the president of the united states barack obama in a speech at the united nations talked about the same issues. >> it's been less than two years since a vendor in tunesia set himself on fire to protest the oppressive corruption in his country. and sparked with what became known as the arab spring. and since then the world has been captivated by the transformation that has taken place. and the united states has supported the forces of change. we have taken these positions because we believe that freedom and self-determination are not unique to one culture. these are not simply american values or western values. they are uniform values. -- universal values. and even though there are huge challenges to come with the transition to democracy, i'm con finsed that-- convinced that ultimately government of the people, by the people and for the people is more likely to bring about the stability, prosperity and individual opportunity that serve as a basis for peace in our world. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> funding for char

since the end of the cold war, the united states has removed missile heads from many places in the united states including the bay area. >>> in 1954 the defense went to the next level to some an unthinkable level. the marin headlands became home to a guided battery missile. they were armed with missells. they were more than 300 missile sites. 16 in the bay area and this one nestled in the rolling hills of marin was one of them. the missells were designed to stop, mainly the soviets. they had one simple motto, if it flies it dies. >> the hercules had a flight of one minute. it was designed to go up in the air up to 25 miles, make a turn, come down and explode over the top of a group of bombers. >> guidance system was fair. nobody ever knew whether in this area whether you would hit anything or not but you never fired one. >> radar on top would be sweeping all the time. if it detected an incoming flight what they would call ufos it would alert. >> and it was soon obsolete. so why is this missile base so meticulously preserved today? why have volunteers most of them former soldiers at the ba

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

would require a significant change in direction for the united states for the gulf arab states to support this kind of initiative but it is really the only way out in beirut what do you think about that i mean we've heard about you know negotiations before and they've always fallen apart so how realistic is it this time. first of all war in syria is a primarily western nato war on syria it is not the primarily a civil war it is a part of clear and tangentially a civil war which was used and exploited by what sort of power by nato ally turkey to. syria into western policy and to bring down is our side regime so what on syria is drive by's on west to control us through syria and our board using turkey's a new islamist regime in turkey the new islamist regime in egypt in libya as well as in tunisia along with already established broyard regime is in the gulf and in monaco or in jordan this new alliance aims at bringing down the last hour. out of nationalist the arab world after saddam hussein was brought down and got tough he was brought down so really it is a war over who controls the middl

part of the united states. it has a long history of business and cultural exchange with china. as i come to san francisco this time, i have some new feelings. i have been to san francisco many times but no time like this time that makes me more convinced that both sides share a stronger desire for corp. and no time like this time that i sense -- for cooperation. there are nmany opportunities in front of us, especially in the field of infrastructure. as i said this time, i have a delegation of 100 people coming from 40 companies. many of them in fact specialize in infrastructure field. the closely followed -- they have been closely following the projects in city developments, in airports and seaports renovations, and real-estate, and high-speed railways. some have already had the experience in engineering design, construction, and management in the united states. so i hope that you will have candid discussions on infrastructure and many other fields and keep a close touch and eventually come to corp. -- cooperat

political process the problem so far has been that there are players the united states the gulf arabs the turks that have insisted up to this point that any political process not just have preconditions but you might call pre results that departure had to be stipulated at the get go and for the united states there is further concern that they have never wanted to have iran involved in a regional process or a contact group on syria that's just not a serious diplomatic position if you really want a political settlement that's why i come back to the point that if we're going to have a little goes a little late it is going to requires some significant shifts in turkish and u.s. and gulf arab policies if you're in new york. jumping. i think peter peter flint is being a little bit too kind on the iranian government here in regards to their impact on the conflict that we see that's going on the iranian regime had recently in september had told some talks with members of the opposition but they always insist that the opposition has to accept that the bashar assad stays in power this is what t

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

or matrix showing the number of units, type of units, and square footage of the units. we are reviewing one project and my firm, project in san jose. there was a matrix showing the number of units and types, and square footage. these are too gross; these were by unit types. some of the two-bedroom units were bigger than others according to mr. pollock. i am supportive. i don't have anything else to add to the rest of the commissioners comments. make a motion to approve with conditions and adopt findings. >> second. >> i know there has been some mention in the documentation here. the ability to do on-site housing because of -- we might have disposes of an artist hearing. generally speaking, the project has to have additional allowances from the city to qualify where rental rates are restricted, that is my understanding of the law; and not sure what this project is getting that allows it to have rental housing units on-site. >> planning staff, there is a cost agreement with this project, included with the original condition material that went out for the september 6th hea

the history of the united states. he said, quote, i.e. exhort all the good people of the united states. as they love their country, as they feel wrong that they exert themselves. madison's call made clear that the expectation of showing love of country required giving support to the war. at a moment of national crisis, patriotism was needed. he sought to justify the conflict to the population at large and motivate the country to support the war. the stakes were high because although a majority in congress voted in favor of declaring the war not one single member of the federalist party voted in support of the war. the ticket very skeptical view of the war, far more so than did southern and western members of the democratic republican party that madison was leading. ostensibly a conflict with britain over the national sovereignty the american war of 1812 dirty quickly became a test or addition. a test of the strengths meaning of american patriotism. we have to forget about the war of 1812 losing track between the glory

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

treatment plants across the united states. today, with evolving technologies, the waste travels through multiple stages of treatment, removing tons of solids... settling out microscopic particles, and introducing bacteria that consume and decompose the toxic material. in some plants, the water is further disinfected through the use of ultraviolet light or ozonation. these plants cost millions of dollars to construct, operate, and maintain. in population centers like los angeles, the scope of the task is staggering. the hyperion wastewater treatment plant serves four million people. it processes 350 million gallons of sewage and removes 500 tons of solids daily. after treatment at hyperion, what was once raw sewage is clean enough to release into santa monica bay. other cities and towns release treated wastewater, or effluent, into local rivers, lakes, and streams. as it flows downstream, additional cities may capture it for drinking water, consume it, and treat the water again. in other words, the water coming out of a wastewa

the former secretary-general of the united nations and. i'll ask him whether there's any end in sight for that nation's brutal war, then the u.s. isn't the only major power picking a president for the next few weeks. i'll talk with beijing's reporter e van osnos. also i'll talk to the education innovator sal khan, the founder of khan academy about how best to teach our kids. >>> and what does a company with almost 700 planes and tens of thousands of trucks worry about? fuel. i'll sit down with fedex ceo fred smith to talk about the future of energy. that crucial subject, the future of energy is also at the heart of our latest gps special which airs tonight at 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. in global lessons, the roadmap for powering america will take you around the world to bring you ideas about energy back home. >>> but first here's my take. the second presidential debate has been studied andablized mostly as a prize fight. who punched hard, who missed a swing. that's fine. but there was a substantive aspect to the debate as wel

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

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

we would hope that the united nations might actually put some pressure on the united states not to come clean about the kind of weaponry that they were using and i'm sure they were using a lot of experimental weaponry in fallujah which is why we see these enormous increases in congenital malformation coming up here on our french winemakers or cod over about. the country's national treasure is slipping through their thing find out why in just a few minutes. iran's foreign ministry says the new batch of sanctions won't affect the country's economy in the long run it's after the european union slapped additional palaces on tehran aimed at curbing its nuclear program the measure is targeting reigning in gas exports and oil shipments among other things worries continue to mount that the states making nuclear weapons claim iran's always denied on sunday the country said it might consider limiting uranium enrichment if it's allowed to have fuel for research reactor is foreign policy chief catherine ashton says she helps there's still room for negotiations after three rounds of talks since this

all the world is looking at the debates not just the united states looking at the debate and if you with respect of both candidates the president and romney they both seem to have missed so many opportunities to show leadership on the world stage i mean if we look at the record starts from the green revolution in iran there were thousands and tens of thousands of iranians out there on the streets in tehran and where was it ministration we couldn't hear the for the people getting killed there for democracy and nothing happened kevin and so why would you suggest they would you suggest an intervention then regime change numbers of. american america has a more america has a moral voice america is looked at from the right you said it yourself america is looked at from around the world you're right romney was badly wrong really was saying the wrong things he wasn't thinking before before you open his mouth but on the other hand obama was silent so much i mean look at obama now in syria he hasn't shown any kind of leadership and so what would you suggest intervention would you suggest another w

we go through it if decides the united states is the decline. they made the strategic judgment three times over the past 25 years only to find themselves surprised. there isn't even a discussion within the chinese strategic community. adopt get carried with it. the americans don't go down as easily as you imagine. they are usually derived from a american self-perception and, you know, if i were sitting outside the world and i saw what our economy was and i saw all the talk in the united states about how we're in deline. i would come to that conclusion too. what remains the case if you're not talking about the chinese or western european. i think it's more important than that. you ask me what is important. it is striking to me whatever the perception may be. how many countries on the -- of china how much countries in the persian gulf in the middle east. how many countries in eastern europe and around russia are continued to look to the united states for strategic and other kinds of support? they have not decided there's nothing there's no one hom

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

by the united states especially at a time when in two thousand and eight the united states as we activated the south atlantic and we have a very strong military presence throughout latin america. in the south atlantic just as they have engineered insurrection and civil war which seems to be washington's specialisation now with the so-called arab spring mini theater here in latin america we will be seeing a latin american spring with different characteristics but where the united states will meddle in the in sort of affairs of countries like venezuela and they will even trigger in activate a generalized latin american spring which will be turmoil social unrest and even civil war. and another battle for howard this time though in the u.s. so incumbent president obama. would take a look at why the president's first televised tussle left his supporters called critics in the entire u.s. election system for a lack of real choice. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is dr van amir brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever mor

region and even the united states. on the other hand we have seen actions that would have been hard to imagine a few years ago. democratically elected leaders and free people in arab countries standing up for a peaceful pluralist future. it is wade too soon to say how these transitions will play out. but what is not in doubt is that america has a big stake in the outcome. last month at the united nations general assembly in new york i met with leaders from across the region and i told each of them that the united states will pursue a strategy to support emerging democracies as they work to provide effective security grounded in the rule of law for economic growth and bolster democratic institutions. we have made those three priorities the hallmark of america's involvement in the region. we have convened donor conferences to coordinate assistance, leverage new partnerships to the g-8, a community of democracy, the o a cd and stepped up engage in with the arab league signing the first-ever memorandum of understanding for

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

of the united states. the candidates are senator dan quayle and lloyd bentsen, the democratic nominee. [applause] for the next 90 minutes, we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. however, there are america rigid restrictions on the questions my colleagues and i may ask. the first question goes to senator quayle. you have to the minister responded. you have been criticized for your decision to stay out of the vietnam war, for your poor economic -- academic record. more troubling by some of the comments to have made in your own party. a separate -- secretary of the state said your peck was the dumbest mistake george bush could have made it. your leader added to the senate said a better qualified person could have been chosen. other republicans have been more critical in private. why do you think you have not made a more substantial impression on some of the people who have been able to observe the up close? >> the question goes

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

united space impulse of hikari who is from the united states over to be the best ways to reduce the treaty so enjoyed by trying to do. all right mr tang thanks very much indeed for sharing your use with us that was professor tales of the hong kong city university. now in jordan capital and jordan's capital amman hundreds of police are aligning the streets to keep or upcoming massive rallies around two hundred thousand supporters of king of dollars reforms and about fifty thousand backers of the opposition muslim brotherhood party are gathering for peaceful demonstrations at the same thing earlier the king dissolved parliament clearing the way for new elections and he pledged to introduce more reforms aiming to avoid arab spring style of dress the country has already faced nearly twenty months of protests with people demanding more say in how the state is run. eighty seven people jailed. in tunisia for storming the u.s. embassy maybe sentenced to death say their defense lawyers back in september and angry mob attacked the diplomatic headquarters in the capital tunis for being manned

same basic it's the same basic rationale the united states the obama administration was looking for places where he could appear to be on quote unquote the right side of history and take the arab awakening when i didn't hear gentlemen i'm sorry we have to go to a break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria today with ours. and. it was the strangest attempt to to take. the u.s. president trying to overthrow the foreign countries gulf but his strategic game. and america recognized it's just a. question steve q but managed to cope with the expectorant all don't talk to all body oh god here i leave you to let you go but the rajah about the need . to cuban missile crisis games and reality. wealthy british. market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars are there are no holds. headlines. and you can see. the full. welcome back across the aisle to remind you we're talking about the syrian civil war. and you can see. my only go back to you in new york here there was a bit of a blow out there about what's the nature of dem

the united states. it continues to be unhelpful on a range of issues of paramount importance to the u.s. like nuclear proliferation. they continue to engage in an array of economic practices giving unfair advantage to its own companies. as it's been doing for over 15 years now, they continue to expand military capabilities in ways that pose an increasing challenge in our ability to preserve our allies and preserve navigation. our friends and allies are uncertain about the direction of our policy and staying powerment i think worried at first that the current administration was overly solicitous. they worry about being drawn into a rivalry between the united states and china, and they wonder, ultimately, if we will have the resources and the resolve to follow through. i think we need a china strategy that's realistic and steady that continues to pursue dialogue and cooperation wherever possible, but which advances our economic interests, upholds and defends what we believe to be universal values, coordin

the united states. it's not true in britain but here, here they consider party identification and attitude, not a demographic. they weight for all the standard demographics because the census tells us how many men and women that are in the publishing of how many 18 to 20 euros and those over the age of 55 but by some of the pollsters in the united states are now reading for party invitations they're providing us with two very different pictures of where the election is. those that are waiting for party identification like you, showed no particular pickup for mitt romney after the first debate where as those who did not weight for party identification showed a romney came after the first debate. so very different things going on. as michael just said i would not be surprised if we do not see telephone calls by 2020. a third of households up from 17% in 2084 years ago, cell phones only as michael said, pollsters can't reach those households in the same way. this is a business that has very, very series pr

the united states. their propaganda is enough. people feel they are colonized, they are dominated by the united states, there is a media which will play on those sentiments and there is an army that is very influential in the country, and when it is to their benefit, when they see a benefit, they will whip up anti- american sentiment. is there. but it will be used to make political points. if you are fighting in pakistan and your opponent is attacking the united states, attacking the united states is a way to attack them. there are genuine concerns, as well. >> i will move to libya quickly, but what is the one thing you remember most about tunisia. >> the openness of the place. you could go to a bar called jfk and order a beer. that openness in many ways is under threat. alcohol is one thing. has become a symbol four people. islamists have been closing down liquor stores. that is one aspect of life. it is a stalking horse for many different ways people are arguing over the role of islam in government, t

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

they see the hand of the united states and us. that is why they picked up some of the ngo organizations supported by the united states. so vladimir putin sees his position or is similar to that. they don't like change. they feel that u.s. intervention in iraq has failed. and they made the entire middle east worse. they don't want to see it happen again in syria. of course, it protects their own interests. it was one of the last areas in the middle east. but they have to be careful. i mean, the united states stuck with shah and one. and we incurred the wrath of the. therefore you go down without sure. how long we stay with us? but this has become an international power between the united states and russia. russia is asserting itself and is writing this nationalist response against u.s. influence that has been going on for a decade now. so i don't see a change anytime soon. >> this has been really fascinating. the most interesting metaphor that you have. it was his brother, and his brother, of course, had a bloody end. but in his br

the question is the president of the united states is creating with the use of drones. you can imagine chinese using drones. basically deciding what the united states is doing with president. a public discussion of drones, as we are having here. it is a good thing. it is the future of warfare. >> thank you. >> thank you to the center of national policy for putting together this form and creating the type of forum where we can have a reasonable, rational debate. i would also like to thank peter and commending him and the new america foundation for the research they are doing. there are a lot of pundits in washington d.c. to have very strong opinions about the program, whether for or against drones, but very few people have actually gone out on the field and crunched the data. peter's team has done that. they should be commended. i will take a slightly different approach. i am a lawyer and a political scientist. i basically have three things i would like to do. i would like to discuss some of my observations from my field work in yemen this past summer. i would like to ta

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

and israeli officials also cause damage i think the idea is to calibrate the threat and maybe the united states hasn't always done the best job but the idea is you know you apply all of these levers of persuasion sanctions the threat of military action to say look this isn't a good path to go down let's find another path but you're absolutely right that if you you know if you're trying to convince somebody to do something or else you're going to carry out a threat you don't want to believe in you're going to carry out the threat anyway right because why. would you ever agree to anything if you think you're going to be attacked anyway so it's it can be tricky you're right to calibrate that rhetoric that you know if you do x. we will do y. but if you don't do x. we won't do what dr austin long thank you very much for speaking of r.t. thanks very much as a great pleasure. the gold fever. turned thousands into slaves. my father but also among others are involved in the mines and since i started working in the mine i stayed here to look a. bit more to nationals. make it a cash cow to be milke

as the united states, or what became the united states, when it was discovered, it was largely populated, as we know by people coming first from england. so basically, protestants who were the first citizen ores the first dwellers in this country. and some sisters from these largely cloistered orders came to the united states to help evangelize as it were the people who -- the indigenous people who were here. but what happened from about 1830 until the middle of the 1900s was huge waves of immigration of as we know came into this country. and settled really all the way across the country from the eastern sea board all the way across. many of those new immigrants were from traditionally catholic countries so from france, and germany, and then eventually from eastern european countries like poland. and they settled in this country. what became the united states. but they were in a very, in many cases, unhospitable climate. a very protestant environment one of the things the sisters became very involved in because the church wanted them to be involved in it, was helping to preserve the fait

the united states has supported the forces of change. we were inspired by the tunisian protests that toppled dictator because we recognize our own police in the aspirations of men and women who took to the streets. we insisted on change in egypt because our support for democracy ultimately put us on the side of the people. we supported a transition of leadership in a yemen because the interests of the people were no longer being served by a corrupt status quo. we intervened in libya alongside a broad coalition and with a mandate of united nations security council because we had the ability to start project to stop the slaughter of innocents -- we had the ability to stop the slaughter of innocents. as we meet here, we declared the regime must come to an end so the suffering of the syrian people can stop and a new dawn can begin. we have taken these positions because we believe that freedom and self-determination are not unique to one culture. these are not simply american values or western values. they are universal values. even as there

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