artie, artie, artie, enough. >> artie: no, this is quick. if you give a hooker money -- >> jimmy: uh-huh. >> artie: to go and get marijuana -- [ laughter ] she will never come back. >> jimmy: all right. that's very good advice. thank you, artie. it's good advice. >> yeah. >> artie: believe me. i'm like 38 for 38 on this. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he's tried numerous times. pal, i want to talk about the book here, "rookie yearbook two." it's one of the coolest things. there are so many interesting articles in here and stuff to look at. this is different than the first one because the first one is more for girls. >> yeah. well, i mean, they're -- "rookie" is for teenage girls, but i'd say this one is maybe a little more neutral. and it's a continuation of the first one in that it's just like -- i think it still feels homemade and everything. >> jimmy: it does, yeah. >> but there is different subject matter. >> jimmy: well, like, also, the thing i like about your books is, this one, you can make your own tarot cards. that's fun. [ light laughter ]

history artie's guyana to check on is in the american capital. thousands of people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they believe that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights have been taken away from them they believe that the tradeoff between security and privacy is a false one people here say that they're tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their mass spying after all just a year ago the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was a lie and the latest i've heard was that just within a month the n.s.a. spied on more than one hundred and twenty four billion phone calls worldwide that means that every single person on earth is facing the risk of being caught up in the n.s.a. dragnet and the person edward snowden thanks to whom this protest is happening is now holed up in russia because here in the states he

. >> verne: artis-payne to the left and touchdown. tigers take the lead. >> gary: remember how this team was embarrassed a year ago by texas a&m. they had no hope. no fans at the game almost. now in one season they are back competing. >> verne: parker for the extra point. white is the holder. and the extra point is good. 38-34 auburn. >> gary: we said it's going to take 40 to win. we will see. at least it will take 39 for texas a&m. trey mason on the 3rd and short stayed inbounds. and a great read by nick marshall to get mason on the 3rd and short. and into the end zone goes artis-payne. >> verne: manziel, they will need his arm big-time. >> gary: they will need him scrambling and everything he's got. >> verne: 38-34. tigers lead. 24-24 at the half. the quarterback coach and offensive coordinator along side manziel. remember they lost last year's offensive coordinator kingsbury. he is the head coach at texas tech now. manziel was close to him but he is really happy this coach came aboard. he will take a knee. 9:06 remaining. aggies do

history artie's guyana chicha cohen is in the american capital. thousands of people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they believe that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights have been taken away from them they believe that the tradeoff between security and privacy is a false one people here say that they're tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their mass spying after all just a year ago the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was a lie is the latest i've heard was that just within a month the n.s.a. spied on more than one hundred and twenty four billion phone calls worldwide that means that every single person on earth is facing the risk of being caught up in the n.s.a. dragnet and the person edward snowden thanks to whom this protest is happening is now holed up in russia because here in the states he w

at how exactly behind belts work but for now the costs continue to damage the economy at something artie's katy pilbeam ok now i tell us more about good morning to you k.c. hello frank good morning to you are a yeah i get straight to it if i may yeah ok let's go for it so as consumers continuously see their utility bills rise the conflict between competitive business and the eco ambitions is escalating the decision to subsidize selected technologies has bumped up and you prices of course then see what's going on in germany them right here says subsidies for renewable energy are running at sixty billion euros a year right now now since they came into play that sixty billion that since their introduction that the value of utilities on global stock exchanges all over the e.u. has gone from around one trillion euros in two thousand and eight to lessen half of that right now so as a consequence perhaps not surprisingly investors are losing interest are one example of this is german utility company eon which is seen its share price drop by about seventy five percent certainly the c.e.o. of the c

last minute deal that raised the borrowing limit and ended the two week long government shutdown as artie's and he said now a reports the solution though only a temporary fix while america's creditors might now need a lot more convincing when it comes to buying u.s. debt. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact to. the congress again house votes to become the more nuts and she did. have to act on it. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play this . we're not going to leave you money at any price the scare sparked g

minute deal that raised the borrowing limit and ended the two week long government shutdown but as artie's a nice in our way reports the solution is only a temporary fix while america's creditors might need a lot more convincing now when it comes to buying u.s. debt. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. in households to come in more nuts and up she did. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it in till january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing in till february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the market's going to say we don't want to play this or we're not going to leave you money at any price the scare sparked global about given the time and

i was artie's laura smith reporting. and david petraeus the four star general and former cia director will be joining the faculty of harvard's john f. kennedy school of government currently he's a visiting professor at the city university of new york and you may remember that last month many students gathered in protest of the school's decision to. higher general petraeus there were about seventy five people at the demonstration which was organized by the ad hoc committee against the militarization of sunni so far there haven't been any similar reactions from harvard students in his new position betrays will be a nonresident senior fellow at the belfer center for science and international affairs there he will participate in a project taking a look at the technological scientific and economic dynamics that are reinvigorating north american competition the project will also take a look at how policy may be spurring that competition this academic position signifies a further break from portrays this former career before ta

government contractor edward snowden artie's eva golinger has more. here at the embassy of ecuador in london he affirmed that the exceptionalism that brock obama president united states is defending is merely an excuse to be involved the last something used by nations such as united states with power to subordinate others found also alerted to the necessity of developing sovereign technology and sovereignty in general in order to defend nations against the mass surveillance an espionage program of the united states that violates human rights and certain rights under international law look when that whenever you see a president talk about exceptionalism what he's trying to say is there are rules of civil behavior. doesn't apply to him. whether that's invading another country whether that's abusive laws. in relation to. barack obama's use of the espionage act against alleged journalistic sources. and journalists. that's something you so it's very important that people understand that this is not just a bit more it's a radical change. barack obama has pr

government contractor edward snowden artie's alexey chefs he has more from the president. there is now in moscow the very same city where edward snowden there whistleblower now resides on his political asylum the breaking revelations of who infuriated the leader of ecuador back this summer and he is still pretty much angry especially in the light of the latest revelations on high profile politicians in europe being wiretapped by the n.s.a. . but at least they said it was necessary for fighting against terrorism and i don't know if that angle merkel is a terrorist i think it's clear the use of agents programs for economic reasons we're hoping the transnational companies can you imagine what could happen if the program was carried out by been as we look at cuba russia could or argentina they would have called us dictators and criminals and we could be judged in the international court so. even the fact that. the economy of ecuador largely depends on the united states it's not by no means an obstacle for mr korea to come with open criticism of washington's actions i remember

taxing businesses and factories it puts the entire burden of subsidies on ordinary households and as artie's peter all of a found out families are having a tough time keeping up with the appetites of the green lobby. well the. support for green energy is anchored in the german psyche it gets back even when it harms us that hurt is being felt in germany. i went to meet one girl in mother who was finding paying for power a real problem. one day i saw it almost doubled two hundred zeros it was not possible for me to pay. across europe energy prices for homes have risen by seventeen percent over the last four years one of the reasons for price rises is the subsidies being paid out for solar and wind energy germany is set to spend five hundred fifty billion euro on a plan to take eighty percent of its power from renewables over the next thirty seven years those costs being passed on to the concert that's why it's being sold on the message that it's either wind energy or radioactive catastrophe this plays on these fears and makes money for the wind energy providers after the fukushima nuclear disa

globe's growing population these are set to take part in the march across more than sixty countries artie's report i reports now from new york. in the land of supersize approximately eighty five percent of all processed foods contain genetically modified organisms g.m.o. is an acronym that owes its notoriety largely to the agriculture giant monsanto a multinational billion dollar corporation generating global criticism revolving around the safety of its products and growing a monopoly over the world's food supply they are able to patent the genetically modified foods with a very strong patent for farmers can only base the seeds from monsanto each year and they can't save the seeds and farmers who have tried to save seeds or have their farms contaminated months and was gone after them and sued them or only into growing their crops researchers have documented dozens of health risks associated with the consumption of a modified foods and the majority of americans have campaigned for g.m.o. foods to be labeled just like these organic fruits are labeled but so far the will of the people has been

red square now artie's andrew farmer followed the olympic flame all the way from greece on board a very jet that brought it here to russia he shared his impressions of the journey . which is going to take you back a week because this flame started its life in a limpia this time last week and the reason it's been increased for the last seven days is just to remind us about the history of these olympics the birthplace of the olympic games two and a half thousand years ago two and a half thousand years ago and in olympia there are still the remains of the great temples that were there then and you can also still see the original running track that the europeans used back in seven hundred b.c. so essentially what happened was they used the rays of the sun as they did back then to light the flame that flame is used to light the first torchbearer in olympia and then this torch went around greece the flame was handed over to the russian olympic committee it's a beautiful stadium it's called the palace and i called stadium in athens and that's where the first modern olympics were held at the en

terror network's been gaining ground with new cells emerging in the region as the arab spring unfolded artie's got it she can investigate. u.s. intelligence officials speaking anonymously of course say they're not concerned that al qaeda affiliated groups in syria are shifting some of their focus from toppling bashar al sought to launching extra law for asians against the west one u.s. lawmaker pointed out that's exactly what happened even ganesan which led to nine eleven they are now focused on fighting assad but very soon they'll be focused on something else we have michael here a former pentagon official with me mr maloof where are the. groups headed in your opinion the. forces that are there. are now attempting to look at syria in the long term to be under a caliphate and their spring throughout the entire region when you look at a map of the whole area stream from the arabian peninsula to all the way across north africa and into the magreb right. at the foot of southern europe and that is here the strategy is to ultimately move into europe according to various estimates more than ten thou

and the spy chief the departure is also under the microscope in artie's of breaking the set you can watch the next hour but here's a quick preview thing. you know after all those tours of duty that combat zone of checking people's facebook likes and their yahoo address books you can understand why he wants some down time it's pretty ridiculous because what they initially told us at first back in march james clapper the director of national intelligence told congress that they're not collecting any data at all on u.s. citizens clearly a lie perjured himself or congress should be in jail based on our existing laws but of course nothing has happened to him because he's too powerful and so that was back in march not collecting any data at all on u.s. citizens and then we have you know we're collecting data but it's only the met a data don't worry about it guys go back to do whatever you do before car dash in kanye west or together disco focus on that stuff and then it comes out that oh they're actually harvesting hundreds of thousands in a single day hundreds of thousands of people's address

history artie's got a chicana as any american capital. thousands of people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they believe that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights have been taken away from them they believe that the tradeoff between security and privacy is a false one people here say that they are tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their mass spying after all just a year ago the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was a lie in the latest i've heard was that just within a month the n.s.a. spied on more than one hundred and twenty four billion phone calls worldwide that means that every single person on earth is facing the risk of being caught up in the n.s.a. dragnet and the person edward snowden thanks to whom this protest is happening is now holed up in russia because here in the states he

history artie's gonna teach a con is in the american capital. thousands of people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they believe that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights have been taken away from them they believe that the tradeoff between security and privacy is a false one people here say that they are tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their mass spying after all just a year ago the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was a lie and the latest i've heard was that just within a month the n.s.a. spied on more than one hundred and twenty four billion phone calls worldwide that means that every single person on earth is facing the risk of being caught up in the n.s.a. dragnet and the person edward snowden thanks to whom this protest is happening is now holed up in russia because here in the states he

suspend fracking there and in the capital bucharest allow be a referendum next month on how to proceed artie's polly boyko met some of the people who stood up to the company. us oil giant chevron cost the remaining government blessing to start exploratory trilling fishtail gas in the area protesters from. gathered here are a city with the local villages in opposition to the deal more of an enormous political followed suit they didn't come to our studios point what they want to do or how it will affect us that's why we're protesting. is dangerous because they will poison our water and we won't be able to farm anymore and raise our animals and if we can't do this what are we supposed to do. the media and government says that they need to brace shale gas in order to achieve energy independence but that's something that local villages here say that they don't want to pay for with their safety here's my report on the bustle waging between chevron and the local people that just want to open their doors to fracking locals in this remote region of remaining i have been saddled with an on going to cast

shutdown sent almost a million people home on paid vacations and but vital federal programs on hold artie spoke with a cancer patient whose trial with the national institutes of health was one of the programs affected by the standoff michelle lang better explain what the shutdown meant to people like her. lives are at stake two hundred people are trying to get into trials at an age each week and it's each week passes that's another two hundred that are turned away at this time and it's a matter of life or death it's not a matter of inconvenience or just an irritation for us we need this treatment we show was diagnosed with sarcoma a rare form of cancer nine months after chemotherapy she applied for additional treatment at the age but she and hundreds of others were turned away when the government shutdown happened we asked michelle what she'd like to say to the politicians in washington whose disagreements started the deadlock i have heard a couple of instances where they find that this is just the game between them and that it's a matter of winning and i'd like to say that it's not a mat

whistleblower but did not reveal exactly where it was filmed because of concerns about his security well arty's lisi careful of can tell us more about it she joins us live. she is now lucy we haven't seen mr snowden since the summer at least not publicly what did he have to say this time well that's right he had quite a bit to say the n.s.a. whistleblower was very passionate in talking about the problem of government surveillance in the united states now he said the issue wasn't with any specific spying program rather the relationship between the states and the american people a relationship which he described as increasingly coming into conflict with democratic values snowden also lashed out at the prosecution of whistle blowers accusing the government of what he called effectively misplaced priorities take a listen. it's one of those mornings you know relationship to god where we know exactly for sure it's on the news last. night. to the bombs. but they will stop the. person. or the. snowden made these remarks at a ceremony right here in moscow at an undisclosed location where he was given th

other opposition factions have been calling on western governments for military and financial help artie's merino offer maria finn otieno one of the few foreign journalists reporting from syria she spoke to members of the rebel free syrian army inside territory they control. on the usually we cross the syrian lebanese border every day many times of what has son is a soldier for the free syrian army not for joe are you out of this for we take injured people to lebanon hospitals we get ammunition from there we bring mujahideen in and out if i just want to go to see their families a cell is a safe haven. our cell is a mostly sunni lebanese village on the syrian border along this road which appeared here in the first days of the conflict in two thousand and eleven it's possible to reach all of syria's main battlefields bringing weapons on militants and many have done in those two and a half years. damascus has repeatedly called on foreign nations to stop supporting what it calls terrorists in syria but when these calls apparently ignored taken the capital remains the ultimate go for all the fo

operations there and in the capital bucharest for now be a referendum next month on how to proceed artie's polya boyko met some of the people who stood up to the company. u.s. oil giant chevron cause the remaining governments blessing to start exploratory trading for shale gas in the area but protesters from pena gathered here our city with the local villages in opposition to the deal more of an enormous political followed suit they didn't come to our stooge doing what they want to do or how it will affect us that's why we're protesting. is dangerous because they will poison our water and we won't be able to form any more and raise our animals and if we can do this what are we supposed to do. there are many in government says that they need to embrace shale gas in order to achieve energy independence but that's something that local villages here say that they don't want to pay for with their safety here's my report on the bustle waging between chevron and the local people that just want to open their doors to fracking locals in this remote region of or mania have been saddled with an ongoi

for the right to disclose the scale of their cooperation with the agency artie's lucie county office more. in the wake of the u.s. national security agency scandal much of the tech industry has been critical of government snooping some companies named as partners in the n.s.a.'s prism program including google and facebook even sued the u.s. in order to set the record straight they're hoping to fight the perception that the n.s.a. has direct access to their servers but transparency might come with financial incentives the snowden leaks prompted dire warnings from internet giants predicting that american businesses would lose tens of billions of dollars in revenue abroad as scared users turn to local alternatives one industry nonprofit survey found that ten percent of two hundred seven officials at non american companies canceled contracts in the wake of the leaks fifty six percent of non-u.s. respondents said they were hesitant to work with u.s. based cloud computing firms some researchers even predicted the cloud computing industry as a whole could lose up to one hundred billion doll

signatures in principle it's an extreme social safety net but those behind it have bigger plans here's artie's. cash by the truckload for the proposed basic income initiative a rolling with a splash on the promise of two thousand euro a month to every swiss citizen intended to let them live without basic financial worries imagine you're being born and society tells you well calm you will be cared for and asks you what you want to do with your life what's your calling imagine imagine that that feeling that's a whole different atmosphere paula meant to have presented with the titian signed by over one hundred twenty thousand people closing the idea of paying everyone they will know it so switzerland is say the referendum. then we should be. it could be one of the landmark historical moments like the abolition of slavery or the civil rights movement of course those who don't want it will find excuses i know but those who do want it will find solution once and. campaign is announce their intention to spread the wealth with a glitzy stunt four hundred thousand swiss francs three hundred fifty thous

least twenty five journalists have been killed since the start of the conflict there were the last artie's marie international mannish to make it into one rebel held city but tell you have next to the syrian lebanese border is just eighty kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state that has its own security forces and police and even the army can seize symbols of new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling these area a syrian military cannot and term you have route is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria known as kalam in two thousand and eleven local residents room on the first to support the n.t.'s so it can pay its scenes being cut off from damascus and run by the rebels. i cover my head as all women here do because we are told this is an area under islamic law. we have civil and local councils we have shariah law tribunals and normal courts we have more teeth and lawyers the curio justice we run the town by ourselves the army can enter and even if they try we are ready to resist and

artie's morea fanaa reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group in our city. over in iraq a new study suggests the body count is worse than you may have forts one of the authors of a new study into the human cost of the us led war in iraq. by previous estimates might be conservative at best that's ahead. from great expectations bit disappointment arlin's about to end his three year bailout from europe its european pot this strong enough to go to the break. wealthy british. because. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two causes a report. crisis averted at least for now washington's dangerous and even the responsible political circus has taken a time out with barack obama still standing however neither the president nor congress have much to be proud of the core issues at the heart of this deadlock have been dealt with washington gridlock issues like that can't be kicked down the road. mission. critical should treat in store cha

overstepped its authority and their reaction points to a possible fall out and diplomatic relations artie's sound sex has more in the world of the n.s.a. there's little difference between friends and enemies the latest leaks from edward snowden reveal a spy agency that's very much interested in the affairs of friendly nations like mexico and france there spiegel reported that in may of two thousand and ten the n.s.a. broke into the mexican presidential network to gain first ever access to former president felipe calderon's public e-mail account that snooping gave the n.s.a. insight into mexico's diplomatic economic and political communications while that spying was directed at mexico's former president we also know that in two thousand and twelve the n.s.a. spied on mexico's current president pena nieto scooping up information about his most relevant contacts and intercepting more than eighty five thousand text messages many of which sent by the president himself the mexican government which is a key economic ally of the united states has responded saying such actions by the n.s.a. violate

found out just how far they'll go to make sure nothing gets out as artie's and as i see it the rest of our camera crew visited the facility they sent us this report but only after it was heavily censored by kuantan imo bay prison stuff. transparency is a word repeated by u.s. officials working at guantanamo like a mantra by those few who are comfortable speaking on camera you see the conditions under which the detainees live you get to talk to the people who are responsible for garner we make it is transparent as possible and those preferring to remain on identifiable like the majority of officials we were permitted to speak to every week we get media like yourself international media or local media or whatever and they're welcome to come you know we tell them what we have any journalists workflow at guantanamo starts with a mandatory introduction to media rules the so-called operation security briefing or the material that you guys are gathering to make sure that it abides by our policy here even though transparency is a word brought out by all the personnel we talk to on the ground w

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the last minute raising the borrowing limit and ending its two week long government shutdown but as artie's an isa now i reports from washington this solution is only a temporary fix while america's creditors might now need more convincing when it comes to buying us did. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. in households to come in more nuts and up she did. hope to get to a. team that cynical about the. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it until january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play that . we're not usually you money at any price the scare sparked g

he be doing it from home since his exact location is still unknown due to security reasons that was artie's igor piskun up reporting. and president obama will host iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki at the white house tomorrow the white house said in a statement that the discussion between the leaders will focus on the long term post-war partnership between iraq and the united states that post-war partnership is something the prime minister is extremely concerned about as the security and stability of iraq on rattles prime minister al maliki made that message very clear today while speaking publicly at the united states institute of peace r.t. arabic correspondent rima has more there is one message iraq's prime minister nouri maliki has been pushing during his visit to washington d.c. this week help me fight terrorism in my country because maliki says well not only help iraq but the region here's what he said during his speech this morning in washington d.c. fault by all countries and societies would like we want an international war a global war against terror if we're on to war we want

senate is voting on the bill and it's expected to pass and head over to the house later this evening artie's liz wahl is on capitol hill she has the latest. well i am here at the capitol where a bipartisan deal is in the works if it passes both houses it would put an end to the partial government shutdown the clock is ticking now to the looming debt ceiling deadline and that's when the government would run out of money to pay its bills there's fear that defaulting on our debt could have dire economic consequences and lead to the downgrade of the nation's credit rating but it looks like the crisis will be overt it at least for the time being the deal we're talking about is just temporary it would fund the government until january fifteenth it would raise the debt ceiling until february seventh and it sets up a long term budget negotiations that also mandates income verification for recipients of subsidy is under obama care of the senate bill would also provide back pay the government employees that were furloughed throughout the shutdown so really the republicans didn't get much they've been

taxing businesses and factories it puts the entire burden of subsidies on ordinary households and as artie's peter all of a found out families are having a tough time keeping up with the green lobbies appetites. well their. support for green energy is anchored in the german psyche it goes back even when it harms us the us hurt is being felt in germany pockets right now i went to meet one bill in mother who was finding paying for power a real problem. not my. one day or so i had almost doubled two hundred euros it was not possible for me to pay across europe energy prices for homes have risen by seventeen percent over the last four years one of the reasons for price rises is the subsidies being paid out for solar and wind energy germany is set to spend five hundred fifty billion euro on a plan to take eighty percent of its power from renewables over the next thirty seven years those costs being passed on to the consumer that's why it's being sold on the message that it's either wind energy or radioactive catastrophe this plays in these fears and makes money for the wind energy providers after

last minute that raised the borrowing limit and ended the two week long government shutdown but as artie's and he said now a reports a solution is only a temporary fix while america's creditors might now need a lot more convincing when it comes to buying u.s. debt. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact on. the congress and households were to come in more nuts and up she did. but at the so-called eleventh hour congress struck a deal to deal with it later if that's what it is the agreement reopen the government and funds it in till january fifteenth allowing the u.s. to continue borrowing until february seventh america barely avoided defaulting on their almost seventeen trillion dollars in debt brand america took a beating here sixteen days of a government shutdown halted the capital to a standstill put hundreds of thousands of workers out of jobs and the world economy on the verge of recession then surely the markets going we don't want to play this . we're not going to leave you money at any price the scarce part global reevaluation give

now that artie's alexy jarosz esky reporting from moscow. and u.s. lawmakers heard testimony from survivors of an alleged u.s. drone strike today three pakistani. congress this morning to describe an attack that killed their sixty seven year old mother and grandmother in pakistan last year the family which was invited to washington by representative alan grayson came to share their heartfelt stories with lawmakers and held high hopes of getting answers from congress artie's guy in a chuck e. on spoke with the rudman family and brings us this report. this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and there were maybe only four members of congress who came to this briefing apart from the congressman who initiated this meeting congressman alan grayson it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of drone strikes so it's very difficult to expect the sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing to on a twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone strike left the pakistani family devas

artie's test arcilla has more. thirty five world leaders are being spied on by the national security agency or the n.s.a. they were actually encouraging senior officials in various government departments like the white house made appointment to share those contacts of important or individuals in the world in order to be added to the list surveillance list and also what's interesting to note in the latest leaked by edward snowden is that the acknowledgment in that document that all of this extensive spying has produced very little quote unquote very little reportable intelligence and that really is where the debate is whether all of this could be justified and judging from the uproar coming from leaders here in europe but they don't seem to be very convinced issued a statement that they said that this distrust of the u.s. could jeopardize or prejudice any necessary call for ration needed in intelligence gathering we already know they're being called by any piece to suspend the terrorist finance tracking program we k

that was artie's alexy reporting from moscow. and the u.s. lawmakers heard testimony from survivors of an allegedly u.s. drone strike today three pakistani citizens appear before congress this morning to describe an attack that killed their sixty seven year old mother and grandmother in pakistan last year the family which was invited to washington by representative representative alan grayson came to share their heartfelt stories with lawmakers and held high hopes of getting answers from congress artie's guy in a chuck in spoke with the man family and brings us this report. this was the first time actual victims of u.s. drone strikes were in congress and there were maybe only four members of congress who came to this briefing apart from the congressman who initiated this meeting congressman alan grayson it's no secret the u.s. congress generally approves of drone strikes so it's very difficult to expect the sudden change of heart even though hard was what these drone victims were appealing to on october twenty fourth of last year a u.s. drone

population while hundreds of cities are set to take part in the march across more than sixty countries artie's marina port reports now from new york. in the land of supersize approximately eighty five percent of all processed foods contain genetically modified organisms g.m.o. is an acronym that owes its notoriety largely to the agriculture giant monsanto a multinational billion dollar corporation generating global criticism revolving around the safety of its products and growing a monopoly over the world's food supply they are able to patent the genetically modified food with a very strong patent for farmers can only beef the seeds from monsanto each year and they can save the seeds and researchers have documented dozens of health risks associated with the consumption of a modified foods and the majority of americans have campaigned for g.m.o. foods to be labeled just like these organic fruits are labeled but so far the will of the people has been silenced by the money of monsanto according to open secrets dot org the company's spent nearly six million dollars last year lobbying federal lawma

don't necessarily make people feel safe and risk fueling paranoia of terrorists around every corner artie's abby martin looks at this issue in breaking the set later today is a quick preview. listen life b.c. orlando hosted what can only be described as a terrorist dry run take a look at how they figured it out. crewmembers say that shortly after takeoff a group of four quote middle eastern men caused a commotion the witnesses claim one of the men ran from his seat in coach toward the flight deck door he made a hard left and entered the forward bathroom quote for a considerable length of time you know the reason stories like this even gain traction in the first place is because of the fear of the other or by that i mean anyone who remotely looks brown and to prove my point it just so happens that i've acquired some rare footage of what really went down on that flight. this is. yeah i think you get the idea. of. breaking the set a little later on next day which smacks in the kaiser report. i recently read headlights all over the russian internet screaming in full paranoia mode that china has

artie's andrew farmer followed the olympic flame all the way from greece on board the very jet the brought it to russia he shared his impressions of the journey. which is going to take you back a week because this flame started its life in a limpia this time last week and the reason it's been increased for the last seven days is just to remind us about the history of these olympics the birthplace of the olympic games two and a half thousand years ago two and a half thousand years ago and in olympia there are still the remains of the great temples that were there then and you can also still see the original running track that the europeans used back in seven hundred b.c. so essentially what happened was they used the rays of the sun as they did back then to light the flame that flame is used to light the first taught. in olympia and then this top twenty around greece the flame was handed over to the russian olympic committee it's a beautiful stadium it's called the palace and i called stadium in athens and that's where the first modern olympics were held at the end of the nineteenth century

taxing businesses and factories it puts the entire burden of subsidies on ordinary households and as artie's peter all of a found out families are having a tough time keeping up with the green lobbies appetites. well their. support for green energy is entered in the german psyche it gets back even when it harms us that hurt is being felt in germany pockets right now i went to meet one billion mother who's finding paying for power a real problem. not my. one day or so it almost doubled two hundred euros it was not possible for me to pay across europe energy prices for homes have risen by seventeen percent over the last four years one of the reasons for price rises is the subsidies being paid out for solar and wind energy germany is set to spend five hundred fifty billion euro on a plan to take eighty percent of its power from renewables over the next thirty seven years those costs being passed on to the consumer that's why it's being sold on the message that it's either wind energy or radioactive catastrophe this plays in these fears and makes money for the wind energy providers after the fuk

some politicians claim the syrian people face not just civil war but critical water and food shortages artie's policy or when to see for yourself what lake is really like in damascus now that we have been able to make progress on the chemical weapons issue we should not forget we also needed to make progress on the humanitarian issue a warning echoing throughout many corridors of power in the wastes is on track to be the biggest humanitarian catastrophe of the twenty first century and this is building into one of the great your manager. crisis on the face of the planet. no this is not true we hardly know if they're all liars we don't care what they say here as you can see we have no trouble in this bakery in downtown damascus tens of thousands of traditional floats are churned out each day the machines work sixteen hours a day six days a week shorter yet we have extra quantities enough for another fifteen days. while in this public market and the thousands like across syria shoppers and management tell us in two years they've never been any shortages in this big and growing rice and sugar ther

is being handed to the prime minister's office but is still far for overcoming political instability artie's maria for national looks into saakashvili as kind of virtual legacy. they are among the maze determined detractors all judges i would go in president. they follow me how selfishly every way to leave him in no doubt of where they stand . circus really was the once popular leader of the rose revolution the first color revolutions which saw power change in post soviet republics. in the last days of his near ten year presidency even former allies on the attack. after his successes started building an authoritarian regime the media was attacked one million people fled one quarter of the population went through the penal system they were either arrested or interrogated in two thousand and seven police used tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters one thousand cycles shrill is government to resign. in two thousand and eleven they did it again. people were afraid to express or even have their opinion if they faced injustice they failed to report it as it could affect their families. his

syria but one of course where radicals are now fighting against the regime we report about almost daily artie's garniture can investigate. u.s. intelligence officials speaking anonymously of course say they're not concerned that al qaeda affiliated groups in syria are shifting some of their focus from toppling bashar al saw it to launching external operations against the west one u.s. lawmaker pointed out that's exactly what happened even ganesan which. they are now focused on fighting assad but very soon they'll be focused on something else we have michael here former pentagon official with me mr maloof where are the groups headed in your opinion the. through our. forces that are there. are now attempting to look at syria in the long term to be under a caliphate and their spring throughout the entire region when you look at a map of the whole area streams from the arabian peninsula to all the way across north africa and into the magreb puts you right. at the foot of southern europe and that is. the strategy is to ultimately move into europe according to various estimates more than ten thousand

artie's morea for reports from fragmenting syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel group. they were in iraq a new study suggests the body count is worse than you may have thought now one of those a new study into the human cost of the u.s. led war in iraq talks to r.t. about why previous estimates might be conservative at best and that's a hit. from great expectations too big to disappoint been ireland's about to end its three bailout from its european partners but ask if it's strong enough to go it alone some to the bank. this immediately though shall we leave that may be. part of the scene motions to the. whole of the. issues that no one is that still with the guests that deserve answers from. politics. mission pretty good you take three months for free. range free. free. free. world free volunteer video for your media project and a free radio down to our t.v. dot com. you're watching archie for more international news now calculating the actual number of victims of the u.s. led war in iraq isn't easy but a new study based on speaking to iraqi households suggests that al

find a way out of the budget deadlock most of the government has been shut down for two weeks and as artie's marina portnoy reports politicians are accused of ignoring the effect on every day americans. u.s. president barack obama's signature health care legislation is supposed to provide millions of americans with the medical coverage they desperately need but the political debate over obamacare has also ironically created a life or death situation for hundreds of citizens for each week the shutdown continues roughly two hundred patients cannot be accepted for clinical treatment at the national institutes of health that's nearly four hundred sick americans desperately in need of medical treatment and the and i says among the patients being turned away includes roughly thirty people with cancer and many of them being children about seventy five percent of and i was employees thousands of people have reportedly been furloughed because of washington's self-inflicted shutdown as a result michelle langbehn who is battling sir coma a rare form of cancer was supposed to begin receiving medical tre

economy as artie's pretty book reports there are perks in it for beijing to. britain's doors are open to china and more importantly the u.k.'s recession hit economy is ready for chinese money to start flowing in that's the message that the u.k. chancellor george osborne is sending on a trade mission to china this week he told students at a beijing university that unlike some other western countries he doesn't want to resist china's economic progress or put up trade barriers but he wants britain to share in the economic progress that means seeking chinese investment in british infrastructure such as british airports and water and energy and eight hundred million pound deal for a chinese company to develop manchester airport has already been unveiled george osborne said that he's determined to open a new chapter in u.k. chinese relations and make britain's see that the chinese economy is no longer a low wage or low tech one of my talks this week is to explain to the british people just how far china has come how sophisticated your business is how would grant you

strikes in the region in the hope we could put a human face on what's happening artie's playboy co has this report. i want to make sure that people understand actually drones have not caused a huge number of civilian casualties that for the most part they have been very precise precision strikes against al qaeda and their affiliates for the most part being the operative phrase one organization is taking american statements like these with a pinch of salt and looking at just how precise the so-called precision strikes are according to estimates u.s. drone strikes have killed over two and a half thousand people in pakistan's remote tribal region since two thousand and four but london's bureau of investigative journalism is going beyond those casualty figures and trying to name every single person killed by the cia's use of drones in waziristan we've been recording the strikes and recording the number of people killed and now we want to move on to a new phase of the project to start recording the names of the bad this is to help bring transparency to the public debate about the use of dro