allies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world that don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers that presidential elections have any say in what's going on in and what's going to happen with iran in terms of washington. i think the presidential elections in the united states definitely play a role in u.s. policy towards iran that by the way has been the case ever since the iranian revolution iran has factored into american politics in this case the republican candidates are sort of baiting obama and suggesti

this woman has a ph.d. in economics and was fired because of her association with the protest movement. >> my husband came home for lunch and he left and he was ambushed and kidnapped from the car parked and he was gone for 10 months. i have a very little access to him and he was beaten up. >> with the anniversary coming on february 14th, it is possible that tension bubbles to the surface once more. there is a lot of anger in the poor districts of bahrain. >> back on the line from baltimore. tell us what you know about the situation? seven days of continual bombardment by syrian government forces. >> this is utterly direct. there has been a marked escalation of this crisis in the week since the russians and the chinese vetoed a draft resolution. this would have signaled some kind of international consensus on what to do about the crisis. the syrian security forces have mounted a major assault on the city of homs which has been the center of resistance. 400 people have been killed. one of the features of thi

who has lost a son, or a father who has lost a son, or an afghan or an iraqi who has lost a brother in a bombing -- i don't know. it breaks my heart to even think about it. the fact that the president is saying the tide of war is receding and we are moving toward more limited counter terrorist reggies, to me, is a victory of common sense. tavis: do you think the average american understands the huge amount of afghan life that has been lost in these 10 years? if they did understand, do you think they would care? >> no. i think it is difficult to empathize with your neighbor, let alone someone of a different skin color 8,000 miles away. the afghans -- is this funny thing. on the one hand, they are supposed to be our ally. on the other, they are demonized regularly in terms of the television. fair enough -- of the taliban. fair enough. i think it is very difficult to make people care about the natives in another country. call it like it is. counterinsurgency is making a kids behave the way we want them to. -- making nativist behave the way we want them to. my job as a writer is to enga

." >> irian activist -- say a house bill has been hit. artillery fire has resumed. reports that helicopters and tanks are being used. >> it sounded like mortars at the beginning. >> hello and welcome to gmt. i am george alagiah, with a world of news and opinion. also in the program -- a united front. bitter palestinian rivals agreed to set up a joint government. bosnia's heaviest snowfall ever. we will have the latest as thousands across europe to grapple with transport disruption and power cuts. >> it is midday in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, and 2:00 in the afternoon in the syrian city of homs, the scene of escalating violence between government forces and the opposition movement. the bombardment of the city by forces loyal to president bashar al-assad resumed at dawn on monday with the rebel activists say in a field hospital has been hit after the failure of efforts to reach a resolution at the u.n. and when did before the russian foreign minister is due in damascus. in a moment, a full report on the situation. first, this from our correspondent, paul wood, w

it has been an interesting day in terms of what has been said. >> that is right. the human rights chief has accused the security council of the emboldening the syrian government. they said the recent failure of the security council to pass a resolution on syria had encouraged authorities to attack a city. of a middle east editor reports from cairo. >> -- our middle east editor reports from cairo. >> more evidence of the chilean. the greater the anger among those who want to stop it and cannot. the regime continues to exist. at the u.n. in new york, a diplomacy stalled in the security council after russia and china vetoed a resolution by the arab league asking assad to step down. >> the failure of the security council appears to have emboldened the ceiling government to launch an all-out assault in an effort -- the seeming government to launch an all-out assault in an effort to crush the opposition. >> we are said for those losses. >> here in cairo, the arab league asked the security council to send a peacekeeping mission to syria. they do not seem to have thought

mario has the ability to connect. he has that kind of personality, soft, knowledgeable, and he has the ability to connect the community. and he has been the president of the latino business network. those people are transforming the business in the mission. they have educated -- i have attended some of the training, and they have educated the community, the business owners have to open a business, how to get a permit, all it takes to be successful in small business. what i love about that -- he has worked so hard to get jobs for communities of color. this transgendered community, also kids released from jail. if they get educated, hopefully they do not have to go back. mario has done a lot of work with the merchants association. they are working together to restore the community in the mission, and i think it is important to have that representation. please consider mario and the other latinos and all the people who are running, too. supervisor kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. in an operating manager fo

the president insists that he has not broken any laws. all right, let's go to our political correspondent terry martin. this is a huge announcement. what has prompted prosecutors to go to parliament and ask for the president to be stripped of his protection? >> as you mentioned, the allegations that christian wulff had been involved in, all sorts of dubious dealings, while he was state premier in lower saxony have been at around for awhile. people are just wondering what is with those allegations. the public prosecutor cannot even begin a preliminary investigation into any of these allegations you mentioned, that christian wulff took a home loan that perhaps he should not have taken at a very low interest rate, that he accepted free vacations. the public prosecutor cannot look into those as long as he enjoys the community that is attached to his office. they cannot even begin a preliminary investigation. they cannot look at records. all that is happening right now is that the public prosecutor has decided that these allegations are suffic

has set it for what it has to do in terms of to be able to reform its finances to be able to pay back some of the debts that it so that has been largely caused by issues to do with the euro itself and the problem that the euro creates and how it makes the greek economy competitive so basically greece cannot survive while it is in the euro and the more austerity measures which are being forced upon it will just hurt the greek economy even further wages have been cut thirty percent on average in greece pensions of being part of finding it very hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures and the problems caused by the euro what they're doing at the moment is just throwing more money at the problem and really putting back the day when greece will have to deform will have to leave the euro. and coming your way later in the program in a sense lost in afghanistan find out why the latest here strike has left afghanistan present and damning foreign troops. and separated spouses why israel is stopping sounds and the palestinians from currently living with israeli families. c

has already bought a license for possible posits in the far east. the winds of change is coming to the global economy a new report by saxo bank says the crisis will reach a peak the share of a major changes in the structure of the financial system in the opinion of the bank further state intervention only finds diminishing returns with europe unable to solve the debt crisis sachs a bank predicts european stock markets will dive twenty five percent the euro zone will show zero growth this year with the global g.d.p. to increase just three percent the author of the report seen jacobsen explains why it's a part in the current situation in my opinion my personally i have fifty percent in cash twenty percent in gold and then i have thirty percent in corporate bonds and that is divided into two currency parts one with fifty percent in dollars and one fifty percent in. terms of whether as a class i like i like bonds because bond in itself is a put on a good team or a good word you see the stock market goes down the bond goes up the one place in the market

the director of the honduran prison system has been suspended, as has the governor after more than 350 prison inmates remember confirmed dead. will grant has this report. >> 24 hours on from the fire, and the dead are still being brought out. more than 350 inmates lost their lives in the blaze in one of the worst-ever prison fires in latin america. this says the grim scene which has been unfolding for hours here. body bag after body bag loaded on to trucks to be taken to the morgue. and yet, just a few hundred meters outside the burnt-out prison, the loved ones are waiting desperately for more news. >> the prison system in honduras is one of the worst in the world. many believe that an event of this magnitude is always waiting to happen. but that is of little comfort to these people. >> i think not many survived, and i didn't find his name in the list of survivors. i expect a miracle from god that he's not dead. >> but as well as grieving, the family's also angry. they say the authorities did not do enough to save their loved ones, and once the fire was out, they accused them of withho

no institution that has not profit institution that has religious principles that we violated has to pay for or directly offer the services but women have access to the kinds of care they are entitled to. we think that is the right approach. >> chris: let's turn to the budget. you officially release it tomorrow but you we already know the broad outlines and let's go through them. cut the deficitly more than $3 trillion. half comes from spending cuts. half, more than $1.5 trillion from new taxes on corporations and the wealthy. to entitlements.al changes here is how congressman paul ryan describes it. >> seems as if the president is doing little more than class envy and the status quo which is the greatest threat it our health security and retirement security and natural security and economic security. >> chris: question, isn't this the same plan the president proposed in september that congress has already rejected? >> this. >> well, this is a plan similar. we put out a detailed plan for $4 trillion not $3 trillion the deficit reduction because it is built on the trillion dollars of

the video that has led to the end of the iraq war has led to pro-democracy rallies and uprisings all over the world and i think it's much deserved that he receives this nobel peace prize if obama gets it why should he has done very little even though he promised it and obama is also taking credit for ending the iraq war when actually that's not the truth the truth is iraqi government did not want to allow legal immunity for u.s. troops after january first and the reason they didn't want some unity is because of what they saw in the cables in the videos showing civilian deaths that were being covered in the corruption by the u.s. government and that was some of the international news for you in brief this hour with yasi world upside by israeli airstrikes on the gaza strip of left one civilian dead and four others injured the man killed was a god. the israeli army confirmed the bombings saying they were aimed at sites belonging to terror groups and response to a short range rocket attack from gaza. malaysia has deported a young saudi blogger who's wanted in his home country for his rem

lies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has venezuela and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world don't want the entire world to be done many did by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran as an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were so were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran. they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other cowers including russia and china by the way even though their great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can relieve their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole i don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to develo

has. the president has won the election by a landslide, so the biggest issue ahead of the anniversary is foreign policy behind their claim to the islands. >> vladimir hernandez speaking earlier. the british foreign office has responded by saying the people of the falkland islands are british out of choice. the statement said the islanders are free to determine their future, adding there would be no negotiations with argentina over sovereignty unless the islanders wish it. joining me on the line, a member of the falkland islands legislative assembly. thank you for joining us, and welcome to bbc news. we spoke with the chamber of commerce representatives are in your island. he said he was not worried. the share that view? of >> we are certainly not worried about any military interventions, and we do not feel isolated. >> what is your reaction to the president's announcement? >> she made a number of announcements. she criticizes the militarization of the area, but if you cast your mind back t

allies to iran has russia and it has china increasingly it has the venezuelan and cuba another words those governments in the world in addition of course to syria which has its own problems right now but the countries in the world that don't want the entire world to be dominated by one power the united states of america they recognize that the existence of iran is an independent government is something that is positive meaning that if the united states were were were to be successful in carrying out regime change in iran they would be emboldened to carry out further destabilizing efforts against other powers including russia and china by the way even though there are great powers. so i think that iran has allies and i think iran is trying to show that they can weather the storm and also that they can rally their population in spite of the fact the divisions that were revealed in two thousand and nine after the elections the presidential elections the iranian people as a whole i don't believe they should be sanctioned the iranian people believe that they have as they do the right to d

exactly what he has to say. matthew, italy has said, for instance, it's really facing a real power crunch because of a lack of gas supplies coming from russia via ukraine. other countries in a similar situation. what has the energy minister been saying to reassure people here. >> reporter: that's right, nina. in fact, some european union countries are reporting the amount of russian gas through pipelines, most of which comes across the ukraine, are down 30%, which is obviously very difficult during this extremely cold weather in the continent. one of the issues, one of the questions that's been raised is where all the gas has gone to. is it russia that hasn't supplied it, or is it ukraine that's been siphoning it off for its own purposes? i sat down earlier, as you mentioned, with the ukrainian energy minister victor boyko, and asked him specifically about that issue. is ukraine siphoning off gas from russia, from its pipe lines, which is meant for paying customers in europe? >> no. the main reason about lower a

he has a chronic condition. he has a political anemia. he has a hard time exciting people. he doesn't know how to touch the buttons for conservatives, and when he tries too hard he looks inauthentic. santorum is not an ideal candidate. >> not at all. >> he has an acute condition, i think, which is kind of a culture war fever. he seems to enjoy those debates, culture war debates a little too much. it scares people. people don't like aggressors in the culture war. it's hard, though, for romney to exploit that. it's hard to come in and criticize his social conservative can views in the republican primary. >> woodruff: you mean during this period. >> this period. he can do it through proxies. he can raise questions about his electability. but of course barack obama won't have any problems attacking the views on contraception or women's rights issues or gay rights issues. it creates a dynamic i think if i were barack obama i would want to face santorum, but it's hard for romney to make those attacks about electability. >> one of the things about santorum that has gone uninoid, j

has set it for what it has to do in terms of to be able to reform its finances to be able to pay back some of the debts that it so that has been largely caused by issues to do with the euro itself and the problem that the euro creates and how it makes the greek economy competitive so basically greece cannot survive while it is in the euro and the more austerity measures which are being forced upon it will just hurt the greek economy even further wages have been cut thirty percent on average in greece pensions are being carved people are finding it very hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures in the problems caused by the euro. really the poor what they're doing at the moment is just throwing more money at the problem and really putting back the. greece will have to deform will have to leave the euro and they're throwing good money after bad really any further buyouts of greece will only just temporarily a. reckoning which is a default and of course exiting the euro so they're calling me can become competitive. and you can always find more news online just log o

some serious problems the region has some serious problems put into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid the streets and rather than follow sort of unitary approaches. in how we want to rid the street and you mentioned. the price of your involvement in afghanistan has been pretty high many thousand of your citizens lost their lives millions of people have been replaced there are estimates that it cost your country around seventy billion dollars but we often hear criticism about pakistan's role. but they're just involvement in afghanistan found the american side do you think the united states treats you fairly. i would like to answer that question by seeing the. two solid robust partnership is that each able to live or operate within the bounds of what is. believed to be you know what has been agreed treating fairly is concerned i think pakistan has in this particular not been treated fairly by anybody for that matter. because pakistan continues to. stand continues to lose in terms of economic costs in t

has set it for what it has to do in terms of to be able to reform its finances to be able to pay back some of the debts that it so that has been largely caused by issues to do with the euro itself and the problem that the euro creates and how it makes the greek economy competitive in it so basically greece cannot survive while it is in the euro and with a more stable two measures which are being forced upon it or just hurt the greek economy even further wages have been cut by thirty percent on average in greece pensions are being carved people are finding it very hard to survive because of the result of the austerity measures in the problems caused by the euro and what they're doing at the moment is just throwing more money at the problem and really putting back the day when greece will have to deform will have to leave the euro. ten minutes past the hour this is r.t. live from moscow coming your way just a bit later in the program separating phalluses why israel are stopping thousands of palestinians from living with their israeli family is. the robin hood tax your son expensive cars

can do as it has in history carry out regime change. and you can watch the full version of that interview in just over an hour from now here on r.t. . the u.n. general assembly is adopted the norm binding resolution this week calling on syria's president assad to step down russia was among twelve states who voted against it saying the draft fails to address the armed opposition while damascus is vying for major reforms reports of violence continue what is more of a notion is in syria. the situation here in syria maine's volatile with tensions between security forces and the armed opposition groups continue in claiming lives of both mildred and civilians almost every day on thursday we attended the funerals of a young boy who was gunned down early here in damascus during the n.t. government protests and the procession itself eventually turned into a hostile to a straight in the clashes that followed and that continued the next day five people were killed and many others injured one violence one day causes even more violence next and so o

the levy has held so we have avoided complete disaster here but nevertheless, it has flooded in some parts here. look at this expected crest. 14 meters. we've reached 13.95. and the record crest was set back in 13.4. that has been obliterated by the latest rise as a result of all the rain we have been about over the last several weeks across queensland. the diamonds you see here, the red ones, those are the river gauges, the stations on the river and those are the ones reporting a major flooding. we're going to have a while here to go as all that water continues to drain down to the south. we'll watch that closely. let me show you some of the pictures. we're dealing not only with the flooding that has been left because of all the rain but now the secondary problems that we talked about. this water sewage treatment plant in st. george there has failed as a result of all the flooding. they've sustained some damage. so residents are being warned as far as the contaminated water is concerned there. that's a problem there. and of course, the farmers, the agriculture has been hit in signif

breaking the the government has a difficult road because it has to pursue austerity measures in order to satisfy the international community, which is frustrated at the slow pace of reform. they're facing an increasingly depressed and antagonistic public that feel the future is very dark. >> thank you. let's catch up with all the business news. a big mining deal. >> between xstrata and glencore. everything to do with the deal is big. very interesting. glencore is a commodities trading company. it. dig. -- glencore does not dig, but xstrata has asked reserves of nickel and copper. they are combining in a $90 million merger. it will become the number-one in coal and zinc and be the biggest independent producer of copper. good news for shareholders because they will see a profit in the first year of the merger if and good news for the executives. this merger could mean higher prices for the buyers of raw materials, like china. if china has to pay higher prices, that would be passed on to us consumers. the european commission may look into this particular deal over competition issues. >>

romney obviously has all the money. he has all the infrastructure. he has this image of the front-runner. and yet right now, if i was a betting man, i would say this will run for a long time. and i wouldn't rule out somebody like rick santorum. not after tonight. >> no. and we just came off the super bowl that started with a safety. so 2012 is wide open for anything to happen here. i think the learning here is that this reminded me about like a bunch of guys trying to woo a woman. and you have gingrich and mitt romney who are duking it out. having this macho contest and they're forgetting about the woman. then you have this guy here in a sweater vest saying, hey, i'm going to pay attention to you. i'm going to flatter you. i might buy you some flowers and chocolate. and he is building that connection that michael was about. that's what people want. the american people want a connection them want an emotional connection. mitt romney is not giving that to them. and this is again, a time. he needs to evolve and learn, it is his race to lose but he needs

a similar radar station has already been built in turkey. the czech republic rumania hungry and poland are ready to allow nato as missile defense complexes to be placed on their territory. if that were going to go forward based american military presence which means the deployment of bases in post is so. republics notably in central asia is an element of us global domination as a powerful ramified infrastructure any military base has the capacity to deploy units of agents supplying electronic intelligence. russia has taken adequate measures to counter such actions but i'm like nato it confines its activities to its own territory a radar station is being put on combat duty in the kaliningrad region russia's westernmost. tactical missile systems are being deployed in the country's west and . they can hit any target within a radius of up to five hundred kilometers. what is most important is that the russian ballistic missiles are being gradually equipped with new warheads capable of overcoming nato's missile defense system. this lift carries pe

anyone who has followed the practices that pg&e has a engaged in i think has reason to be concerned. this is about giving consumers and ratepayers the choice. that is one of the integral pieces and components of community choice aggregation. that is why the board and mayors in the past have been supportive of it, and i hope that's support continues out of room to hundred. i just want to make that note, and i will keep you informed of those conversations. colleagues, any other comments or questions? this is an information item, so madam clerk, if you could please call item 6. >> would you like to continue that matter -- commissioner campos: yes, if we could continue that item to the call of the chair. we continue that item to the call of the chair without objection. >> item 6, study on the voting process, including rent joyce voting joycerank choice -- including rank choice voting for local offices in the city and county. commissioner campos: this is an item requested we put on the agenda as an information item that may perhaps turned into an action item. lafco conducts studies on a n

now, the construction phase has begun. more than 170 trees are being cleared. >> those trees are being held come hell or high water, and it is leaving a very painful and dennis behind. that is why i'm sad. >> stuttgart's multi-billion your face lift is a done deal for city hall, but it has come at the cost of deep divisions in the local community. >> our political correspondent is in the studio with us now to talk about this. explain this to our viewers -- why does this project continued to make people so upset? >> this construction project has become a lightning rod for protesters who are passionate about all sorts of things. there are those, of course, who feel that this construction project represents a massive waste of taxpayer money, but there are those also who feel that they simply do not want a construction site in the center of their city for the next 10 years. there are those who want to preserve the city's architectural heritage. they feel this will put in that. and, of course, there are those who are very much

institute of peace who has written extensively on iran. there is this back-and-forth going on, was this diplomatic theatre? who was the audience? >> there was two different audiences. one was the domestic audience. part of this is about jump starting the iranian nationalism and a very important juncture. this is a way of saying that we will produce something, get out and vote for us. to the international community, which is with the real message was, it is a sense that we are presently. you cannot intimidated us-you cannot intimidate us. we will be defined. a lot of things that they have done our ted and we just for peaceful nuclear energy and fall. what is legal for iran under the nonproliferation treaty. >> there is an election coming up. this announcement that they are expanding their enrichment facility, where i think you have been. is that more concerning? >> i have been in the research reactor. a lot of questions have remained from getting back to 2003 about what iran has been trying to do it because they have not complied with unite

>> he think he has put a lot of attention on it. and the outcome has been constructive. these are areas -- these are issues which need long-term management. and the most important item to be managed is america's relationship with china. and it hasn't come to blows, although there have been tensions. and that's a positive. >> do you think china will be trusted as the dominant power in asia? if you look at the last year where china made these pushes in the south china sea with japan, with that episode with the ship, it seemed like it provoked a very strong backlash in asia. >> well, every superpower or big country has to be looked on with a certain careful respect by others not quite so huge. even the united states. but the united states, after 60-plus years in the pacific since the war, is still welcome and is still considered benign. and that's really a good example for the chinese to seek to emulate. >> what keeps you up at night? >> well, i think asia will boom. there will be ups and downs. they'll be affected by europe if europe goes bump in the night. but if it doesn

that they you and all china has about nine. why do you about one point nine percent so it is good to diversify somewhat to foreign exchange holdings to do something not us all of these like gold but of course together with. china would need to have a say in the global financial. know. europe is in the world. and china has to see in global financial matters and i think that we will have to change exposure. in europe such diaphragm and so. now some of these in brief for you this hour pakistani fire jats have bombed two militant positions along the afghan border the attacks killed thirty one suspected insurgents in the tribal areas of or exile and karama this comes just one week after soldiers and militants clashed at a mountaintop in caracas killing over sixty people the pakistani military has launched a series of a fanciful against militants in the tribal regions in the past few years. dozens of people were injured in clashes outside egypt's parliament in cairo where protesters have gathered to demand an answer to military rule

he has been very clear about this. and personally he is opposed to conception, but he has said many times, that if a state or federal government tried to legislate conception, he would be opposed to that because he believes in a woman's right to consepgz. his personal beliefs do not cloud his political beliefs. he has been clear on this many times. the fact that it continues to be an issue shows the smear campaign that has begun whether it's on the attacks from the left or whatever. the more they realize rick's stance they will say we pretty much agree on the issue. >> i don't know about that i think there's a approximate bit of confusion on where senator santorum is. we listen to the sound bites of had him saying, that he wants to espouse the obtainidangers of conception, it clouds the issue as far as what would happen if we had a president santorum. glenn? >> there's all sorts of policyism indications of holding that view. sex education in schools, and the notion of where health care dollars will be spent, there's a

in this the challenge romney has. he has congressman ron paul who has done maine. rick santorum did very well next week. i came in second in florida and in nevada. i came in first in south carolina. at some point if all governor ramirez has is negative campaigning, where is the positive message? i've got a new message out, getting back to $2 gasoline, how to have a national energy policy designed to solve our major problems. i'm going to continue to focus on these positive messages. >> greta: you mentioned the negative ads. i don't know if you were watching sean hannity, which candidate was running the most negative ads and romney won at 57%. so i think -- although they may say he runs the most negative ads but they still vote for them because they are very effective? >> in maine, a new england state he got 39%. i think home state of michigan as you pointed out. santorum is ahead of him. people are looking for a positive leader who has a positive solution on jobs, a positive solution on gasoline and energy. frankly, somebody who is going to stand up to the obama ad

i want to thank everyone who has a working on this. -- who has been working on this. supervisor avalos: reliance on one part means the recommendations are made in other parts of the reports that have been issued, will be embraced and that is a sign we're moving in the right direction. i hope that is the spirit in which the alliance is provided. i do have a question procedurally in terms of moving forward with this item. i have not seen the mou that was discussed by the organizing committee. i know that a lot of information has been provided by them in the last there so and we appreciate that. it would be helpful for us to have an in-depth discussion about what is in the mou and whether or not that is sufficient to address of the concerns that have been raised. it is important for us to not conflict to issues. on one hand, i agree with what supervisor farrell had said in terms of the work that has been done by mcklellan. i am appreciative of that work. i do not think anything that has been said it be taken in any way to question that. we should be very grateful. to me,

there is something very demeaning when a man has been making money. now he has lost his job. now he cannot find another job, and the only reason the family is going on is because of the wives. i can relate to that because that is my mom and dad. my mom was a secretary. my dad kept failing and sailing, and you can see his manhood ago. i was born in 1951. women did not work back then. she kept it going. his manhood was affected then. >> is these numbers are real, there must be a number of men struggling with manhood right now. >> they do not tell you that. they always say it is ok, but if you ask them, if you could make more money than your wife, would you? they usually say yes. >> i would marry oprah in a heartbeat. >> she would want to keep you upside the head. tavis: this leads me to the question of whether or not you believe these unemployment numbers. what do you say about these unemployment numbers? >> i have never believed unemployment numbers, because the way they calculate it makes no sense whatsoever. it is not how many people are unemployed. it is how many people are

the region has some serious problems but into terrorism and pakistan has always maintained that it is important to have collaborative joint efforts to be able to rid this region rather than for a long sort of unitary approach. in how we want to rid this region in our view. not only completely illegal and awful and head north resolution to be used within the domains of international law but even more importantly they're going to productive to your objective of getting this region rid of militancy and terrorism and extremism because if one straight leads to getting you target number one or target number three to be you're creating five more targets with ten more targets in the militancy that it breeds in the in the for doing that it gets to the militants to attract more people to join their ranks. and you can watch that interview unfold in just over an hour's time here on out. let's get to some other global news for you in brief this hour with the r.t. world off then we'll start with greece where the leaders there have finally reached an agreement on new austerity measures without the c

nothing to do with the syrian people this has nothing to do with their rights it has nothing to do with the killing of innocent people eccentric cetera this is all about geo political change in the region you take syria down and it's a boon for israel maybe but certainly for other countries where hezbollah is weakened in the next target the great prize of the mall is iran that's what it's all about isn't it. yeah well that's. a point of view again has no connection with reality what works everyone likes fully explain yourself why do you say that you dismiss the jury when you don't think you are one of those who are rising up. as i started to say before you interrupted everyone can see that the syrian people are rising up and risking their lives day after day week after week month after month thousands of people all over the country tens of thousands of people so you think it should be a military intervention should there be a military intervention and quote unquote stop this you know i'm not calling for i don't think there should be and i don't think there needs to be i think the force

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the bureau has indicated that it has no plans to convene these panels for most of the important rule makings. the bureau officials said they will comply with the administrative procedures act and the bureau has evaded the intent of the apa by issuing rules without asking for public comment before the rules become effective. consequently the bureau has imposed costly regulations to american population without providing the american population any room for comment. listening to the rhetoric of the bureau's leadership, you would think the bureau would actively seek public comment on its rules. in a speech last year the deputy director stated, the bureau will invite public input to provide a fact base to help the bureau evaluate the costs, benefits and impacts of the rules and on to suggest alternatives. those were his words and he stressed that the bureau would be quote, fact based and deliberate, the recent rule making process shows that they like to give the appearance of listening to the public but really knows what is best without much public interference. moreover it suggests that

it has to be part of the calculus. that is one of the reasons the united states at the moment things it is not worth it and israel appears to think it is. >> i understand that. i'm just fascinated with the administration is an independent actor here, whether the united states is capable or willing to say to israel no or not. i think, very frankly, we are in a political year when governor romney and certainly speaker gingrich has been, if anything, 110% in favor of an aggressive israeli policy and critical of the administration. that is going to be a political factor at home. >> but romney and gingrich are not in office. the israelis are as aware as anyone on the panel about all the risks and problems. israel could suffer thousands of casualties if lebanon and hezbollah attack as a result. they know know how -- how short-term debt and it could be. the reason they are thinking about this is the weeks before the 1967 war, israel was abandoned by the whole world. israel had to do a preemptive attack. it feels as isolated t

she too has been that rock that has been beside me and has been a great example of how it is important to balance that work and family and do so committed to making sure that you're the best at both that you can be. and now i'm proud that i have a daughter here, elizabeth, who is a great part of our campaign. she goes out on her own and campaigns and the feedback i get is you stay home, just send elizabeth out. you'll do just fine. so we have been very, very blessed, very blessed with great role models. for me, someone who tries to go out and do the job i'm doing now, to balance the rigors of running the campaign and trying to maintain a good and strong family. we all have to do that as americans. we all have that responsibility to make both work and work as well as we can. and it is getting harder out here in america. it is getting harder for people to make ends meet because we have a government that is crushing us every single day with more taxes, more regulations and the idea that they know better than you how to run your life. that ultimately is about what this race is about. it go

said himself, he has made some mistakes and he understands that he has made mistakes. he has got to do some course correction here and he has got to run a better campaign, but i do think tend of the day, mitt romney is going to win this nomination. >> now, let go back to you a minute, richard. he addressed today that he's got to do some things, but he said but so far, he would go. let me show you something he said about his trouble with the conservative base and what he is willing to do or not do. >> right. >> it is very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. we saw throughout the campaign if you are following say really outrageous things accusative and attacking president obama that you are going to jump up in the polls. you know, i'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try to get support. i am who i am. >> rich whard, he is not willing to light his hair on fire. good old flip-flopper here around there and a little distortion but not going to set his hair on fire. >> he says other people have gone up in the polls by attacking president obama. his entire

>> well, she has a lead. what is interesting, kyra, she went back to school, and when she lost her job she went to go into the health care as a trained technician, and people told her that is where the jobs are, so hee has a second-round interview and she is waiting to hear back on that. adam and his brother don't have leads so he and his brother started a t-shirt company together and they don't have the funding to get it off of the ground. the issue here is if you think of long-term unemployment, it won't stick to you until you see a family like that living in a room altogether and a family who never expected to be here a few years ago, keer can ra. >> and more families struggling in the exact same way. poppy, thank you so much. >>> well, breaking news outside of detroit, and we are hearing that an amtrak train slammed into a heavy vehicle at the crossing there. a couple of train cars have flipped off of the rails, as you can see, and we are hearing that there are no life-threatening injuries at this point.

can do as it has in history carry out regime change. and you can hear more from brian back in about twenty minutes from now in the full version of that interview here on r.t. . the u.n. general assembly has adopted a binding resolution this week calling on syria's president assad to step down russia was among twelve states who voted against the draft fails to address the armed opposition while damascus is trying for major reforms reports of violence continue what is meant for motion is in syria. this is racial here in syria means volatile with tensions between security forces and the armed opposition groups continue in claiming lives of both military and civilians almost every day on thursday we attended the funerals of a young boy who was gunned down early here in damascus during the n.t. government protest and the procession itself eventually turned into a hostile to a straight in the clashes that followed and the continued the next day five people were killed and many others injured one violence one day causes even more violence next

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as has ron paul. these early states, there's an advantage to the folks who have run before, that have spent time and money in those states. now we're moving out to states where they had to play sort of catchup four years ago and didn't have the organization, didn't have the strength, didn't run the campaign commercials and didn't have the strong identity. so we think this is an opportunity for us for this race to turn. >> have you called mitt romney and congratulated him yet? >> i just gave a speech here in greeley, colorado and did a couple of interviews and now i'm doing yours. so i haven't had a moment to do so. i'll try to reach him maybe after he gets off the platform. >> but you will call him? i ask the question only because newt gingrich has made a point of not calling to congratulate him after he won in florida. but you will call to congratulate him? >> look, one of the things i feel very strongly about is that politics is a rough enough game that it shouldn't be personal. when someone has an

the country has announced that it has introduced new advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment facility in the central part of the country. the news comes as a slap in the face to western countries which have been using the threat of more sanctions to force iran to abandon its enrichment program. nhk world has more from tehran. this came in increasing defiance. here is the report from tehran. >> reporter: iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad announced the new centrifuges at a speech at the country's atomic energy agency on wednesday. he said the new centrifuges at the uranium enrichment facilities in natanz have three times the production capacity compared to the older centrifuges. earlier, the president attended a ceremony where he loaded the country's first-ever domestically made nuclear fuel rod into a reactor near tehran. iran says the fuel rods and the reactor will be used to produce radio isotopes to treat cancer patients and for other peaceful research. western countries are calling on iran to stop the enrichment, which they say could be used for military purposes, or f

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