to-- rival to the united states. >> is that acceptable to the united states that you know? >> i think to the united states we have today, absolutely. i any it's hillary clinton was sitting here she would say that is exactly what we want. >> a partnership with europe. >> yes. >> rose: we're not a senior partner, we're both -- >> well, let's leave that, as vague. senior, whatever, they will economies of equal size. they are massive. >> rose: but the growth rate of the united states economy is a bit higher expectation than the growth rate of the european economy. >> you know what, and also in military power there is no comparison. so it's going to be doing slightly different things. but maybe when it comes to afghanistan or pakistan actually the civilian side is at least as important as what the military can do. >> rose: and tell me what it is that europe is prepared to do in pakistan and afghanistan. >> well, europe gives more than half the official development aid in the whole world. and in civil kwan reconstruction as in the balance begans-- balkans, on january dam ree type

and we hope this partnership with the united states and between the united states and afghanistan will be one that iran will not see with concern and at the same time, we hope that our neighborhood and our neighborly relations with iran are not seen in any other way by our friends and partners in the united states. >> larry: how about the story that authorities in your country, southwestern afghanistan, seized 19 tons of explosive devices transferred from the border in iran? is that an effort by iran to interfere with coalition efforts? >> well, events like that, discoveries like that, news like that emerging from our neighbors, whether it's pakistan or iran, is of concern to us, of course. and this is an issue that we have talked with our neighbors and will continue to talk to our neighbors. and i hope we will be able to resolve this transport of explosive materials and arms and ammunition to afghanistan or from afghanistan -- if it's happening. this is an ongoing headache for all of us and i hope we can resolve it. >> larry: have you talked about it with ahmadinejad? >> we have discu

states despite all the tensions in the relationship we have two countries pakistan and the united states that are trying to work together against violent islamic extremism it's not a perfect match but it's working and so yes we are going in the right direction and i would point out that there has not been a successful terrorist attack inside the united states since nine eleven so if your question sincerely is always always the american led war on terrorists exceeding the answer is yes and i would also point out that public opinion polls across the muslim world whether in arab countries or further afield in pakistan in indonesia in india and in afghanistan itself public opinion polls across the muslim world show that popular sympathy for al qaeda for suicide bombing for terrorism and civilian garrus if i could just ask ariely if i could use me god has drastically declined ok good in the last five or six years ok character so the united states is a popular country in the greater middle east cutterhead upside down of course i didn't see it exactly how to turn it upside of jericho where it.

a sad state if we thought that the only kind of information that could come to the united states is information that conform to our own views of what the world ought to operate like you know if you agree with that after all this unfortunately has happened at other times in history where of course people have tried to drowned out other voices or where in fact the united states which claims it believes in free speech will forbid people to come into the country because they find their views somehow unpleasant but i can't speak for mr isaacson and i think his clarification tried to perhaps clear up the picture a little bit even if we don't think he meant exactly what he said there are lots of people who would have their point of view and i think those of us who care about true american ideals would disagree there's no evidence in the history of the country that foreign ideas have actually shaped our point of view so i'm not too worried about that frankly you know peter if i can go as you say shape i forgive you i should do what i should actually say is have changed our policy. is probab

>> well, the united states came to afghanistan after september 11th in order to make the united states more secure from terrorism. that, they wanted to do by making afghanistan and this region more secure. as i mentioned in my opening remarks, part of that has been achieved. the united states and actually all of us around the world must find ourselves more secure from the threats of terrorism and we should do the right thing in order to get that. and in our opinion, the right thing is to be focused strategically on the financial resources to terrorism, on the sanctuaries to terrorism, on the availability of guidance to them and training to them. if we do that correctly and together, all of us, we will surely succeed sooner. >> larry: was it a good idea, mr. president, for the united states, the surge, the adding of 30,000 troops? was that a good idea? >> the united states, towards the end of 2007 and '08, felt that what the afghans were asking for a long time in 2002 and 2003 was adequate resources in both men and material to fight terrorism and to rebuild afghanistan. that was not giv

states what is the obsession the united states has with chavez ok i mean what threat does mr job as. opposed to the united states it's not its military obviously but it certainly has a lot of oil is that it. i mean there are really three major issues one of course is oil venezuela has the largest oil reserves of any country in the world in one country obviously the u.s. has immense energy consumption needs so having oil in the hands or being controlled in a under the government of someone like google chavez is not convenient to u.s. interests the other issue is that typically here over the twentieth century most of the governments were aligned with u.s. interests and with multinationals all of that is changed under the chavez government this is a government that's poking more and focusing more on national development and you know national investment and regional investment as well and integration and then looking for ways to go beyond the u.s. it's only a major trading partner and reaching out to countries like russia and china and iran and a whole other diversity of different nation

united states never had to look for any ports the united states had the richest agriculture for any developed country on earth the united states had ports of course the atlantic and the pacific and the gulf coast and the mississippi valley that it's all these fantastic advantages along with being a magnet for capital and labor for the whole world and these advantages these advantages bred a consciousness of basically having it all. and not really looking at the people below you right now in the united states many people are at a disadvantage millions of people tells me this tens of million writes post the economic collapse yes do you think this american sort of pride and patriotism that you mention will end up feeding and where we can ascend up leading the country well they're great dangers today in the united states there are dangerous and sinister reactionary forces who. are like european countries where these forces are organized in groups like the national front and in in france and here these forces have become a significant force in the republican party and. the dangers of the

states for the purpose of counter-terrorism we also will request data from the united states which then will be examined by our intelligence is to. some i actually think i mean looking at what's going on in europe and their reaction to this that especially given the fact that some countries are already giving in to u.s. pressures why is it that you are. to some may seem that europe is reluctant to give in to to resist rather to demands of the united states. because we certainly have different standards concerning data protection and a different approach towards the data of citizens maybe than the united states we feel that we are much more in charge of protecting the interests of our citizens and specially how their personal data was so there is a general reluctance you to hand out personal citizens and in that case not only to the u.s. but for us as important whenever we handed out to our partners that we actually know what they're doing with the data if it's distributed among different agencies or even worse passed on to other countries. and i'm going are you representing germany and

the united states the picture is next. right now i think most economists thing think we're growing at a rate of about 2%. but if you look ahead and you saw the blue chip forecasters this morning, the private forecasters, average private forecasters say they expect the economy to strengthen to 11, grow about 3. that's not fast enough for us. we want it to be faster and we still have a lot of work to do to heal the damage caused by the crisis and try to get more americans back to work more quickly and make sure that we're growing sustainably in the future. but the american economy, it's healing. parts of it look very strong and impressive now if you look at high tech, you look at manufacturing, look at agriculture. you look at industrial production. they came out of the crisis much more quickly, really quite strong. even private investment growth that slowed a bit, even private investment growth, investment by businesses and capital invest system expanding at a healthy clip. the reason why it's slower, charlie, than we'd lik

in the united states signed the so-called swift deal which gives american officials access to all bank transactions within europe were rude to a portuguese politician a member of european parliament says washington doesn't want to allow the e.u. the same access. at this point we are sending about nine ninety six million bits of financial transfers ninety million messages financial messages each month to the united states so this is billions a year and. the european citizens turn to us just to ask how is this happening at this point the flow of that is from the e.u. to the u.s. and there's a theoretical possibility of diverting this this. data but still ethical reciprocity it's not real reciprocity and asymmetrical reciprocity it's not reciprocity so at this point we do not address process with united states we between mr brown deal which was rejected by parliament and shift to would. it was approved and then with my fault against but the proved we managed to get a new rupee an overseer in washington which will be looking over the american shoulders as it were and with the power to stop

that is kind of the united states. we have got a really good offensive capability in cyberspace, but we do not have the ability to defend this country. it is the policy of this government that the new cyber command is essentially military. my friends and the department of homeland security proposed to defend the rest of the government -- my friends in the department of homeland security are supposed to defend the rest of the government. somehow, they are supposed to provide for the rest of us. essentially, the electric power grid, railroads, banks, pipelines -- all of the things that could be attacked in war are on their own. the government's policy, when you boil it down, says you guys should really defend yourselves. it is a bit like the 1960's. we said to the president of u.s. steel, the russians have a lot of bombers. in the case of war, they might comment on your steel plant. you ought to go out and buy some fighter planes. some air defense missiles to protect yourself. that is what you're saying. that is our poli

a welfare state in the european sense do you feel like it sort of becoming a trend in the united states because we know for example recently there have been polls out that are saying in the united states nearly half of the population is believe that the federal government paula poses some kind of threat to u.s. freedoms and civil rights americans are the most media saturated society on earth they are bombarded with counterfeit opinions that come from the mass media to them and they are encouraged to believe that these are their their ideas whose ideas are reflected in the media is that they are the russians the ideas of the right the far right and a center that would be considered conservative in the european context a responsible left to find that one must serve and it does not exist on media in media labor leaders are almost never. taken seriously in media unless they go on strike is that why people feel like there is no real labor movement in the united states because we were seeing millions of people who've lost their jobs whereas the labor movement the labor movement. is. one third

the united states claims to represent freedom represent justice represents human rights if you have secret military prisons where people waterboarding and where people are undergoing sensory deprivation the rest of the world sees this and the rest of the world says american claims to represent righteousness fully so you really see it as undermining the school position by maintaining a a prison in one part of the american legal system is on trial as well the united states is trying to have it both ways it's accuse these people of being prisoners of war but has been treated as prisoners of war now it's accusing them of being criminals and if they're criminals they need to be tried in civilian court i mean one question is why they're being tried in the united states and not an area where the crimes were committed like daniel but. the american legal system is being observed by the whole world right now and i think that the american legal system has the ability to respond if there is evidence that's tainted it will not be admitted in court. coming up very soon here for you may recall breakthrou

states, and actually, very good relations with people in the united states. the people running the country, however, have a much different point of view, and are very busy supporting hamas, hezbollah, even al-qaeda, both in iraq and the talaban and afghanistan, causing the death of americans and allied soldiers. they are players for the long term. >> come back to you in a second, trudy. let's hear what some of our other experts have to say about the iranian-u.s. tensions. >> i think that we should talk to people who we uh, have very fundamental disagreements with, as we do with iran. we ought to tell them why, to their face, we consider them to be a threat, and why the world community thinks they're such a threat. but i'm uh, hoping what we're able to do is to uh, knit together the world community in a very, very tight way, which sends a message to iran. and this would include the russians, the chinese and others, that having moving towards a nuclear weapon is unacceptable to the world community. and i think it's very doable now. >> we were serious about nego

see the united states. we're talking about the two countries in light of the afghan war. "at the new york times" talks about the drone strikes the cia has launched, particularly in the mountains of the country. "it reflects mounting frustration in afghanistan and the u.s. that pakistan cost of government has not been aggressive enough -- pakistan's government has not been aggressive enough in this logic militants from their bases in the countries western mountains. in particular, the americans believe pakistanis are unlikely to launch military operations inside north waziristan." san francisco. good morning. do you think pakistan is a reliable partner? caller: unfortunately, it is one we're stuck with at the moment because of its long, common border with afghanistan. 19th century british statesman, a great power, only has permanent interests. we should keep that in mind when dealing with pakistan and afghanistan. thank you. host: from "the new york times," "general david petraeus recently issued a veiled wa

states, or to be more specific, the view of a small number of members of congress of the united states. the chinese economy and the u.s. economy are closely interconnected. our bilateral trade has already reached $300 billion. u.s. investment in china has exceeded $60 billion. china has purchased u.s. "t" bonds worth about $900 billion. no one will believe that the chinese leadership does not follow closely the development of the u.s. economy. yet some people in the united states, in particular some in the u.s. congress, do not know fully about china. they are politicizing the problems in china/u.s. relations, in particular, the trade imbalance between our two countries. i don't think this is the right thing to do. i highly appreciate your giving me this opportunity of the interview, because you gave me the opportunity to further explain what the real situation is. there are three points which are not widely known with regard to exchange rate of rmb and china's trade surplus. first china does not pursue a trade surplus. our objective in having foreign trade is to have balance and susta

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with the united states to fight you back all of a sudden by the u.s. as definition i could be declared an enemy combatant and any resistance that i place upon you even though you're in my country i can then be deemed a criminal and prosecuted so you're blending you know the rules of war with the criminal justice system but you're not allowing a criminal justice system type evidence to allow i mean you're not there's no preservation of evidence you're not being read your rights and allowed to remain silent none of the foundational components that allow you to get due process in a criminal justice system are apparent so you have this total blending of two systems that were never meant to be put together and trying to get a result and it's just a big mess ok well what we'll have to leave it there for the moment thanks very much indeed very interesting to hear what you have to say us. joining us live from washington d.c. we appreciate tom thanks very much indeed. for years the united states was the biggest preacher of tolerance in the well but some fear th

states is supported and for the most part this is quite successful within the united states however for a number of reasons it's becoming less and less successful internationally and this creates a crisis in the in the foreign policy establishment and in the organizations that specialize in this type of international communication do you think that the viewers themselves are able to sift through the information that's coming from the different national media sources and determine from the cells which are which are the stories that they think are the accurate and fair ones and which ones are the ones that are just a blatant. media grab. well i think it's fair to say that viewers have no choice but to sift through this material for themselves whether they're prepared to do it or not i think that news organizations can do a far better job in helping people to sift through this material by being straightforward about what they're doing and when it comes to international communication in particular it's no secret that the different news agencies on around the world have particular agenda

united states is apologize for a recent helicopter attack on pakistani soldiers a u.s. investigation found that american soldiers had confused a pakistani al post with a militant camp after the incident pakistan closed the border crossing into afghanistan used by nato convoys some of the vehicles unable to pass were torched and destroyed by militants. the commonwealth games in new delhi is supposed to be india's moment to show off its rapidly rising wealth the president of the international olympic committee says the nation set a solid foundation for a future olympic spirit but the capitals put out a fake front of bright billboards to hide the poverty of shanty homes ati's currency looks at the reality. across the early boards showcasing the commonwealth games have sprung up trying to hide the city's poverty but these haven't been entirely successful here investment the heart of the slum is still visible most of its two thousand residents are not surprised by the action. the government considers dirty it could give us a lot to relocate them instead of too high just to p

, pakistan's ambassador to the united states, husain haqqani. thank you so much for being here. i want to ask you, first, about a story that is breaking now, which is attributed to a pakistani official the information, that you have found or think you have found the link of those who are plotting against europe, the plot that we heard about this week, that they are eight germans, two british brothers, who are hiding out in northern waziristan. what can you tell us about this? >> first of all, this is an example of how american pakistani cooperation works. the united states intelligence agencies have picked up information, they picked up chatter, which was shares with pakistani side and the pakistani side is acting on following leads that have been given to pakistan, and that will make europe and the united states safer. so we hope. so beyond that, it's not possible to go into details of intelligence but all i will say is that we are working together to foil any plot that targets europe, the united states, or for that matter, any other part of th

narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, underg

so what's the solution while many say the united states should look at our good friend the united kingdom that's proposed to cut its military spending by one fifth while some americans believe now is not a good time to decrease funding for social programs some say the u.s. is an enormous military budget of five hundred thirty three billion dollars it is the only logical place to make a cut but others say even though it might be a good idea it's not going to happen any time soon the problem is that because our politics are corporate owned in the united states going to the defense budget which is mostly outsourced to defense contractors and saying we're going to cut into that it's not going to happen preassure either our t. washington d.c. american economist richard wolfe says it's the historical decline of left wing in the us that means those struggling and i know that without a voice. it's the decision of the europeans to overcome all of their differences their different cultures and languages in a common struggle against these austerity programs i think in europe for the last thirty year

brian becker the director of the antiwar coalition spoke to me he says the united states is directly responsible for the atrocities committed during the war in iraq. the police force is an army that were trained by the americans who are allegedly the protectors and guarantors of iraqi freedom engaged in systematic torture abuse rape and it was unreported in unpunished by their masters by the u.s. trainers so i think there's no reason to think that this is an ongoing as a result of these revelations the un chief investigator for torture for instance has called on barack obama to investigate those in the u.s. military and civilian government for criminal acts against the iraqi people if the u.s. takes now actions to repress wiki leaks it may very well backlash backfire and instead of repressing them and intimidating them and their supporters create a groundswell of worldwide support for them the people want justice they want the truth i think the biggest obligation is for the american people to take hold of this information about what their government did in their name with their tax d

and is that difficult for the united states to do? >> well, i think it is difficult for the united... first, i agree that america needs to do it in the context of the country that is in question. it is difficult for the united states to do because we lack the capacities to make this happen and as the ambassador remarked early on the department of state, uh, it has been woefully underfunded and supported by the united states government for decades, and we're now paying the bill for people in the 1980's who sought to destroy the department of state. >> and does this also play into the public opinion aspect? if americans are always told that the american system is the way, it's the right way, and then they see it as something that can be replicated everywhere? is that a problem gaining or retaining public support for these peace building missions in places like iraq, afghanistan, and perhaps elsewhere? >> well, i think there are some elements that are-- that should be universal, but i would agree with the colonel. one size does not fit a

united states of america land of freedom and equality a place where all citizens have equal access to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness or for us to try and make sure the extreme maintain their liberty in the freedom that you had in the past not if you ask the tea partiers and while many might wonder what exactly they've been complaining about it looks like they might be on to something according to a new report by the world justice project the united states ranks the lowest out of eleven developed countries when it comes to access to civil justice and less than one in five low income americans gets the legal assistance they need wealthier people get good lawyers private lawyers they get out of whatever they were accused of and the same accusation against a low income person of color will lead them to jail for lengthy periods of time i don't look like the good old u.s. of a doesn't stack up when it comes to other factories either out of the nine factories that the project looked into from absence of corruption to limited government power to an effective criminal system the uni

united states is the biggest market in. the united states account within fifty percent of the global market but i think sure if china could replace it then there would be enough to mine that's all the business news for now but you can get more stores small website r.t. dot com.

and irony that may just contradict what the united states was founded on preassure either r. t. washington d.c. i don't know how to get closer to the parts of russia that discovered. yes where five hundred kilometers northwest of moscow in belize and it's a thousand years of history the city has been witness to both soaring wealth and devastating war the only invasion out of the thousands of tourists who visit each year to delve deep into its rich history. is there to see what's true i mean. from berry picking to vodka drinking to game hunting a lot of russian traditions that was the most fun and comprehensible and almost all of the traditions are widely practiced head end there. living off the land every morning at dawn the woman everyone here calls the masher goes berrien mushroom picking this brings in more money than her pension is in the words if people want to earn a living doing the state can tell me it's not to work at all in the forest die relax she hands her pickings over three and a celeb view of a pregnant and unemployed you know honest are the germ making as a home

between the united states and european states then we have this big big problem that. the same requirements that for us in europe are normal cannot be met within the usa so this is an ongoing debate in lots of issues in the us except expect us to adapt to their standards but it's very difficult to convince them that they should alter to ours concerning especially data protection we have to collaborate that's clear if there is a clear. case about some people about some transfers then we really have to go for it but if it is mass state out that proves processed this can be misused and we really have difficulties to control which you the u.s. makes of the data that they get we still. see member states that are reluctant to agree to that because they seem to have not the same rights on the other side of the atlantic firstly and secondly the structure of the databases in the u.s. and in europe is very diverse for years the united states was the biggest preacher of tolerance in the world but contemporary us society is losing its reputation as a free and open one xenophobia a

states silence why is that the political situations are very different the united states elected barack obama by no means a radical by no means a socialist but someone who was identified with global labor wing of the democratic party obama raised the hopes of tens of millions of people and while he has not delivered he is not sarkozy he is not the new british government he has pursued a counter cyclical keynesian policy of pumping large sums of money into the economy the united states does not have. a welfare state in the european sense do you feel like it nourishes sort of becoming a trend in the united states because we know for example recently there have been polls out that are saying in the united states nearly half of the population is believe that the federal government paul poses some kind of threat to u.s. freedoms and civil rights americans are the most media saturated society on earth they are bombarded with counterfeit opinions that come from the mass media to them and they are encouraged to believe that these are their their ideas whose ideas are reflected in the media is t

states would have collapsed fire economy of the united states and within twenty four hours the world economy was shellshocked congress was given a sri page plan in essence it gave paulson total control to spend seven hundred billion dollars some so it is supposed to grab others sold to deliberate creation of the crisis to push through a corporate agenda and troll the media enough to ensure that the public will not notice that this bailout will and get them for generations what was unique was the refusal of congress to hear any testimony from expert witnesses or to have harry billion dollar bailout for wall street is being driven by fear not fact this is too much money into short a time going to too few people while too many questions remain unanswered why aren't we asking wall street to clean up its own mess when we passing new laws that stop the speculation which triggered this why aren't we putting up new regulatory structures to protect the investors how do we even value the seven hundred billion in toxic assets why are we directly helping homeowners with their debt burden why are

guest: that's a legitimate claim that the united states should be pursuing policies that's in the united states' interest. the dangerous thing is people trying to promote exports at the same time through their weakening occurrencies, we see something that's reminiscent which is beg thy flabe kind of policies. what -- neighbor kind of policies. what we're seeing is a currency war, termed by the brazilians, that the united states is trying to cheapen its currency. japan intervenes on its own without really consulting its paid partners. we've got china being engaged in currency manipulation for many years now. you know, so it looks like it's a free fall, we are not getting the coordination and the danger is this could be a slippery slope in which we get countries retaliating with trade measures. you know, we've been there before in the 1930's. that's something that we really want to avoid from a global point of view. so what one is missing here is global coordination of policies. you know, countries the united states has legitimate interest in engaging of easing but it would be better if th