probably didn't tell you is that the porn industry is to blame you heard me right and i want to explain in just a moment and the mainstream media's fail in covering the latest iraq war logs from wiki leaks to the press focused too much on the messenger and miss the message we're going to suss this with georgetown professor christopher chambers in just a moment. we'll see british science it's time to. go. to the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy there'

a number of u.s. lawmakers and dozens of congress staffers several portably traded thousands of dollars worth of stocks of companies they or their process is wrote last for under the u.s. law there is no conflict of interest here they're just plain cheating and it's not fair what they're doing currently all u.s. lawmakers and their highest paid staffers have to do is to disclose information once a year on their finances by the analysis of the wall street journal u.s. public servants have been phenomenally successful trading stock at the peak of the wall street crisis senator spencer backus made tens of thousands of dollars betting against the market that he's comedian helps oversee and he's the ranking member on the house committee on financial services. chris miller a top energy policy advisor to the senate majority leader harry reid nearly doubled his bat when his boss helped pass legislation that wander up benefiting the fur after his staff or his name was mentioned in a list of capitol hill stock

occupation or by u.s. military actions and in both pakistan and afghanistan that's a huge problem it's admitted if you look at woodward's book it's honeycombed throughout the book that officials get the point that there are drone strikes and special operations raids are not working the way they're supposed to they're making people angry and particularly the drone strikes are not successful they are never going to be served as successful and they know when the white house and the cia are not going to be successful but they're carrying them out anyway because they have nothing else to offer basically that's interesting leave if i go to you nothing else to offer i mean that's a pretty pessimistic comment to make i mean if. you want to get and i'm sorry let me if i can just finish up the question i mean where we go what is the ultimate aim right here i mean is it reconciliation among the afghans is that somehow if you mean the taliban here i mean is not is it here i mean it's been going on for a day it's been

he says that the tax on the u.s. will continue until the u.s. leaves -- attacks on the u.s. will continue until the u.s. leaves muslim lands. >> the judge said he wanted him to think about whether the karan wants him to kill lots of people. >> a key measure the crowds at different times of day, wanting his explosion to cause maximum carnage. on a warm may evening, faisal shahzad try to set off a bomb in his car. he used petrol tanks, fire works, and this alarm clock as a timer. he was dramatically captured on the runway at john f. kennedy airport. he confessed and pled guilty to all of the charges against them. u.s. officials set off a replica withisal shahzad's bomb the detonators that actually worked. this was the result. what radicalized him? the financial analyst with a young family and living in connecticut, he seemed to have it all. he had money troubles and was disillusioned with life in the west. >> the whole religion is for allah alone. >> faisal shahzad he went to wait pakistan taliban training camp. he was angry about the u.s. drone attacks in afghanistan and was

u.s. the country's prime minister said the hand of a period could last more than three months if it's deemed necessary boots will remain in jail until his legal team appeals the latest verdict ria novosti is bangkok bureau chief you have is in thailand with developments. as a thai court ruling clears the way for victor woods possible extradition to the united states of america his relatives and lawyers fear for his life roots wife believes that washington is planning to force a confession out of him stumble because it's quite possible they're like sudan team and just look him up on some aircraft carrier and force him to give whatever testimony the u.s. wants him to give i think they'll go as far as it takes to get it and i'm sure everyone understands there are plaintiff ways to do it these days starting with chemical sense psychological pressure and we know that there is an american aircraft carrier the u.s.s. george washington and a port in a type or near bangkok right now and it is proba

interests there's a massive u.s. presence not just military but even more than military presence particularly the u.s. agency for international development which is just everywhere massive compound in both quito i'm going to kill major cities a backward art and some of the groups that have come out calling for the president's resignation are known as groups receiving funding from these u.s. agencies like us air d n a national not for democracy. still ahead in the program duty calls on a quarter of a million young russian men are called up to serve in the army only this is draft will see some changes that. ukraine's president once again has more power than the parliament the constitutional court has ruled that amendments the country's nor that turned ukraine into a parliamentary state six years ago were illegal. reports from kiev. this means that now ukraine's president has more powers than in the last four years that means that the country is returning to the original constitution of nine hundred ninety six it means

nine years since u.s. led forces and again a stand public support for the war is that on an all time low and some u.s. soldiers have only been making matters worse after the opponent videos of the question of what we need to. rush clashes have brought here is dan just days had a parliamentary election on wednesday and bob stormed waters of a meeting political party after a protest staged by relatives of those killed in april's rides turned violent. and the hand of the us overseas broadcasting seeking to broaden its reach slamming the competition he said america must combat the rise of so-called autocratic t.v. stations the list of which includes our team. now it may be the ninth anniversary of the war in afghanistan but the long and bloody years of conflict have come with little reward while the u.s. might claim it's not only fighting against the taliban but also fighting for democracy and freedom afghans have seen little signs of success in any of those author and journalist and jones shared her thoughts

dora's box opened women in u.s. politics are accused of playing dirty swaying voters with emotional tactics where they like professionalism. and russia's formula for success hosting the twenty fourteen winter olympics simply isn't enough for the black sea resort of sochi now it's racing head toward premier motor sport to. this is our team from moscow welcome we've just shown to us this hour it's eight pm this thursday evening here in the capital i'm kevin zero in on the top story and russia and venezuela are two countries seven shaking up the system so that the global balance of power is more evenly spread chavez has come to moscow to nail down cooperation which is so important to the south american republic to strengthen its standing following the first leg of the president's diplomatic to put across the story all day good to see you not having frequent guest in moscow is the what's so special about this visit. yes of course this is actually this one is that with the russian capital but moscow moves well they never

u.s. warns americans in europe to be vigilant in tourist spots and transportation hubs. i'm russ mitchell. also tonight, critical contests. the kentucky senate race is a dead heat, spending and taxes are the big issues and control of the senate is at stake. whatever happened to personal privacy? a young man's suicide highlights the potential danger of social networks and unlimited information. and anniversary gift, the very special donation this man-made to save his wife of 52 years. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: and good evening. the u.s. government now has an official a left for americans living or traveling in europe. after a day of speculation the state department today issued a travel alert advising u.s. sustains in europe to stake extra precautions about their personal safety. what does it mean and how seriously should you take it? we begin our coverage with elizabeth palmer in london. >> reporter: the state department's w

well this is u.s. military documents so ultimately unlike any previous media story all anecdotal reports from iraq this is words from their own mouth which makes it very difficult for them to deny it and they're not really doing that if you actually listen to what the state department spokesman is saying what they talk about is the critical nature of their nature of the leaks and whether u.s. soldiers are informers or people working with the u.s. will be put in danger by then they're talking about the method of the message rather than the message itself now the message itself paints a very different picture of iraq the americans have been telling us about the last seven years and nowhere is that more true than the issue of body counts general tommy franks who led the invasion in two thousand and three said quite natural for actually we don't do body counts but you know things have been doing body counts and those body counts now combined with the iraqi body count of n.g.o.s and surveyed agencies say th

today, the u.s. tried to mend relations, but terry mccarthy reports, it will not be easy. >> reporter: this is what u.s.-pakistan relations looked like on the ground today. it's the seventh attack by pakistani gunmen in a week on trucks carrying u.s. and nato supplies into afghanistan. pakistan has closed a key border crossing in retaliation for a u.s. helicopter raid last week that killed two pakistani soldiers in a mountain border post. tonight, the u.s. officially apologized for the raid, and a pakistani government official told cbs news he expected the border crossing would reopen soon. but u.s.-pakistani relations are still strained. a new report from the white house today shows why. it slams the pakistanis for not cracking down on militants that hit u.s. targets in afghanistan and flee back across the border. the pakistan military continued to avoid military engagements that will put it in direct conflict with afghan, taliban, or al qaeda forces in north waziristan. >> we have to persuade them

we have seen before al-qaeda's wish to strike around big events in the u.s. u.s. election, the threat level raised in previous years. how dis this effect everything and your assessment of the information? >> i don't have the expertise that jennifer or people at justice, even steve has. but i pick up from the wires and what people are talking about is i'm calling people to catch up on the story as one. they don't think it's imminent. they say it could be proximate effort of someone engaging in terrorism. the thing of if stream of intelligence is directed to potential target in europe, not the united states. the real difference here is now some of the streams seem to indicate someone has come into the united states. again, what we are talking about here is not the kind of hierarchal intelligence we once saw from the like of al-qaeda. what we see now from the new pakistani based group is single agents sent out to carry out the kind of thing that would be, the kind of thing we saw from shahzad in times square or someone who would go to a mall or take out a restaurant

u.s. military documents the largest leak ever for more we're joined from by our chief laura hi there laura so both sides of sheer size what's special about this latest wiki leaks. well i mean there are many things that is special about it but what's so striking is the figure as you mentioned that it was this being the biggest leak ever nearly full hundred thousand separate documents in this leak that have been released to the largest ever and they add fifteen thousand civilian deaths to what we thought was the very unclear civilian death toll that we had initially the files contain evidence of nearly one hundred ten thousand. violent deaths that took place in iraq in the years between two thousand and four and two thousand and nine two thirds of them it seems from these files that's around sixty six thousand deaths were the deaths of civilians during this combat hoffa's those were killed by the iraqi insurgency and hoff it seems from the documents were killed by troops in military action t

the u.s. military now has a kind of secret military inside it and those are the special operations forces which have been incredibly peeved up and taken over certain activities that once were more cia type activities in the bush and now obama period special operations forces and there are thirteen thousand of them according to the washington post stationed outside the united states their station now in seventy five countries there are only one hundred ninety two countries in the us i think that's the latest figure so you're talking about somewhere upwards of forty percent just for special operations forces so now it's very interesting that to draw that dividing line between declared war is an undeclared wars which you raise this point in your work often most americans are aware of declared war with iraq but afghanistan over the last several years about the un declared war is how come nobody really talks about bad wars skirmishes whatever but you know it's hard to know in this country what peop

as the u.s. appears poised to fire off a new round of quantitative easing the rest of the world is fighting back instead of having this multipolar world led by the i.m.f. and the world trade organization with a very heavy influence for the u.s. government and the united states treasury we're seeing lots of governments going around the world cutting two party deals cutting deals to trade not in the reserve currency but in local currencies led by china brazil russia but stretching through asia latin america and eastern europe they're fighting back against the declining reserve currency which some are even calling the pariah currency and biting back against the u.s. is financial world war that in the end may prove a losing battle lauren mr r t new york. well coming up soon iraq's in battle prime minister on the wiki leaks. nuri al maliki aims. of trying to drive from office off the latest revelations in the death squads. and we hear why environmental apathy is pushing the russian capital to the brin

you don't want the u.s. economy to go into another recession and you don't want china to slow down too much. there's a delicate balance that needs to be maintained here between the two countries. >> reporter: we'll get a better gauge on how china's doing this thursday when the country releases its latest economic data. scott gurvey, "nightly business report," new york. >> susie: here are the stories in tonight's "n.b.r. newswheel." a surprise rise in new home construction in september as housing starts rose three tenths of a percent. while that's still weak, it's the highest point since the tax credit for new buyers ended in april. and hundreds of thousands of french citizens today challenged a proposed change in the country's retirement age from 60 to 62. the protests came on the sixth day of a national strike, where airline flights have been canceled and garbage pickup abandoned. >> tom: still ahead, an investment for the ages. tonight's word on the street is "energy." how investors of different ages shoul

the head of u.s. overseas broadcasting in america slams international news channels including r.t. since the us needs to shout louder in the global media. it brings up to date for the moment i'll be back for another update for you very soon but in the mean time it's been nine years since the u.s. led invasion of afghanistan and as the nato forces prepare to withdraw after a decade in the field author and journalist and jones reflects on the conflicts they can see that's our special interview next. r.t. is sitting down with journalist and author ann jones her most recent book is called war is not over when it's over and thank you very much for sitting down to speak with art it's my pleasure i'd like to be in by asking you about your time on a u.s. military base in afghanistan and to tell me what you saw and experienced well i was at a forward operating base on the border with pakistan and. it was a strange experience for me but i think there the foremost thing i learned there was from the base commande

the security in the u.s. these days it is taking a comedian to show that the lack of trust in the media is what's causing programs ratings to crash i have privately amongst my friends and also an occasional newspapers and television show. mentioned this show as being bad you made the right choice you are leaving this place you know where you are in the last guy out of a burning building draw on. and you are so up and so comedian jon stewart became the most trusted man in america he calls crap like you sees it and always uses humor humor and simpler reasons to he's just a handsome man he's just a handsome trustworthy fellow but it's far from just believing he's appreciating the humor for the first time a sitting president has appeared on stewart's show just a couple of days before the midterm election the democrats this year she would be running on. please baby one more chance. in the same pool stewart won the number one spot obama didn't even make the top twenty with tens of thousands of americans if not more

u.s. military history after nine years of war in afghanistan a campaign is drawing more criticism both walls from within the country and abroad . and we're at the launch pad in the cast like a step as the next crew blast off to the international space station. russian scientists will spend a year drifting on an ice floe in an epic expedition to the arctic it is the latest in a series of trips to study the area and support russia's claim to the region's territory because they're not going to witness the departure of the ice breaker from a northern port before getting on board. bonfires at the top of the world nothing new for the likes of arctic veteran russia's. he's lost count of times he's traveled to both poles the others a new lonely cold possibly dangerous adventure lies ahead. for these young man two weeks aboard an icebreaker is a last chance to have fun and get to know new colleagues but as soon as they get to their final destination it will be hard work and survival. if there's ter

ok we're going to take the second part probably on the whole the u.s. probably is happy with the results i'm sure they would have hoped the opposition would have gotten a majority in reality there's about a small segment of the vote that went to a political party that cannot be characterized by there is opposition or pro-government you subtract that from the fifty two percent i was referring to when in fact it was a narrow popular vote victory for the p.s.u. but a narrow one and i do think that in some ways that's a setback because i think it would have liked to have gotten a much more solid majority would have liked to have seen the p.s.u. his political party have delivered a more solid block of votes in favor of his what he wants to do terms of the outcome in terms of the number of seats it's a victory for the p.s.u. very you want to jump in there. so daniel in dating in the minds of the other two guests votes for parties that are not with our votes for charlie's that's absurd and with regard to your comment about united states funds going to venezuel

u.s. that we're running mainstream probably mainstream propaganda that's shining the chavez government in a bad light but we're actually here for the show. the government is funding all these projects that are beneficial for the people to understand why this mission of the united states runs so deep that one must travel back to the. jan hunter's could not because venezuela. still ahead for this we take you to a place of historical greatness and power that still draw for the crowds. joy and peace closeups meaning and the ancient russian city that sweetness to some of the countries where these debates it is now a haven. for getting to the top in u.s. politics can be tough enough especially if you're a woman but aside from nancy pelosi and harry clinton some of the next crop popping accused of swing voters with emotional fear campaigns and snazzy p.r. is going to check on reports that's especially true of one republican rising star who's also raising eyebrows. it to christine o'donnell a repu

the new power in u.s. politics female right wingers launching fiery attacks against liberalism and democrats return to republican vice presidential candidate sarah palin was the trailblazer no others are following but critics say all they offer is a pretty face message of fear as artie's gone a church can reports. it to christine o'donnell a republican nominee for senate just weeks to become a household name in america among her credentials she campaigned against masturbation you're going to be pleasing each other and if he already knows what pleases a man he can please himself then why am i in the picture she even preached abstinence the sad reality to tell going to slam going to. know my sex yeah yeah i'm a young woman in my thirty's and i remain chaste right and there was a time that chased woman even said she would try the dark arts i was telling it in which some would argue she blurted it out ages ago and it's no longer valid so where is she standing now when running for a seat previously held by vice

when a dream of serving in the u.s. marines ended in iraq's al anbar province for lance corporal matthew snyder, his family gathered for his funeral at this maryland church. but they had some unwanted company, protestors with signs that said "thank god for dead soldiers." and "god hates you." fred phelps of the tiny westboro baptist church shows up at military funerals to claim that because the nation tolerates gay rights, u.s. war deaths are god's punishment. >> i pray for them, dear lord, to please kill more of them guys. they don't seem to have gotten the message. these idiots are still talking about patriotism. >> reporter: their message at the funeral outraged corporal snyder's father, albert, who sued for emotional distress over the protest and a diatribe phelps put on line saying snyder raised his son for the devil. >> speaking as a father, the phelps' conduct was so extreme, it went beyond all possible bounds of basic human decency. >> reporter: but phelps' daughter, who is also his lawyer told the supreme court

u.s. in warning citizens about travel to europe. >>> high hopes, some optimistic look for 33 miners trapped underground in chile. >>> and message from above? a south carolina woman claims to see a divine image in her mri. good morning. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morning with a global threat. japan and sweden are the latest countries to put their citizens on the watch for a possible terror attacks in europe. the u.s. and england launched terror alerts and travel alerts over the weekend. but as nbc's steve handelsman reports, so far, fear isn't a factor for many americans on the move. >> reporter: dulles airport outside washington, despite more nations warning today about travel to europe, no panic among people headed there. >> it doesn't bother me. i have my suitcase. i have everything packed. i am going home. >> i'm not afraid. >> the same for americans in europe. >> but i'm not really worried here. >> reporte

trained in the united states the u.s. state department was the first to support the right wing government an election that countries in the world deemed as illegitimate as for the former president of honduras he was in the midst of implementing leftist reforms similar to those in venezuela brazil bolivia and ecuador was which is why the crisis in ecuador brought back memories of one during this for a dull full pastore he worked for this lie of government you know you've got to wonder how these forces and how these dark sectors within ecuadorian society are strength and bold and by the coup in honduras and by the president that was said and of course by the decision made by the us to support that coup nearly every country in latin america has experienced u.s. intervention in one way or another the ambassador of nicaragua insists the coup in honduras is paramount to understanding why the u.s. needs to maintain control of the region. can't forget that after the coup de townhome duras the united states has an interest in para

that means playing its cards against u.s. interest in lebanon, in israel - palestine, in iraq, in afghanistan, in the persian gulf, areas that are a vital security interest for the united states, and in which the u.s. is quite involved in. >> so real quickly, just brief answer if i could, uh, russia and china, will the countries of the persian gulf basically prefer to turn to the u.s. for connections and military hardware, or would they likely side with either russia or china, building up those two country's influences in the region? >> it's not a zero-sum game. they'll play everything based on what the situation demands at the time and there's a risk in going all in for one side or the other. they don't see themselves allowing to be-- i don't see them allowing to be a part of that... >> i think the gulf states are more comfortable with the united states, even though they can't understand what we're doing. >> trudy rubin, columnist for the philadphia inquirer, thanks very much for being with us. and ed turzanski, senior fello

well the u.s. led campaign in afghanistan has done little or nothing to stem the flow of drugs coming from the country russia's top anti drug enforces says if anything it's made things worse. news of the u.s. campaign in afghanistan shows more fighting equals less chance to destroy the narcotics business only the government capable of ruling the country based on the population supports can solve the drug problem when american say you can't leave the peasants without the only way of income giving a sign to the afghan authorities to keep out of the opium business because those without cash to the taliban for support but this is just an excuse. by the way you can see the full interview with the head of russia's narcotics agency on our website that's r.t. dot com we'll also be broadcasting it on sunday and there are more stories for you online on the website in about. as you might not recognize the russian capital as the city is to get a modern make over by the year twenty twenty five. the bieber fever

and former u.s. drug policy spokesman robert wiener says it's a shame washington couldn't come around to the view of eradication until russia forced it to act. unfortunate that it has taken this long to really come together with you there's going to reluctance in the united states to even go after the drug trade in afghanistan it's been a policy of the military to let it go and that's tragic and it's unbelievable to me that it took russia to tell the united states where the drug labs were when we have a hundred thousand troops we spent eighty billion dollars on intelligence we have one hundred thousand additional contractors so we had to know were crawling all over every inch of that country but it took you two in fact to the united states to force us and to embarrass us to cooperate with you to stop the drug trade which is in the interest of the entire world including the united states. who is the most influential in america. are you. doing the. american politicians. people we report on a comedian w

u.s. military to stop enforcing the 17-year-old don't ask, don't tell law barring openly gay men and women from the armed forces. judge virginia phillips of federal court for the central district of california issued an injunction against the ban thi week one month after ruling it is unconstitutional. on thursday, the justice department asked her to stay the injunction and said it would file an appeal to have it overturned. the administration claims it opposes the ban, but wanted to remain in effect until the military concludes a review. the move came just as the pentagon said it would obey the judge's order and immediately suspend any investigations or discharge proceedings against gay men and lesbian soldiers. a federal judge has red key elements of a multistate lawsuit against the federal health care law can go to trial. on trial, mr. judge roger vinson said 20 states and the national federation of independent business can proceed with their challenge to health insurance mandates and pe

the u.s. is trying to win the currency war right now by creating tens and tens of tens of trillions of new paper dollars to debase their own currency to try to keep the u.s. competitive somehow versus other other countries to currency are on the way up as a result of the u.s. giving itself a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head of the economy by flooding the world with trillions and trillions of dollars more dollars and so this is plan b. if the u.s. doesn't win the war this way if the rest of the world decides you know what like for example china says and i've talked about this on this show before. if china is the first to monetize their gold supply they would affect be the winner as per the nash equilibrium or game theory because a lot of money would suddenly flood into china they would have a gold backed currency and they could win this gold and currency war if they were the first to move but i'm not sure if china is that agile on its currency feet well jim rickards to put this into con

and at u.s. airports reactions varied among those departing for europe. >> most of my traveling started after 9/11 any way, so i've always had this kind of sense of being careful. but not so much that i'm worried and not having fun. >> you can't just get on a plane and go wherever you have to go. you got to worry about if you're going to make it home alive. >> reporter: the alerts were triggered by intelligence that terrorists may attack public places. tourist attractions, or transportation centers,, in britain, france and germany. but no specific target has been identified. and today the german interior minister said his government sees no immediate threat. >> there are currently no concrete indications of imminent attacks in germany. there is, however, a high abstract danger. >> reporter: in france, armed troops patrolled train stations and other key public places today. there have been two bomb scares at the eiffel tower in the past two weeks, but france has not raised its terror threat level.

and u.s. so i think those countries can actually fall apart or go into hyperinflation as many senior economists have been predicting imposed focus said this financial system is broken in the red so i'm going to mystic on this or but if you're one of bet on one currency again that that might become a new world reserve currency i would think it's maybe one option is gold and another option may be the renminbi or makes of all it was china by pfizer strong as economy in the word and in our view and if you're really looking at the industry and the consumption there in many areas they're already exceed the united states as the number one economy so we would bet on the renminbi not on the chances of an artificial kinds of coming through a fixed exchange rate because the prospects for the rest are just not looking good in the long really be a much more optimistic on days in currencies daniel you just as pessimistic or maybe a little hopefully more optimistic ok martin martin comes on this program and

the u.s. dollar weakened on monday a week before the federal reserve's expect a decision to pump more cash into the american economy the drop wasn't prevented by the g twenty finance ministers pledge not to devalue their currency to avoid trade wars but as i said lauren lister reports next many believe the u.s. isn't ready to give up using the greenback as a war machine. the united states has waged well known wars in afghanistan. and in iraq. but some argue it's also waging a lesser known battle he led it's a fluke leading financial world war two foreign reserves. especially to other economies tribute to a war being fought not with force but with credit in this war us dollars. are the bullets and they are cheap ammunition because the us federal reserve has been printing and pumping billions upon billions of them into the economy. hundred fifty billion dollars and that shot up to two point one trillion dollars more than one point five trillion dollars spent buying bonds and home mortgages from

u.s. documents. a winter of discontent looms in the french demonstrators protest over president sarkozy's pension plan raising the age of retirement to sixty two still one of the lowest in europe while british trade unions get ready for mass marchers to counter-sue big government spending cuts. and then in the construction works in soldier help to rebuild the russian city. with the ruins of an eighth century temple discovered underground. this is also you coming to live from moscow to tell main story a stunning during the litany of killings summary execution and torture there the contents of almost four hundred thousand secret military u.s. files which lay bare the truth of the iraq war whistle blowing web site wiki leaks has published the largest ever leak of classified american documents along with the death toll statistics collated by u.s. officials but with the country which the country had to prove publicly denied existed and that has more from london in the report with pictures you m

the u.s. economy, because, after all, the u.s. economy is the largest in the world. i have taken note of the recent policies and measures taken by president obama including the program of doubling the united states' exports, and the massive investment in infrastructural development. i think these policies and measures are the ones on the right track, moving in the right direction. although they came a little bit late, they still came in time. this reminds me of the time when i took the big decision of advancing a massive stimulus package in china. back then, people had different views concerning this policy, but now the progress has shown that our stimulus package is a successful one. >> may i ask you what lesson you have drawn from the financial crisis? have you lost faith in american macroeconomic management? a chinese friend said to me, he said, we were like the students in class and we would always listen to what the americans would tell us, and now we look up and we think, maybe the teach

the u.s. dollar lost value on monday as financial markets expect a federal reserve decision to inject more cash into the american economy it comes just as the g twenty finance ministers have pledged not to devalue their currencies in an effort to prevent global trade wars but as loren leads to reports some economists believe the u.s. has no intention of giving up using cash as an economic weapon. the united states has waged well known wars in afghanistan. and in iraq. but some argue it's also waging a lesser known battle with the united states leading financial world war two train foreign reserves. especially to make other economies pay tribute to a war being fought not with force but with credit in this war us dollars are the bullets and they are cheap ammunition because the us federal reserve has been printing and pumping billions upon billions of them into the economy federal reserve out of balance sheet of about eight hundred fifty billion dollars and have shot up to two point one trillion

a russian rocket with the u.s. astronaut and two russian cosmonauts on board has blocked it off successfully willing to national space station is the first flight for the morning guys so you spacecraft and it's due to reach its destination on sunday tom bolton was at the by canoe cosmodrome for the. baikonur has been the site of rocket launches for about fifty five years this year its anniversary it's also been the site of soyuz launches for decades but guarin free from here and now this soyuz rocket is an advance upon a long line of previous ones one thing that hasn't changed several decades is the people of flight the humans crews that go inside it the three men in this crew have been training for two years long an extensive training period the captain alexander kaleri experienced cosmonaut this is his fifth trip up into space script. another of flight engineer on board this is his first trip into space and the third the u.s. astronaut scott kelly it's his third trip into space an interesting extra detail about h