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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

a weak u.s. jobs report sends the markets down across the globe with russia no exception i'll tell you more about that and what you know. it's seven pm here in moscow this is archie coming to you live on news to now with our top story this evening america's chief diplomat is threatening russia and china with consequences for what she sees as siding with the regime in syria hillary clinton was speaking at the paris conference of the syrian rebels key supporters more on this now from archies peter all over. well you heard it vitriolic address from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton directing a threat towards russia and china saying that they would have to pay a price for what she sees as their support of the assad government you know this wasn't the only thing that hillary clinton not to say gels he said that russian helicopters were being used to kill civilians on the ground in syria though if we look closer at this there are some really inconsistency between where we were a week ago followin

how is u.s. influence and egypt being perceived by the people that washington did after all support mubarak for decades. well what well washington has always been supporting the power structures that serves its purposes respective of whether they are dumb and democratic or not so currently they really don't care what kind of forces are there as long as they give the us what it actually requires which is the foreign policy not to interfere with it and to make sure they have political and military allies whatever the news is a new system when a new regime is in egypt and the military surely the longer they hold on to power the more hostile the situation could become so why won't they make the transition. the middle of the it's true in the us realized. very well that the longer the military hold on to power the more destabilizing it will be and they are not equipped to handle any of the current situations that face the country and we're facing an economic crisis but the military in itself has a lot

the u.s. ambassador t tthe united nations says russia and china are protecting the syrian president and that thousands of civilians uld die as a result. susan rice spoke after the russian and chinese representatives at u.n. security council vetoed the latest resolution on the conflict in syria. the draft would have permitted nonmilitary sanctions if president assad's government refused to stop using heavy artillery within ten days and the resolution called for a 45-day extension of the u.n. cease-fire observers mission. the current term expires on friday. it's a third time russia and china have vetoed u.n. resolutions on syria. >> the security council has failed utterly. this is another dark day in turtle bay. one can only hope that one day, before too many thousands more die, that russia and china will stop protecting assad and allow -- >> western nations are expected to try to dlaft another resolution to extend the mission of the u.n. cease-fire observers. u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon

the u.s. is the world's biggest weapons exporter, accounting for one-third of the total value of global arms shipment. washington initially opposed the treaty. but president obama reversed that position. his administration is not so forthcoming on some of the scope of the treaty, though, such as small arms or ammunition. guns are very popular in the u.s. a new poll indicates more than 40% of american households own a gun. some lawmakers resist any international law that might, in their view, infringe american people's constitutional right to arm themselves. the u.s. is also the biggest exporter of ammunition and produces over seven billion rounds a year. the country has resisted the proposed inclusion of ammunition in the scope of the treaty on the ground that it is impractical. russia and china have also raised concerns. the countries are also among the world's largest arms exporters. negotiations over this global arms treaty will go on for most of this month. negotiators say now the question

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

plus the u.s. tightens its grip on the so-called rogue nation threatening iran with yet another round of sanctions including the sanctions really effect and is this all just empty rhetoric we'll pose the question to the policy director of the national iranian american council. and states across the u.s. are declaring a state of emergency during the worst drought since the one nine hundred fifty s. but that's not the only thing affecting your food supply these days we'll tell you how a new bill aimed at helping one company in particular is changing the american food chain for the worse. it's wednesday july eighteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . well as the civil war group syria doesn't look like there is an end in sight this after top syrian officials are killed they include the defense minister deputy defense minister security advisor and assad's brother in law now it's unclear whether it was a suicide bomber or a remote explosive device that was use

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

on the second day of her visit to egypt u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has met with field marshal hussein ten tali chief of the country's armed forces clinton asked him to hunt over power to islamist president mohamed morsi as quickly as possible but. journalist believes washington hasn't yet picked a side in the egyptian power struggle washington has always been supporting the power structure that serves its purposes respective of whether they are democratic or not so currently they really don't care what kind of forces are there as long as they give the u.s. what it actually requires which is the foreign policy not to interfere with it and to make sure they have political and military allies so whatever the news new system in the new regime is in egypt but i think that what the u.s. is trying to do right now is to wait for to see who wins in the political battle that is ongoing between the muslim brotherhood and the military and reinforce the power structure that results out of that. a duo to help save children adopte

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

the u.s. ambassador to turkey. ambassador ross wilson of the atlantic's council, and also a former ambassador. finally, mr. yasar yakis, foreign minister of turkey and currently with the center for strategic communications. we are here to discuss the subject turkey the e.u. and the u.s. evil in partnerships post their spring and isotopic for just a little over an hour of discussion. and we also have the disadvantage of the panel that comes after lunch and after it is therefore a little difficult to come up with anything new and different to say by way of introduction on the subject it is true though as people have reiterated since first thing this morning that turkey has arrived on the world stage. the recent council on foreign relations past of the report on to turkey stated clearly one of the most important of all of cements on international affairs of the past decade is the emergence of turkey as the rising regional and global power. we are looking at a new turkey and this new turkey reflec

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

a sovereign is allowed to do u.s. officials were quick to express concern presenting it as an exclusively russian initiative but as the russian foreign minister said the concept and even the wording of the proposed law was almost entirely borrowed from the american bill called the foreign agents registration act if you work in the united states if you work for another country you have to register as an agent of that country. never again that's that's not a negative. for representing the country and the walls if you can on the employment of a foreign nation veronica a question in nick of us says while in the u.s. she was forced to register as a foreign agent even though she was not involved in any political activities. to them i was a representative from st petersburg we promoted economy corporation to reason cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic two metres of foreign agents insisted that representatives of cities also registered disappointing agents version of the law doesn't

cooperation to resume cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic to meet is a foreign agents insisted that representatives of cities also registered as foreign agents version of the law doesn't even include nonpolitical actors like that the foreign agents registration act in the u.s. quote requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi i political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principle as well as a pivotal receipts and disbursements in support of those activities end of quote the sponsors of the russian bill say their version is almost identical with the american law the us argues the difference is that their law doesn't address nonprofit organisations but many see another difference i need a new at in the us doesn't have thousands of whoring organizations which work to change its constitution to change its leadership but we in russia do have a situation when scores of i'm going to say sions work precisely on that for e

if the u.s. and europe and japan are focused too narrowly come in the middle east has left mostly to its own devices. it is a bad story for asia in a different way because if you think about integration and asia, china drives a lot of integration economically and the united states drives a lot of education strategically. you say to yourself that while both of those tanks, right? i want to hedge. obama china relation. as the project five years down the road, how feasible is it that will sustain itself? the first is to what extent with the united state continue to provide the kind of security guaranteed him a credible way given the challenge they faced domestically as well as the likely limitation to how much economic benefit they get? and the second consequence, which is harder as to what extent will the chinese allow those relations to persist given how much greater china's economic -- >> in other words with a push to force it out of the region? >> i would. >> so far they really haven't. >> i thi

the u.s. mining giant newmont are escalating in peru. five participants in those protests have been killed in the past week. a state of emergency has been declared. >> the government is mistaken if it thinks it is going to crash the justified cries of the people. >> we will speak with amy goodman in spain today, 75 years after the bombing of that city. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm juan gonzalez. i am filling in for amy goodman. the u.s. and european union are calling for new sanctions on syria similar to those used against the gaddafi regime ahead of the nato attack on libya. at an international friends of syria gathering in paris, secretary of state clinton invoked the threat of chapter 7 under the u.n. charter, which ranges from economic embargos to military force. the news comes as the regime of syrian president bashar al- assad has apparently suffered its highest level defection to date. on thursday, opposition ac

we do have a bit of breaking news this hour the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says every country must make it clear russia and china will pay a price she's been speaking at a friends of syria meeting in paris and she's also said that russia is sending helicopters to syria which are participating in the killing of protesters it's a claim that russia has strenuously denied. time now for a business with danielle and you do have reports of britain's bank supervisor worried barclay is about its culture months ago yes it appears disgraced boss bob diamond ignored warnings from andrew bailey of the financial services authority back in february at a board meeting that time says he spoke of the lender pushing the envelope too far testifying to parliament of the rate rigging fiasco was exposed mr diamond admitted cultural issues at the bank but blamed low ranking managers of the persian brands traditionally strong markets from spain and italy are in profound crisis says europe's number two comic of hearsay after analysis in the first ha

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

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

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

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

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

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

well u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton met with egypt's armed forces chief in an attempt to push the military to hand over power in the country this was a day after her first official meeting with the newly elected as long as leader mohamed morsi now according to don de bar an anti-war activists and journalists hillary clinton is simply there to keep america's nose firmly in the region. i think the u.s. would like to see the appearance of the military backing down with the military actually continuing to wield power but i do believe that clinton would like to at least firm up and go against some legitimacy for the military to try to make that been equal partner because i think that that leaves the united states free to do all kinds of machinations going forward and that's their intent certainly regardless of what one thinks of the muslim brotherhood and there are segments of that aligned with the u.s. their position in power right now rests on the backs of the people in the streets and th

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

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

u.s. and pakistani leaders have come to agreement that will help nato soldiers to wrap up the mission in afghanistan. they agreed to reopen the routes to pakistan. the u.s. uses the roads to bring in goods and fuel. secretary of state hillary clinton discussed the details over the phone with the pakstani foreign minister. >> the foreign minister karr has advised her the ground lines of communication will be reopening. >> u.s. troops in afghanistan killed 24 pakistani soldiers in error last november in a cross-border air strike. pakistani blocked the supply routes. clinton offered an apology and expressed the condolences to the families of the dead soldiers. the islamic extremist group, the pakistani taliban criticized the agreement. members threat tuned attack u.s. convoys. nato leaders said the agreement demonstrates strengthened cooperation between their forces and pakistan. the signed treaties with other central asian countries to provide access into afghanistan, but those roadways prov

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

it forbade the u.s. from spending any money for broadcasting to the u.s. no government broadcasting to the u.s. would be funded. it really was an overseas type of communication now reached. that said, while its taxpayer- funded and he does -- while it and manyyer-funded can ge people will see it as propaganda, our own standards and a law that we are required to provide accurate and reliable information and be able to prevent various different opinions about u.s. policy so that audiences can then make up their own minds. much in the way that we have that opportunity here in the u.s. the idea for voice of america was to do that for audiences overseas. host: let us look at a recent story voice of america of. . this is about a conflict of syria. we have permission to show some short clips. [video clip] >> this photojournalist lies injured in a safe house. you have just witnessed -- he just witnessed his colleagues killed in a rocket attack. >> medical staff first reading me. this is the best medical treatment available. >> he has joined activists with the cont

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

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