flying chemical weapons nicknamed agent orange over this country not many could have predicted that those from the most. just on the battlefields but their children most at home or even born at the time. hoochie whom is thirty four years old he would never guess by looking at or born blind and with many severe physical difficulties her parents feed and bathe her to this day her life was taken away from her before she was even born. my daughter was born blind and we didn't know why until would soakers of the hospital in one thousand eight hundred one and the doctors did some blotches that's when they said she was affected by agent orange it's very difficult second care of her because she is completely helpless completely dependent. for a decade american jets dispersed eighty million liters of the then brand new herbicide over the territory of vietnam operation ranch and did not win the war but

did achieve its goal of destroying millions of hectors of agricultural fields and expose nearly five million people to its deadly poison. half a million children in vietnam were born with severe physical and mental disabilities all because of agent orange. no u.s. government nor the chemical companies that made the herbicide have paid a single cent in compensation to those whose lives were destroyed by their work their only relief has come from the vietnamese government and various international organizations like the red cross who have set up so-called peace villages their affected children get their chance to live a life with as much normality as their conditions allow pound woman who can treat kids and then detain them at the same time we only get fifty cents per child from the government but we need more of course to help the children in the home they study in a school on site play with friends living in the village and get medical and physical treatment from the doctors but not many of them will ever grow to be fully

independent and self-sufficient adults and that is the harshest of all their burdens. even if the united states paid some compensation for what they did no money can give my daughter her life back nothing can pay for this pain. gas runners are r.t.e. vietnam u.s. officials warned of rising and a chinese sentiment in washington could spark a core playing trade war with beijing that's despite china being america's biggest creditor and its number two trading partner but as r.t. has gone at chicago reports the chinese aren't the only improvised bogeyman on the u.s. horizon. when the economy's bad unemployment heart i blame china many u.s. politicians use that tactic to get elected this year maybe you ought to run for senate trying something close to hatred is being promoted against china here to the

point when new york city mayor michael bloomberg said enough is enough. i think in america we've got to stop blaming the chinese and blaming everybody else and take a look at ourselves but china is not the only scapegoat u.s. politicians used to score points. when it comes to security and defense issues there's a host of other countries actively promoted as boogie man in the u.s. flyers like this are being turned out by a major conservative think tank in washington they're designed to form a negative public opinion on the landmark arms control deal with washington that's up for ratification in the senate it would be absolutely wrong for anyone to try to demonize russia at a time when we need russia's cooperation in order to limit the amount of nuclear weapons when it comes to the future of the start treaty the ramifications of

washington's fear mongering policy can be destructive as far as i'm concerned forget about reset by not ratifying start by not going forward with deputy accession we are just going to bolster that latter group that people don't want to do business with the west sending mixed signals has become normal business in washington d.c. has the media organization which oversees america's international broadcasting walter isaacson has recently included the country's suppost partners china and russia on his list of america's enemies as he put it a statement that he later backtracked on speaking of capitol hill is popular trending demonizing china michael bloomberg warrant that the cahsee quincy's may backfire badly if you look at the us you look at who we're electing to congress to the senate they can't read i'll bet you a bunch of these people don't have passports we're about to start

a trade war with china if we're not careful only because nobody knows where china is nobody knows what china is. fear mongering thrives where there is a lack of information with ignorance making people more susceptible to boogie man theories and some us politicians take advantage of it but a question they don't answer is the fear will be able to remedy the country's economic difficulties or make americans more secure get a check on r.t.e. washington d.c. the ratification of the latest russia u.s. arms reduction agreement has ground to hold the new start treaty signed in april should cut the two country's nuclear arsenals by a third but i won't come into force until ratified by both sides something moscow says it's ready to do foreign policy reporter josh rogin explains what's holding washington back. if they've made this decision that they want to postpone the vote on the agreement on next year or if they just want it to go down altogether or not pass at all that's a decision that's going to be made totally absent of the rational substantive

arguments for against the treaty how it affects our security this is pure politics it's not really about the merits of the treaty it's about the politics of republicans versus the obama administration you've got the public in leadership who wants to sort of see if they really think this could be a benefit to national security and then you've got this far right group marriage foundation and their friends in some party some members of the tea party caucus who are just going to be against it off together who stands to benefit those who want to put an end to the u.s. russia reset as put forth by the obliteration the bottom line here is that what they have to benefit is to deliver a huge foreign policy failure to the bomb ministration what we have here is their white house putting all of the credibility of the reset process on this agreement and it's also one of the only few foreign policy successes that they can really tout this year so if this goes down this looks very bad for obama it looks very bad for the senate democrats it looks very bad for those republicans who want to work with senate democrats there is a new thinking about russia both in the administration and in congress but for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction so those who are skeptical of

the u.s. russia relationship are ripping up their efforts to oppose this new dynamic and that's what we're seeing here and unfortunately the takeover of the house foreign affairs committee by a noted russia skeptic representative ross leighton and points to increased power for this group within congress minority and small as it may be for resisting further u.s. russia cooperation so it's much easier to thwart initiative then to implement it so what we're going to see here is increased attempts by those who are russia skeptics to push back against the administration's efforts to improve relationship with russia and the administration will have to read but its efforts even more to overcome that we just don't know yet how it's going to play out. that was foreign policy reporter josh rogin there and still to com the program old classics are never forgotten as violence and dominates modern day t.v. parents are turning their kids towards old soviet cartoons.

and. bringing that story later in the program before the palestinians are demanding the giant israeli barrier that surrounds them to be torn down as a world marks the international day against the wall some locals are using the five hundred kilometer long fans for their own benefit and while palestinians are organizing wall tours to showcase their oppression some israeli companies are cashing in. honey a mare lives on a hot piece of real estate but it's not because of his view seven years ago the israeli army bills had sworn in front of his house and behind it and to the sides of it so that now he's completely closed in this gate he's only contact with the outside world and he's the only one with the keys but over our shoulders trying different ways to get me to move they try to force and also by offering me money

indirectly they offered me an open chair and told me how my life would change if i took the money and left the country construction on the wall began eight years ago among the nine hundred forty nine armistice line between israel and the palestinian west bank israel insists it's for security but palestinians complain it's a part and the international court of justice has said it breaches international law since the wall was built so i want to clear as well as keeping people out it's also been bringing others in businessmen who his son runs what he calls alternative to is and brings tourists to see israeli settlements checkpoints and border fences but his highlight the wall of the mill mine mainly the work he was shot i have a lot of have been occurring in the polls you know on the have like some jewish people come with an offer of to have jewish americans but jewish israelis aren't allowed to sign up to go into the palestinian territories it's shutting this growly

i mean i as a fan of pink floyd that i thought that this world belongs to belong to the past so this is this people here they cannot get inside jerusalem nobody some of them there but they have to go through checkpoints. you know what's the box like. israel insists the walls kept suicide bombers out army spokeswoman avatar leibovich says most of its nearly five hundred kilometers is infected fence with less than four percent. concrete in the entrance to bethlehem you will see a concrete wall because in two thousand and four fifty percent of the suicide bombers that entered israel came from bethlehem so only in those places that has extra security sensitivity that's where the concrete wall was built elsewhere as you can see here we're talking about a regular fence with electronics but there's nothing regular about caging people in say this israeli couple who are taking the wall on to

a goal to gussy is leaving for america where she's arranged to give talks and raise money to help palestinians you know surrounded by a wall and that she can't live without having certain candidates. here live in poverty but the war means money for some travel agencies winning business from showcasing or perhaps revealing in israeli security measures. if you're planning a trip to the holy land gone are the days of visiting traditional religious sites now if you go online you'll find the ultimate counterterrorism mission a tour with the army or territories a a tour that involves a palestinian raid but it's no holiday for honey because while tourists can come and go he's stuck hear him didn't buy an israeli wall paula sphere our t.v. israel. and a prominent russian journalist who was brutally beaten in moscow is still recovering in hospital after a close brush with death two attackers pounced on

a lead caution with metal rods on friday night president retributive says it was clearly not a random assault and has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice police have so far been unable to identify and locate the attackers who were caught on camera cautions beating has sparked an al cry in russia and abroad the journalist made a name for himself by slamming several high profile government officials investigators say cautions professional activity was the most likely cause for the a tap. a top afghan government official has been killed by a roadside bomb in the in the country they also reported two of its service members were killed in action in afghanistan over the past twenty four hours and the u.s. led international coalition is struggling to bring peace to the country as the alliance plans to begin a troop drawdown next year however britain's top military commander says at least a thousand u.k. troops might stay after twenty fifteen. or you say the death toll has risen

to twenty eight in southern iraq after a series of blasts thought to be targeting shia muslims at least ten of the dead are iranian pilgrims who were visiting the holy cities of karbala and the job when the first two explosions happened a third bomb rocked a busy marketplace in the city of basra falls last week's attacks which killed more than sixty mainly shia neighborhoods of baghdad. the death toll from an al break of color in haiti has risen to over five hundred about eight thousand others are in hospital with growing concerns that the disease spread to the capital port au prince authorities fear of the outbreak could worsen after a hurricane last week triggered floods and mudslides and forcing people to drink contaminated water. police have started clearing thousands of protesters trying to block a nuclear waste convoy from reaching a storage depo in north germany activists. the poles the government's commitment to nuclear energy and claim the waste facility is unsafe the car his journey has been

disrupted by demonstrations along the way since it left france four days ago protest looks set to rage on despite police using tear gas and the tons on campaigners on sunday. the death toll in two weeks of eruptions from indonesia's most volatile volcano has risen to one hundred fifty three residents of the city at the base of mount are fleeing afraid that the volcano will erupt again it is still spewing ash though it has not had a major eruption since friday the ash clouds from the delhi volcano forced several commercial flights on monday to cancel departures and landings and jakarta airport . despite the odds soviet cartoons remain a favorite with both kids and adults in russia and beyond and as criticism towards modern day telly and its obsession with violence rises a number of parents are turning to old school cartoons as a way of educating their kids yet was huge funding cuts the future is looking bleak

for those drawing out the future reports. time in the must give each household. on the telly not the latest animation creations rather old soviet classics i mean apart from many other things these cartoons lay the very basics of my concepts about life what's good and bad what's bible and what's to be ignored. whether you like them or not these old cartoons have a huge following throughout eastern europe in the former soviet union and new generations are just as captivated. yes they gave us a very good message. to mental many say they prefer soviet cartoons even if they're decades old to western creations in one called hedgehog in the fog the little hero has to find his courage and some friends to help him out of

the mist. but mostly it's about good over evil he was lonely and fearful in the fog not able to tell who or what was around him but then he was helped by his friends and was rescued to hear the cartoons creator sees that works like his to live a healthy morals to children as well. we're speaking of humaneness pope john paul the second used to say if you want to bring up your children in a humane way show them some of your cartoons there you are. one of the most famous is culture of russia. where the furry little hero learns lessons about life and friendship with his crocodile friend again or another just you wait who can wolf chases a hare but without the violence of some of its western counterparts. when i was small i loved to watch just to wait as for who is my favorite character i always pitied the world for the wolf was perhaps my favorite more than the hair. and here was one of the homes of modern russian animation the center of national film in

moscow has helped create welcome stroker a new animated feature film about the famous one nine hundred sixty s. . so far it's sold well but its critics say it is just a copy of american cartoons. certainly there are some american clichés nonetheless is a unique product a unique russian picture we tried gathering as much information as possible about the fifty's and early sixty's to demonstrate it in our film despite the team's hopes some old russian cartoon makers worry that the innovation of the soviet era is over the reason capitalism in the financial crisis have slashed state funding in half. with state sponsored films one could take a risk the film that didn't go to distribution could be written off the program produced it these days would never take risks he just wants to make money from films. which means that for now the mascot children who stick with the current their parents watched soviet and russian animators have long innovated despite

a lack of funding the cartoons they created scene if anything to be growing in popularity with the current funding situation as bad as it is the question is whether the question animation can survive to inspire children like these. we are aligned ria twenty four hours a day was many more stories in many years and here's a taste of what you'll find right now on. the new mayor of moscow is now tackling the city's most pressing issue traffic has outlined basic measures aimed at solving the problem. and saying sorry might be more difficult than it sounds but don't worry as a new service guarantees will be forgiven and off first to apologize to loved ones on your behalf details on r t dot com.

and charles here are the latest from the world of business report that russia's governor. may sell stakes of a b. bank to a u.s. investment firm so what more can you tell us oh that's right according to color sun newspaper the government was sell ten percent of the state. capital and used merrill lynch to manage the deal more details on this later in the program but first our business leaders across the world are continuing to lash out at the u.s. decision to print an additional six hundred billion dollars in new stimulus money central bankers and economists warn of inflation new bubbles and hot money inflows and russia could be on the receiving end of the more touch on covert reports. to me last war and. the biggest offensive from the west strong has washington's decision to print new hundreds of billions on greenbacks japan was first with over sixty billion dollars of financing but the us shot back with

a round of stimulus ten times as big huge waves of hot money are expected to hit man in the eastern and southern emerging economies russia's official response so far is surprisingly positive but it could be some additional capital inflows into russia of course you know interest currently foreign capital is very small and we are interested in attracting further capital so in the short term this move can be seen as a plus for us. but to many voices are critical germany calls the u.s. policy clueless it will lead to artificial economic growth in the u.s. asset prices bubbles all over the world and eventually in march higher inflation that will erode incomes and savings if you are a businessman and you want to get a credit to develop your business the bank would incorporate this inflationary expectations in its great policy in the streets which eventually would mean that

troops would go up. create their t.v. too as a result would slow. analysts say developing countries inflation is already quite high and they cannot match the u.s. moves by increasing their own money supply so analysts predict the dollar will depreciate against many currency is speculator of capital will do stock markets and keep assets overvalued bernanke his words higher stock prices will do to consumer wealth increase confidence and spurs spending analysts say this is simply a rerun of the acid bubble before the crisis burst as it must once again that's an appellate court of business are to. now russia's government may sell ten percent of state owned bank to the us investment capital this is according to russian newspaper. daily paper reports that merrill lynch could manage the deal which is estimated to be worth three billion dollars this will be the first day of the state

privatization program announced earlier this year. time now see how the markets performing on the balance yes they can take the front so far that comes off a good session on monday energy majors among the top janus will top the winners this anything for another half percent mark rubenstein for metropol says investors invest in stocks. in addition to their easier with male students and increasing expectations about russian market konami growth russia still offers high interest rates and money always cheer you see their high returns some point they'll depressed interest rates and some point interest rates will start coming down but so far they're much higher than international interest rates and that leads to extra inflow of their international capital into russia that could create asset bubbles which other economies and russian officials are concerned about right i

think we noted that point yeah so i think there. inflationary pressures there we see this to a manageable and so in my view yeah give us more money. i'm moving over to asian stock markets that are lower tracking the decline in u.s. shares some investors took a break on the recent market rally make a stall in the. german factory alcoa fell as that of the region's largest economy is slowing down no zero point eight percent decline surprised economists had expected again as also a full and long for goods from europe's top exporter as the region's governments cut spending. on the price of gold it's reached another historic level exceeding the fourteen hundred dollars per ounce mark analysts say the precious metals value could continue to climb due to low interest rates the european sovereign debt crisis and jitters over the global economic slowdown ireland as outlined his tax

and spending plans that you use monetary affairs commissioner as a struggle to avoid a greek style bailout it would trim next year's budget by the you could rent at eight billion dollars but with few investors willing to lend to the country its cash reserves may run out by the middle of next year experts doubt the country can afford even the more this five percent interest offered in the great west. the bric countries will spearhead the growth of global tourism according to a world travel market report with many south american and european markets already developed to operate is looking keenly at other emerging destinations in jail and china will increasingly attract generate tourists while european travel companies see russia as a key growth markets. that shop they face out by most tories on a website. with.

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welcome back here with our tears a look at the top stories the side effects of a vietnam war are raging on destroying thousands of lives with many vietnamese saying no amount of us compensation can give them back their health american army sprayed some twenty million gallons of a poisonous herbicide causing death as well as birth defects in. china get some

competition as a bogeyman with washington using the start treaty to make moscow the new scapegoat in town to go shooters of the arms deal war and a smear campaign could become destructive to the ratification and the relationship between the two. and palestinians are marking international day against a wall by demanding israel breaks a barrier with a palestinian west bank but some locals are making money out of the separation israeli companies are using the site as a tourist attraction and are organizing tours showcasing the five hundred kilometer long wall. the g. twenty summit is to keep off in south korea later this week where u.s. chinese economic disagreements are expected to loom large in the u.s. has been pushing china to revalue its currency while other countries have accused washington of deliberately weakening the greenback u.s. economist michael hudson says the meeting and so will not bring an end to the global currency wars.