emerging markets there's better growth, so u.s. companies with strong brand presence and a foothold in emerging markets, we think will do well. >> susie: less than 30 seconds. consumer discretionary. last sector, cars, appliances, apparel. why is this compelling? >> it's a diverse sector. we're focused primarily within the modeia subcomponent of consumer discretionary, and what we're thinking is that there's going to be a fair amount of corporate spending going on in advertising budgets, and also, we think about the overall consumer, the discretionary sector. if we have a better economy in the second half, that should support it, and with lower oil prices, lower gas prices. that's a good thing. >> susie: thank you, curt. kurt reiman of ubs. all this week on "n.b.r.," we've been looking at the impact of immigration on the u.s. economy. tonight's commentator wraps up our coverage. he's adam looney, policy director at the hamilton project. >> immigrants now make up 12% of the u.s. population, the highest level in almost 80 years. so i

u.s. investors are looking ahead to a busy week. >>> okay. so welcome to the first trading day of the week. we're weighted to the upside one hour in the trading session for europe. after of course big rallies on the last few trading sessions of last week. the ftse 100 down half percent last week but up 2% the last three trading days. up 4.68% in the last three trading days. ftse 100 up. dax up two-thirds. the ibex today up another 1.75%. italy has got an auction out this morning. the auction focusing on -- i was going to show you three. but we got five and ten years very much in auction as well. 5.97% is where the ten year is trading. auction last month, the yield was 6.19%, lower today. the italian five year trading 5.28 at auction last month they hit 5 policy 84. auctioning up to 5.5 billion. yields in spain remain at 6.649%. hundred basis points lower. ten year bunds up to 1.4%. treasuries hit a record low. big week with the fed and employment report and of course the ecb, bank of engla

u.s. partner saying it will be used as political campaign. parliament's approval of the support for fukushima daiichi plant in japan. >>> public support for nuclear energy in demonstrators held their latest post-fukushima protest aimed at pressuring the government to rally was 2011 disaster. >> reporter: they brave heat and humidity to come out in historic numbers. these protesters in tokyo are demand thousands of people are here to say no power. >> translator: nuclear power is too dgerous humans inred explosio is still otest after protest urging the government to stop using atomice and academy award winning musician. they told the crowd life and health are much more important than economic people came out today to lis their own government stop restarting nuclear plants and decommission them. things. when i think about my child and other children in fukushima, i cannot help butt shame for all japanese if another nuclear accident happens again. i'm really angry. this is terrible politics th

now could the u.s. government be assassinating its own citizens abroad that story plus america's involvement in the syrian conflict and more in the alyona show up next from washington here on r.t. . welcome to the lone a show where you get the real headlines with none of the mercy for a lot of washington d.c. now tonight we're going to speak to a representative from the a.c.l.u. which just filed a lawsuit against the government for targeted killings of three u.s. citizens abroad then a suicide bombers killed high level syrian officials but is the west weary of calling it an act of terrorism and how much is the u.s. already participating there and then everybody clipping it federal reserve chief ben bernanke he is fear mongering over the fiscal cliff so we'll go through all the details of what could actually happen in january with dean baker we'll have all of that and more feeder night including a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media decided to miss. so is it a is once again f

the u.s. or other problems in europe in terms of the housing boom. also, a big slide of capital to the emerging markets and lowered debt risk returns in terms of what it takes, the cost of capital, rather, and the very strong demand in the u.s. help the triggered a big export boom. so this combination of factors of catching up from of very bad time in the 1980's and 1990's, global liquidity restored the cost of capital. also, the fact that the u.s. consumer was reasonably strong and a big source of explosive emerging markets help with the growth rate of emerging markets to these exceptionally high levels from a 03-08. now, after the crisis happened in 2000 and 2009, some of these emerging markets were able to use some of the un spent bullets to try and keep demand going for a while. so, like, that with india, china. a lot of stimulus was put into the pipeline to try and keep demand going. what is happening now is that many of these countries are experiencing their own difficulties and growth r

u.s. treasuriers saying we are parking 50 percent of the debt in u.s. backings. isn't that poor of problem. >> we hear the bad news and it makes us nervous . victoria hit the fact on the nose. two percent of the gdp comes from the sales.own yes, recessin highly unlikely. what does worry me. u.s. banks have far more exposure to the european front than we are told. it is a credit crunch we could do without. >> i think mike hasn't heard the news yet. the u.s. housing market bottomed on tuesday . more good news, because costs are low in the u.s. we are bringing manufacturing back to the u.s.. there is a 50-50 chance we'll repeal obama care. >> not a chance. >> greece is about the size of connecticut and maybe it will not affect the u.s. economy. if our banks had taken the time to shore up the balance sheet. you think what matters most is washington d.c. policy. who is going to be elected president is going to matter a lot . what is happening in congress is a big wild card here . europe, i am not as worried about europe. i agree with bill. i think we are out of the wo

a lot of the u.s. contingency, especially the track and field team, will be in birmingham and they'll welcome us there and bring us down a couple days before opening ceremonies into the village. >> okay, and the village is open today, so you know, i was talking about the bedspreads earlier, the kind of confer. >> beautiful. >> how do you deal with living in the village because there are lots of different athletes, shapes and sizes, events at different times. >> yeah. >> is it -- how do you deal with that? >> well, i did compete in the beijing olympics and it's very hard to minimize those distractions. i was one of the last events to compete in beijing -- >> that's tough. >> you have world-class athletes finishing up early on and of course it becomes a party with 10,000 people invited. >> 10,000 very young, fit -- >> a lot of energy, for sure. >> yeah, a lot of energy. that's a melting pot. >> i know where i'm going. >> yeah. i want to talk about, because we now go into the blackout period where individ

when we look at aid in the u.s., carrie mentioned the conundrum of u.s. carriers and u.s. sourcing for aid, raw materials, and whether it's food aid, whether it's relief. it's how aid is delivered. heather mentioned a little bit about the aid industrial complex which is what we call in washington the beltway bandits. these are basically u.s. aid contractors that actually implement aid programs on the ground and in many cases they're extremely large and important actors in providing foreign assistance and i think there isn't, when we talk about aid effectiveness, we also have to be really honest about the fact that u.s. aid is transparent in the sense that most of the foreign assistance budget is going to u.s. contractors and i think that that's a dirty little secret because it's a way that you can kind of promote and support u.s. business interests. it's also a way that some other countries have also done this, whether it's through peace corps and other mechanisms to get young people exposed to different career possibilities or prospects and i think that's the part that ma

because the u.s. government subsidizes the mortgage sector so heavily we don't have a good view of what the price of that risk is. >> going from your point ever raising interest rates but it cut i want deposit rates it caught the market by surprise. >> think they should. >> you think they should. you said they should raise interest rates. it to push those funds out of fed and back into the markets. >> you're pushing them into yields on safe-haven assets that are already at extraordinary lows. >> all i can tell you this. until the fed starts to repair the private market and stop intervening through this massive intervention we're not going to see a recovery. it was written about this, the great editor of the economyist wrote this. you can't keep rates at 0% for too long. we have to get these markets back to the point where they will operate without government support. i'm not saying the fed shouldn't be supporting the market with volume. sure. if they have to buy securities that's fine. let's let yield

u.s. airways in 2005, parker took a new set of challenges on as the ceo of the newly restructured legacy alive. u.s. airways is a company built on mergers and acquisitions, which is a fitting for dug parker, the industry's main advocate for consolidation. he has argued time and again the airlines can be more flexible, more capable, and more valuable to travelers if they join forces . the airlines that did so are now operating successfully. mr. parker believes the combining u.s. airways and american airlines would create a more competitive industry and a more sustainable airline. so far his plan has received widespread support, including and, perhaps, surprisingly from the workers and american airlines and the union. he is here today to tell us more about the merger and where it sits and to his broader vision for the industry as a whole. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming dug parker to the national press club. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, all of you, it was very nice.

u.s. versus europe and large cap and small cap in u.s. is where we've been focusing most because growth success priced at different levels in different markets. >> do you think the u.s. looks more vulnerable. >> in the short term. when you look at the small caps much higher valuations and high growth assumptions, coming in to a fiscal cliff, elections, we're a bit worried that the russell 2000 has a very limited upside. >> great. jerry fowler stays with us. >>> biggest banks are under investigation for attempted libor fixing. the newspapers say the probe is centered around deutsche bank, hsbc, socgen and c agricole. that's the suspicion so that's why we have the investigation to begin with. it's about collusion. >> not necessarily collusion. there were two different things happening. specific traders within barclays. >> original investigation was into, was the wholly bore rate. >> no. it was into whether individual banks in the first place trying to rig it at all. having established that are they colluding. central bankers will debate how

once the u.s. is party to the convention, verizon and other use telecommunications companies can work with the appropriate u.s. agencies, and the life of a cable system. this convention will improve the reliability of our infrastructure and put u.s. companies on a level playing field. it will provide tangible events for critical cable submarine inf infrastructure. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, i really appreciate that, and i apologize for having to step out just for a minute. i think you'll be able to tell your grandchildren that while you were speaking history was being made. it's just that it wasn't exactly your speech. >> it wouldn't be the first time. >> but it's my understanding, i don't have the full story here, i think tom, you also got a message, if i'm correct and i think the entire aca was upheld with the exception of the federal government's power to terminate medicaid -- medicaid funds, that was narrowly drawn, but otherwise, that's what with i understood. is that wha

there is tension between the u.s. and iran. a spokesperson for the fifth fleet of the u.s. navy says sailors issued repeated warnings to the fishing boat, but small vessel continued to race toward the ship. the crew then fired on the boat. uae government officials told media in the emirates that the victim was an indian man. the closing down the bottle neck between the persian gulf and the arabian sea, iranian authorities often dispatch high-speed boats in the gulf to intimidate u.s. vessels on patrol. china's business practices are coming under international scrutiny. the world trade organization ruled that a chinese company rules a my massachusetnoply. the u.s. filed a complaint with the world trade body in 2010. in the ruling, the wto says china discriminates against foreign banks by providing china union pay with a monopoly in processing of electronic payments denominated in 9 the chinese currency. kirk said the decision will help u.s. companies and increase american jobs as more efficient credit and debit payment systems in china enable consumers to buy more goods. he

but in general, the u.s. and israeli intelligence have been working together more than they ever have in the past. that includes computer programs like stuxnet, but also includes field operations. >> what does that mean? >> it means planning how to get in and out of iran, debriefing defecto defectors. the u.s. and israel are sharing their intel, but here's why. the extra element that i think we're revealing is that israel wanted the u.s. voinvolved. get the cia and other u.s. agencies involved, you'll get president obama's attention. the u.s. has been too caught up in the israeli view, and they probably succeeded in getting the u.s. interested in iran again. >> the cyberwarfare against iran's nuclear program. it's been detailed in some other books, lots of stuff that's coming up. but you've got some new information there as well, on the level of cooperation between the u.s. and israel. >> well, there's an israeli unit, part of the military intelligence. that agency is called aman, unit 8200. they're geniuses

the u.s. since the killings of 32 people at virginia tech five years ago. we'll have more on the store after the headlines. syrian rebels continue to make gains on the regime of bashar al-assad, seizing a number of border crossings with neighboring iraq and turkey. opposition fighters overrun government forces at two major crossings, including one controlling the vital trade route on the damascus to baghdad highway. meanwhile, the syrian government says the country's intelligence chief, hisham ikhtiyar, has died from injuries sustained in wednesday's bombing of a high- level meeting in damascus, making him the fourth assad regime insider to die in the attack. and it's the violence, the united nations is warning 1 million syrians are now believed to be internally displaced, double the previous estimate. the fighting continues in syria one day after russia and china vetoed a security council resolution threatening new sanctions on the syrian regime. russia and china say they took action over dem

u.s. treasuriers saying we are parking 50 percent of the debt in u.s. backings. isn't that poor of problem. >> we hear the bad news and it makes us nervous . victoria hit the fact on the nose. two percent of the gdp comes from the sales. slow down yes, recession highly unlikely. what does worry me. u.s. banks have far more exposure to the european front than we are told. it is a credit crunch we could do without. >> i think mike hasn't heard the news yet. the u.s. housing market bottomed on tuesday . more good news, because costs are low in the u.s. we are bringing manufacturing back to the u.s.. there is a 50-50 chance we'll repeal obama care. >> not a chance. >> greece is about the size of connecticut and maybe it will not affect the u.s. economy. if our banks had taken the time to shore up the balance sheet. you think what matters most is washington d.c. policy. who is going to be elected president is going to matter a lot . what is happening in congress is a big wild card here . europe, i am not as worried about europe. i agree with bill. i think we are out o

according to accenture, u.s. shoppers now fill, at least, half their carts with store brand products. in fact, 28% of shoppers actually, prefer them. for its part, walgreens credits a dramatic shift in its private label strategy. >> store brands of five years and ten years ago would never have this type of packaging. the amount of time and effort we put in to quality packaging along with quality product, is so much different than it was before. >> reporter: here's something that may surprise you; once consumers find a store brand product they like, they generally don't switch back to the brand name, even if their financial situation improves. and the more money a household earns, the more likely it is to buy the store brand: >> it's households with a higher income that actually buy private label a lot more. so it's really the smart choice, and that's what we call it. it is now smart and in vogue to actually buy private label. >> reporter: walgreens has 12 in-house brands, with names like "nice" and "sunny smiles"

>> well, i mean the u.s. is probably the most interesting for your viewers and if i just look at the last 12 months, i mean we've increased our workforce because of the things that i just talked about, aerospace and automotive are two strong segments in the u.s. industry. we increased our workforce by almost-- people and we just invested in one of our facilities in davenport, eye way, 300 million to cater to the growing demand in automotive. so in regards to the general, the general outlook, i mean there's a lot of volatility there. but one thing i want to stress, and the volatility that is seen by what is going on in europe, for instance, you know, that is overriding the fundamentals that we see in our market. the fundamentals in our market are-- we see the supply, demand. >> susie: let me ask you about that. let me ask you about that because we hear from a lot of business leaders and c.e.o.s who are very frustrated about the outlook, the uncertainty from policymakers whether are you talking about washington

i think the u.s. economy has been resilient is not immune to what's happening in europe and i think you hit it right on top which is basically the banking mechanism is really the way that it could transfer what's happening in europe to here in the united states. one thing i will say is there was some progress done there last week at the european summit in brussels about a discussion of having regulation from the european perspective instead of each country. that's some steps that are going in the right direction. >> susie: let me just jump in. we have less than 340 seconds. i want to get your feedback both of you on tomorrow's big of jobs report. do you think it's going to show a strong growth in hiring. >> i think it's going to be better than the last few months probably a little bit more than 100,000 jobs created but that's a tepid number and we're in a deep he and it will take more than that climbing towards the top. >> susie: andres last worth, do you agree with that. >> we're looking at 100,000 t

detainees in secret u.s. prisons were drugged with mind altering substances a pentagon report has revealed prisoners were interrogated while on medication pushing their evidence into question and investigative journalist jason lippold was one of those who requested the release of this information and he says the u.s. was just looking to get confessions no matter whether they were true or false. one thing that's very important to point out here is that these drugs these psychoactive. anti-psychotic medications that were given to these detainees and those detainees were interrogated while they were on those medications the government report the pentagon watchdog report says that it could produce unreliable information in the d.c. circuit. the system that's set up there now is that everything of detainees says in a hey vs in there hey vs corpus case is presumed to be true so the burden falls upon the detainees to prove that it's not true in the case of one detainees that we identified in the report he confessed

the u.s. forest service talks about efforts to control wild fires. on tomorrow washington journal, the top star crap on the budget committee. to talk about campaign finance disclosure legislation and the tax increases in spending cuts scheduled to take effect next year. we are joined by congressman ron paul for a conversation about his plans for the republican national convention and in expected house vote this week on his legislation requiring an audit of the federal reserve. also, the co-chairman of the state budget crisis taskforce on structural problems facing state budgets. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. wednesday on washington journal, a spotlight on magazines focus is on generational warfare. nonetheless become editor and chief of reason tv will discuss his article on the gap between older and younger americans when it comes to entitlements. that is live wednesday at 19:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. ♪ >> watched book tv and american history tv the weekend of a

well you heard it vitriolic address from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton directing a threat towards russia and china saying that they would have to pay a price for what she sees as their support of the assad government you know this wasn't the only thing that hillary clinton not to say she was he said that russian helicopters were being used to kill civilians on the ground in syria now if we look closer at this there are some really inconsistency between where we were a week ago following the conference in geneva of international partners looking to you to find a peaceful solution to syria and what we're hearing this weekend now last weekend in geneva the u.s. seemed to be on side with the kofi annan but police plan would see peace plan which would see both sides both the opposition on the government forces lay down their weapons and trying to come to the table to find a solution now then what we've heard from russia with regards to these statements we've heard from hillary clinton today is the foreign ministry slamming i

the u.s. orbit. being a destination for u.s. security assistance and advice and basically to maintain america's down the rule which we've had in each of the past three years. of the university of san francisco thank you the very for the last dance and thanks for being on the program. now as well as all the stories we cover got lots more to of course in the website of tea dot com we tell it every day because we're updating it every day pleather of stories there like these it could be difficult in light of a cigarette in your apartment in los angeles very soon a city officials could be a controversial step to improve public health so mindful in a more. reporting on the extreme measures for the olympics in london as the air force is given permission to shoot down passenger jets a new security crisis situation. a slew of new cuts is led to a fresh eruption of public anger and protest in spain but rallies quickly turned violent when police charged demonstrators were firing rubber bullets more than seventy people were injured in the c

u.s. has been pushing china to join a multi-lateral framework with asean claimants to draw up legally binding code of conducts. u.s. engagement with groups such as the asean regional forum reflects a shift in foreign policy under the obama administration. the asia-pacific is now the focus of american economic and military strategy. that means potential flash points including the south china sea are of increasing concern to washington, especially when it comes to the military presence of china. nhk world's anthony yazaki reports. >> reporter: u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton arrived in phnom penh on wednesday afternoon. the first item on the agenda was a meeting with the foreign minister from asean where they exchanged views on the region's most delicate topic, the territorial disputes over the south china sea. >> i ask in my country why i put so much emphasis on asean, i tell them we work with asean on issues of central importance to the united states from maritime security to econo

the elder kim's wife accompanied him when former u.s. president jimmy carter visited the north in 1994. analysts also suggest north korean authorities are hoping that by polishing the image of the young kim as a married man, they'll defuse concerns about the new leader's inexperience. >>> investors seem to be showing more confidence in the euro. ai uchida joins us from the business team, good morning. what's happening this morning? >> good morning, catherine. investors have their hopes pinned on the european central bank, because the president of the ecb expressed his resolve to safeguard the euro. mario draghi's remarks lifted the currency's value and boosted share prices. >> the ecb is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. and believe me, it will be enough. >> draghi was speaking at a conference in london. he also commented on the high borrowing costs of some national bonds. he suggested the bank will take action if necessary. market players took his comments to mean that the ecb will buy spanish government bonds as well

bust while the u.s. moves its military pieces into the asian pacific region china is expanding its economic allegiances westward this time to latin america and the caribbean what does the u.s. have to say about this new friendship and some answers ahead. it's wednesday july twenty fifth seven pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl in you're watching our team. was the mainstream media catches up to the chaos in anaheim similar outrage is brewing in dallas hundreds of protesters there taking to the streets this after an officer and was shot in officer shot and killed a suspect that was reportedly on armed police in riot gear responding to the demonstrations according to police the victim james harper was shot after leading police on a chase the officer claims he was fearing for his life when he shot harper dead but the victim's families and hundreds of protesters aren't buying it and just like the anaheim case some protesters believe it was a racially motivated and is just one example of a corrupt police

we've heard a vitriolic address from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton directing a threat towards russia and china saying that they would have to pay a price for what she sees as their support of the assad government you know this wasn't the only thing that hillary could not to say she said that russian holy cow . we're being used to kill civilians on the ground in syria now if we look closer at this there is some really inconsistency between where we were a week ago following the conference in geneva of international partners looking to find a peaceful solution to syria and what we're hearing this weekend now last weekend in geneva the u.s. seemed to be onside with the kofi annan by police plan would see it would keep plan which would see both sides both the opposition and the government forces lay down their weapons and trying to come to the table to find a solution now then what we've heard from russia with regards to these statements we've heard from hillary clinton today is the foreign ministry slamming in the secr

in u.s. economic news, jobless claims rose, after a one-week lull, and factory activity slowed more than expected in the mid-atlantic region. still, wall street managed a limited rally. the dow jones industrial average gained 34 points to close at 12,943. the nasdaq rose 23 points to close near 2,966. microsoft reported its first loss as a public company, nearly $500 million in the second quarter. it followed a huge charge against earnings due to weak online ad business. ford motor company is warning owners of some of its 2013 escapes to stop driving them immediately. the small s.u.v.s may have faulty fuel lines that can crack and leak, causing engine fires. the automaker said it's recallg more than 11,000 escapes. they have 1.6 liter engines and were built between april and early july. the head of homeland security janet napolitano today fended off republican criticism of a new immigration policy. last month, president obama announced the government would mostly stop deporting illegal immigr

so in that sense what does u.s. or cia and involvement really mean if now these can be considered international war crimes and people are calling it a civil war because what we know from reports as far is that the cia is definitely involved they're gathering information and getting intel right trying to figure out who exactly is who on the ground some reports out there would say that they are helping to facilitate some of the weapons shipments that are making their way into syria that might be coming through turkey via saudi arabia or arkansas are by that the u.s. is also involved there do we know anything else how much how much more involvement do you think there might be with the same rules applied to the u.s. and others to become involved i think actually right now there's a great risk of escalation of the problems in syria as a result of the involvement of too many actors from the international stage and certainly russia is been emboldened historically has been and will in syria for many many decades turkey has

to that point, u.s. quietly built up military asset in the region including eight mine sweepers capable of clearing the 25-mile straight. just recently, air force f-# 2 fighter jets capable of stealth attacks were relocated to the region and the u.s. had a strong warning again today about iran trying to close the strait. >> decades made clear that we intend to do what is necessary to maintain the strait. >> still, iran remanes definite over the nuclear program and continues to enrich uranium. according to a u.s. watchdog group this picture taken june 7 of the military facility compared to one two weeks later appears to show massive clean-up underway where they tested high explosives for a nuclear trigger. in the past, the iranians have delayed inspectors while the satellite photos show massive clean-up underway, only to allow inspectors in to it now spotless facility. the question going forward is if the united states or israel will lose patient with irania iranians to launch pre-emptive military strike.

u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has once again lashed out at russia's support for the ouster of regime at a friends of syria meeting in paris that's despite washington's commitment to an international agreement placing blame on both sides of the conflict. meanwhile wiki leaks promised to shed new light on the syrian conflict as the group begins to release millions of emails claiming the material is damning not only from damascus but also the west. also washington plans to invest millions to upgrade torrijos kuantan a mowbray's to move suggesting the shop down of the detention facility once promised by barack obama can still a far cry. and roll into of germany responsible for. a hundred and seventy two because of its right to an open letter to the more in the business of twenty. five from our studios in central moscow you're watching r t two pm here in the russian capital i want to get straight to our breaking news this hour and u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has lashed out

it's a quieter day in the u.s. there's no economic data but still a few high-profile earnings reports. numbers from general ee electric, r, baker hughes, cemex, ingersoll rand, suntrust and xerox. inch >>> a local gunman has shot dead one person and wounded 30 to 40 others. these pictures brought to us by reuters. no further detail known at the moment. but of course local media is now on the scene and we're starting to get a better sense, ross, of what's happened and just to what degree this was a premeditated incident. >> we will keep you informed of what's going on. >>> other news, of course, we're also following. microsoft has posted its first quarterly loss since going public in 1986. the company warned two weeks ago it would take a $6 billion charge in the fourth quarter to write down its struggling online ad and web business. excluding items. microsoft's earnings beat forecasts although revenues came up shy. microsoft is being booing its fortunes in coming months on its new windows 8 software which launches i

. >>> the u.s. jobs report is front and center while they're expected to pick up the pace but it may still not be enough to make a dent in overall employment. >>> china's second rate cut in a month fails to lift asian markets, sparking fears the slowdown may be worse than feared. >>> and second-quarter profit is set to rise thanks to smartphones, but concerns on europe are still weighing on its outlook. >> and europe is not the only problem. imf chief christine lagarde warns some of the world's major developing and emerging markets are slowing. >>> okay, so, we're off to the last trading day of the week. we finished with a bang, and what a week it's already been. >> i'm going to start calling this show "anchor exchange." >> yeah. >> it's finally to be back here, the two of us hanging out, just like old times. >> it is. i like it, i like it. and do you like the uncoordinated/coordinated action yesterday that didn't get anybody going? >> that's what to me was quite amazing, that you had such action fr

u.s. stock prices also rose on factory orders with the dow jones industrial average climbing to a two-month high ending over half a percent higher at 12,943. for more we go to ramin mellegard at the tokyo stock exchange. so the u.s. markets wrapping up the day in the positive ahead of the fourth of july public holiday. >> yes, indeed, ai. markets in the u.s. taking good cheer out of the factories order data that came out. also positives from the u.s. european markets. let's see how all of that is trading in this wednesday july 4th. positive start here. and the topix 780 up half a percent. the nikkei did manage to close in the positive today. it may trade given the u.s. will be on holiday. however, we have been following the commodity markets of late and a bit of volatility there in the gold and oil markets. we have been focusing on that. we did see a surge higher in crude oil prices as well as a volatility in gold prices. just looking at wti crude oil prices there, it shot up on the new yo

u.s. is warning the latest fierce battles in syria will be a nail in president assad's coffin as we reported how youngsters are being increasingly drawn into the bloody conflict on both warring sides. with the reverberations members of a russian punk band go on trial facing seven years in jail for a protest start to make a fiddle and a case that's divided russian society. and another campaign promise goes on fulfilled as barack obama spends billions to prosecute whistleblowers showing the u.s. government is as clouded as ever. online on screen international news and comment live from moscow the u.s. military chief says the fighting in syria's largest city of aleppo will ultimately be a nail in president assad's coffin panesar is currently on a middle east tour promising to continue to push for such departure the commercial hub of aleppo has been the scene of fierce battles between syrian regime troops and anti-government forces for more than a week now both parties view the fighting as dec

similar to other u.s. banks citi's american home mortgage business is booming thanks to record low borrowing rates. j.p. morgan shares saw som profit-taking after friday's rally after its own stronger than expected earnings. today's 2.7% fall was the steepest percentage drop among dow industrial stocks. the slower economic data here and abroad in the past few weeks has brought multi-national industrial and manufacturing companies in focus. these three industrial companies are scheduled to report earnings this week. ingersol-rand reports friday. shares fell 3.2% today, leading the industrial sector lower. on wednesday dover corporation reports earnings. shares fell 2.7%. and general electric turns in its latest financial report card friday. shares were almost 1% lower today. morgan stanley cut its rating to equal-weight for g.e. today, but said it is not in anticipation of friday's results. two deals are cooking in the drug business. the first has glaxo-smithkline raising its offer from human genome scienc

similar to other u.s. banks citi's american home mortgage business is booming thanks to record low borrowing rates. j.p. morgan shares saw som profit-taking after friday's rally after its own stronger than expected earnings. today's 2.7% fall was the steepest percentage drop among dow industrial stocks. the slower economic data here and abroad in the past few weeks has brought multi-national industrialnd manacturi companies in focus. these three industrial companies are scheduled to report earnings this week. ingersol-rand reports friday. shares fell 3.2% today, leading the industrial sector lower. on wednesday dover corporation reports earnings. shares fell 2.7%. and general electric turns in its latest financial report card friday. shares were almost 1% lower today. morgan stanley cut its rating to equal-weight for g.e. today, but said it is not in anticipation of friday's results. two deals are cooking in the drug business. the first has glaxo-smithkline raising its offefrom hum nome sciences. glaxo in

a u.s. senator has renewed calls for julian and songe to be prosecuted for espionage as senate intelligence committee head has regenerated his fear that their will is added to has compromised america's security and a son just currently holed up in ecuador as the embassy in london waiting for a decision on his asylum bid let's not talk to our teaser laura smith laura good to see you there now as sanchez has been at ecuador's embassy for two weeks are there any more indications about when we can expect his way to be decided. not really i mean we hear stuff coming out of the embassy all the time his supporters and backers are doing everything they can to keep julian assange has faced in the media the latest statement we heard was on friday from the legal fund which was talking a lot about about the situation in the u.s. of course has always maintained that what he fears the most is being extradited from sweden to america to face these charges of espionage and evidence is mounting with these ren

the u.s. justice department has confirmed that weeki leaks remains the target of a criminal investigation it comes as the head of the us senate intelligence committee said that the website's editor julian assange should be prosecuted for espionage a son just currently staying at ecuador's embassy in london waiting for a decision on his political asylum bit is laura smith reports. sanchez always maintained that what he fears the most is being extradited from sweden to america to face these charges of espionage and evidence is mounting with these renewed calls that we've heard this weekend from the head of the us senate intelligence oversight committee she joins these calls for us to be prosecuted for espionage she says she's senator dianne feinstein and she said that knowingly obtained and disseminated information which could cause injury to the u.s. has caused serious harm to national security and should be prosecuted accordingly she said that he shouldn't be protected by the first amendment w

to the week for the major u.s. stock indices, shooting up after german and french leaders pledge to do what it takes to protect the euro zone. the s&p 500 started the session in the green, after the slightly better than expected gross domestic product report for the u.s., showing a slowdown, but not as much as feared. the market popped higher around 1:30 p.m. eastern time after the joint statement from germany and france. stocks have put together two consecutive, putting the s&p 500 at its highest level since early may. it's now up 10% for the year. trading volume picked up again today. 911 million shares moved on the big board. almost 2.1 billion traded on the nasdaq. for the second session in a row all ten major sectors were higher. the health care sector led the winners, up 2.5%. technology gained 2.2%. and the industrials were higher by 2.1%. global drug maker merck helped ignited the rally in the health care thanks to a stronger than expected quarter. merck earned four cents better than expected, as sales cont

as for the u.s. olympic uniforms, it's unlikely at this point they'll be burned and remade as harry reid wants since the opening ceremonies are july 29th, but ralph lauren did issue a statement saying the u.s. olympic uniforms for 2014 in russia will be made right here in the u.s. of a. and one more thing, in case you missed it, and i'm sure you heard, just because this is all getting so political, six democratic senators said they do plan to introduce legislation insuring that the sayceremonial uniforms of the united states are made here in the australia just to make it all official. >> i'm just intrigued that china's uniforms might not have been made in china. the other thing, i have to tell you, is because people knew i was covering this story, a lot of people, i know you had mentioned the buerets and there being controversy over whether people like the berets. people said i don't know if they like the berets as they did about them being made in china. >> it looks like they're flight attendants. >

now all this coming at a time when the u.s. has once again reiterated its calls for a song to be prosecuted for espionage we've heard senator dianne feinstein saying that the wiki leaks founder had compromised america's security she said that the song schools himself a journalist but he's no journalist he's an agitated very strong language that mixed messages that have been coming from the u.s. with the foreign minister of that country denying the remotest possibility that any case against the saw and pull but that coming as the u.s. justice department has said that the investigation into wiki leaks continues so it doesn't really seem that the u.s. knows exactly what this line on a song should be at the moment the stakes remaining extreme. the high here as doing the songs remains inside the ecuadorian embassy a way think that all important decision on whether or not he'll be granted asylum. further was just saying julian assange is refusing to leave ecuador's embassy before a decision on his fate has been made he's attempting t

the u.s. secretary of state is on a busy eight nation tour in asia it's seen as part of the obama administration's asia pacific pivot policy and for the first time since one thousand nine hundred fifty five a us secretary of state visits laos one of the poorest nations in south asia we still can't get over the dire consequences of the u.s. attacks during the vietnam war even though laos was officially a neutral country at the time between nine hundred sixty seven and nine hundred seventy three the u.s. dropped two hundred sixty million cluster bomb submunitions on it more than was dropped on germany and japan combined during world war two the u.s. bomb laos so hard that it became the most bombed nation per capita in history an average of one ton of bombs was dropped for every man woman and child in laos now the grave part is that it's not over yet a third of the bombs did not explode and still continue to kill since the end of the war some twenty thousand people have been killed or maimed by t

minutes past the hour and in the u.s. occupy protesters have to some to quiet california retreat where some of the world's elite gather every year demonstrators say the two weeks officially portrayed as a time of rest and relaxation as really a chance to discuss plans for the world's future so our abby martin to bohemian grove to see what triggers those rumors and growing protests for millionaires and billionaires the people that control the world control the central banks the build nuclear weapons i mean this was their summer playground straight from the san francisco airport headed to montevideo a city with beautiful redwoods and picturesque coastlines. the perfect getaway for the world's rich and powerful and in fact every year ceos media moguls and high level politicians flock here to the bohemian grove secluded camp out there making business deals there they're talking policy for a lot of conversation a claim which members deny their motto here is that weaving spiders come not here which they claim means there's no b

u.s. announced it's increasing its support for the rebels washington is now making suggestions as to what post assad syria should look like. when the regime falls the country's military should. report from damascus many syrians feel they are being left unprotected in the heart of the ongoing conflict. it doesn't take much to set syrians off these days on adj and on a very tight budget residents of damascus are now trying to reclaim the basics they used to take for granted the. rising may have started with political protests but now they're starting to morph into riots economically life is getting harder for ordinary syrians but the rebels targeting supply trucks the price of a gallon of gas has risen four fold in the last few months. so when the pro-government and your attempted to distribute fuel at pre-war prices it found itself overwhelmed by the demand because of all of these. special circumstances that happened lately people maybe get more nervous of course people had similar difficul

as the cost of storage are high the u.s. army decided to use some of it to manufacture munitions and armor plating. dug roxy's depleted uranium quite simply as a nuclear weapon and yes it is it's solid radioactive waste as chemically toxic it's radioactive radioactive for eternity it's a dirty bomb and yeah it is i always call it nuclear for what it is it's nuclear waste used to kill and destroy us contaminate air war or soil and food that remains there to cause harm for eternity this weapon was used for the first time in iraq in one thousand nine hundred one at the time the u.s. army asked to inspect the tons of burned down iraqi tanks destroyed by depleted uranium missiles this is measuring the contamination undestroyed as a result in his team were seriously contaminated by inhaling uranium dust today doug is one of the only survivors of that group now i mean you can look at me i mean what i look like there was a lot different story early healthy and now where bodies are stored nearly sick little me right there and we were

it's been like water off a duck's back u.s. lawyer and attorney eric montoya who's represented some of the detainees at guantanamo believes the american leadership is totally failing to practice what it preaches. it's you're saying one thing and doing the complete opposite on one hand you know we're closing the base but on the other hand we're crafting warner state of the art you know penal institutions in the united states there's a big disconnect between the justice department between homeland security between the president and states and our foreign policy and i think we need to evaluate you know why we're spending millions upon millions of dollars on something that should not even be there in the first place later today we speak with british wire and university professor philip sands who says legal advisers practically gave the leadership unlimited power to do anything they want. but number of the lawyers involved very senior love had no real background in the subject of international law the protection of the right individ

on tuesday u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton apologized for the botched raid for the first time. at a news conference on thursday, a pakistani foreign ministry spokesperson expressed hope that the re-opening will lead the u.s. to soon resume most of its assistance to his country. some observers in pakistan have criticized the government for deciding on the re-opening, though the u.s. has not agreed to halt air strikes by unmanned drones. tension is rising due to the decision. islamic extremists declared they will attack u.s. military trucks carrying supplies to afghanistan. an intertional conrence support afghanistan will be held in tokyo. japan is negotiating with nations and international agencies to raise a total of $15 billion in aid for the country by 2015. the japan initiated conference will bring together representatives from about 80 countries and international organizations. they will include afghan president karzai, secretary of state clinton and u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon. ka

the u.s. and not move my jobs overseas. the obama policies are forcing jobs overseas. >> romney's spokesperson ann gillespie on "meet the press" on sunday. in baltimore, the green party wrapped up its convention with the nomination of its presidential candidate, the physician and activist jill stein, and her running mate, the anti-poverty leader cheri honkala. dr. stein called her ticket a viable third-party challenge to corporate bolden republicans and democrats. >> i agree that grassroots democracy grows from the community up. at the same time, we have a state of emergency at the national level. and to silence the only hope of an opposition voice in this election when so much is at stake, i think would be just a terrible loss for the american people. there is no reason why americans should have to walk into the voting booth in november and have only effectively two wall street sponsored choices. >> we will have more from the green party convention later in the broadcast. a number of major ba