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welcome to al jazerra. aal think stephanie sy here are the top stories at this hour. less than an hour ago president obama signed the last-minute budget deal that ended the 16-day partial federal government shutdown. both the house and saint approved the bill wednesday it reopens the government and keeps the country from defaulting on its debt. federal workers are being told to report to their jobs in the morning. only several hours since market opened in asia but it seems salt lake they likes it. key markets up were up sharply. in japan at least seven type pete are dead after a typhoon hit the country's pacific coast nearly 50 people are missing.
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>> cory brooker is in. he defeated republican steve lon gone a state tea party leader. booker had 55% of the vote to lon gone's 44%. lonergan gonzales had received campaign help from ted cruz and sarah palin. the will he at of game marriage could be taken up in michigan. in case of a lesbian company that want to adopt children. those result headlines, "consider this" is up next on al jazerra. you can check us out online at aal jazerra.com
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on inside story, we bring together unexpected voices closest to the story, invite hard-hitting debate and desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you.
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after weeks of drama in washington we finally have ideal that brings the government back in to business. and we have the debt ceiling raised, but, again, the deal is such that it's only temporary. as all these other deals have been and other continuing resolution that will only last a few months and we'll be back again to discuss the government shutdown in the middle of january. and raising the debt ceiling again in the middle of february. so we will be right back to have this discussion in just a few months. so, again, no real budget being passed in washington. the dysfunction continues, the vote in the house was 285-143. so you still have a majority of the republicans in the house voting against any kind of ideal. in the senate it was moreover women, almost everyone votes, almost all of the -- the majority of the republicans in
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the senate did vote for this bill. so the senate continues to be more moderate than the house on the republican side. but there is still some very serious divisions within the republican party and, again, no ability to cut a longer term deal that really deals with the deficit, with the debt with the real issues that face this country think president obama talked about this deal and he said that the american people had lost trust in washington. and there is little doubt about that. the wall street journal article that talked about the winners and losers in this whole debt and government shutdown debacle said that clearly the biggest loser of all was the american people. and we want to have a discussion about all of this with a anybody of people now. the first person we want to go to to talk about the economic impact is ali veshi, host of real money joining us from washington, d.c. after all the of this drama, amie, the government will be
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funded until january 15 account the debt ceiling raised until february 7th. again, isn't it just a big old band aid that will have to be ripped off early next year? >> it's ridiculous, there is no victory for anybody in this thing. just the defeat the what would have been a very bad situation. it's just ridiculous. this is exactly the stuff that have seen erode public confidence in it the united states over the course of the last several weeks. antonio, things were going fine in america, we had been growing jobs for over three years straight. sure it wasn't where we needed to be, not enough jobs, home prices going up they were starting to moderate. we were starting to see a slow down in mortgage applications because, you know, the fed was talking about tapering and interest rates went up bay a full percentage point since may. and we were ticking along. things were okay, stock market was up strongly. we start today see it peel back. this is an economy in recovery. to stick your leg out and trip a runner that's gaining momentum
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is what congress did. that runner stumbled but didn't fall but we are saying that watch out, we might stick our legs out again in january. it is simply irresponsible for that group of people over there to be standing in the way of a recovering economy where people are out of their jobs, they are still in homes that they can't pay mayor mortgages on. there is no victory tonight whatsoever. >> right. >> there is simply relief that it's not -- that we did not trip ourselves and actually fall. which we would have done had we reached that debt ceiling. >> again, it happens over and over. every time this happens, as you said it hurts the economy. the bill for this gridlock is in the billions, estimates are over 20 billion. >> sure. >> it threatened a downgrade to our credit rating again. it's had a negative impact on employment, business earn beings, borrowing costs, consumer confidence took the biggest hit since 2,008. residential real estate may have suffered. >> correct. >> where due see the bulk of the impact
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? >> there are two problems, all the stuff you just mentioned doesn't mat some 50 members of congress that go back to air that i stood firm. they don't care that china is talking did the deamerican saying of the economy and yield rates might go up and it might be more expense five america to borrow money. they singing minded in the focus, it doesn't matter on that side. where the impact will be felt is that remarkable intangible called confidence. this is an economy more so than most economies in the world where economic decisions are good bide decisions of that are taken by american individuals and businesses. sometimes small businesses, sometimes big businesses, this is not a plans economy. it doesn't emanate from washington it emanates from all the points across america. when those people don't feel the certain toy make investment because they don't know what will happen next, whether mortgage rates are going up or costs are borrowing or going up, people will be laid off their
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customers won't buy they do the safe thing and keep their money in their pockets. when individuals do that you don't think that you have an effect on the economy when a lot of people do it you show economic growth we can't afford that to happen. >> let me play devil's advocate. the stock market went up and down depending on pessimistic or optimistic about ideal. wall street seemed to some shrug off the washington drama. they'll figure it out by the time that they have to. >> el with, i tell you two things, one is, yes, the moves on the stock market were small, but, in fact, the snp500 which is how most people are invested is down over 4% from one month ago exactly. what else could you ascribe this too? interesting rates haven't gone up in the last month. nothing else has happened, sure isome people who made 18 percent may have taken their profits, doesn't explain the drop we have seen. it's only gotta be washington that did that. that's real money
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. bond yields had got down, in this happened they would have gone higher. that would have cost everybody that needed to buy money and take a variable rate loan including morgue ins, this is one of those things where we don't know how booed it could have become, but why were we dallying with how booed bad it could have become. there has been a cost and a real cost it's entirely unnecessary, it wasn't a hurricane, you could see fore coming and did damage, too bad. this is entirely foreseeable and preventable and we might be here in january and february again. >> let's hope we aren't. talking about the political players we havening badly . libby? the capitol right now. how did you see it all play out today. sorry, how did we see it all play out? give a blow by blow is that what you are asking.
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giants interesting 48 hours. two days ago we saw a plan really materializing from the senate and in the house of representatives really threw a curveball and said we don't like what we are seeing, we want to go our own way. but the house republicans couldn't come to agreement. there was in fighting between the moderates. the more conservative wing. speaker boehner that was offense said was herding cats. they got blown up. we got back on the senate plan and got on a smooth glide path once we saw senate majority leader harry reid and the minority leader senator mitch mcconnell come together and handle it out. >> how ugly did it get? how divided -- how bad are the interpersonal relationships that are so necessary to come to compromise? >> reporter: the cock is a different body than it was 10, 20, 30 years ago. and some of the lions of the senate that sort of the name
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people give them who really are sort of phases out right now. evensen tour frank of new jersey a decembe democrat that passed s year that's the seat that cory booker won in new jersey tonight. that older generation of senators were so much more used to working across party lines. vice president biden talks about it all the time, i attended the funeral a couple of years ago to cover the funeral of senator ted stevens of alaska who served in the senate in to his 80s and vice president biden spoke at it and he said ted stevens may have been a republican but we were friends. we worked together. our families were friends. we would fight during the day in the central@and we would spend the evening together over dinner. and you had to build coalitions across party lines in order to get anything done. well, the new generation that's come in they are not playing by those rules. you get the folks like senator ted cruz who are less concerned about building coalitions so that they can get something passed and they are more concern the about sort of their core values, what the people back
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home are saying, and really the a generaagenda that they bring e senate independently. >> and congress needs to work with the white house and mike have care is there. viqueira is there and mike, the president spoke tonight and he was clearly dispoint it had came to this. >> reporter: that is a theme that the president had struck throughout the course of this drama, impasse, crisis really. considering the fact that we just walked right up to the line here of midnight on october 17th. yeah. the president at this point, however, it's a clean victory, antonio. no question about it. nobody wins, yes, the white hospital been careful not to do the victory dance, not to spike the football in the end zone, pick your metaphor, walking very gingerly around all of this. because anybody who looks at this can understand that republicans caved in the end after all the gyrations that they faced a unified december krafb decembercontact front throughous controversy, they were divided and divided they fell.
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press didn't have to criticize republicans anymore. certainly he has done that over the course of the last several days, he's played that outside game. he's gone to different venues, he said basically the same message in different settings and on different days . gone places where federal furloughed workers were getting discounts, went to a food bank in washington . >> reporter: trying it pressure them. and he left it to senate democrats to be the tough guy in the person of harry reid to be the bad guy, to turn back republican bids to draw wedges between the awn identified and solid democratic stand and it didn't work, republicans caved and now the president is seizing the initiative. they have laid on al jazerra an event tomorrow at 10 tater that's. the president will talk about the agenda moving forward and tonight he did strike a conciliatory tone because between now and election day, between now and january 15 account, when we are going to go
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through this crisis or at least this exercise all over again because the next spending bill expires then, the president is going to try to push again for immigration, perhaps even gun control. although that's sort of a far bridge at this point. there is also the farm bill, some of the mundane things that they have been unable do in congress because of all the gridlock. >> let's hope we are not in this gridlock again in january but i suspect we l.mike viqueira, libby casey, amie jealousy, at this tuiasosopo all. what happens when social media uncovers unheard, fascinating news stories? it drives discussion across america. >> share your story on tv and online.
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convention the wisdom is that girls are tougher to race more than boys, boys commit suicide five and a half times more than girls, there are nearly nine boys in correctional facilities to every one girl. and every major school shooter has been male. a new book takes an extensive look at what it means to raise boys in an increasingly complex society called masterminds and wing men. helping boys cope with the new rules of the boy world. roslyn is the author, thank you for joining us. your earlier book, queen bees and wannabes is the basis for
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the movie mean girls, you have experience taking a look at girls compared to boys, more girls are going to college than boys, getting more advanced decrease. degrees. we mentioned the terribly high rate of suicide among boys compared to girl hour we failing boys? >> we are not giving them a language to talk about the things most important to them. their friends, relationships, their relationships that they have with adults, thousand talk about things when they are having problems in their lives. and we offense just say boys are simple. and they get in fights they punch each other and it's over. their lives are more complex than that, and we often give them sound bites to handle some of life's moment complex problems and boys don't know what to. >> you interviewed two hound boys, they participatesed in the book. you named them all at the end of the book. >> they did. >> and found that they have deeply motional lives and they pose unique challenges.
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>> well, yes. i want to say even though i have worked with boys and girls for 20 years i never would have written a book about without without including them. not i want viewing them but they literally went through every single page saying this is what my mom needs to know, my dad needs to negotiation this is what life looks like to me, these are the problems that i have these are the ways i want adults to talk to may they were incredibly honest with me about the things we are doing that make it really difficult for them to reach out and get help when they need it. because it's so often appears to them that if they ask for help, or if they feel like they are struggling, that there is something wrong with them. something weak about them. and so they suffer in silence, many boys are suffering in misery and not talking about it and people know what happens is that boys say, i am good, no matter what the answer, is no matter how they are really feeling. >> so why so much written about how boys and girls really aren't that given in fact, you believe that's not the case and that
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boys need to have their needs -- need to have their own needs addressed differently. it's really a misconception that girls are easier to raise than boys. >> well, here is what i think. i think that we have given a tremendous amount of attention to girls. and that's important because girls are living in a world where the culture is giving them some really toxic messages about they have to be sort of hyper section liesed to be valued. that they have to dumb themselves down, but at the same time, there are all these people and program s there is a language that counteracts those messages, boys don't have that. we put boys in boxes and that we would never put up with girls we sea sexist things like they are stupid nothing is going on in their heads that we would never allow for girls. i think what happens is boys look at this and think, well, i can't tell anybody what's going on because if i do, they are not going to believe me. and if i do say something then there is something wrong with
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me, and so they really do have a tendency to say i'll just take care of it myself. i won't say anything to anybody. >> social media question let's go for hermela for that. >> we do. we found in section in the atlantic comment section it's often filled with lots of nonsense bickering but this comment stood out to us and i would like to get your response. user eric who by his own admission is male, says, since we as a male dominanted culture associate things like sensitivity and kindness with weakness, we refer to them as, quote, unquote, feminine. it is a hatred of women not men that leads to these assumptions and actions and end up hurting boys and men as well. whawhat would you is toy that? >> i would say i agree . what really important is that we
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offense, time for social media parents often ask me about things like, well, when should i get my son, you know, his first facebook page or their twitter account or a cell phone. a mobile phone. and i really have to tell you, that going back to sort of how we interact with each other in social media, that for most boys and frankly for girls as well, but for most boys, where they are learning about how to behave towards each other is on online and video games, i actually have much business problem with violent content in a game than i do on the ways in which as soon as people start interacting online the toxic way that people are going after each other. let me give you an example because games are supposed to really -- good games are supposed to be amazing for creativity at thi and boys need to take the right kind of risks to be able to fail. one of the reasons they do so paorpoorly in academics is theye so worry about failing and don't put themselves in dangerous situations if you are in a video
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and do something that you might make a mistake and somebody goes after you learn to not take the risks which is an amazing actual bridge between what people are learning in video games for both better and for worse and also what kids may or may not be doing in their academics because with h we need to tame a risk ad to keep up and get going and keep going. and that's something that is so tied to what it should be to be a strong and confident man, to get up and keep going. triumph over adversity but if you are afraid to put yourself in a situation where you truly might failure compromising yourself in all different kind of ways. >> you talked earlier about the over sectio sexual saying. we have seen teenage boys, stubenville, ohio, maryville, missouri and in those cases the towns forgive the boys and blame the victims, why is that happening ?
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what responsibility to the parents have in those situations? >> parents and adults have a very difficult time being self reflective and owning their part in this. one of the things that i found in the boys book that was most troubling to me, was that even the most well-meaning parents, never talked to their boys about relationships. about having your heart broken, about having a crush. about having somebody betray you, they never talked about it. even if you did, on the rare times that you did talk to boys, one of the things that people do is they say you know no means no, right? as if they think a boy will rape a girl if given a chance, we don't give them a chance to talk about having relationship. if they are not getting anything but sound bites from adults like make the right choices or decision or really negative sounds bites just don't bring pee back any grandchildren or think with your other head. that was seriously some of the most common things i heard from kids about parents is that if they get those kind of sound ed
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by and at the same time, they are in situations with boys where they have learned that the boys have the most social power, you never should confront them because you are going to lose. then you add onto that, that at these parties, drinking or drugs or taking pictures of people doing things embarrassing, are normal, mean common, all of this stuff co los co lose, so the boy doesn't have a trigger to say something is is run offing off the rails and doesn't have the skills to speak out. what if that was your sit ore are mother . them they participate in something awful like what you are describing and the adults have no way to process it and won't look at themselves and what they are doing that contributes to it . the other part, boys will be boys if it includes assaulting people, at the very base adults need to say because it's common
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doesn't make it right and i will hold you responsible, whatever way you contribute to this, including forwarding the information or the picture or the gossip that was sent about the victim. >> and you have a lot of very specific information and advice for parents in the book the book is masterminds & wingmen. we thank you for your time tonight. set your cares ahead as we visit some of the best cities in the world. some surprising place that his topped the list and popular cities that didn't even come (vo) friday faultlines chases the flames as they spread throughout the west. >> there's a thick, acrid smoke smell in the air and we're following a strike team now to the top of the mountains where the fire line begins. (vo) it's a war being fought by air and on land costing millions of dollars every year. >> you will make an individual decision to build a home there, but what's the cost to the rest of us? (vo) what's going wrong with the war on wildfires and what are the true costs of putting them out?
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just ahead, wednesday marks 45 years since the black power salute stirred controversy i at the '68 olympics. why that moment is especially relevant now in connection with february's winter games is on inside story, we bring together unexpected voices closest to the story, invite hard-hitting debate and desenting views and always explore issues relevant to you. that's all i have an real money. victoria azarenko
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♪ ♪ we've got to get out of the habit of governing by crisis. >> the u.s. government is back open for business after the senate and house sign off on an 11th our plan. president obama signed it ending the 16-day shutdown raising the debt controlling and avoiding a potential global economic meltdown. after two days of diplomatic talks on the future of iran's nuclear program, significant progress, but no official agreement. iran says it's willing to modify its nuclear program in exchange for severe sanctions being lifted. new jersey elects us first black u.s. senator, new york mayor cory brooker won a special election giving the

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