in the u.s. as we watch this fiscal cliff charade it honestly sounds just so much a ceiling debate of two thousand and eleven when lawmakers were bickering and another ratings agency was threatening to drop the u.s. is aaa credit rating and then it of course did now that was met with much fanfare in the beginning but then not many direct consequences the dollar has strengthened against other currencies the u.s. has borrowed at record low rates since and maybe this whole fiscal cliff saga will play out in the exact same way and if another ratings agency in this case downgrades the u.s. so what won't matter and with events that actually do change the contours of the game we don't actually know what these things will even look like until they happen and until they happen we have a really hard time entertaining the notion that they ever will like this guy at a press conference today was represented steve king and louie gohmert we have a bill here from britain no we won't we won't get downgraded of co

with the u.s.. here we meet the stentorious warlord who's working on the side of the west. ♪ >> in an earlier life, he had been in the americas enemy offering help for those on the kill list. now he was on the u.s. payroll and assumed the title of general. he is in the fiercest fighting is happening right here. -- he is saying the fiercest fighting is happening right here. [gunshots] the men fired across the rooftops, but it did not make sense to me what we were doing here. or what the americans were doing here in somalia are in this war lord turned general for what seemed like a senseless war. these were fighters you buried here. >> if recapture fighters alive, we give the medical care unless they're foreigners. >> if you capture a foreigner alive, you execute them on the battlefield? >> yes, the others should feel no mercy. the u.s.-backed somali warlord indha adde. journalist jeremy scahill there, rick rowley felon. talk about somalia and mali as the world learns about mali with the french atta

backs the u.s. dollar and if that is under threat then it's important to increase the budget of that pentagon which backs the u.s. dollar but i want to say when andrew sullivan says here regarding this chart he says quote history is replete with examples of great powers who undid themselves by spending on war and empire in the end often with the debt when the glutting the core concerns of the domestic economy had to monaco america is following imperial spain and imperial britain into the same morass but it is a choice not a fate right well how better way to support the u.s. dollar then killing a lot of people i agree with. paul craig roberts in that supporting the dollar means committing genocide when you print money that's inflationary when you allow money to be destroyed that's deflationary there's nothing faster to destroy money than bombs and dead bodies and that's what that's what it's all about where you actually mentioned the soldiers and a lot of americans will argue oh we can't cut the budg

the entire u.s. military presence in afghanistan there will still be training troops there will be counterterrorism troops there will be rapid assistance troops there will be a lot of troops the numbers are unclear the pentagon proposed different scenarios five thousand ten thousand or twenty thousand to be to remain in the only numbers the obama. straiten admits to consider is ten or five or perhaps even less but the big question will be will those troops have immunity from prosecution for any war crimes they might commit under afghan law this was the reason that president obama was forced to go ahead with the complete withdrawal of all troops and all pentagon paid mercenaries out of iraq because the iraqi government although it tried could not get the parliament to agree to allow the troops to stay without a grant of immunity if the same thing happens in afghanistan the obama administration will have no choice but to withdraw all the troops because they will not leave them there without that kind o

the u.s. justice department has dropped charges against the late internet freedom acts his irish was there twenty six year old committed suicide on friday he faces decades behind bars over accusations here illegally downloaded academic documents for public use the department's decision came after shorter's family accused prosecutors of being complicit in his death and turns up thousands of internet he's expressed support for the claim and for winter and i t. and opera now and found of this wish pirate party has almost all information should be free to whoever wants it you could easily say the for instance military secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because it is privacy by those national security but in terms of access to knowledge to public so public documents and records. certainly committed not no crime and that even goes the federal prosecution did wasn't through the book in the way this had been obtained in terms of how he had walked into the technical university

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is holding the weakest hand so the u.s. dollar will probably be devalued the most and the yen and the u.k. pound against the chinese currency and of course that's where the war is it's the china japan or japan it's a proxy for the u.s. and china is wants to revalue up but only if it can take a huge piece of america's and canadian assets as a result of this interaction and that's what they're angling for and they're already buying huge pieces now of american member just a few years ago the conoco phillips deal was rejected by the china was considered a strategic asset that they would not be allowed to have sense that deal china's bought. and worth of assets than that one single deal this is been talked about in the us press because why alert the citizen about a hot war coming down the pike when they should be just buying lots of stuff and borrowing lots of money and eating themselves to death because that's the model of course as i mentioned the united states a lot of their geopolitics of the past decade or two has precisely

the u.s. . a fresh coalition split in the u.k. after u.s. diplomats said britain should leave the e.u. while prime minister david cameron complicates a referendum on staying in the union. and syria's rainy i'm stockpiles a risk the west is concerned worthy could end up and the conflict while critics say is just another excuse for military intervention. it is not the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina josh welcome to the program the notorious you as a tantrum facility at guantanamo bay in cuba marks its eleventh anniversary despite president obama's four year old promise to shut the camp while human rights groups are calling for freedom for those cleared for release and for a fair trial for others polls show the majority of americans have moved on as or he's going to check on their reports public opinion in the u.s. relies more on fiction than fact. president obama's call to look forward not backward has resulted in attempts to sweep the past under the rug including some of his

connected to the u.s. dollar money issuers that system is falling apart and what do we do that's an insurrection against the bond kang the bond king was toppled by gold and silver and wiped out all or. there's going to be a scorched earth policy against a paper pushers the paper bugs a scorched earth that means all fiat currencies exterminated and then finally you didn't mention what the. so the ordinary person out there should do and i was sent this to me a photo from somebody in sarasota florida and they went to a mexican taco stand and there was a game and if you look at this picture it says silver coins are frequently added to this game the chinese government is urging its one billion citizens to buy silver in order to hedge against inflation and the devaluing of currency should you be lucky enough to win the silver coin in this game save it as it could be easily worth one hundred dollars in just a few years well in mexico the word for money is silver and that's been true around the world countries aro

courts the u.s. courts have said you should release them immediately both the president and congress have failed to release eighty six prisoners at guantanamo who have been cleared by the courts and yet the courts also refuse to demand that the administration release these prisoners there are approximately six prisoners at guantanamo evidence is available that it would be appropriate for them to be tried for various crimes and that should go forward under the appropriate criminal prosecution procedures in a court of law none of this is taking place final quick thought we got you on the line but the indefinite detention act can theoretically be used on americans a bomb of course a promise that's never going to happen but there again he also promised that one time i would be closed he worried about that. oh it has happened right here in the good ole us of a during world war two japanese americans people who are a japanese ancestry but born here in the united states citizens of the united states they we

the former reviewer believes the u.s. can make a case where britain can't. >> the level of cooperation is high but i expect that in this case the americans have high- quality intelligence that can be translated to court trial. >> he now faces charges of providing material support to a orist cell for an attack on british soil. >> tax rates -- after this week, you'd be forgiven to think we'd heard enough. depardieu wasard granted leadership in russia after leaving france over a tax on millionares. he says he is delighted. >> it was when vladimir putin burst into song that his friendship with the french actor became apparent. ♪ on blueberry hill ♪ >> gerard depardieu was applauding and now is -- noone thought the star of "green card" would get russian leadership. depardieu fell out wit hthe french government on high tax rates, threatening to move to georgia and montenegro and he produced this response from putin last month. >> he considers himself french and loves his country and his culture. i am sure he is going throug

the custody of u.s. government are entitled to the same rights whether they be u.s. citizens or citizens from that dr and those rights and the right not to be subjected to arbitrary detention. i asked this question to a former detainee that we spoke to a bit earlier one of the program i'll ask it to you as well how aware americans of the day what's really happening in guantanamo in the name and the other justifications of the war on terror do you think as we head into another year our rally today on the steps of the supreme court was designed to help make americans aware of this blemish on america's international human rights record i think too many americans are not fully aware of the fact that people are being indefinitely without charge and i think if most americans knew that they would agree with them it's you know national that it's not only a violation of international law it's also on american law from washington frank kitchen you see deputy executive director of amnesty international usa thank yo

of the u.s. and more than twice as much as the people of the united kingdom. anna rose, talk about the state of the environmental movement. as you say, nothing will happen until the people push their so- called leaders, but has this massive catastrophic heat wave in australia, bringing you to temperatures to more than 122 degrees fahrenheit, how has it changed the movement? >> some parts of the media that are connecting the dots between extreme weather and climate change, and certainly as climate campaigners and people who try to help others understand what is happening to our planet with climate change, we have been trying to encourage the movement to have those conversations to be able to connect the dots. but of course we have other elements of the media who simply are not making the link at all, and that is where we need to come and remind people that this is a tragedy what we're seeing here in australia, and we need to be able to come to gather as a community not just to deal with a short-te

and the u.s. isn't the only country eyeing the region french in mali and troops are locked in a bitter battle with islamic extremists while u.s. officials say this conflict could take years to resolve a report from mali coming up. in the black mark on u.s. credibility abroad but it looks like the guantanamo bay detention facility isn't going to shut its doors anytime soon in fact the obama administration is actually reassigning the special envoy tasked with closing the facility i had a look at the change of heart. it's tuesday january twenty ninth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. we begin today taking a look at plans the u.s. has for establishing a spy drone base in north west africa the goal is to keep a close eye on al qaeda affiliates and other islamic extremists in the region this as french forces continue to invade northeastern mali and an effort to fight islamist extremists that were gaining traction in the rejet if the base is approved it would likel

the u.s. and afghanistan have moved in the last chapter now the eleven year afghan war as washington's defense secretary sees it anyway after an hour of discussions leon panetta and president hamid karzai announce they've made some good progress but failed to provide any concrete answers to the debated pullout of u.s. troops from afghanistan the country's future remains uncertain with the lack of clarity over how many american soldiers remain after the proposed withdrawal in twenty fourteen some crucial decisions are expected after today's talks between the afghan leader hamid karzai and the u.s. president barack obama that meetings wrapping up right now. well i've said talk more about because his trip to washington a war comes my come out of it will talk to brian becker from the antiwar coalition a coalition even to you brian good to see you and there was a some expectation of some concrete decisions being made during karzai as u.s. visit so far though today nothing solid to come out although

the u.s. is an empire people in the u.s. have not experienced the kind of economic turmoil that they have somewhere like argentina where they went through a default is there a difference in people's approach to risk and perceived risk and their desire and willingness to hedge against it somewhere like argentina where they've spirits that kind of thing first hand versus the u.s. where they can hear about what could possibly go wrong but they haven't experienced that kind of economic turmoil to that extent. yeah you know i'd say i mean i spent about five months of the year and argentina and you know the understanding of the cycles that tend to happen you know they tend to happen every sort of ten years where you know you get major currency blowups. that. seceded by the kind of breakdowns and civil liberties that that we're talking about possibly. happening here in the u.s. . the people are very very aware of what's going on and so a lot of their enterprises are kind of forced underground into what's so they're just dismissed i

and the u.s. -- we have seen some growth in the u.s. last year, and we believe we have, if we avoid to hit the fiscal ceiling, the debt ceiling -- if we avoid that, we have it in our hands, and we can generate positive growth. we are seeing some good indications in the markets that have pretty much the debt here in the u.s. the building and construction market. for four years it has been dead. now suddenly we see it is coming back to life. this will only be coming back to life if we send strong comfortable messages and not have a discussion about the fiscal cliff and now the debt ceiling and then probably the next one. we need to continue to generate confidence. and if we do that, i think we will have nice markets here, automotive being one of those in the u.s. aerospace, very important. we could see, also a rebound in the building and construction market. >> susie: you mentioned the word confidence, and the word that we mostly hear from any business companies, they use the word concern. you've heard this all the time. how does that imp

leading the way in mali but the u.s. of course of the french and the french have supported the u.s. in the past another region that's really important to focus on that i think you could say the resources and the attention is really turning to more so is the asia pacific region we saw president obama get together with the australian president we are talking about shifting importance in that region i think that we're going to see a big shift away from the middle east but still with our lead from the behind kind of strategy not necessarily intervening like we saw in syria you know kind of letting that play out but also using diplomatic rights we have to to kind of influence the change that we want to see we're seeing actual military ships into the asia pacific region some could argue that it's even worse i mean yes you're not having ground troops there really but when you're shifting to two purely these drone wars completely counterintuitive completely counterproductive ninety eight percent failure rate according to a harva

he has the backing of u.s. military chiefs to break down the barriers. a u.s. marine captain has done two tours in afghanistan, it is not about gender. >> i want to make the point that we are not looking to just reserve a spot for women, we are trying to give people a chance to compete for the spot. some women cannot do it just like some men cannot do it. the policy being repealed it says that they have a chance. >> the vast majority of britain's armed forces have already been opened up to women but there is still one significant exception. women continue to be barred from what is called close combat roles. in the british armed forces, when men are already flying fighter jets and serving on warships. soon, they will be allowed on submarines. on the ground, they are working as bomb disposal experts and medics, often under fire. three british servicemen have already lost their lives. this is one retired general who does not believe they will be equal in battle. >> cannot afford to have anything but the fittest, strong is the most determined people engaging with t

well britain and the u.s. are reportedly providing help with transport and communications in the just text of that means that they're providing transport and planes to help carry troops however we've also heard the u.s. is providing some very limits drones in order to track the movements of the rebels in northern mali and of course it's not just britain and the u.s. now we've heard that a number of other european countries including denmark pledging their support for the french military offensive in the region so it is growing quite quickly and by sunday we've already had hundreds of french military personnel taking part in the operation officials say that french as strikes are targeting rebel forces rebel strongholds and logistical points however human rights groups are already counting a number of civilian casualties with three children dead since friday and of course this is quite a departure from francois loans promise to kind of step away from the very paternalistic ties that fronts used to have with the

what are we going to say about the u.s.? >> well, we have the most precious strengths in the u.s. that matter the most: innovation, a university system, entrepreneurship, a great dynamic country, a great dynamic group of citizens. the things that we have to fix are the basics. they're not hard, they're not rocket science, but we just have to achieve consensus. my optimism comes from the fact that historically america has been willing to face the hard problems, be dynamic, change things, not get stuck in gridlock. right now it's unsettling how unabler two make progress. but i thi there's an underlying optimism i have that just because of the very historical nature of this country and certainly there's no reason why we can't be competitive. you know, it's really going to be our choice in terms of how we behave, what kind of policies we set, how we work together between business and government and, you know, i'm optimistic that we'll sort it out but, boy, it sure looks ugly right now. >> susie: for more on michaelportier's research and articles go to nbr.com and check out our partner

planet the u.s. won't sign the landmine treaty one of the few countries not to be a signatory to it because they say they may need it in korea there's constant incidence in north korea one of those could blow up and become a major conflagration it's a serious problem all i'm saying is that north korea by saying that it too has the capability to strike back to defend itself is trying to reignite negotiations and in the past that has sometimes been successful brian thanks a lot good to talk to you get back in from the answer will answer coalition joining me live there in washington thank you. well finding the closest secrets about anyone in the world at all to dot com you can read about how an agency is in government because people's favorite client is the number of requests for private data gets the moment the great british brain drain a lack of opportunity for the u.k.'s brightest to look elsewhere for more money and better jobs you can read more about that at r.t. dot com. security forces in venezue

the world should open their eyes. the u.s. society should react. the u.s. people can do a lot for peace, stability and the planet, for the recovery of the planet. the awareness in the world today is also expressed in the united states. we need a large alliance between the u.s. people and the peoples of the world's. cultural diversity, different ways to see the world. establishing a relationship of the quality, that is the main message. >> venezuelan foreign minister, current vice president nicholas maturo, speaking to us when he was foreign minister in 2007 in new york city. miguel tinker salas, talk about what the u.s. relationship has been with chÁvez, both under bush and now under president obama and where maduro fits into that. >> as you said, maduro has been the foreign minister. he has been important and re- establishing our relationships with nearby colombia, credited with mending fences at a time when a previous demonstration which was very confrontation and almost came to breaking relationships. that relationship has been buttressed. in that sense

developing news or the u.s. house is going to vote for the fiscal cliff deal at any moment and they're expected to review a clean. approved by the senate after intense last minute negotiations. and ireland assumes the six month presidency of the e.u. facing a wide range of issues from a challenging european agenda to its own ailing finances. and after new year's celebrations many may be nursing a sore head right now but max and stacy are as sharp as ever and they're here on r t with the kaiser report next. i'm max foster welcome to the kaiser report and welcome to tory thirteen you know more than one hundred thirty years ago the outlaw jesse james when robbing a train you to tell the passengers and i quote we're not ordinary thing we're bold robbers the victims loved it and almost every single one of the victims you killed was unarmed yes the population adored it today and the likes of jamie diamond and lloyd blankfein similarly enjoy celebrity status as pulled robbers of an armed you know it's a palace and pens

the u.s. senate acted last month on sandy relief, it has taken john boehner's republican-controlled house 78 days since the storm to pass this bill responding to the storm. in the end, on the republican side, it ended up being a grudging vote for sandy relief. republicans voted against sandy relief by a 3-1 margin. the bill was only able to pass because a minority of republicans joined with democrats to get it done in the house. even though the senate already passed its version of hurricane sandy relief last year, last month, the senate bill has to be redone because it took the house so long to get their side of it done. the senate is expected to get their side done again shortly. and then the president says he will sign the measure into law. >>> and tonight, in further breaking news, as slow as house republicans were to act in response to hurricane sandy, tonight's other major news is about how fast new york state was able to move to respond to a different kind of disaster. tonight one month

have asked the judge to order the u.s. government to release documents regarding the cia's alleged role in moving suspects across international borders anti-war activists sara flounders says the cia's using secret prisons outside the country to escape human rights laws. the reason for their existence is it's part of the u.s. war on terror which is using systematic terror against thousands of innocent people the u.n. report said twenty seven thousand prisoners had been held by the u.s. in secret prisons of course in afghanistan and iraq but countries throughout the middle east countries throughout europe and africa. on more than seventeen u.s. ships there were secret prisons so this is really part of a vast scale of thousands of people being held without salut lee no rights whatsoever and being subject to horrendous torture originally the u.s. claim they could hold prisoners outside the u.s. because then they wouldn't be subject to the geneva conventions and to international law and humanitarian law which in their twisted t

we've all heard of the wars in iraq and afghanistan and the covert missions the u.s. is undertaking in yemen and pakistan and libya well they don't have a new a shadow war in mali or western forces have been pitted against islamic rebels. and is it possible for a television news network to separate real journalism from reality shows and entertainment is it bad for business or the new reality to have some answers for you next. monday january fourteenth two thousand and thirteen four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our t.v. we want to begin today by taking a few moment moments to honor and remember aaron swartz who was found dead in his apartment friday night apparently from suicide here is a look back at his life. even as a young man programmer aaron swartz was described as a computer wizard among his many accomplishments during his short life era and helped create r.s.s. at age fourteen the tool now universally used to help users subscribe to online information he also formed a company that later merged with reddit he also co-founded demand pro

the u.s. gets a new secretary of state as democrat john kerry wins overwhelming senate approval look at his record in foreign policy decision making and whether there's likely to be any change on key issues. opposition calls for an urgent meeting with president morsi to end the week long deadly violence that's while the leader himself has the e.u. seeking to convince the bloc of these democratic credentials and ask for investment . was israel sets a precedent numbering the un human rights watchdog while fencing off even more from its closest neighbors. and the us office working to close guantanamo bay prison is disbanded it comes amid the nine eleven trial at the bases military tribunals and while the defense lawyers demand transparency on cia secret jails the probe into one of them based in poland drags on. it's two pm here in moscow this is coming to live with me and you so now we're good to have you with us our top story this hour the u.s. senate has overwhelmingly approved president obama'

but the head of the u.s. anti-doping agency, travis tygart, told us armstrong didn't tell the whole truth in the interview. tygart holds the keys to any reduction in armstrong's lifetime ban and in an interview for sunday's "60 minutes" we asked him about armstrong's talk show confession. you know, at one point in the interview he said that he was curious about the definition of the word "cheater" and he looked it up in the dictionary and didn't think it necessarily applied to him. >> it's amazing. i mean, scott, you could go to almost any kind guarden in this country or, frankly, around the world and find kids playing tag or four square and ask them what cheating is and every one of them will tell you it's breaking the rules of the game. no real athlete has to look up the definition of cheating and it's offensive to clean athletes out there working hard to play by the rules that apply to their sport. >> pelley: he suggested that cycling in those years was a level playing field because everyone did it. he was

as long as the u.s. economy keeps growing, mexico should keep growing. >> tom: so it is really the united states helping to pull mexico up? >> and mexican labor costs, when you adjust for productivity have been held flat over the next decade. china has seen its labor costs escalate, and the two have pretty close to met. so mexico is much more competitive on a cost basis, and it is here. >> tom: just across the border. finally, that brings us to the united states. how does the u.s. look compared to the rest of the world? >> i think we are still looking okay if we can get past this budget. >> tom: you're less excited about america than you are about non-japan asia. >> i'm really excited about non-japan asia because they're coming back from a period of out and out weakness. but i'm really hopeful if we can get a budget deal without too much problem in the next 60 days, we can really publish something. because if we can do enough to stabilize the ratio of u.s. debt to g.d.p., i think markets are going to lov

as long as the u.s. economy keeps growing mexico should keep growing. >> tom: so it is really the united states helping to pull mexico up? >> and mexican labor costs when you adjust for productivity have been held flat over the next decade. china has seen its labor costs escalate and the two have pretty close to met. so mexico is much more competitive on a cost basis, and it is here. >> tom: just across the border. finally, that brings us to the united states. how does the u.s. look compared to the rest of the world? >> i think we are still looking okay if we can get past this budget. >> tom: you're less excited about america than you are about non-japan asia. >> i'm really excited about non-japan asia because they're coming back from a period of out and out weakness. but i'm really hopeful if we can get a budget deal without too much problem in the next 60 days, we can really publish something. because if we can do enough to stabilize the ratio of u.s. debt to g.d.p., i think markets are going to love i

if the u.s. pulls out completely, is afghanistan at further risk of deinvolving into a civil war? >> absolutely. absolutely. no good answer for afghan's future right now. everyone is hoping for the best, but really expecting the worst. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> the big three money headlines are next critics say it puts 20 years and possibly 20 bounds on kate middleton. one said that the portrait was straight forward and very prur, but an art critic said perfectly adequate for the board room for a supermarket. but entirely inadequate for a national collection. ouch! [ male announcer ] wouldn't it be cool if we took the already great sentra apart and completely reimagined it? ...with best-in-class combined mpg... and more interior room than corolla and civic? ...and a technology suite with bluetooth, navigation and other handy stuff? yeah, that would be cool. introducing the all-new nissan sentra. it's our most innovative sentra ever. nissan. innovation that excites. now get a $169-p

clinton warned the u.s. cannot permit mali to become a safe haven but the problem for policy makers is a regional one. >> the arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region. instability in mali has created an expanding safe haven for terrorists who look to extend their influence and plot further attacks of the kind we saw just last week in algeria. >> i also want to bring in robin wright, a joint fellow at the u.s. institute of peace. robin, just jump in any time. the first place i want to start is there's an economist, very provocative economist cover this week with a clutched gun saying afriganistan. the idea being north africa will be the new afghanistan. i want to start with the libya moment because it seems like that's kind of a counter factual fork in the road. the question is how much of this is the result of the nato intervention. as someone who's studied this region and i have to say i was reading your congressional testimony about north africa yesterd

the u.s. at this point though it seems like every single passing day the justice department's case against him just crumbles more and more and more so sooner or later the u.s. government is going to have to prove that kim dotcom is worthy of the extra us and at that point if he's convicted he spent decades in prison but the opinion that i got from him and from his legal team is that that's not going to happen anytime soon. and you can see the full interview with came later they say. breaking the set. the worst you are the only white house. but. what was the good of you never seen anything like that. no cherry picking and no europe and i can't eat your leaders were quick to dismiss david cameron's ideas for a reformed union britain would be happy to stay in and a landmark speech banks are national referendum on membership but only after brussels agrees to some major changes france said it will roll out the red carpet if the u.k. wants to pull in the tower and their people the u.k. independence

end with them the u.s. economy and that's their game plan in other words when hank paulson threatened to destroy america unless they gave three quarters of a trillion dollars or every time they try to get some kind of law deregulated by threatening financial catastrophe jamie diamond is thread dollar collapse all right stay here and stay right there we're coming back to you in the second half on this new year's day special. soon which bright. moon a song from feinstein pressure. starts on t.v. don't come. on . i'm asked as a welcome back to the kaiser report you know the biggest story of the past five or six years has been j.p. morgan's massive make it so short position i asked for expert ned nader leyland of cheviots asset management whether or not this year could be the year that sees this manipulation scandal see some friction just as here we are twenty thirteen time for your prediction how will the l.b. and a sober market manipulation story pan out in twenty thirteen. well my so make a bold prediction a

but the u.s. beyond that is trying to review security as well as some of its facilities and see if they are prepared. >> there was aory today suggesting that some people in the state department, some people at defense were making the argument that mali was not in our-- was not a threat to america's national security and that therefore we should go very carefully in terms of looking at what we do. >> there has been a debate about that. there has been a debate about how real the al qaeda and the aqim threat truly is to western or u.s. interests. up until this point you hadn't really seen a qim attack western interests other than their linkage to that attack on the u.s. consul and mission in benghazi that killed the u.s. ambassador there. so within that context, aqim, the situation in mali have been some what contained. it's the potential of it becoming another launch pad for terrorism throughout the region that has people scared and pushing for more action. but that said, up until this point, aqim h

the u.s. faces a federal default and confusion in financial markets. >> the republicans can act responsibly and y amica' bills or put america through another economic crisis. >> obama says raising the debt limit is necessary for the government to meet its obligations. he said he's willing to compromise on cutting the budget deficit but not in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling. the u.s. government has reached a borrowing limit set by law but republicans continue to reject an increase without spending cuts in social security and other programs. now it's not the first time the u.s. has faced such a stand off. in the summer of 2011 the government and coness mained at odds over raising the limit until the last minute. the incident weighed down on share prices. it also prompted the first downgrade on u.s. government bonds. global car makers are showcasing their latest model at the 2013 international auto show in detroit. more than 50 new models are on display. the u.s. automarket has been rec

in libya the u.s. supported the intervention by nato and its allies touting it as a great advance for security entry and rights but the fallout from it ended with the death of the american ambassador and three other members of his staff the united states was overselling their so-called triumph over al-qaeda in a way that was really quite dishonest and dangerous because it was essentially setting the united states up for situations where. elsewhere was still not just strong but getting stronger and was getting stronger because of policies that the united states had followed and it was washington's politics that did little to win palestinians over to obama's side washington was against the upgraded status of palestine at the united nations angering but not surprising instance i would say that the people in general. stop thinking of him as a somebody who will do and will do us any favors or any good and they looked at him that he was very honest to the american interest and to other interests maybe the is

the u.s. president wants to run the military and the cia. this is al jazeera, live from our headquarters in doha. and china decides to reform its controversial labor camps. we speak to one man who had a very lucky escape. exclusive pictures from northern me and mark, wher -- northern myanmar. and nasa has found 461 new plants that could support life as we know it. u.s. president barack obama has made controversial choices for two of the top jobs in his government. is nominated chuck hagel for defense secretary and john brenan as dia director. both of them must now be approved by the u.s. senate. now this report. >> with his second term soon to begin, president obama is putting the finishing touches to his national security team. introducing the men that he wants to lead the pentagon and the cia. >> these two leaders have dedicated their lives to protect our country. i urge the senate to confirm them as soon as possible. >> both nominees face difficult questions before they are confirmed in the

later today the u.s. treasuries new boss comes under scrutiny in breaking the set with abby martin explaining how the media has been distracting attention from the real problems ahead here's a quick preview for you. obama's chief of staff jack lew is moving on up and of course the media has been all over the most controversial aspect of his record coming to a dollar bill near you this parody of a signature the treasury secretary's signature you see appears on all federal reserve notes dollar bills issued during his tenure here is jackal whose signature it really is and here is what jack lew's signature would look like on a dollar bill ha ha ha ha yes according the corporate media the biggest dirt on mr lewis is new the signature apparently the most interesting thing they can dredge up and that is handwriting sucks but of course this is all just one giant distraction from who he is really so who is jack lew what. we're about to give you never seen anything like this. and that's coming your way a little lat

which hit the u.s. east coast last year. the fed said it will continue buying mortgage backed securities and treasury bonds worth $85 billion a month. the key interest rate will be kept at virtually zero as long as the unemployment rate stays above 6.5%. the u.s. jobless rate stood at 7.8% in december. the u.s. economy shrank in the first months. officials at the u.s. commerce department released on wednesday the preliminary gross domestic product data for the october to december period. they said the economy contracted by an annualized pace of minus 0.1% from the previous quarter. the first negative figure since the second quarter of 2009. that's when the company was suffering from the financial crisis in 2008. the report says u.s. exports dropped 5.7%. government expenditure also fell by 6.6% and defense related spending plunged by 22%. on the brighter side personal spending was up over 2% from the previous quarter. this was led by strong auto sales. personal consumption accounts for 12% of u.s. gdp.