the u.s. currency on the back of these concerns. the dollar, one dollar buys you 1.4375 in terms of euros. 1.6335 is how the pound stands at the moment. >>> should point out the dow lost more than a quarter of its gains for the year on wednesday that collapse in sentiment in the u.s. was enough to push the asian markets deep into the red this day. let's go to randy. >> investors lost a lot of money yesterday. the nikkei, let me bring that up, the nikkei fell about 1.7% to close at about 9555. this plunge came on the back of two developments. the first was that political one, prime minister kan's no confidence vote, which he did manage to survive. the second was poor sales of japanese oautos in may. hon in hong kong, the hang seng was down about 1.5% to close at 23,263. this is the left finish for the index in about four months it was led by a fall in oil shares. cnooc and petrochina, their shares fell about 2%. over in the mainland, looking at the shanghai composite, the index fell about 1.4%

the u.s. house of representatives has voted down a measure giving president barack obama the authority to continue american military action in libya. but lawmakers voted against cutting funds for the u.s. participation in that war i'll be back with more in just a moment. declassified documents reveal the u.k. was happy to hand over terror suspects from iraq to the u.s. with little regard to what would be waiting for them in secret prisons. mourning the euro the fate of the common currency is in serious doubt as europe agrees another bailout to debt laden greece but urges the country to get behind savage spending cuts. international news income and live from our studios here in central moscow this is . a majority vote in the lower house of the u.s. congress has turned down a motion to cut funding for the american military action in libya but this came directly after the very same lawmakers refused to grant president obama approval to carry on with the campaign he's going to come on has more now

the u.s. is involved in a limited role, that in their words on a conference call they had with reporters not too long ago, wolf. there's no boots on the ground, no exchange of hostile fire, and no sustained fighting, that they are in the parameters of the war powers resolution, which says to the president, you can have troops involved abroad for 60 days, but if you don't have congressional authorization after that, you have to pull those troops out within 30 more days. the deadline on that 90-day period being up here on sunday. they say, the white house, that they are in line with that. because there is some fine print in the war powers resolution, and they are basically saying, wolf, that saved them and that is part of it. >> democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives, brianna, who flatly disagree with the white house's interpretation of the war powers act. >> reporter: and wolf, you don't need to wait for this report to go up to congress to be able to say there are many members of

and you have that in the u.s. as well. i mean, if this was a concern in the u.s., the u.s. would not be bothered by taxpayers in europe supporting deutsche bank and barclays, and barclays and deutsche bank taking market share from goldman sachs or jpmorgan because that would be a bonus. the u.s. wants to have their banks in the playing field at least on the u.s. territory and also globally. so switzerland has made a very unusual choice out of necessity for the reason you mentioned which is, okay, over with national champions because we can't afford it, and let's be reasonable and leave other countries build huge banks. i'm sure the swiss would agree with this depiction, and it's simplistic on my part, but basically that's what we've seen with credit suisse. so the question is in the future we'll have large banks in this large countries. switzerland is a large country with -- small country with large banks. so now you have u.s., japan, germany and u.k., and china, of course, and probably even france, germany, u.k. are two small countries -- or countries which are too small t

u.s.-china relations. he and i have far more in common on this issue than we have different between us. but we'll do our best to find the differences to make it fun to spend time with us here this morning. the arrival of chinese outbound foreign domestic involvement around the world as well as chinese recovery from the debacle, from the pre-reform era that they are still recovering from presents the united states with consequences both good and bad for our economic primecy in the world as others get back on their feet and also presents us with choices to make about how we are to respond to that economic development. to kick off the discussion of the topic of outbound direct investment, this morning i'll make just three points for consideration, for yours and derrick's, to get us started about the nature of these chinese companies going abroad now, really for the first time arriving on u.s. shores. the first point i want to make is that whatever conclusions we draw about american interests

now as the u.s. government remains deadlocked over the budget and the debt the credit ratings agency fitch is that of u.s. lawmakers can't agree to raise the debt ceiling this could endanger the nation's aaa credit rating if this sounds familiar it's because this now means all three credit rating agencies have come out with warnings over the u.s. debt debate now as lawmakers grapple with where to cut spending with social programs on the chopping block a new poll actually shows that more americans blame the debt on the nation's wars and the federal reserve's role trying to pump up the economy with more cash is set to expire at the end of business so what does this all mean for the u.s. economy not to mention the global economy to help us i spoke earlier with renowned investor jim rogers i asked him if u.s. lawmakers should be concerned that three credit rating agencies now are warning about the debt here was his response one of the. rating agencies doing america's already bankrupt the idea that there'

senator or a u.s. congressman for that matter starts with getting reelected that's ideologically very important to the politician and they know fully well if they do not vote the way the lobby wants them to or if they contravene the lobby their political future might well be in danger and they're right there are many examples in recent u.s. political history going back to president bush sr who annoyed the israel lobby and they paid a political country so they may be busy doing the bidding of the oil companies of israel or. the auto companies you name it but first and foremost they know that the israeli lobby in their districts really has. and i would argue that president obama even went further than george h.w. bush in terms of pushing israel a little bit in terms of especially when he talked about in a recent speech about the one thousand nine hundred sixty seven borders he's gone he's gone pretty far and a lot of people are saying that this resolution that this bill proposed is sort of a political ga

perspective u.s. opinion u.s. agenda and obviously as per the u.s. government so i mean you know the and now that they're extending more into internet and seeing that they're allocating more fines in danger now i think that the the b.g. or u.s. state department propaganda could be have a larger impact over cyberspace than it does over the airwaves in the television ways and certainly i mean over the past few years other countries have been catching up and doing much better designed broadcast and of their own state apparatus than what the b.b.c. has been doing i mean yeah i think that that is it doesn't surprise me that the u.s. government is revising those operations and is looking for ways to reach a broader audience with their direct propaganda because certainly they're behind in doing so when it comes to looking at other countries and and other and initiatives such as tell a story in that america or even russia today or you know the arabians are now launching spanish language media i mean you know the u.s. is kind of behind on that but they have o

where the u.s. and mexico were competing for participation in the athens olympic soccer composition composition -- competition at the mexico stadium. the american players had been impolite, perhaps a bit aggressive. all of the sudden towards the end of the game, the crowd starts chanting. this made this concert some of our american people who are watching us. osama, osama, osama. needless to say, the american players got upset. this would be insulting anywhere in the world, but in guadalajara, it's worse. because they are the number one sending country of immigrants to the united states. it's the home of pow puerto via that. it's the home of guadalajara itself who live there and spend a wonderful time and with their neighbors and friends. in this city to be that insulting to americans means there's something going on which is not right. doesn't work. that's part of the problem the relationship with the united states. now we've got the drug wars which the united states is helping on. but not enough.

well the u.s. japan security alliance is the cornerstone of america's defense posture in the asia pacific and the united states as both a transpacific and a transatlantic power but we couldn't project that power without the men and women who serve here in japan as we look at the region it is at peace but we have threats like what we hear every day from north korea. and the security mission is essential to continuing to under gird america's leadership and being prepared for the kind of challenges we face but also to seize the opportunities for a better future. in two thousand and nine after years of local protests u.s. secretary of state clinton signed an agreement with the japanese government to move the eight thousand troops stationed in the for ten days to the island of guam a u.s. territory the move though is tied to the construction of a new strip on the eastern coast of okinawa into local bay the project follows the decision to expand the jungle warfare training center in the north in short th

u.s. is building a secret cia drone base and a person golf with five militants in yemen. one into the waters of the arctic and one deep down to look at the titanic but what were the two russian themselves doing at the bottom of one of your of the largest lakes. a second rescue package for greece is once again on the table of european finance officials athens has already received one hundred ten billion euro in a new one will go hand in hand with even more crippling cuts forced out of public angry at. least on them r.t. sarah ferguson outside the greek parliament tasman the epicenter of protest. latham's is widely expected to receive. its for this year is aimed. at european finance hammering out the details of that rest at the moment that trying to prevent your areas. opinions on whether greece is going to fold the page is very well. some people are saying that it's fantasy to imagine i'll be allowed to happen now that people are saying really now it's a question of when and not a single th

it has to conform with u.s. domestic laws, but u.s. states, for example, are very active in trying to attract foreign district investment into the states because it creates jobs and tax revenues. how does the federal government get control of this type of investment so that it can use it as leverage, or do we only use leverage in circumstances where government approval of the investment is required in some form? both of you are free to comment in these areas. >> i for some reason feel the questions were aimed at me. reciprocity. there are implications for investments around the world. it doesn't affect u.s. investment in china because china use their mart as a bargaining chip all the time all over the place. that doesn't mean the u.s. should do it because china does it. i'm advocating it to win gains in the u.s.-china economic relationship that the united states wanted for a long time. it won't affect the relationship with china if we use reciprocity because they're already using reciprocity. maybe dan because he's more motivated will

in fact, u.s. banks have raised more than twice as much capital as a percent of assets than european banks have over the two years since the financial crisis hit bottom. >> susie: now european officials suggested today, by the weekend, there will be a new bailout loan package for greece. how realistic is to expect with this new money that kbrooes will get its financial act together? >> i think that's a real stretch. greece has fundamental problems. it has an economy that is going downhill. every time they are obliged to take another knick out of spending, take a further axe to spending, it hurts their economy further. and that hurts tax revenues, and that means that the deficit reduction they're trying to achieve doesn't really happen. so greece is in a very difficult spot. and that means greek debt holders ultimately may suffer some losses. >> susie: so bring this all back here to the u.s. and to american investors. what does all of this uncertainty and turmoil in greece and throughout europe mean

and that's how two u.s. soldiers can bring a major airline to their knees the delta has already publicly abolished apologize to the soldiers they say they're reaching out to all thirty four members of the military to address their concerns and the airline also sets but it's changing their policy and from now on soldiers contract or backs are free but it's sad that it took two u.s. soldiers to point out delta stupid policy but i do love the fact that the men actually made their video law flying all the delta jet gotta love the technology and that's why delta airlines is tonight's tools i want it and apparently delta was a none too pleased about this video and all of the media attention that they got from the story today because this afternoon this video we just played your for you this appeared on you tube without any explanation. it's the middle of the week at pump a which means we need another round of how do the hour and joining me tonight for happy hour is r t correspondent lauren lyster and of my craig's

while some u.s. officials are arguing for more leeway over how the country's combat operations in afghanistan are carried out it's despite president obama's announcement last week of plans to pull out some american troops are these military contributor he's getting herself believes that america should be waging an anti drug war rather than a war on terror in afghanistan. during his speech related to the u.s. forces record figuration and afghanistan which was supposed to cover the old or new years policy you know against. president obama has never ever mention he's concerned or demonstrated his understanding that when it comes to ghana stamp the real threat doesn't come from the card or its associate but it has everything to do we have narco terrorism the us legacy in afghanistan will be mostly measured by the fact that it was due to the us and nato occupation ever gana stand has been turned into narco state and the local insurgency has spread into international america terrorism unfortunately clearly

u.s. the central bank chairman says the country's borrowing limits must be raised. and as part of our season why taiwan's increasing prosperity comes at a price as we talk exclusively to the president. >> during the course of economicic development the gap in income will widen and no country in the world has a narrowing gap. >> it is 9:00 a.m. here in singapore. temporary is 2:00 a.m. here in london. this is newsday. the u.n. accused sudan government of carrying out a bombing campaign near the north-south border. tens of thousands have fled their homes and urged the government to let them in to help victims of the fighting. the south is due to become independent next month. >> homeless and helpless, these are some of the tens of thousands people displaced by the latest fighting in sudan. they have taken shelter outside the local united nations headquarters. the u.n. is handing out food and other supplies. workers say they are being denied access to the areas of heaviest fighting. >> we kno

netanyahu was received in the u.s. congress not so long ago he was interrupted what twenty eight times by rapturous applause that should give you a clue when the members of the u.s. congress have the history of israel they think political survival they think campaign money that's it i mean the congress is israeli occupied territory so this time lieberman of course has been the u.s. senator from israel the prime u.s. senator from israel for many many years no surprises there because no surprises in the whole spectacle which is why to expect any political movement to get past the u.s. congress beneficial to the situation in the middle east is totally impossible but let's talk about this i mean you mentioned that a lot of these senators politicians really across the board here in the u.s. they do you get a lot of their funding from a pac the american israel public affairs committee there a very powerful lobby here a very powerful group but there are so many other powerful groups and lobbies here in washington why is it do

efforts to u.s. efforts in afghanistan and nonetheless the secretary of state said the pakistanis would rather see the u.s. leave afghanistan take a listen they would be perfectly happy if we picked up and left tomorrow but what would we get for it and what would they do with it and i think the answers to those two questions mean that the president's approach which is this steady careful transition while we try to work the the diplomatic and political piece of this which includes pakistan. is exactly the right way to go many afghans are actually worried that less troops doesn't necessarily mean less bombs on their homes i mean these upcoming trip was across the u.s. as were part of the stepped up airstrikes including drone strikes in afghanistan is thought to be part of this twenty first. training talent into war strategy as they call it you know when you have no troops on the ground no deaths of your soldiers to just to fly back at home so it becomes possible to wage a war without having to face all

our u.s. missile defense plans for europe have suffered a major setback is now refusing to take part in the system check officials say they're not happy with washington's offer let's get more details on this now cross live to our team's course one. european missile defense shield supposed to be a key aspect of the u.s. foreign policy why exactly are the czechs now scuttling washington's plans. well we understand according to the czech defense minister that prague once i figure all in this project the project of the european missile defense shield we understand that the initial plan meant so that only a preventive missile detection system would have been placed in the czech republic while major other major components. the system like the raider station or the missile anti-missile complexes in poland were meant to be placed in other countries like turkey romania and poland so the defense minister of the czech republic claims that now prague will be seeking a much more important role in this proj

this has been a day of u.s. casualties in iraq and it is also a day that president obama met with his advisors about the future of u.s. involvement in afghanistan. he's facing a tough decision on whether to pick up the pace of u.s. withdrawals or stay the course. we'll go first to the battlefield. cbs news correspondent mandy clark is with the 101st airborne in paktika province, afghanistan it's right on the border and this is what the fight is like for u.s. troops trying to stop the enemy from crossing into afghanistan from their hideouts in pakistan. >> reporter: fox company headed out at dawn on saturday. their mission: to cut the enemy off at the source. along the border with pakistan, the razor's edge of the war. the pilots struggled to land the helicopters on the rugged mountain top. soldiers rushed out and took up defensive positions. >> they're moving by themselves. >> reporter: in these harsh mountains, the air is thin and visibility limited. this is the insurgents' backyard. >> there's a large number o

to a certain extent the u.s. would like to see would like to take the opportunity to be able to kind of weaken. the weaken the regime. around seven thousand people have been arrested under egypt's military rulers since the country's revolution in february the jointer has promised to review military trials of civilians and says it will increase the powers of civil courts however human rights watch dogs are skeptical saying not much has changed since president barack stepped down well discuss this i'm now joined by david kiddie's he's the executive director of advancing human rights and he's joining me live in our new york studio thanks for being with us here on our team now the military government promises it will increase the powers of civil courts now does that actually mean that these people who've been arrested now will get a fair trial. unfortunately i don't think that's what it means the egyptian government and the supreme council is lacking in transparency there are thousands of people that have been arrest

companies they wanted to reciprocate by u.s. companies the u.s. wanted by china the u.s. says we will not let you know by filling stations here or refineries you can't buy in america we can buy and you you can't buy in america for and take a result the time of the u.s. companies with their european takeovers or their takeover is by friendly so obviously american china as a potential enemy and that's why the united states doesn't let china invest in our are they doing it you know cutting off their nose to spite their face. well i think so but it was really going on is the u.s. government wants china buying treasuries they don't want to buy real assets instead do you think that's why. the the in that's why don't i if they think you think that's why the united states doesn't let china buy u.s. companies because they need them to buy u.s. dollars absolutely plus they know as long as they're buying our debt we can always default we can always print money and wipe it out with inflation we don't want the chinese to get their hands on our real assets but the minute the chinese fi

the u.s. house of representatives voted down a measure giving president barack obama the authority to continue american military action in libya. declassified documents reveal the u.k. was happy to hand over terrorist suspects from iraq to the u.s. with little regard to what could be waiting for them in secret prisons. mourning the euro the fate of the common currency is in serious doubt as europe griese another played out the debt laden greece urges the country to get behind savage spending cuts. the former prime minister of ukraine goes on trial for abuse of power that's a lesser cost the country millions of tolerance. around fifteen hundred supporters of units of a son called gathered in front of the court building to protest what they describe as a parsifal hearing join us for the latest details from the ukrainian capital kiev. international news and comment line from our studios here in central moscow this is . the lower house of us congress has voted down a resolution which expressed sup

forces are in combat u.s. forces are undertaking military missions that's the language of the war the law u.s. forces in combat it's absolutely not a diversion to see that there's a u.n. security council resolution were to see that nato approve this you know david if i know about you in denver ok leslie jump in that's what the point of this program is going yeah i mean i think i think we have to be a little bit careful here to differentiate different types of different ways of using military force in this particular intervention we're talking about intelligence surveillance unmanned. unmanned sorties we're not talking about sending military troops in on the ground to fight a ground or so which is not to say that there isn't this question the war powers act but in terms of the use of the military there are degrees and this is very much and it's not just nato it's what the british and the french have been out in front of this intervention taking the lead the u.s. is absolutely playing a crucial role and there ha

of u.s. military bases from poland to pakistan in this really strategic middle ground between the emerging economic competitors of the united states the european union on one hand and china and japan on the other the us has a formal policy of maintaining military dominance of the persian gulf area it's called the carter doctrine after president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of persian gulf oil is of vital interests of the united states and to protect that flow will use any means necessary including military force to that end he said we will need military bases in the persian gulf area and he established military bases to support this policy of protecting the flow of persian gulf oil and then wars were fought as well in line with that policy these and west are united and pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interest of the saudi arab. serving the interests of the united states. demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. what from thi

u.s. military personnel, men and women in afghanistan and their families back here in the united states. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. we're standing by to go to the white house. the president of the united states is going to be delivering what we expect to be about a ten-minute address to the nation on a scheduled drawdown of u.s. troops in afghanistan. gloria borger is with us as well. gloria, as the president prepares for this, the stakes not only for the men and women serving in afghanistan but for u.s. taxpayers, for the u.s. strategic position in that part of the world, enormous right now. >> it is. i don't think we can say this decision was made on one particular reason. when you look at the entire environment and you look at the economy, you look at the political pressures, you look at the cost of the war, you look at the debt that we're facing, it's clear that this is a president who gambled on a surge back in december 2009 and now

the u.s. military is still there, the number of u.s. troops in iraq now just short of 50,000. roughly the population of biloxi, mississippi. the u.s. military in iraq had been scheduled to leave iraq by december 31, 2011. secretary gates now says he wants them to stay. and he is trying to figure outs how he can get the iraqi government to "ask" the u.s. to stay in iraq. >> the iraq and we are talking about some kind of residual american presence in terms of helping them with beyond december of 2011. >> some believe that we are sinking our roots in iraq and all the signs point that way. the u.s. embassy in iraq, get this, is the largest embassy in the world with a current population of 8,000 people. in the embassy. and the embassy suspects to build that 8,000, get this, up to 17,000 people. the u.s. embassy also has 19 planes and 24 helicopters. the a. u.s. dollars spent in iraq since day one is now more than $806 billion. question, what standard pentagon's justification for keeping u.s. troops

first as i think that the obama administration the u.s. is much more concerned about the negative effects about you know coming off of the housing bubble and all of the jobs that could be lost as a result of that sort of thought do you think they're really concerned though because it feels like the congress is just at a standstill you know and the obama administration likes to say that that's what they're worried about is job creation and we haven't really seen any action in that sense and finally you know he did a little chiding yesterday to congress and say can you guys not act like children of my children can do their homework while. you but i just don't really know if i even see the effort they're talking about. i don't see the difference of the jobs as well when you look at the stimulus package if you if you really want to think about stimulus which is really what they're talking about first it has to be jobs ok and there hasn't been the focus on jobs. so at the end of the day you know it's one thing to add stimulus to have cash for c

according to u.s. forces is taking advantage of what's going on that and moving into this power vacuum which is being created since residents are they left and went to saudi arabia for medical treatment moving into that helping activity taking advantage of general civil unrest to grab more support more territory the reason for the u.s. paying these drone attacks that's how it's justifying it but of course that works both ways interestingly the u.s. forces the military forces used to corporate with presence on top of the intelligence that kind of these kinds of territorial issues but now the u.s. can easily say that there's no authorities with whom to cooperate the government is essentially not in operation anymore so if they wanted to you one would have thought that they could just go ahead with where they like and of course we've now seeing president obama ok the use of cia drone so cia drones will have a much more user agreements much. selection of targets that they can they can stop and we've also h

u.s. is building a secret cia drone. in the persian gulf the flight militants in yemen. plus they went to the waters of the arctic and plunge deep down to look at the titanic but what were the two russian many subs doing at the bottom of one of europe's largest legs. the greek prime minister is facing tough opposition as he tries to push through more cuts to persuade europe to hand over more billions in a new bailout demonstrators gathering in the heart of athens say they will prevent m.p.'s and parliament from a vote on a stereo measures are is there for us. athens is widely expected to receive. packets from this year's same party is today in fact european finance chiefs hammering out the details of that rescue plan at the moment they're trying to prevent your area's default opinions on whether greece is going to the folds of his payments vary widely some people are saying that it's fantasy to imagine that will be allowed to happen now that people are saying the really now it's a question

u.s. stocks got a one-two punch today: new worries about the u.s. economy and growing concerns about the greek debt crisis. there were violent protests in athens on government cutbacks to prevent a default on greek debt. tom, european officials also failed to agree on a new bailout package for greece and the country's prime minister proposed a new government and offered to step down. >> tom: susie, here in the u.s. investors also got disappointing news on inflation and manufacturing. the consumer price index gained more than expected last month and core prices, which exclude food and energy, rose by the most in three years. also, a regional report on manufacturing conditions this month came in below forecasts, showing that new orders are falling. on wall street, the dow tumbled 178 points, the nasdaq lost 47 and the s&p down 22.5. in the bond market, prices rose, pushing the yield on the 10-year below 3%. >> susie: standard & poor's economist beth ann bovino says today's consumer inflation report could also rattle the federal reserve. >> of course t

u.s. security council not to simplify the situation in syria with regard to the proposed u.n. resolution that they haven't yet c.e.o. is a strongly asking that a military operations not be involved in this situation this security issue has gone beyond just a land security of the traditional threats that we have seen in the past in fact some of the leaders have brought up the concept of each board and the security so they want to extend their efforts into via some cyber world in cyberspace also of course in the participation of countries such as iran afghanistan to pakistan make for very interesting discussion now on iran for example have given speech will basically consisting of more questions rather than statements of its usual anti western as if you know you listen sentiment got over to the job does express in afghanistan a very big issue on the a flight of the nato forces being in that country they want to discuss a post natal afghanistan i mean that in the past have expressed doubts on

u.s. congressmen prepared to cut off funding for the libya campaign saying a bomber is acting illegally and not seeking full approval to extend american military involvement cost ninety days the white house however denies it needs permission from capitol hill. plus a new wave of protests in syria as the e.u. moves towards a third round of sanctions against the country critics fearing it's part of a build up for another libya style it's a venture. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. good to have you with us this hour russia must modernize its economy in the next few years regardless of who is in charge present if it has been outlining the country's direction at the petersburg forum of top business leaders he also warns that the government's large role in the economy along with corruption threaten development and must be tackled parties and he said no reports now from st petersburg. well there are certainly a lot of obstacles and president

and it seems u.s. senators really don't care either they're spending their time on resolutions to show support for israel despite all the other regions in the world and issues here at home that could use their attention instead of what's really going on here. it's friday june night four pm in washington d.c. and christine freeze out there watching our t.v. i want to start out by taking a look at what you might see if you turn on some of the mainstream cable networks here in the united states today and what the other guys are talking about take a look. wiener gate as it's come to be called just keeps getting more bizarre in my back and i mean i can't believe i'm going to get it but it hurts the democratic party if he doesn't resign casey anthony back in court if she is accused of killing her two year old daughter in two thousand a timer and of yesterday was harsh today was just awful sure that she was sick as much as sick of the testimony she has been so stone faced so cold so callous maybe the gig is u

the u.s. doesn't have to worry about that at all i mean there is not going to be war between china and taiwan the taiwanese don't want it the chinese don't want to the americans may want to but this is all balderdash this talk about war between china and taiwan this peace now that that war is thinnest the past five or six years everybody is totally changed their mind it sounds like people in washington are still saber rattling but there's no there's not going to be a war between china and taiwan is sure you and america keeps talking that way it's not doing anybody any good including america do you think that it is do you think that that is an excuse for american leaders to talk about china as a military threat and continue to rant military spending as well as resources that direction of course it is lauren they talk about north korea they talk about taiwan they talk about anybody they can in order to ramp up military spending what are we going to do with all these jets that are old in asia wel

this case between the u.s. and cuba is not fair because her son's cause was very noble and the cuban five sent to the u.s. to prevent terrorism in cuba so why is the man they were launching now receiving the key to the city of miami all the cuban five are in prison. good evening it's wednesday june fifteenth i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and you are watching r.t. now as united states lawmakers are trying to come to an agreement on the country's debt problem and also to decide on raising the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling which you may recall the u.s. has already blown through in greece it's a different story protesters are taking to the streets in opposition to their government solutions greek police have fired tear gas at protesters they were trying to block the parliament building more than twenty thousand of them trying to prevent members of parliament from voting on a new austerity measures austerity measures so that the country can get more bailout cash for of has been on th

rather, we in the u.s. are playing a supporting role in the mission led by nato, the north american treaty organization. the president's press secretary so affied that congress has not been kept in the dark on the u.s. role in libya. >> there have been 40 distinct engagements with congress in terms every consultation on libya so we feel confidence that we will be able to answer the questions that congress has. >> question, does president obama have any legitimate basis to claim that the u.s. is not at war with libya? eleanor? >> the war powers act is couched in these big constitutional terms, but it's really a turf war between congress and the white house. if congress is really serious about want to go stop this engagement, they use the power of the purse. this is a small group of members, kucinich and maybe two other democrats, and some republicans who mostly have an ax to grind with the obama white house. an institution they're claiming mostly they've been disrespected, but an institution that has 12% app

interests the u.s. position that the taliban should reach a settlement with karzai while the united states continues to have troops there to provide you know what they were guard as an insurance policy that's really not a viable position no independent analyst of the war and of the taliban regards this as a realistic negotiating position and so there's really kind of a flimflam going on with regard to these negotiations or these talks with the taliban in a lexus i mangle back to you in london why in the world are the taliban want to sit down with the united states and its allies and negotiate any kind of agreement when they can just wait them out they've done a pretty good job for ten years. well i think there's also quite an interesting distinction to be made which is that western democracies particular although i said contributing nations continue to talk about withdrawal of combat troops first is that withdrawal of training operations and moving more combat troops into training operations. sexy fox s

the u.s. presses ahead with a drone base to attack militants in yemen despite the use of the unmanned aircraft are being blamed for the deaths of hundreds of civilians in afghanistan and pakistan. news from russia and around the world this is r.t. with me us are probably all over thanks for joining us another day of fierce battles in libya has left twenty four rebels dead and twenty eight others wounded nato forces are continuing to tighten their grip on colonel gadhafi stronghold tripoli civilians in the capital live in constant fear of being killed and now a petrol shortage is making their lives even more difficult. for notion of reports nature's actions aimed at protecting civilians have succeeded only in stoking people's anger. it's may have some of the largest oil reserves on the planet but these days labor is also god some of the longest queues at his pastoral stations the international sanctions imposed on them battled colonels regime did not include a few and. but nato is targeting. if

a >> u.s. airways spoke to other travelers at sfo and most see a double standard. >> if that guy is wearing a bikini into the other guy is sagging? that is way worse. >> no word on where this man lives or his next travel plans. grant lotus, kron 4 news. >> deshon marman is back at school, we caught up with a family spokesperson about how he is doing in what he thinks about this new controversy. >>dashon's reaction is, he is back at the university of new mexico and back on the practice field and doing summer school. he is trying to this behind tips however, we take a look at the facts. when you take a look at that picture and when you look at to sean, it is clear that there is a strange dress code policy in this case on those photographs. >> u.s. airways is facing increased scrutiny about dress codes with this new video that has surfaced. terisa estacio is taking a closer look at airline policy. >> we combed through the u.s. airways contract in a carriage policy. most of the 36 days is the focus

as the u.s. secretary of defense robert gates prepares to say goodbye to the country that is the cia chief who is taking over the critics question whether this appointment will end the wars currently thriving in the ever expanding nutri budget. but next our financial guru max kaiser and co-host stacy habits reports on that manipulation of oil and suv of trading. i it's me max kaiser this is the kaiser report we're going to tell you things you never knew about michael bloomberg but first let's check in with stacey herbert stacey max you know we've been talking about suicide bankers around the world and they are out in full force this latest week but at the start of the week i want you to look at this image from outside of the acropolis when it was taken over by the communist party union in athens the peoples have the power never surrender organize counter attack is to counter attack in athens joining the global insurrection against banker occupation over there in cairo they're well ahead of the cu

and the u.s. government manipulated the price over lower and then accused the hunt brothers of manipulation so it's the same with them they've been doing this for decades and actually just getting worse and worse now and people are just starting to wake up to it right and a sale is still around and some require has never been higher as the public doesn't seem to be fooled by this and you've got about thirty seconds i just want your final thoughts if you can weigh in a little bit on the bitcoin phenomenon that's sweeping the globe cause a lot of controversy a lot of hate now. from some folks but then again we and others believe it's a fantastic thing what do you think my first impression i heard about about three months ago for the first time and i was thrilled when i heard about it and i think that's a little bit the computer nerd side i mean i see this is a little bit of a struggle between computer nerds and the austrian economics people and i'm i'm very involved on the austrian economic side as

is doing to the u.s. government now and they're saying reserve debt ceiling this is what the fed and the u.s. government are doing to the consumer stephen roach contends here they're just trying to force them to go shopping by keeping low rates and trying to encourage them to get. back into the housing market you know they offering all sorts of incentives to go into the house and mark they should install cattle prods into staring wheels of all new general motors cars then you turn on the ignition to get a huge jolt of electricity and it gets you one hundred miles an hour to the nearest shop and you start spending beyond your means wildly out of the u.s. economy to actually you know what they should also do at the same time is have george bush is what he's come on and say go shopping standing on the rubble after nine eleven but judging shoppers don't look behind me at the bottom of rubble to go back to the store put your credit cards or risk well so i have these final few headlines regarding the housing ma

u.s. drones allegedly kill schools of civilians as the u.k. readies helicopters and descended to the restive region. very warm welcome to you this is art to you live from moscow well greece is a boiling point with police firing tear gas at crowds of angry protesters thousands of demonstrators are trying to lock access to the parliament building where the government is discussing more cutbacks to secure further rescue. is watching events . we did see clashes between the police and the process is this a little while ago a the case that letting that figure into the crowd was still like you can really feel the take that was such a state hit the instant like the splat when it happened a lot of people trying to clear the area that a lot of people said that they said there was a major question of this happening a lot of people caught up in the way she is that the pilot is that is just like happened we were slightly sad and it happened very very quickly though speaking to one protester hey he said