the region in the arab world is in tatters. and mr obama's calling it a profound event well i suppose it's profound in that sense. yes i mean it is but it is profound in terms of the u.s. strategic position which if you compare the u.s. strategic position in the middle east and globally today with what it was on the eve of the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three it is quite dramatic keep in mind on the eve of the u.s. invasion of iraq in two thousand and three the united states was in a very very significant powerful position in the middle east it had a constellation of states in the middle east call american clearly pro-american states aligned with it the states that were not aligned with the united states were contained constrained relatively weak saddam hussein's iraq was in a box the islamic republic of iran was relatively weak hamas and hezbollah had not been legitimate elect coralie in their respective arenas the consolation for the power in the middle east for the united states was very much in america's favor back i

with you i mean i agree with a friend in the in washington as well you see the only ally in iraq now is the kurds in the north and they are in very peculiar situation because they want to own the united states and notion of having an independent state while this will really . turkey and iran and other countries in the region you see the problem in iraq now as as i said is the biggest blunder blunder because there was a kind of. equilibrium in the region which is being done by the. for about four hundred years the united states really broken the political equilibrium so now iraq has been this integrated into three parts and i think it will be very difficult very difficult to persuade for example the shia part of the iraqi society who have got strong links to iran to relinquish part of the wealth and power in the southern and middle part of iraq so i think. after the american left iraq withdrawal from iraq we could see straight away in two days not in maliki has started the kind of like dictatorship he kicked out his partners from government and i think we are descending down a kind of

eleven thirty pm in moscow the zero headlights dozens killed in syria's capital in the first suicide bombing since the uprising in the country started back in march this is our believe observers get down to business in an effort to mediate a peace deal there are. tensions running high in iraq after more than seventy people were killed in a new bombing atrocity only days after u.s. troops pull out of the country this against the backdrop of a political crisis with government leaders putting the blame for the surge in violence on the opposition. and privacy matters your every move and word could be recorded and used against you human rights activists in britain fight a rising number of surveillance cameras now to be installed in every taxi in oxford authorities insist the risk of intrusion is acceptable compared to the public safety and benefits up next cross-talk we focus on the spoils of war in iraq and whether the us foreign policy about spreading freedom and democracy or disguised geopolitically fueled agendas stay with us for that. hello and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle

the region in the arab world is in tatters and. obama's calling it a profound event well i suppose it's profound in that sense. yes i mean it is it is profound in terms of the u.s. strategic position which if you compare the u.s. strategic position in the middle east and globally today with what it was on the eve of the u.s. invasion in two thousand and three it is quite dramatic keep in mind on the eve of the u.s. invasion of iraq in two thousand and three the united states was in a very very significant powerful position in the middle east it had a constellation of states in the middle east call american clearly pro-american states aligned with it the states that were not aligned with the united states were contained constrained relatively weak saddam hussein's iraq was in a box the islamic republic of iran was relatively weak hamas and hezbollah had not been legitimated electorally in their respective arenas the consolation for the power in the middle east for the united states was very much in america's favor back in two thousa

we are still seeing 30s in santa rosa 34, novato 37. 38 in antioch and in livermore. we also have to be careful because there's some very thick fog out there, especially in the north bay could be really dense in some locations. visibility is less than 1/4 a mile in novato, santa rosa and napa, low clouds over the bay area visibility not much of a problem for drivers yet. we could see more fog move into parts of east bay valleys. we are warmer compared to yesterday where we saw more 20s in some locations where 12° -- we are 12 warmer in napa and san jose compared to yesterday at this time. locally dense fog partly cloudy this afternoon it may take a while for the clouds to mix out. slight chance of rain in the north bay but it is not looking measurable at this point. here's why, this is a satellite image we have an area of high pressure set up bringing light westerly winds 5 to 10 miles an hour this afternoon. there are a series of storms in the pacific moving our way. but, the jet stream, the ridge will help keep the storms mainly to the north. oregon and washington

them in. yesterday, the monitors were pictures in homs filming evidence on cameras. they were seen with tanks which are meant to be banned from the streets. now questions have been raised about their effectiveness. amnesty international has criticized their choice of leader-- sudan's general dabi, seen here on the left in the baseball cap. amnesty says he was responsible for the atrocities in darfur. in the northern city of idlib today, there was a large demonstration, bigger than any seen in recent days. the monitors were expected here and the people were determined to show them what's really going on. in deraa, they awaited a visit, too. but the clashes continued. women who came out to the street to protest were confronted by security forces and one was arrested. meanwhile, a soldier aims his gun at a boy. the protesters are getting increasingly frustrated. they don't think the monitors are being given proper access to assess what's going on in syria and the death toll keeps rising. >> sreen

the buttocks and one in the upper -- in the neck. and christopher will never be able to walk again. >> trace: he will never walk again. an american hero wounded in afghanistan now paralyzed in california. police say this man is the suspect. reuben ray jarado he is now behind bars. what are you hearing tonight? >> trace, the san bernardino police department has confirmed to me in the last half hour that the primary suspect in this hearing ray jarado did surrender in chino hills, he has since been transferred to the san bernardino police department. we don't know what his demeanor was when he was surrendering. he will remain in custody there when the officers determine whether he will be arrested and charged. no word on his demeanor or what he said. the primary suspect in this tragic shooting is in custody tonight. if he is arrested and charged, a court appearance could take place as early as next week. back to you. >> trace: what more do we know about christopher sullivan's condition. >> he is he in critical condition in a local hospi

then east coast, 7 in new york. 9 in d.c. and reaching 17 degrees in atlanta. lastly, a look at europe. it is going to be a largely unsettled picture across the region. we do have scattered showers and thunderstorms for areas in the southern italy as well as the balkan peninsula while this long frontal system is looking to set into continental europe. it is bringing a round of showers and snow for upper elevations. the alpine area in particular will want to watch out for the possibility of heavy snowfall. for the british isles, once again new showers coming in off the west. so ireland then scotland, too, looking at icy weather. highs on tuesday 8 for london. same also in paris. 2 only in vienna. things looking colder here. not above freezing in moscow. here's a look at your three-day outlook. >>> and that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us.

in. the other side are soldiers too and soldiers to assault and they're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face a war. and they are. not an honorable and. i went to the war zone and i started seeing now i need to check. in on a way to do their job not pick up a rifle and fill out a person that's why i'm applying for concerts. and i'll close up. magic assets. phone watches you every single day. and waiting for you to stumble. i saw men with a video camera so i moved over and he phoned me some of them you know we realized there were following everyone from early in the morning but us wasn't. the only chance to get rid of him. is to reveal him. in the. monarchy. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for duma seats party leader gennady zyuganov types the achievements of communism from before his time but his criticised for his rebel schmall with the russian orthodox church current campaign slogan the politics of the majority

in a redwood city, at noon and concord in the east bay and in in in san francisco, those are all the events planned to commemorate the occupy protests. this afternoon, and march in san francisco beginning at justin herman plaza. >>ysabel: another big story in the national scene, the prosecution presented its case against the young soldier blame for the longest--the largest leak of classified material in u.s. history. he was stationed in baghdad and accused of the wikileaks web site hacking. on an argument that the u.s. government stamped secret on material that did not pose any national security threat. u.s. defence secretary leon panetta is a writing later today marking a significant day in history because panetta is the first chief to ever set foot on libyan soil. today's visit comes after an eight month war that ousted maummar gaddafi. he is meeting with members of the transitional government. >>marty: flash floods have killed dozens of people in the philippines. the floodwaters are a result of more than 12 hours of continuous rain. >>marty: that is on state unemployment figures a

the next weather system comes in late in the day and it brings in colder air. a morning sprinkle or shower. that's what the forecast is all about. one band of rain moving out. dry up to midnight or the 11:00 hour if you're going be out celebrating, things look good right now. sunday that afternoon, the next weather system comes in, there might be sprinkly showers out to the west. that pulls out. aside from being cold, we're in good shape. the forecast this evening calls for partly cowdy skies and temperatures in the 40s. tomorrow, 54 and partly cloudy skies. another mild day. in cincinnati, mostly cloudy and breezy for the game tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. 41 to 46, the temperature range in the game. the seven-day forecast will be in the 50s today and tomorrow for temperatures. so we take out and bring in a new year in fairly nice shape. the rain chances are minimal sunday evening and overnight. it gets cold. flurries monday and tuesday. 35 for the high on monday. tuesday, 28. morning lows in the teens, winter returns. >> sounds good, john. the race fo

come in. well going into the future new year's wishes on technology updates next generation places made from super strong cultural lightweight building materials good health with the help of nuclear isotopes a cleaner planet thanks to the revolutionary way to get rid of our growing landfills and a long list of the russian innovators. please don't look in church. or in bygone days dogsleds were vital to get around. but today they're more leisure than life line. one drives people to quit their modern lives and settle in remote woods. one finds them up to survive in the freezing cold. a new beginning in russia's nals discover the arctic circle on r.t. . among the least explored areas. and untouched by man. surrounded by steep rock. case paintings on display for thousands of years. eastern science and beyond the tiger. on foxy. witnesses. to history in the making of. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and eleven on our t.v. . the official location. from the. video on demand. feeds wit

or fence of strategic weapons in nuclear weapons in the absence of a meaningful arrangement in the area of missile defense in the area of. conventionally armed or fencing weapons of strategic range. and in the absence of real settlement in the area of imbalances with regard to conventional weapons it would be very irresponsible to believe that we just move forward in cuts in numbers of strategic weapons while advantages. and even predominance of u.s. and nato parties as a whole in other areas just grow you know it will always stretch the very concept of strategic stability and it may well break apart we are very sponsible in this regard how close or how far is moscow from possibly pulling out of the start treaty of the us advances with their missile defense plans in europe we have a very clear explanation of this situation by a president with video of who on november twenty third presented what i would describe as a phased adaptive answer to the phase the dept of approach our phased adaptive answer means that we are not rushing into any dramatic decisions and you have just described we

in just a few moments from now stay with us live here in moscow. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for duma seats party leader gennady zyuganov types the achievements of communism from before his time but he's criticized for his rebel small with the russian orthodox church current campaign slogan the politics of the majority is made to when we return the motherland stolen from us priorities free education and housing pushing illegal immigration and introducing ethnicity stamps in passports party success story second in all presidential elections since the end of the u.s.s.r. criticized for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners and a discontented industrial working class. for its red flags with the hammer and sickle the communist party of the russian federation do mut'ah lection two thousand eleven on r.t. . wealthy british style. that's not on planet earth. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial

tycoons in the spotlight. suing his former business partner the chelsea football club mount up a move which claiming more than six billion dollars in damages on monday afternoon which is lawyer will start giving his final statement of a bet it is the case in london. russia has a history of epic tales and the one playing out in here is up there with the best of them with no shortage of intrigue mystery and menace to former friends now foes as long as out over the small matter of six and a half billion dollars around every move it. used to be close just how close is what this case rides on to the various claims they were business partners equals and what became an enormous empire built on oil. and ill gotten gains he wants a bigger slice than the one point two million dollars he received back in two thousand and two is to add remove it meets cash payments were made to his former mentor but says this was just protection money a necessary business expense at the time to benefit from mr bures or ski's political cap

dozens killed in syria's capital in the first suicide bombing there since the uprising began in march this is our oblique observers get down to business in an effort to mediate a peace deal but. tensions running high in iraq after seventy people were killed in a new bombing atrocity only days after u.s. troops pull out of the country this against a backdrop of a political crisis with government leaders putting the blame for the surging violence on the opposition. privacy matters your every move and word could be were people were born and possibly used against a new human rights activists in britain fighting a rising number of surveillance cameras there are now to be installed in every oxford taxi authorities insist the risk of intrusion is acceptable compared to the public safety benefits for coming your way in about a quarter hour but first came up with sports stay with us. hello and thank you for joining me and here are the latest sports headlines. football focus manager and radiologic boaz praises john terry after the chelsea captain put his racism charge to one side in the blues o

black man in his 30s, 5 ft. 6 in.. crime stoppers and police are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. family's head and all of their presence. the dog's name is shark bait. burglars smashed the jan wahl on wednesday. >> it is hard to deal with. every time my daughter sees a picture of the dog on her phone, she starts crying. >>alejandra: he is a small fee to wallet. his name is shark bait. i spoke with the dog's owner of the phone. he says nearly $1,000 worth of stuff was stolen but for them that is not what is important. >> we do not care about the christmas gifts. my daughter does not want the gifts, she wants the dog. >>alejandra: there were no signs of forced entry. nothing else was missing except the presence and the dogs. it's >>mark: it is going to be another decent day with high clouds near 60 degrees. a lot of fog and temperatures near freezing. >>darya: a quiet weekend at the box office. mission impossible made the most money coming in second place, sherlock holmes endowment and the

relation to dance in syria in the arab world as a whole. our opinion is based on mutual trust between our two countries on common vision concerning events in the world and on mutual respect for the principles of each of the sides first of all i'm talking about the principles of non interference in the internal affairs of third countries the principle of long term cooperation and the right of states to change the order within their own territories but not within the territory of other countries i believe russia's stance is serious and well thought out it's identical to the stance taken by algeria we're proud to share similar views but especially in relation to the arab spring. some experts see that old jiri didn't welcome the arab revolutions that it's taking ever since you know which is closer to dead of other arab regimes . algeria didn't welcome those revolutions but it went beyond the borders of the countries where they began we didn't export the algerian revolution and we don't seek to spread the principles of the algerian revolution wh

this one player in new jersey walking with two of his friends in this moment of shock in this very rare and very raw moment and that was very special that he shared some of his feelings and his thoughts with us in a time when he was just processing what was going on. with this is. history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shaped two thousand and eleven. seven minutes past the hour here in moscow this is. the iraqi government deep into crisis with leaders engaging in a blame game following a wave of bombings that rocked the country. the atrocity comes only a few days after u.s. troops pulled out it was the worst attack in months with at least seventy two killed nearly two hundred injured in a series of blasts all across baghdad crisis talks between the country's political leaders were on friday. in which iraqi prime minister maliki was blamed by the opposition for the violence the u.s. administration insists it left behind a stable country. but joseph shaw a writer for the socialist thinks the latest flare ups in the region are a product. not of you know securing iraq and giving

. >> so he's executed with 10,000 people in broad daylight in 1919. and a terrible crime was committed years later in mississippi, that was done overnight, all the guys swear to secrecy, a different landscape. jim crow was on the fence at that time. is my argument. and i think there is to -- to metropolitan going to end with. herbert was a little jewish guy who enjoyed the naacp from new york. he risked his life. you go into places like vicksburg, mississippi, after a riot and interview people and write articles about it. and he wrote a book about the violence yet seen in 1990 during the red summer. and he wrote this. race relations constitute democracy most essential problem. a problem compounded of all other which free men are called upon to maintaining and forming social relation. shameful as was the year 1919, with bloodshed, lynch and race riding in the united states, the attention of all the nation that a national problem long unsolved demanded serious attention. in the last quote is from, there's a british journalist was traveling the country a

in terms of gingrich's baker in the 1990s, in terms of bob livingston's baker in the 1990s, there's no question. a great deal of hypocrisy and i think that the people have to struggle with this. you know we are -- for giving newt gingrich if he asked us to forgive him is a no-brainer. we are supposed to be good at forgiving people but trust is with the presidency a long way behind forgiveness and i think that is the issue. the issue is whether or not you want to trust someone that has that past with the presidency. and i think that in a neutral observer would say that one reason newt gingrich has not done any better than he has done in the polls is because of the training of moral baggage that he carries behind him. >> host: let's take a broader look and put it into the context of the chamber behind it, the house and the senate. this is a research form on religion in public life in looking at the break down of house and senate members first of all in the u.s. house of representatives. they are 10 members of the mormon faith, 248 members who are produce income 132 members who are cathol

i was with rick santorum in des moines in june 2010. no other candidate was here, except for ron paul, who's also doing well in the polls. rick santorum is showing that going out and campaigning and meeting people is the way to do it. >> with the rise of santorum -- >> he's plummeting in our poll 19 points from earlier this month. has he been lowering his expectations in iowa the last week or two? it seems that way. take a listen to what he said an hour or two ago? >> will you stay in the race? >> sure. that would -- >> so there are more than three -- >> it depends what happens, what the margins are. >> considering i'm 20 points ahead, it will be fairly foolish not to stay in the race. it's a long way from here to picking -- >> gingrich is still pretty confident is that he'll do well in south carolina and florida, the states are third and fourth. >> paul steinhauser. don't sleep in the next five days, the polls could change again. that's it for me today, i'm natalie allen, thank you for watching. newsroom continues right now with isha s

each of these places and you know in greece there in europe there is austerity measures in the arab world in the middle east it's mostly about democracy in russia and in the united states it is mostly about economic inequality and what the occupy movement shows and i've actually spent some time in occupy d.c. is people are fighting to get to get back some share of the middle class i must say as someone who's watching political events united states very closely that another defy the moment of the year was happened just yesterday when president obama forced the republicans the opposition party to back down on the payroll tax cut part of his jobs act the republicans the opposition party had been very very strong all year round and now there's just starting to back off so i think the occupy movement united states is starting to pay some dividends but will know more in the new year when you think about that jeffries there is this occupy. occupy the globe working it's beginning to pay off some given a lot of steam is being blown off is it but there are people getting what they want . well

each of these places and you know in greece there in europe there is austerity measures in the arab world in the middle east it's mostly about democracy in russia and in the united states it is mostly about economic inequality and what the occupy movement shows and i've actually spent some time in occupy d.c. is people are fighting to get to get back some share of the middle class i must say as someone who's watching political events united states very closely that another defy the moment of the year was happened just yesterday when president obama forced the republicans the opposition party to back down on the payroll tax cut part of his jobs act the republicans the opposition party had been very very strong all year round and now there's just starting to back off so i think the occupy movement united states is starting to pay some dividends but will know more in the new year when you think about that jeffries there is this occupy. occupy the globe working it's beginning to pay off some given a lot of steam is being blown out physically but there are people getting what they want.

in all 11 people were hurt in that deadly crash. it happened after 4:00 yesterday and shut down that stretch of rockville pike for hours. investigators say a toyota pickup crossed the median, crashed into a metro us about. that cashed the bus to hit a tree on the side of the road. the man in the pickup was killed, his identity hasn't been released. the driver of the metro bus had to be extricated, she's a 13-year veteran and had to be taken to a local hospital with serious injuries. the crash happened near samir ahmed's front yard. he said he tried to rescue the driver of that pickup truck. >> i went to the other side. someone said don't you have him, he's -- don't touch him, he's gone. >> reporter: neighbors say they lobbied the state for years to do something about that dangerous stretch of road. it's not known yet why the pickup crashed into the bus. >>> charges could be coming for a driver going too fast on 83 who caused a crash that killed a 5-year-old boy. it happened before 3:00 yesterday afternoon at the ramp of 83 northboun

seattle. 74 in los angeles. 59 in memphis. 73 in miami. new york with 37 degrees. that's your forecast. now it is your turn. >> thanks so much, reynolds. >>> still to come this morning, a look at the terror inside syria. a freelance journalist sneaks into the city and shows us what the syrian government has gone to great lengths to hide. >>> when it comes to politics, will 2012 bring more of the same gridlock or not? you are watching "american morning." it is 23 minutes after the hour. brad, where we going? just a second. just, just one second. ♪ what are you looking at? don't look up there. why are you looking up? ♪ get outta the car. get outta the car. ♪ are you ok? the... get in the car. get in the car! [ male announcer ] the epa estimated 42 mpg highway chevy cruze eco. from spending time together, to spending your lives together, chevy runs deep. it's me? alright emma, i know it's not your favorite but it's time for your medicine, okay? you ready? one, two, three. [ both ] ♪ emma, emma bo-bemma ♪ banana-fana-fo-femma ♪ fee

the soviet union in moscow in 1986. and i was there null -- until july 1991 and then i was transferred to washington. >> heck of editorial looking timing. >> i had been trained for three years to cover it but a new correspondent had taken my place. >> to a certain extent this book and going back and reconstructing and doing the reporting, you really wished you had been there for it? >> like in the story, as much as a journalist in going back to find out what really happened that day. i had a wonderful four-hour lurch in paris with a man who was very close to him and spent the whole day with him, and joined a small group with gorbachev that evening after he resigned in the kremlin, drinking cognac. and discussing what happened and looking back on their -- the years pair. i also got the last interview with him before he died. about four week before he died. and he was extremely helpful. he at the time had been appointed by yeltsin to bring in price reforms, which was the big bang. up to then, prices in the soviet union ha

if you wish to hand in speaker cards, please put them in the container by the rail in front of you, to your left. supervisor avalos: ok, thank you. please call the first item. >> hearing on the city's response to the surge in homelessness, and families and for various city agencies, including the her -- human services agency in the housing authority to outline the response to the crisis, including any plans to expand the rental subsidy programs, and he plans to address the loss in federal homeless prevention and rapid re-housing funds, any plans to increase, is prevention efforts, any plans to expedite the filling a vacant san francisco housing authority units, and moving homeless families into them, and ways we can protect households from for closure evictions. supervisor avalos: thank you, madam clerk. i call this hearing just last week, but it is an issue that has been on my mind for a number of months, especially with the advocacy of the coalition on homelessness, and a lot of the families are related to the coalition, and they work with a lot of homeless families. it was first bro

i will send a quick story in and put it back to you. i was in march in china. i am very interested in the opportunity that the clean energy economy can provide in terms of jobs. and so we went with a group called securing american's future energy. he met with a number of chinese officials to see what they're doing to be able to attract. they have attracted so many so the jobs from california, used to provide a huge number and answer a small. the chinese, was at one of the meetings. chinese officials me aside and said, so, when the you think the united states is going to get a national energy policy? and has said, you know, congress, so divisive, just don't know. this is with the chinese official did. he grinned, wrote his hands together and then he said to me take a ton. they see our passivity as their opportunity. we have to recognize that the federal government and this country, in terms of energy policy and getting jobs, has brought a nice @booktv after a gunfight. >> i think that is one of the issues. i can't help but think we are on the verge of an electio

up in frederick, upper teens right now. 30 in arlington. 26 in alexandria and crofton. 26 in baden this morning while laurel is 25. and a 28 degree reading in rockville. officially though in washington, 32 at reagan national with winds, well, no winds, dead calm. dew point is 29. that barometer slowly, slowly dropping off. yesterday, closer to 30.6. now, we have 30.45. low pressure attacking the folks in the southwestern u.s., throwing rain and snow from los angeles out into areas near st. louis. we've got the broken showers and mountain snows. so, there is a lot of active weather in the southwest. and in the southeast, well, there is a ridge of high pressure which keeps it all nice and quiet. some of the moisture in the form of clouds will get here later today. as far as any rain, it doesn't look like we'll see much of anything. potentially thursday. high pressure in the ohio valley this morning. we're on the east side. so, a northwesterly flow. as this rain comes into the high, we'll have a tough time surviving, some of the clouds will, especially out west of the mountains for tonight

in a reacher they put in a very modern high capacity cement plant they put in the infrastructure for a modern communication system in a richer and they doing things like this all across africa the one black eye china seems to have right now is that this seems like they're going back in and trying to exploit the natural gas resources in the old and southeast ethiopia and in two thousand and seven they were in there drilling and looking for natural gas you know which would basically end up supporting the genocidal militia in ours eamonn power not a symbolic and the fighters of though good in national liberation front attacked ethiopian compound that was protecting them killed seven i think six or seven chinese engineers and basically shut the project down no we're hearing reports that the chinese are trying to come back into the region so please that the chinese are out there listening don't go anything o.p.'s specially go get over it in these days we heard that the ethiopian government's carrying out ethnic cleansing in the regions that the patrol is oil company that the chinese an es

in. early years after accession and more like ten years we think russia would gain about eleven percent of g.d.p. but apart from economic achievements the country's political image should benefit not been part of the global body would of the past be a little strange russia has been the biggest economy not to be integrated into the w t o but after an eighteen year marathon of negotiations all the world's key players finally come together under the same umbrella. griffin ocean are to mosco. the military hearing of the soldier accused of passing secret american government data to weaken the when friday bradley manning already spent more than a year and a half in detention hearing is to determine whether there is enough evidence to put money on trial if found guilty he could spend life behind bars private mining served as an intelligence analyst in iraq and is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistle. and. coalition says bradley manning if he were a. crime the

in a reacher they put in a very modern high capacity cement plant they put in the infrastructure for a modern communication system in a richer and they doing things like this all across africa the one black eye china seems to have right now is that this seems like they're going back in and trying to exploit the natural gas resources in the old and southeast ethiopia and in two thousand and seven they were in there drilling and looking for natural gas you know which would basically end up supporting the genocidal militia in our vision and power not a symbolic and the fighters of though good in national liberation front attacked ethiopian compound that was protecting them killed seven i think six or seven chinese engineers and basically shut the project down no we're hearing reports that the chinese are trying to come back into the reach. so please if the chinese are out there listening don't go and specially go get over it in these days we heard that the ethiopian government is carrying out ethnic cleansing in the regions that they're patrolling as oil company that the chinese an esta

my mother, growing up in that -- growing up for me in the 1960's and 1970's -- was very involved in the war movement and what often take me to protest and lectures. she was also involved in union labor, as her family had been for a couple of generations. my father was the director of ymca in chicago. with the sixth engagement, i think that all was in one variable or another, very influential on me. after my parents had divorced, i spent most of my youth in the state of rhode island. after i graduated high school, i went to the undergraduate college in st. louis, missouri, and came out here for grad school. fell in love with the san francisco bay area appeared all my plans changed, and this became my home. >> [inaudible] do we end up with a wells fargo here? another bank of america over there? what projects as going forward? supervisor mirkarimi: you read my mind. that is a perfect segue. i wanted to talk about rezoning, areas that fortified neighborhood interests so there is not another chase situation or wells fargo, or what have you, that should put us in this position again. >> i wor

well in the middle east suicide bombings are making a deadly comeback today in syria two suicide car bombs blasted damascus killing forty people the bombings came just one day after the arrival of arab league observers whose mission is to monitor syria's promise to end its crackdown on protesters those protesters are rising up against president bashar assad's regime assad is calling them armed gangs meanwhile iraq is trying to recover after a series of suicide bombs tore through the neighborhoods in baghdad killing at least sixty nine people many of them shiites well there's one thing to be said about both attacks we see a unified theme of sectarian violence now so what does it mean for the middle east and how does the west playing into this here is my discussion with lawyer and author eva golinger. i would say absolutely it's an attempt to sabotage the mission of the arab league and the attempts to try to resolve the conflict in syria in a peaceful way and also you know to try to paint a picture of what's happening in syria as just absolute chaos and instability and of course to ter

in the. markets find. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines june into gaza report on r g. eight thirty pm in moscow these are your r.t. headlines dozens killed in syria's capital and the first suicide bombing since the uprising in the country started in march this is our league observers get down to business and an effort to mediate a peace deal there. tensions are running high in iraq after more than seventy people were killed in a new bombing atrocity only days after u.s. troops pull out of the country this against the backdrop of a political crisis with government leaders putting the blame for the surging violence on the opposition. and every move every word could be recorded used against you human rights activists in britain fighting an increasing number of surveillance cameras there are now to be installed in every taxi in the city of oxford authorities insist the risk of intrusion is acceptable compared to the public safety

soviet union in moscow in 1986. and i was there until july 1991. and then i was transferred to washington. i was white house correspondent. >> what impeck cal timing. >> extremely ford looking of my editor. i felt i had been trained for four years to cover -- and awe knew correspondent had taken my place. >> to an extent this book and going back and reconstructing and doing the reporting, you really wished you had been there are to it? >> like in the story, as much as a journalist in going back find out what really happened that day, i had a wonderful four-hour plunk paris -- lunch in paris, who was close to him and spent the whole day with him and joined a small group with gauche chief -- gorbachev that evening in the kremlin, drinking cognac and discussing what had happened and looking back on the years of perestroika with a lot of sadness. they were drinking until midnight, which wasn't unusual in the kremlin. i got the last interview with igor before he died. interviewed him four weeks before he died. and he was

the election just like very real averages in any election in european countries in the us in two thousand and florida in the us in two thousand and four in ohio what's more important in my opinion is what united russia should do to address grievances from but hearts of the russian population this is the real issue and you can log on to r.t. dot com to see how the election rallies have been developing in russia have a look at our gallery to see snapshots from the biggest rally in moscow in about twenty years of on to r.t. dot com and head to the online exclusive section. the watching live from moscow it's already been dubbed europe's great divorce this week britain vetoed franco german plans to impose a fiscal agreement within the e.u. three countries will take the pact to the national parliaments with all the other e.u. members agreeing to hand brussels absolute oversight of their budgets. brings us this report. reaction has been muted to the e.u. summit deal with observers looking sideways wondering what to really make of it a two speed europe is being formed almost all of the e.u. membe

at least 50 people were killed in syria in the last 24 hours, in violence between rival muslim factions. activists said it happened in the city of homs overnight, after a spate of kidnappings earlier on monday. amateur video showed victims lying injured in the streets before being taken away for treatment. the violence pitted members of president bashar assad's minority alawite shi-ites against the majority sunnis. also today, assad received public support from sheikh hassan nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah in neighboring lebanon. >> we support the reforms in syria, and we stand with the regime against the resistance movement. there are some people who do not want reform, security and stability in syria. and neither civil peace nor dialogue. there are people who want to destroy syria, to make up for their defeat in iraq. and syria is a partner in defeating the americans in iraq. >> sreenivasan: the syrian government has come under growing pressure from new sanctions imposed by the u.s., the european union and the arab league. and in egypt, the leader of the muslim brotherhood sought t

in the. group since retiring from the army sharon has been committed to showing students the other side of the army experience the side recruiters fail to show it's all part of the we are not your soldiers tour his message is clear don't don't become one of us. and he hopes that message will prevent students from turning into a statistic from washington liz wahl. and the war veteran profiled in that story is here to talk more about this antiwar activist mathis sure roe joins us now welcome out this so we are seeing these skyrocketing suicide rates on this is the cover of the express today another soldier a victim of suicide why are we seeing these skyrocketing rates. well you touched on a little bit in your piece as you know the kinds of things that soldiers are up to around the world are really in many cases nearly impossible to come back from. the face of war has changed the types of soldiers the u.s. produces have changed you know we're not talking about the reluctant citizen soldier arche

in the u.s. republican leaders have caved in. and on president obama's demands to extend a payroll tax cut members of the republican led house of representatives have previously refused to vote on the extension because it will save around a thousand dollars a year for the average u.s. pay packet and one new jobless benefits for millions of unemployed workers will also now avoid a significant hit to their paychecks in january well but. artie's looking back at some of the major events of two thousand and eleven and today we remember the fatal plane crash that took the lives of the entire jaroslav locomotive hockey team in russia sean thomas talks about the grief and sorrow he witnessed while covering the tragedy in the team's hometown. you were hearing it on the radio in fact in the taxi on the way to work you know they were they were listening to it and everybody was it was just hitting them in the gravity of what had happened. this was much bigger than a plane crash it was much bigger than russia it was a worldwide event. as you

in syria in libya you know. this is a regular issue in these. media contradictions and to begin to really. try to solve these problems they are worse than power to. make these contributions was. actually. finally. my new technologies were used. on clancy's it's a mixture size of. violence against the peaceful so you know you mention the issue of hypocrisy and inconsistency here perhaps falls into line with what we heard today that seven syrian soldiers are being killed by army defectors and why does that kind of story fail to attract international condemnation like the government's crackdown doesn't like what we saw in libya. you know you already said the exercise in the overwhelming power. of the news technologies and the products are one side in this case to. me. but i'm. sure your money. now just today syrian border guards a stopped a group of vomit turkish militants from crossing the border now it's not the first time we've heard of foreign mercenaries fighting against syria's government all the while most of the outlets the news outlets tal

it resulted in one of the largest pot busts in u.s. history. it's a 600-yard-long passage linking warehouses in san diego and tijuana. the tunnel includes electric railcars, designed to move marijuana as well as a hydraulic lift, lighting and ventilation even a wooden staircase and floors. >> this is the most elaborate and sophisticated tunnel that has ever been discovered along the california-mexico border. >> in all, agents found 32 tons of marijuana and made several arrests. in the past number of years more than 70 tunnels have been found. >>> engineers achieved a major milestone this week in the construction of the fourth bore of the caldecott tunnel. ken bastida here to show us what that is. ken. >> reporter: i drive it every day. i'm smiling, look. [ laughter ] >> reporter: more than 160,000 vehicles crowd through the caldecott tunnel every day. but today, the commute seemed just a little bit easier thanks in part to some news of a big breakthrough. for the past year, they have been going at it. one crew working from the east side another

in new mexico or in st. michaels, maryland. c-span: did you have someone overseeing the whole thing? >> guest: i got an army. i've got three key people who help me do all of it, and then i had five or six other people who have been doing the fact checking and research and transcribing and all the mountain of work that it involves, so we probably had a team of six or seven people. c-span: how many days or hours collectively did you actually spend on it, do you think? >> guest: oh, goodness. over four years. c-span: every day? >> guest: most every day. it would probably be five and a half, six days a week. c-span: why did you want to spend all this time doing this? >> guest: well, at first, i didn't. at first i thought i'd do a short book, and then i decided that i had the time. i had the ability to digitize, which saves an enormous amount of time, and i decided that what i wanted to do is try to write it for part-time who are interested -- it requester people who are interested in government, in history, seri

my sister died in june of 2006.o i came back to school in the u.s. in august of 2006006. she died when i was driving her to a hospital, and i drove around with her body in the car for three hours and could not cry. i was looking for a place to pose the body. i came back to school and determined that i would not lead an isolated life. the first thing i did was to identify every african commander was not a single liberian among those africans. the next thing i did to those africans were always hungry. my apartment always had food. a community had started. the next in the african-american men said coming the arabs can. before you knew it i was being called big mama or mother of peace. i used the resources that i saw in america to create myself with community. today i can proudly say if i landed in afghanistan i will go straight to the swedish embassy because the political analysts there is a young man who would give me a place to sleep. if i went to yemen and would get to the u.s. embassy because one of their strategies there is a man called old. he would give me a place to

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this one player in new jersey walking with two of his friends in this moment of shock in this very rare and very well moment that was very special that he shared some of his feelings and his thoughts with us in a time when he was just processing what was going on. with this is. to history in the making. testimony. ten stories that shapes two thousand and seven on our t.v. . the iraqi government is plunging deeper into crisis with leaders in gauging in a blame game after a wave of bombings that rocked the country thursday the atrocity comes only a few days after the pullout of u.s. troops it was the worst attack in months at least seventy two people killed nearly two hundred injured in a series of blasts across the capital crisis talks between the country's political leaders were called off on friday after a dispute in which iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki was blamed for the opposition by the opposition for the violence the us administration insists it left behind a stable country nine years after launching the invasion but joseph is sure a writer for the world socialist web site thi

and result in the loss of 140,000 jobs in 2012. that's what happened in this house yesterday. my colleague, sander levin from michigan, recognized that the legislative holiday gift that the republicans thought they were providing the american worker this christmas is just one big lump of coal. their proposal would leave millions of americans out in the cold this holiday season while imposing additional barriers to receiving assistance and diminishing the protections of unemployed workers. throughout the day yesterday, the holiday humbugs kept trying to point to places where we could compromise. well, the american people are asking, why not simply compromise on a clean extension of the payroll tax credit for 160 million workers and unemployment insurance? why not ensure that 160 million hardworking families can benefit from the average $1,000 they'll receive from the payroll tax credit? again, right into the economy. yesterday, the republican majority decided they'd rather risk raising taxes and digging into the pockets of families

dean came in and surged to the top in 1994. he raised his own well doing it, john kerry went up right the middle. your third candidate. >> talking about some of the things that newt gingrich said, we're all focusing bass he's the front-runner, we want to know how this plays out. he says some pretty alarming things. he said this week that palestinians were invented people. it came up last night in the did bait. >> do you agree with that characterization that palestinians are invented people. >> no. i don't agree with that. i think that's stirring up problems. >> is what i said historically true? yes. someone should tell the truth. these people are terrorists. they teach terrorism in their schools. enough lying with the middle east. >> i agree with most of what the speaker said. except about invented people. i don't think we want to -- >> no, he didn't want to take it back. he ratcheted it up. he called the whole palestinian people terrorists. so do you think, that this is going to be a problem for him as he goes forward? these k