if more u.s. businesses behaved that way, our seemingly natural inclination toward innovation stands a better chance at keeping us ahead. i'm harry lin. >> susie: and that's "nightly business report" for monday, january 21, martin luther king, jr. day. have a great evening, everyone. and you, too, tom. >> tom: good night, susie. we'll see you online at www.nbr.com and back here tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org cer: (♪ theme music ) (♪) matt elmore: welcome to imagemakers a weekly showcase featuring the best short films from around the world. stay tuned and enjoy the filmmakers of tomorrow today on imagemakers. imagemakers is made possible in part by a grant from: celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image. and by the: (♪) woman talking: so, i wake up this morning (♪) and this guy is in my bed. i'm not quite sure i know him, but, we make some coffee. and we go out for a walk. (♪) (♪) singing: ♪ i see you s

alleged u.s. army whistleblower bradley manning has had his potential sentence reduced should he be convicted for the leaking of classified documents to wikileaks. on tuesday, the judge overseeing the pre-trial hearing said manning is entitled to 112 days less in prison due to the unlawful conditions of his imprisonment and marine corps brig corn, -- in quantico, virginia. manning's ordeal included being held in a six by 8 foot cell for a least 23 hours a day and being banned from lying down or even leaning against the wall unless was sleeping. his attorney argued his imprisonment was so harsh and inhumane, that either his charges should be dropped or he should be given 10 times credit for the nine months he spent there in any sentence he received. in her ruling, judge lind agreed with the allegations of unlawful abuse, but said manning will only get one to one credit in the reduction of any sentence. in a statement, the bradley manning support network said -- a u.s. military contractor has agreed

u.s. economy. >> susie: and from chipotle to dunkin' donuts, did fast food chains meet investors' appetites for big returns? we're talking food stocks. >> tom: that and more tonight on "n.b.r."! >> tom: we begin with banking. two giant financial powerhouses reported big gains in fourth quarter earnings today. j.p. morgan chase booked its third straight year of record profits. and goldman sachs reported fourth quarter earnings that were almost triple the same period a week ago. erika miller reports. >> reporter: before we get to jp morgan's profits, let's talk about the earnings of it's c.e.o., jamie dimon. the board cut his pay in half as punishment for a more than $6 billion loss at j.p. morgan's london trading desk. but dimon will still pocket a $10 million bonus. add on $1.5 million in salary, and his total compensation was $11.5 million last year. >> we don't think it's inappropriate, what the board did. but at the end of the day jamie dimon is still doing pretty well for himself. he's

on the question of the u.s. embassy, the u.s. embassy's own website used to recommend to travelers landing in la paz to have copay tea. it is and no-printer. how many people have been? its about 13,000 feet high. the airport which is a plateau above the city is even higher. so your oxygen content at that altitude is 40 percent of what you would have the sea level. he suffered terrible outages sickness. headaches. you just want to do anything for the first two days unless you consumed cocoa product. whether is chewing coca or having the candy disability airport or tea. and that will allow you to a acclimate to the altitude. and so it is not what you feel. it's what you don't feel. you don't feel high, but you don't feel the altitude and you don't get those headaches. so it is a very benign products. but one more point about the perceptions of coca. when the spaniards first started heading south, they started getting to the andes. they ran across indigenous people who led the custom of chewing coca. a church but, this must be the w

u.s. industrial production hit its highest point in more than four years in december, while consumer prices, were flat last month, pointing to muted inflation pressures. still, the u.s. major averages ended mixed: the dow off 23 points, pulled lower by weakness in boeing shares, the nasdaq rose six, the s&p up just a fraction. >> susie: and the federal reserve's latest snapshot of the u.s. economy isn't picture perfect, but it is positive. today's beige book report showed signs of solid overall economic growth. each of the fed's 12 districts showed either "moderate" or "modest" growth, steady or expanding real estate activity, and some growth in consumer spending from december through the first week of january. but the fed noted job market conditions didn't change much. one reason companies are cautious about hiring, is they are worried about fiscal uncertainty in the u.s. and that uncertainty is growing as some republicans in washington argue for a narrow definition of what it means for t

the big u.s. military presence in south korea is originally an outgrowth of the fact that big war we thought there and did not end one side surrendering, but in a ceasefire, a tenuous ceasefire, one we still help keep decades later water tens of thousands of american forces. one of the longest wars in history did not result in u.s. troops staying there for after the war and keeping some big u.s. presence, and that was the iraq war. when we left eric iraq, after eight and a half years of war there, no american bases were left behind, and no major u.s. presence is in iraq at all other than the embassy and the consulates, our giant embassy and three other consulates. and that is because the iraqi government would not agree that if u.s. service members in iraq got into some kind of trouble or were accused of some kind of crime, that they should be subject only to american military justice. iraq would not agree to that. they wouldn't agree that americans shouldn't be hand over to iraqi courts if they c

and it's the u.s. really that nervous about china's nuclear arsenal to authorize a potential strike perhaps it's just striving to keep its own atomic stock and. expert opinion just around the corner. well for now it's been four decades since the u.s. withdrew from vietnam and its involvement in a war that cost both sides dearly of course both financially and physically and the price paid was too high for similar mistakes to be repeated but as art is more important explains washington's foreign policy in recent years is making many doubt if lessons were properly learned at all sixty one year old ken doll to him is a husband father and retired firefighter four decades ago he was a member of the u.s. navy serving in vietnam every every year we were there every day was like nine eleven. for those people every day was nine eleven for to be the work killed an estimated three million vietnamese and more than fifty eight thousand americans the u.s. stepped in on the side of south vietnam in its fight against t

u.s. alliance. he said he hopes to visit the united states soon for a summit with president barack obama. >> translator: through the meeting i want to show my country and also the world that the strong bond between japan . . and the u.s. has been restored. >> abe said japanese and u.s. officials are now working out the timing of his visit. >>> prime mind minister abe working on another foreign policy issue. he wants to dealing with the past. he's debating issuing a new statement that matches the 21st century. his chief cabinet secretary said the government will consult with intellectuals and consider issuing a new future-oriented statement. >>> prime minister abe's special envoy conveyed the willingness to strengthen ties with south korea. kunei pointed out the need to face bilateral issues. they met in seoul and hope the new governments can build good relations and handed park a letter from the prime minister expressing the wish. park said south korea and japan need each other in many way

in the u.s. in the political and economic process is dangerous. >> if you have the debt ceiling, the europeans will talk about how you can make that binding. in the u.s., the concern is much more whether you can lift it in time in order not to put too much break on the economy. now, the u.s. economy has bottomed out, it's coming back, and i think sooner or later the u.s. has to face the fiscal issue not just in the sense of delaying adjustment but really making a credible adjustment. >> this is very reminiscent of the conversations we were having a year ago about europe. from the outside it looked obvious, have to get your house in order, you know what the decisions are likely to be, you have to just do them. now i hear everybody in europe saying you know what you need to do, you just need to do it. >> they were particularly amazed at the latest decision to suspend the ceiling once again. don't just go tying it to this congressional pay. instead of just simply doing it. >> right. coming up with g

so the u.s. then began allowing large numbers of dominican former rebels to come to the united states as a way, again, but using migration as a safety valve. thousands of dominicans started coming to new york city. >> an excerpt of "harvest of empire." junot diaz talks about coming to this country shortly after the u.s. then began allowing large numbers of dominican former rebels to migrate here. >> well, they said, we're coming to the u.n. states. and whatever that meant. i thought we were just going up the road is a mystical place. when i finally saw a map in kindergarten of how far we have traveled, i remember being not only astonished, but literally terrified. my father was a standard kind of crazy latino military guide would check his children's hands and issues in their clothes and their hair before we left that house. we had to tie our shoes a certain way. i lived in what i call the little dictatorship of our house. when i immigrated to new jersey, it was a very crazy time. i emigrated in

and italy, by the way, is giving the u.s. a run for its money or maybe if the u.s. is giving italy a run for its money. >> we're going to talk about italian politics. so, look, is 1.8%, 1.9% for ten-year treasury yields, is that the -- what's the top of the range, trading range? and when do you buy it, when do you sell them? >> i mean, i would expect the yields to rise a tad further. i don't think that we're at the top yet. we're pretty much there, right. we don't expect anything sharp. many do, but i certainly don't. >> okay. so you mentioned could europe be at loss of a japanese star? we'll speak to ernst & young about why that can be a yes. >>> okay. here are some of the stoefrts we're following in asia today. playstation fans, it could unveil the latest version of its gaming console in february. they've stopped making older models. now it's set a precedent to february 25th. it's called destination playstation. a ps3 successor is on display. it's not expected to hit the shop until 2014. indian conglomerate tassa group has investments over the next two years. but

the former reviewer believes the u.s. can make a case where britain can't. >> the level of cooperation is high but i expect that in this case the americans have high- quality intelligence that can be translated to court trial. >> he now faces charges of providing material support to a orist cell for an attack on british soil. >> tax rates -- after this week, you'd be forgiven to think we'd heard enough. depardieu wasard granted leadership in russia after leaving france over a tax on millionares. he says he is delighted. >> it was when vladimir putin burst into song that his friendship with the french actor became apparent. ♪ on blueberry hill ♪ >> gerard depardieu was applauding and now is -- noone thought the star of "green card" would get russian leadership. depardieu fell out wit hthe french government on high tax rates, threatening to move to georgia and montenegro and he produced this response from putin last month. >> he considers himself french and loves his country and his culture. i am sure he is going throug

system in which the u.s. dollar is king when germany does this however it's not just a simple investor protecting their wealth this is a political statement this is an act of war they see that it makes the whole their whole paradigm of investment change it is an act of war and germany is correct and want to repatriate their gold and they should step it up a bit and i think this is the opening shot they should demand not five hundred to under six hundred dollars they should demand everything that should be out there aggressively buying gold and people in germany you should be buying gold yourself join the silver look liberation army in the global insurrection against banker occupation by silver and gold yourself german and american look at it this way they threaten to take their guns and there's mass panic at the gun store imagine when they say well we're not sure about the us dollar anymore we're going to have to roll it up to a global special drawing right there would be mass panic of gold buying driving up

u.s. government after all. the insurance company's board of directors decided against joining a controversial shareholder lawsuit against the government. former c.e.o. hank greenberg and his company starr international claim the terms of the government's bailout of a.i.g. were unfair. but even without a.i.g.'s support, the suit will proceed. erika miller reports. >> reporter: maybe it was the outrage by the public and politicians, or perhaps it was simply a business and legal decision. a.i.g.'s board did not explain why it decided not to join a shareholder lawsuit against the government. back in september 2008, the insurer was saved from collapse with a $182 billion loan. that's the largest government rescue of any wall street firm. former c.e.o. hank greenberg filed suit on behalf of shareholders asking for $25 billion in damages. he alleges the terms of the bailout were too harsh, including 14.5% interest on its initial loan. but columbia law professor jack coffee does not think the suit

in terms of exports the u.s. also looking at bikini fast so as a possible place for for a base it's been reported that artie's tom barton breaking down this campaign so far the french claiming victory but it seems a lot more complicated than that doesn't it tom baron thanks for that update. now thousands of anti-government protesters in egypt are ignoring president morsi curfew by taking to the streets across the country some demonstrators imports attacked police stations while those in suez marched towards government buildings and the opposition has meanwhile refused to enter talks with the president who earlier implemented a thirty day state of emergency in areas most affected by an arrest the government also approved along giving the military power to arrest citizens young going violence has now claimed at least fifty two wives since it broke out on friday dr saeed said a political sociologist at the american university in cairo says there is little immediate prospect of the situation stabilizing. the experien

top diplomat of course so we're talking about u.s. hillary clinton here. arab revolutions have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region the u.s. secretary of state delivering her congressional testimony on whether washington's politics in the region is to blame for the deaths of american embassy staff in libya. plus going nuclear over sanctions north korea analysis major ballistic on atomic weapons tests all targeted against the u.s. this over fresh u.n. imposed penalties. it was just a bit later here in the program for now though the health of the global economy what polls in europe are both of coming to the spotlight of the world's business and political elite who have converged on the swiss ski resort of davos of course as the annual financial for martys kitty pilgrim is following the second day of the robert c. gathering and joining us now live from the very pretty slopes there katie good to see you though the world's economy hasn't exactly been shaping shape in shipping for phos for years now and the situation hasn't be

u.s. military role in afghanistan was front and center today as president obama met with afghan leader hamid karzai. they reported progress in their talks, and said the pace of the security transition will be expedited. at their first face-to-face meeting since may, the leaders announced they're accelerating the handoff from u.s. and coalition forces to afghan troops. >> let me say it as plainly as i can-- starting this spring, our troops will have a different mission: training, advising, assisting afghan forces. it will be an historic moment and another step toward full afghan sovereignty. >> in spring this year, the afghan forces will be fully responsible for providing security to the afghan people. and that the international forces, the american forces, will be no longer present in afghan villages. >> woodruff: afghanistan president hamid karzai has sharply complained that fighting in afghan villages is causing too many civilian casualties. and there've been other strains from koran bur

made landfall the u.s. house of representatives has yet to pass a sixty point four billion dollars hurricane sandy relief bill that the senate approved of last week instead the house chose not to vote on the bill last night now this afternoon governor chris christie of new jersey delivered a fiery speech about the state of affairs in his garden state he took one shot after another at house speaker john boehner and house republicans for their quote toxic internal politics. for the victims of sandy in new jersey new york and connecticut it's been sixty six days and the wait considers. there's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims the house majority and their speaker john boehner. and you know what he's right when hurricane katrina completely leveled parts of louisiana and other locations around the gulf back in two thousand and five then president george w. bush signed the first relief bill in a mere four days after that her and that storm made landfall meanwhile it's b

and the u.s. -- we have seen some growth in the u.s. last year, and we believe we have, if we avoid to hit the fiscal ceiling, the debt ceiling -- if we avoid that, we have it in our hands, and we can generate positive growth. we are seeing some good indications in the markets that have pretty much the debt here in the u.s. the building and construction market. for four years it has been dead. now suddenly we see it is coming back to life. this will only be coming back to life if we send rong comftabl ssas and nothave a discussion about the fiscal cliff and now the debt ceiling and then probably the next one. we need to continue to generate confidence. and if we do that, i think we will have nice markets here, automotive being one of those in the u.s. aerospace, very important. we could see, also a rebound in the building and construction market. >> susie: you mentioned the word confidence, and the word that we mostly hear from any business companies, they use the word concern. you've heard this all the time. how doeshat iact alc. how d

the u.s. society should react. the u.s. people can do a lot for peace, stability and the planet, for the recovery of the planet. the awareness in the world today is also expressed in the united states. we need a large alliance between the u.s. people and the peoples of the world's. cultural diversity, different ways to see the world. establishing a relationship of the quality, that is the main message. >> venezuelan foreign minister, current vice president nicholas maturo, speaking to us when he was foreign minister in 2007 in new york city. miguel tinker salas, talk about what the u.s. relationship has been with chÁvez, both under bush and now under president obama and where maduro fits into that. >> as you said, maduro has been the foreign minister. he has been important and re- establishing our relationships with nearby colombia, credited with mending fences at a time when a previous demonstration which was very confrontation and almost came to breaking relationships. that relationship has been buttressed. in that sense

the u.s. senate again is done have moved into the last chapter of the eleven year after and war as washington defense secretary sees it after an hour of discussions leon panetta and president hamid karzai announce they've made some progress but failed to provide any concrete answers to the debated pullout of u.s. troops from afghanistan i guess on future remains uncertain whether lack of clarity over how many american soldiers will remain after the proposed withdrawal in twenty fourteen some crucial decisions expected after today's talks between the afghan leader hamid.

the u.s. senate approves a deal on the budget. >> people all over the world celebrate the arrival of the new year. >> a big price hike for alcohol in russia. but will russians drink less? well, talk about waiting until the last minute. in washington republicans and democrats reached a compromise in the senate to avert a crushing package of tax hikes and spending cuts. the deal still needs approval in the house. the u.s. is not out of the woods yet. >> president obama said the agreement fell short of what both sides wanted but that it was the right thing to do for the country. >> senators passed the bill with 89-8. after months of wrangling, lawmakers ended their deadlock. >> i know i can speak for my conference when i say we don't think taxes should go up on anyone. but if we knew if we did nothing they would be going up on everyone. >> the bill heads to the republican controlled house of representatives and could come to a vote later today but it is far from certain that it will pass. preside

in the u.s. as we watch this fiscal cliff charade it honestly sounds just so much a ceiling debate of two thousand and eleven when lawmakers were bickering and another ratings agency was threatening to drop the u.s. is aaa credit rating and then it of course did now that was met with much fanfare in the beginning but then not many direct consequences the dollar has strengthened against other currencies the u.s. has borrowed at record low rates since and maybe this whole fiscal cliff saga will play out in the exact same way and if another ratings agency in this case downgrades the u.s. so what won't matter and with events that actually do change the contours of the game we don't actually know what these things will even look like until they happen and until they happen we have a really hard time entertaining the notion that they ever will like this guy at a press conference today was represented steve king and louie gohmert we have a bill here from britain no we won't we won't get downgraded of co

is devalued because the u.s. dollar has the crime by twenty percent since two thousand and nine and i guess he's suggesting that's intentional and therefore all bets are off and you know this was exactly during the great depression what happened is that everybody started to beggar thy neighbor and then what happened after that the hot war right or even more recently you had the plaza accords of the early one nine hundred eighty s. again involving the japanese and this was to set the stage for the twenty five year bull market that followed but we're at the end of that now owner entered a new phase because of the distortions that were to follow the plaza and corridor have created this behavior with of fraud that is now gutting the global economy requiring yet another global concept which would this juncture mean devaluation for everybody against gold. now you mention the possible hot war between japan and china and of course that was the sort of alignment that happened during world war two and it does look indeed l

expressing concern the u.s. warns the u.k. again saw the referendum on a possible u.s. causing a further schism in britain's coalition government. and packs of wolves close in on residential areas in russia's republic of yuko tear forcing authorities to declare war on the deadly predator. good evening this is r t my name is kevin thank you for being with us our top story the eleven pm moscow time the perspire moment of the inauguration date for venezuelan president hugo chavez is legal according to the country's supreme court meanwhile the country's vice president has called for people to gather in front of the presidential palace to one of the leader who said to be recovering from cancer surgery in cuba lawyer gollan she told me the country's opposition could use the president's protracted absence though to destabilize the country article two thirty . and does leave open to interpretation the issue of inauguration when the elected president cannot meet the date of january tenth before the national assembly which is the parliament what the article specifically says in a

so when the u.s. government basically pack the coup against him, isn't the message throughout latin america that the -- is sent a message throughout latin america that our government was going to be the enemy of real social change in the region. and that lasted really until the 1990's. until the new era that has developed and latin america social progress of governments being elected to power, getting rid of all dictatorships, old rule by the popular -- military, and giving the popular will a chance to bring more progressive leaders to power. but that really was from the 1960's to the 1990's, you have throughout latin america, the role of these dictators and military leaders that were largely backed by the united states. >> i want to go to a part of the film that deals with the assassination of archbishop oscar romero on march 24, 1980, in el salvador. this clip features the voices of sister pat murray, former u.s. ambassador to el salvador robert white, and sister terry alexander, mary nell missionar

has the u.s. seen these reports and what does the u.s. think about the efforts to deal with illegal trafficking and coca growing and distribution outside of a merit type relationship. >> we have longstanding concerns about the situation in bolivia. i do agree that they have made some progress in 2010 and 2011. there is much to do if the state department -- there is more to do. the state department spokeswoman speaking there. maybe things have gotten better managed and have become more efficient. this is benefiting drug- traffickers, who are not able to see higher yields for not just traditional usage but also for the export. that is also a significant concern. >> there will be some crossover. bolivia is bigger than texas and california combined in terms of land mass. it is impossible to have a perfect system. the other alice in wonderland aspect is that less than 1% of u.s. cocaine originates from bolivia. a disproportionate emphasis and arrogance that the u.s. has in terms of imposing policies and making these pronouncements to a country

three u.s. citizens were killed in operations ordered by the president's in late 2011, including the 16-year-old al- awlaki's. the appointment of brennan to cia to me is the greatest symbol of how deeply invested in covert war and expansion of wars around the world and the notion that was popularized under the neocons of the world is a battlefield. that notion the u.s. could strike in any country across the world, wherever it determines terrorists were suspected militants may resign. the most disturbing part of this policy to me, and i think the people within the intelligence community who are looking at this, is there are regions of yemen or pakistan where president obama has authorized the u.s. to strike even if they don't know the identities of the people that are striking. the so-called signature strike policy. the idea of being a military- aged man in these areas, there targets based on their gender and age and geographic presence, those are going to be legitimate targets? >> explain that.

u.s. mayors gathered in washington, d.c. foreign annual meeting. in his address, biden referenced the shooting rampage in newtown, connecticut that claimed the lives of 20 children, six school staff, and the shooter's mother. >> we have to do something. i hope we all agree there is a need to respond to the carnage on our streets and in our schools. i hope we all agree that mass shootings like the one we witnessed in newtown 34 days ago cannot continue to be tolerated. that tragedy in all my years of public life i think is -- has affected the public psyche in a way i have never seen before. >> a new poll affirms vice president joe biden's claim about the impact of new town, finding it affected the public opinion on guns or deeply than other shootings. a new poll says 54% of americans believe gun control laws should be tightened up from 39% last april. the increased support swept across party lines, with an 18- point rise among republicans. nine in 10 people said the three favored requiring

the u.s. of course couldn't send the movie team. and then at the u.s., there was no moon in the united states at the time to be sympathetic to the revolution. that format in our minds would be effective in influencing the iranians to quickly pass them through and do what they could to help. >> rose: torture the movie, zero dark 30, the ambassador and the movie argo when we continue. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: the debate over the legitimacy of torture is in the high lines surrounding the new film, zero dark 30. the film has generated much controversy and will figure promptly in hollywood's award season that culminates with the oscars on february 24th. here's what general stanley mcchrystal said to me yesterday. >> i think the ambiguity of the movie, i'm not arguing whether the movie is true or not but it forces the debate. it actually shows both sides of it. it shows the horror of torture, the cruelty of it but i

is devalued because the u.s. dollar has declined by twenty percent since two thousand and nine and i guess he's suggesting that's intentional and therefore all bets are off and you know this was exactly during the great depression what happened is that everybody started to beggar thy neighbor and then what happened after that the hot war right or even more recently you had the plaza accords of the early one nine hundred eighty s. again involving the japanese yen and this was to set the stage for the twenty five year bull market that followed but we're at the end of that now owner answered a new phase because of the distortions that were to follow the plaza and corridor have created this behave with of fraud that is now gutting the global economy requiring yet another global conflict which would at this juncture mean devaluation for everybody against gold. now you mention the possible hot war between japan and china and of course that was the sort of alignment that happened during world war two and it does look in

morgan's positions are the u.s. treasuries decisions so you know what the root when you're when you're talking about the failure of j.p. morgan what we're really talking about here is the failure of the u.s. government. we're talking about the fall from the u.s. treasury. poll of j.p. morgan it is the defacto fault a default of the u.s. treasury because morgan's morgan's own size positions. are the treasures but there's no question about that they jamie diamond and morgan they're going to take the dollar with them and we'll end with them the u.s. economy and that's their game plan now the words when hank paulson threatened to destroy america unless they gave three quarters of a trillion dollars or every time they try to get some kind a law deregulated by threatening financial catastrophe jamie diamond is thread dollar collapse all right stay here and stay right there we're coming back to you in the second half on this new year's day special. edition will be soon which brightened the food movement from funds to oppre

morgan's positions are the u.s. treasury physicians so you know well the root when you're when you're talking about the failure of j.p. morgan what we're really talking about here is the failure of the u.s. government. we're talking about the fault from the u.s. treasury. of j.p. morgan it is the defacto fault default of the u.s. treasury because morgans morgan's outsized positions. are the treasures but there's no question about that they jamie diamond and morgan they're going to take the dollar with them and we'll end with them the u.s. economy and that's their game plan now the words when hank paulson threatened to destroy america unless they gave three quarters of a trillion dollars or every time they try to get some kind of law deregulated by threatening financial catastrophe jamie diamond is thread dollar collapse all right stay here and stay right there we're coming back to you in the second half on this new year's day special. download the official application to yourself choose your language stream quality

a small victory for private bradley manning with the u.s. judge ruling any eventual sentence he may receive should be reduced by one hundred twelve days the justification was the especially harsh treatment he received after being locked up for leaking classified information to wiki leaks but retired colonel morris davis says he sings double standards here nonetheless. i think the government here is overplayed their hand if you recall when the wiki leaks documents were going to come out it reminded me of the y2k scare everybody kind of braced in expected the worst and then when it came out not much happened and i think the government really overplayed i'm not aware of there being any thing more than embarrassment that has been caused by the wiki leaks documents there been any operations that have been compromised or any individuals harmed i'm not aware of it but it certainly seems at this point this is more of a case of embarrassment than actual harm it seems to be that there are good leaks and they're bad leaks that you know when it helps ma

in cybersecurity the u.s. says cyber attacks are happening and that they need the resources to combat this growing problem we'll tell you how the pentagon is going to play a crucial role in fighting cyber warfare here at home and around the world. and will this finally be the year that republicans and democrats democrats agree on immigration reform the senate released a plan today and president obama is expected to outline his plans tomorrow so will it be enough to help the eleven million illegal immigrants in the u.s. . it's monday january twenty eighth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. just one week after he was inaugurated president obama's second term cabinet is finally beginning to take shape perhaps the least surprising pick was that of denis mcdonough for a white house chief of staff in his statement president obama announced that called mcdonough one of his hardest working men and washington he's also known for his extensive foreign policy experience expression when

has ignored them so it's not clear what the u.s. really wants we talk about opening up the rest we talk about you know trying to come to some kind of supply relationship with iran but in reality we never take the olive branch that software has been offered many times during the bush and obama years and it's been rejected so it seems to me we want to have the united states really continue cigs hedging money in that region we want to be the people who dominate you always in as the oil becomes runs out and gets more expensive so i suspect we're going to you see more civil war in syria and over the u.s. will get directly involved with these more sanctions to weaken iran and i only the way that we're going to work with iran is it completely become part of the u.s. empire i don't see that happening to share thoughts on the subject of us kevin zeese it'll be interesting four more years same administration by from baltimore thank you for being with us. and still to come in the program lucky to be alive. a man survived after falling out of a

is devalued because the u.s. dollar has to climb by twenty percent since two thousand and nine and i guess he's suggesting that's intentional and therefore all bets are off and you know this was exactly during the great depression what happened is that everybody started to beggar thy neighbor and then what happened after that the hot war right or even more recently you had the plaza accords of the early one nine hundred eighty s. again involving the japanese yen and this was to set the stage for the twenty five year bull market that followed but we're at the end of that downer entered a new phase because of the distortions that were to follow the applause and corn have created this behave with of fraud that is now gutting the global economy requiring yet another global concept which would this juncture mean devaluation for everybody against gold. now you mention the possible hot war between japan and china and of course that was the sort of alignment that happened during world war two and it does look indeed like

u.s. energy. >> yeah -- exactly. we're also seeing reports about how u.s. oil import will be at the lowest in 25 years. there is a change afoot. >> i guess that's what the iea head is saying, asia is going to take more of the u.s. demand. >>> to earnings. yes, alcoa swung to a fourth quarter profit matching forecasts. results were helped by stabilizing raw aluminum prices. higher prices and cost cutting. revenues down 1.5% to $5.9 billion. that did beat estimates. alcoa is also slightly boosting its 2013 global demand forecast from 6.5% to 7%. kleinfeld says growth in china is coming back and europe is doing better than expected. the stock up 1.3% in after hours. in frankfurt, up 1.72%. join for the first hour, for the first time this year, charlie diebel. hello. good to see you. right. here we are. we've kicked off earnings season. what do you make of it? >> well, it's only just begun really. i mean, i think that there's still risk of a disappointment trade. if you look at the retail numb

and the u.s. is providing logistical systems and more -- intelligence, satellite images, aerial refueling, lift, which means aircraft -- air transfer of some equipment. so the u.s. is very pleased that france is doing this. i think to a degree surprised. even two weeks ago france said it wouldn't do this. and now france is going to have eventually about 2,500 troops on the ground and be involved in ground combat in mali. and there is some specific reasons france is doing this. france saw that extremists in the north, some of them linked to al qaeda, were marching toward the capital. they were heading south. and the government panicked, called france for assistance and france intervened. france also was worried that there is a very large community of people from mali, about 200,000 living in paris, living in france. and france was worried that these malian nationals would be influenced by the extremists back home and carry out attacks. frantz had intelligence an attack may have been in the active p

troops out because there's massive resentment of the u.s. for its drone raids its killing of civilians the kill or capture raids throughout the country all of that that has continued for these eleven years at the same time he knows that if he does that the u.s. leaving will leave his government and his own position in a very and in a very precarious moment and he may well not survive that politically the press conference continues as we are speaking from for this but he's thank you very much director of the new internationalism project institute for policy studies on cue. serious now accused of having tons of uranium enough to make five nuclear bombs maybe with a few minutes we'll report on what some experts fear could be a pretext for intervention. fall under the western microscope and also beat some of the british family struggling to feed themselves as they suffer at the sharp end of low wages and welfare cuts the stories i had to. thank. join me on a journey to the heart of the problem to a place is hidden from the tourists you're going

data which check out the u.s. markets and falling deeper now as you can see we've actually got some gave there but it's pretty flat all round to be fair is today as i say we've got a flat performance there the nasdaq three basis points for the dow jones is around a tenth of a cent up in positive territory but the best yearly starts for the u.s. stocks since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. moving on then germany's comic of volkswagen will stop the conveyors for four days next month because of a lack of demand in europe fund is predicted to be a gloomy year for many european or asian manufacturers however the russian car market had grown ten percent last year but experts say we have seen the last of the industry growth for years to come i see on a political over she reports for us. in europe for the last to close down three factories me thought in russia cuts working week to four days old pill satisfactory in europe's biggest markets germany general motors called the situation on the right here come up with c

if more u.s. businesses behaved that way, our seemingly natural inclination toward innovation stands a better chance at keeping us ahead. i'm harry lin. >> susie: and that's "nightly business report" for monday, january 21, martin luther king, jr. day. have a great evening, everyone. and you, too, tom. >> tom: good night, susie. we'll see you online at www.nbr.com and back here tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

the u.s. is an empire people in the u.s. have not experienced the kind of economic turmoil that they have somewhere like argentina where they went through a default is there a difference in people's approach to risk and perceived risk and their desire and willingness to hedge against it somewhere like argentina where they've spirits that kind of thing first hand versus the u.s. where they can hear about what could possibly go wrong but they haven't experienced that kind of economic turmoil to that extent. yeah you know i'd say i mean i spent about five months of the year and argentina and you know the understanding of the cycles that tend to happen you know they tend to happen every sort of ten years where you know you get major currency blowups. that. seceded by the kind of breakdowns and civil liberties that that we're talking about possibly. happening here in the u.s. . the people are very very aware of what's going on and so a lot of their enterprises are kind of forced underground into what's so they're just dismissed i

the president of the country who in fact a holes a u.s. passport and he's also a representative of microsoft corporation in africa that is mr gioconda trying oric mr trowbridge apparently made the request for direct french intervention i was just this last past week or so so we have both involvement of france and the united states in the scenario and some well connected names there by the sound of it not just what the rebels at the moment in modern these rebels if i'm not was mistaken were the same people reportedly involved in the violent crisis back in libya in twenty eleven as pro-gun toughing fighters if that's the case coming expect the same level of bloodshed in mali to escalate as it did in libya. well the so-called rebels in the north are now. not necessarily a uniform group politically some are more secular than others the yemen al a has been associated with the form of government in libya which was overthrown in twenty eleven however the more islamist groups associated with the conflict that has been going on in neighboring alger