to cross talk the u.s. military in africa i'm joined by my guests in washington ivan eland he's a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute james middlemen he's a university professor of international affairs at the american university and peter pham he is the director of the unsorry africa center at the atlantic council all right gentlemen crosstalk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i have anyone if i go to you first is the u.s. militarizing africa. i think very definitely and i think the primary reason is oil africa was never regarded as a strategic continent it might have been the only common in the world that wasn't regarded as strategic by the military and i think now what we're seeing is that more and more u.s. oil comes from africa and the u.s. military has essentially become a oil protection force if you look at where they're deployed in that sort of thing . and so i think definitely and what they're worried about china going

u.s. corporate earnings, and the global economy. >> susie: and one company is making a big push into china, marriott international, a look at its latest earnings and strategy. >> tom: that and more tonight on "n.b.r.!" >> tom: markets were clearly disappointed today the federal reserve does not seem ready to act right away to boost the economy. minutes from the fed's june meeting show only a few policy makers wanted to expand a bond buying program known as quantitative easing to lower interest rates and boost the economy. but as darren gersh reports this is now really a question of timing. >> reporter: the fed was not willg to give markets an immediate monetary fix, but the latest readings from its policy making committee show a couple more lukewarm reports on the labor market might change that. >> and if these employment reports are still weak like this last one, i think a strong case could be made for the fed to expand its balance sheet and try to support the economy more. so, at that po

and when we say u.s. is the u.s. is a great power and we have the right to defend our interests the question should really be from us security is what are our vital interests and are they really in africa chasing around kone or anybody else right either you even in somalia combating the shabab we're just making more likely that somebody all attacked the united states right there are things that we don't really need to worry about and unfortunately our foreign policy elite doesn't seem to think that there's any place africa used to be the only place where we really didn't care about the strategic community didn't care about africa was probably better off for it but i think this idea that we can say this and nato are rich allies well they just don't have the capability to do it well if you continue to do stuff for countries they're never going to get the capability to do it if somebody pays your rent for you why should you pay it right and in that we we face this with the rich allies in nato so of course we're going to

and of the u.s. makes of fresh calls to prosecute the world's most famous whistleblower spying this comes ahead of julian assange his final talk show airing here on araa and with that we could be a supreme oh seeking refuge at the ecuadorian embassy in london. next america's unmanned a deadly war drug cross-talk examines whether the fact or even legal stay tuned for that. please. liz. can. stand. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter all about america's love affair with drones the use of unmanned drone attacks has surged during the obama presidency proponents of this weapon claim they are precise say for american military personnel and with limited collateral damage critics disagree drones are immoral illegal and generate unnecessary blowback. can. start. to cross talk america's growing affection towards drones i'm joined by bill roggio in philadelphia he's a commentator on military affairs and managing editor of the long war journal in geneva we have gene myrow she is a president of the internat

u.s. corporate earnings, and the global economy. >> susie: and one company is making a big push into china, marriott international, a look at its latest earnings and strategy. >> tom: that and more tonight on "n.b.r.!" >> tom: markets were clearly disappointed today the federal reserve does not seem ready to act right away to boost the economy. minutes from the fed's june meeting show only a few policy makers wanted to expand a bond buying program known as quantitative easing to lower interest rates and boost the economy. but as darren gersh reports this is now really a question of timing. >> reporter: the fed was not willing to give markets an immediate monetary fix, but the latest readings from its policy making committee show a couple more lukewarm reports on the labor market might change that. >> and if these employment reports are still weak like this last one, i think a strong case could be made for the fed to expand its balance sheet and try to support the economy more. so, at that

well the cia and national u.s. intelligence officials have indicated that they think no more than sixty civilians have been killed in almost ten years of bombing in this campaign and that's ludicrous it's absolutely not the case until we've identified around one hundred seventy five children killed just in pakistan and we think the number of civilians killed in pakistan is a minimum it's just under five hundred maybe as high as i under there are huge numbers of people we simply don't have our identity we don't have a status and for the us to continually claim that it's not killing civilians is simply untrue i think it's wrong and they need they do need to be held to account for this ok bill what do you think is this strategy working. yeah you know this is i absolutely agree the obama administration is making political hay out of these drone strikes and it allows it to correct itself as being strong on terrorism but it's really a stopgap. it's it's a cheat to. in order for them not to make hard choices which is to a

a weak u.s. jobs report sends the markets down across the globe with russia no exception i'll tell you more about that and what you know. it's seven pm here in moscow this is archie coming to you live on news to now with our top story this evening america's chief diplomat is threatening russia and china with consequences for what she sees as siding with the regime in syria hillary clinton was speaking at the paris conference of the syrian rebels key supporters more on this now from archies peter all over. 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 gels he said that russian helicopters were being used to kill civilians on the ground in syria though if we look closer at this there are some really inconsistency between where we were a week ago followin

in the u.s. intention to prosecute the world's most famous whistleblower for spying it comes ahead of. with the wiki leaks currently seeking refuge at the ecuadorian embassy in london. coming up america's unmanned deadly war drones cross-talk examines whether they're effective or even legal it's just moments away. please. liz. can you. please. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter all about america's love affair with drones the use of unmanned drone attacks has surged during the obama presidency proponents of this weapon claim they are precise say for american military personnel and with limited collateral damage critics disagree drones are immoral illegal and generate unnecessary blowback. live can. start. to cross talk america's growing affection towards drones i'm joined by bill roggio in philadelphia he's a commentator on military affairs and managing editor of the long war journal in geneva we have gene myrow she is a president of the international association of democratic lawyers and i

detainees in secret u.s. prisons were drugged with mind altering substances a pentagon report has revealed prisoners were interrogated while on medication putting their evidence into question and investigative journalist jason leopold was one of those who requested the release of these information and he says the u.s. was just looking to get creditors 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 set up there now is that everything of detainees says in a havey is in their 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

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 hole 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

and the u.s. voiced regret for and the u.s. voiced regret for mistakenly killing two dozen pakistani troops last fall. in turn, pakistan agreed to reopen key military supply routes into afghanistan. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the newshour online. hari? >> sreenivasan: on our health page, personal reactions from three ordinary americans on how the supreme court's health reform ruling might affect their lives. plus we look at fresh public opinion polling since the decision. that's in the morning line. also on our web site, we asked newshour viewers to outline their level of enthusiasm about the upcoming election, and the results might surprise you. that's on our politics page. and why didn't the 2009 stimulus plan lead to greater recovery? paul solmon answers one reader's questions on our making sense page. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> and that's the newshour for tonight. on wednesday, we'll look at what happened to the signers of the declaration of independence after that historic m

a u.s.-backed crackdown against cocaine track down and climate that led to the demise of drug lord pablo escobar. more than 47,000 people have died since calderÓn took power in 2006 and announced a crackdown on drug cartels. speaking in washington, state department's spokesperson victoria nuland congratulated enrique peÑa nieto for his apparent victory and said the u.s. expects continued drug or cooperation from the mexican government. >> we're not going to get ahead of a formal seating of a new government and predict changes in policy one way or the other, but we are committed to working in partnership with mexico to meet the evolving challenges posed by transnational criminal organizations and expect that our cooperation is going to continue with the enrique peÑa nieto the ministration went it is seated. >> in afghanistan, at least three british soldiers have been killed in a shooting by an afghan police officer. it was the latest in a wave of attacks by the members of the afghan forces

the u.s. as you know is implementing its export initiatives and select u.s. programs while the chinese government is implementing its plan. one of the main contents of the plan is to expand tschida's domestic demand -- tschida's domestic demand. so for the next five years, -- china's domestic demand. we will import 10 trillion dollars of food from abroad including those from the united states. also, china is now working very hard on a global strategy. we encourage the chinese companies to work, to invest in foreign countries, including the united states. with this drive going on, i believe more and more chinese companies will come to invest in the united states. if we embrace all these efforts together, i am sure the result will benefit both countries on both sides. history and the facts have proven that china and the u.s. or sino-u.s. corp. is no zero sum game. rather, it is always win win and win win always prevails. as the two countries are at development level, the two countries have a divergent history and political system, it is natural and normal that

u.s. air tanker fleet is a mix of government-owned and privately leased aircraft. in 2000, the forest service had contracts with private companies for 43 air tankers. now it's just nine. some of those planes are decades old. >> were troubled by the crash. >> reporter: tom vilsack is the secretary of agriculture. >> it is not a secret that the tankers that we have are aging. it's one of the reasons why we issued a report to congress this year outlining a plan to replace and modernize the fleet. >> reporter: president obama signed a $24 million bill last month to lease seven more air tankers but they won't be joining the fight until august. scott, these tankers are so important because they not only fight fires they prevent the blazes from becoming massive and that's going to be even more important in the weeks to come in what's already been a historic firefighting season. >> pelley: rick, thank you. now, a story about a lifeline being reopened for american troops in afghanistan. a logjam of

plus u.s. corporate reporting second quarter numbers today. >>> fixed income strategy right after this. >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." if you're just tuning in, i'm kelly evans. >> i'm russ westgate. >>> credit suisse plans to raise capital base by over 15 billion francs. >>> backed up by cautious outlook from asml. >>> ben bernanke heads back up to capitol hill today after sketching a gloomy outlook for the u.s. economy but ofshing few details about the fed's pledge for further action. >>> two policymakers voted against having additional stimulus from the bank of england but still a possibility of cutting rates. >>> welcome to "worldwide exchange" this morning. let's take a look at where u.s. futures are pointing as we creep closer to the u.s. open. a bit better tone than we saw the last time we checked in. dow jones futures are pointed lower by about 23, 24 points. nasdaq by four or five. the s&p 500, about the same amount. a bit of a mixed trading atmosphere overnight. asia lookin

well the cia and national u.s. intelligence officials have indicated that they think no more than sixty civilians have been killed in almost ten years of bombing in this campaign and that's ludicrous it's absolutely not the case until we've identified around one hundred seventy five children killed just in pakistan and we think the number of civilians killed in pakistan is a minimum it's just under five hundred maybe as high as i under there are huge numbers of people we simply don't know their identity we don't know their status and for the us to continually claim that it's not killing civilians is simply untrue i think it's wrong and they need they do need to be held to account for this ok bill what do you think is this strategy working. yeah you know this is i absolutely agree the obama administration is is making political hay out of these drone strikes it allows it to correct itself as being strong on terrorism but it's really a stopgap. it's it's a cheat to. in order for them not to make hard choices which is

this is the biggest release since we had table gate which gave us the u.s. diplomatic cables and a really unique insight into the workings of the u.s. government now the syria files is even bigger than that it's supposed to be eight times bigger than the u.s. diplomatic table late in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data now in the same way that we saw the u.s. diplomatic cables released its thought a similar things going to be happening with the syria files wiki leaks have partnered up with different media organizations around the world and they go through the data and release this in small stages now so far from what's been released already we've had a very interesting insight into the workings because these are the e-mails that were being exchanged between senior political figures in syria ministry figures corporations around the world the first e-mails that were released we showed that an italian company had been providing communications equipment to the syrian police and the syrian army know that contract is signed back in two t

a u.s. senate report says hsbc handled funds for mexican drug cartels, as well as for iranians and saudis linked to terror. a top senator says the culture at the large bank was pervasi pervasivepervasiv pervasively polluted. the justice department is conducting a criminal investigation into the operations. >>> yahoo! finds a new ceo. they're tapping mariska mayer, an executive at archrival google. she'll be the company's fifth executive in five years. and says her job is to make yahoo! more rewarding, something you want to do every day. mayer will be one of the few female executives in silicon valley. >>> another major step this morning in the fight against hiv. the food and drug administration has approved truvada, the first drug that's proven to be effective in preventing the virus that causes aids. it already used for those infected with hiv. but it is expensive. almost 14,000 bucks a year. >>> and an old friend is now on new media. larry king's new interview program is now on hulu. altho

well what we've heard is a vitriolic statement from the u.s. secretary general hillary clinton saying that russia and china will have to pay a price for what she sees as their support of the assad regime no this wasn't the only thing that hillary clinton not to say 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 it would keep 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 in the secretary of state saying that under n

u.s. foreign policy. u.s. future regular layers acknowledged that the system failed to protect customers of financial group. which collapse last week, with the founder admits to $100 million in fraud. mr. again leer who heads the commodity future testified tuesday at senate hearing looking into the impact of new financial regulations. the committee also heard from a security and exchange commission regulator. good morning we call the committee together. we welcome everyone. let me say at beginning for the first panel, we have agreed because of importance of number of issues that we'll talking about today to two rounds. we'll give b giving each member seven minutes. we'll have additional time to have a full discussion. it's, two years since they passed the dodd-frank. there's been an open ruling making. as i said before, it's extremely important that we get the rules done right. repeatedly -- it was made final along with the entity start the clock on compliance. this is a significant step t

this is the biggest release since we had table gate which gave us the u.s. diplomatic cables and a really unique insight into the workings of the u.s. government now the syria files is even bigger than that it's supposed to be eight times bigger than the u.s. diplomatic table late in terms of documents and a hundred times bigger in terms of data now in the same way that we saw the u.s. diplomatic cables released a similar things going to be happening with the syria files wiki leaks have partnered up with different media organizations around the world and they go through the data and release this in small stages now so far from what's been released already we've had a very interesting insight into the workings because these are the e-mails that were being exchanged between senior political figures in syria ministry figures corporations around the world the first e-mails that were released we showed that an italian company had been providing communications equipment to the syrian police and the syrian army know that contract is signed back in two thousand and

the u.s. apologized for the november airstrike that killed 21 -- 24 pakistani troops. a recent poll shows anti-u.s. sentiment has grown in pakistan. according to the pulitzer center, 74% of pakistan is considered the u.s. to be an enemy, up 5% from year ago. violence continues to rage in afghanistan where at least 35 people were reported dead in nationwide attacks on sunday. at least 29 afghans, mostly civilians, died in roadside bombings and militant attacks across afghanistan. seven nato troops for killed in separate attacks including six u.s. soldiers who died in a roadside bombing in eastern afghanistan. a nato spokesperson announced the deaths. >> i can confirm this today, seven american soldiers have been killed in southern afghanistan. i cannot give you any further details on this incident for the time being. yesterday was a tough day for afghan civilians, coalition, an afghan forces. a number of people were killed or injured due to a number of roadside bombs and conflict. >> the latest

u.s. officials refuse to speculate whether the assad regime is preparing to use those chemical weapons. this move comes a day after one of the worst massacres there since the start of the uprising. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel just back from there is with us in the studio this evening. >> a u.s. official tells us over the last several days syria has been moving some of its chemical weapons. u.s. officials don't know exactly why but there are reports that the syrians are moving the chemical weapons from one location to a slightly more secure location. any time a government that is accused of massacring its own people including at least a hundred people yesterday starts moving chemical weapons it is obviously a cause of great concern. [ chanting ] >> reporter: many syrians want to know how many more massacres must happen before outside help arrives. protesters across syria accuse the army and pro assad militia of getting in and carrying out atrocities. the latest massacre be

well u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton met with egypt's armed forces chief in an attempt to push the military to hand over power in the country this came a day after her first official meeting with the newly elected leader as long as leader mohamed morsi according to don de bar and anti-war activist and journalist hillary clinton is simply there to keep america's nose firmly in the region. i think the u.s. would like to see the appearance of the military backing down with the military actually continuing to wield power but i do believe that clinton would like to at least firm up and gain some legitimacy for the military to try to make to be equal partner because i think that that leaves the united states free to do all kinds of machinations going forward and that's the route that we go this is what one thinks of the muslim brotherhood and there are segments of that along with the u.s. their position in power right now rests on the backs of the people in the streets and there's a long as t

military force and the u.s. generals are pushing back hard against direct u.s. military involvement in so rescuing the head of nato says nato is not going to get involved militarily follow for you we've been talking about the u.n. geneva conference what came out of it didn't it the warring factions to quote sit down and talk is the best way forward of a long time now but of course with the flow of weapons to rebels still ongoing doesn't bode well. because it well you know the head of the internal opposition reform opposition movement michelle kilo was in moscow last week at the invitation of the russian government me met with foreign minister lavrov and he said to lavrov that his group would be willing to negotiate begrudgingly with president assad's representatives it's the extra opposition based in london in paris and in iraq. who are the big impediment and they're being encouraged by saudi arabia qatar france britain and elements within the obama administration so it's a rough gordian knot to untie but i think emissary kofi are now on with backing from russia

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 ban

u.s. navy admiral who planned and executed the raid that killed osama bin laden. our discussion was extraordinary, candid, and at times even funny. we're going to play part of it throughout the hour. admiral william mccraven may not be a household name, but as you're about to see, he's a genuine u.s. hero. we always think of, in recent years, of course, at least in the past year, with admiral m mccraven, as the orchestrater, the architect of the raid that killed osama bin laden. and you know, we've all read a lot about it. i know peter bergen is here, he's written a whole book about it, an excellent book about it. but this is the guy who's sitting right here, who had the guts to tell the commander in chief, we should do it, let's do it, and when you ordered that raid, and when you said, you think -- you didn't even know for sure that bin laden was in a abbottabad in that compound, did you? >> let me make one thing clear, i didn't order the raid. >> but he told the president of the united s

and when we say u.s. is the u.s. is a great power and we have the right to defend our interests the question should really be from us security is what are our vital interests and are they really in africa chasing around kone or anybody else right either you even in somalia combating the shabab we're just making more likely that somebody all attacked the united states right there are things that we don't really need to worry about and unfortunately our foreign policy elite doesn't seem to think that there's any place africa used to be the only place where we really didn't care about the strategic community didn't care about africa was probably better off for it but i think this idea that we can say this innate to our rich allies well they just don't have the capability to do it well if you continue to do stuff for countries they're never going to get the capability to do it if somebody pays your rent for you why should you pay it right and in that we we face this with the rich allies in nato so of course we're going t

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 recalling 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 immi

the u.s. and afghanistan to maintain defense long aft u.s. troop withdrawal. secretary clinton is on her way to tokyo. in japan, she'll ask international donors to pledge their support to afghanistan. joining me on the phone from kabul is john wendell, a photographer and time magazine correspondent. how significant is this announcement? >> caller: hi. thanks for having me. i think secretary clinton's use of the word symbol is the keyword here. the enduring partnership was signed on may 2nd between the u.s. and afghanistan. the major non-nato ally announcement was part of that. the announcement, i think, is not so significant when it comes to the day-to-day of the war. what i think it is doing is helping lay the fears o afghanistan's elite that will be abandoned ahead of the 2014 u.s. withdrawal of nato forces and part of an effort to push the taliban back. i think the main reason for the announcement was so the u.s. can point to a concrete move showing its commitment ahead of the tokyo confere

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

so in that sense what does u.s. or cia 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're 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 architect are by that the u.s. is also involved there and 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 the ball in syria for many many decades turkey has

the back half of the year will have the u.s. facing its own challenges, the fiscal cliff you talked about in your hoe in the past, the elections provide some uncertainty, and the federal debt limit, for all the uncertainty you found in europe, i think the u.s. is going to get its share of uncertainty if the back half of this year which leaves us neutral on stocks for the back half of 2012. >> susie: and you're not including europe on that uncertainty list. do you feel that what happened at this european summit last week is setting europe on to a strong path or could they still muddle around? >> it does seem very much like europe will muddle around. i would say we were in a better position than 2 or 3 or four months ago. a lot of the smart clients i talked to feel strongly that germany looked into the abyss during the potential for a greek exit and decided they didn't like that picture very much so they will work larder to make the european situation stabilize in the back half of the year so while it's not off the table entire--

this is not in u.s. vital interests there is a bill up in congress right now to authorize more troops to go into northern uganda in the central african republic this follows making of the viral video kohak only twenty twelve millions of dollars have been devoted to this by private citizens kone is not in uganda at this point it's a local band of criminals who have gone elsewhere to other african countries the policy on the ground there is one of reconciliation it's the amnesty the u.s. vital interest are true to facilitate the development of africa to correct the poverty to correct the inequality africans have to do this themselves development is an internal matter what development happened many african economies are growing quite rapidly now according to a recent i.m.f. report six of the ten fastest growing economies in the world are in africa not all of that is commodity driven much of the wealth from commodities is being diversified in industrialised nation is taking place for the united states it sho

the u.s. for medical tests. the new york times has revealed the u.s. has expanded its controversial drug war to africa. the u.s. has begun training an elite group of anti-drug police in ghana and planning other similar units to combat latin cartels allegedly smuggling cocaine into europe. the top drug enforcement administration official said africa has seen as "the new frontier in terms of counterterrorism and counter narcotics issues." the west africa corporative --su despite widespread criticism for the cause. the u.s. war on drugs has seen an earlier expansion in central america. most recently, dea agents have been under scrutiny for being involved in at least three fatal killings in honduras. the online whistleblower wikileaks has announced it has hired the trouble is in spanish judge garzÓn to have the legal team representing the site and its founder, julian assange. the recently met at the ecuadorian embassy in london, where assange has sought political asylum to avoid extradition to sw

the u.s. chamber of commerce and the american petroleum institute that all of the major producers are partners. jay timmons, president and ceo of the national association of manufacturers and the chairman and ceo of verizon. thank you for being with us. say hello. >> thank you, mr. chairman and join you in welcoming our distinguished panel of industry leaders. i appreciate especially their efforts on behalf of the law of the sea and willingness to explain how the convention will help them create private sector jobs and every major ocean industry including shipping, fishing, telecommunications, oil and energy gas and the united states succession to the law of the sea treaty. this is not a support and has been unanimous going back to 2003. we initiated the process that resulted in the committee vote to hospital law of the sea to the senate on that occasion. a few years later at a foreign relations committee hearing on october 4, 2007, a business panel identified and only that powerful unequivoca

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

detainees in secret u.s. prisons were drugged with mind altering substances a pentagon report has revealed prisoners were interrogated while on medication but in their evidence into question investigative journalist jason leopold was one of those who requested the release of 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 to his inte

plus the u.s. drone program has become the backbone to american wars abroad and surveillance act at home but this military pillar might not be as stable as you think we'll speak to the u.t. austin professor who actually cracked the drone code to prove how easy it is to hijack one. it is monday july second five pm in washington d.c. i'm christine fair and you are watching our t.v. . all right let's just get this out of the open wiki leaks founder julian assange is in fact the target of a criminal investigation by the u.s. those who have said so before have been accused of being paranoid or overly dramatic or touting conspiracy theories but the evidence is starting to pile up now as long as currently awaiting an answer to his request for asylum in ecuador he's at the embassy in london and top officials in the united states are not only keeping a close eye on what happens with that but they've also been working tirelessly to see if there is a way he could be extradited to the united states while the u

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

iran threatens to destroy u.s. military bases across the middle east and go after israel within minutes of being attacked. get ready, this legal holiday year things are getting hot and heavy over there. welcome, everybody, glad to have you. happy 4th. fox on top of iranian revolutionary guards test firing missiles into the air. they say they could easily reach every city in israel and every u.s. and military base in the region. the latest from jerusalem. >> it's a tense july 4th on a lot of u.s. military basis. in the past few hours a leader in iran's revolutionary guard saying in effect, watch out, you're in our sights. threatening and direct language about taking out u.s. military basis within minutes of an attack on iranian soil and also said his missiles were in range of any

the u.s. bank says the trading error that we have back in may could cost them a total of four point four billion dollars now as london to you had taken bets to protect the bank by hedging against its other investments but the strategy dramatically backfired this not j.p. morgan's reputation the bank has lost about fifteen percent of its market value since the losses were first announced back in the spring so let's have a look at the u.s. stocks now this time in the morning session and they all rising and that's all speculation that the figures that came out from the chinese economy are going to really in a for some stimulus that's what investors are really holding out for they actually revealed the worst growth figures in three years so the speculation is very much high that the government in china are going to hear some stimulus into the system intervene to get things moving along a little fall start and much can be said for europe as well they're already feeling the optimism as well to do wi