i mean he's bad unemployment hard to blame china many u.s. politicians use that tactic to get elected this year maybe you ought to run for senate trying to get 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 bogeyman 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 of people who 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 supposed 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 trend in demonizing china michael bloomberg warrant that the cahsee quinces 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 bogeyman theories and some u.s. politicians take advantage of it but a question they don't answer is a beer will be able to remedy the country's economic difficulties or make americans more secure get a check on our team washington d.c. . all right well while politicians are trying to bring peace to the middle east thousands of palestinians say they're living under an apartheid a barrier almost a seven hundred kilometers long has been dividing the west bank years israel says it's for security but palestinians insists it's segregation and went to check on

what's hiding behind the peace facade. 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 his only contact with the outside world and he's the only one with the key bridge over our shoulders trying different ways to get me to move they tried to force and also by offering me money indirectly they offered me an open check and told me how my life would change for it 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 party 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 people 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 it shutting this well we 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 because i know deep inside jerusalem nobody some of them there but they have to go through checkpoints. you know what's the what's like. israel insists the walls kept suicide bombers out army spokeswoman avatar leibovich

says most of its nearly five hundred kilometers is infected feigns 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 leave without having certain candidates. 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 two is like the ultimate counterterrorism mission a tour with the army territories and 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. well still ahead for you in the program here on the toxic legacy u.s. soldiers left vietnam decades ago but find out how america's controversial use of chemical warfare continues to cause suffering. while after staying out of the limelight since leaving office almost two years ago america's forty third president is now having his own say on his time in office in his memoir decision points george bush reveals his thoughts on the most historic and

controversial parts of his presidency for more on this are now joined by a british radio host john gaunt. you tell us on this so in his book george bush says that he personally approved the interrogation technique of waterboarding of terrorist suspects and says it saved lives in the u.k. and elsewhere was he right to do so do you think. well it's an amazing admission isn't it he said that he asked is it legal his lawyer said yes it was of course we here in the u.k. say it's illegal and one of the ministers came out and said so kim howls of the former labor government he also says of course study saved life. and a possible attack on canary wharf which is the financial district out of modern financial districts of london again labor ministers who were in power the time are denying these claims are saying maybe he's over blowing it but of course one has to ask the question is it ever right to torture we wouldn't torture people in the united kingdom so is it right to use evidence that is gained under those forms of

interrogation stroke torture just a question we have to ask ourselves before the bleeding heart liberal start getting really upset about this we've also got to remember these were extraordinary times i think oh never ever forget that clip of president bush is reading children churches stories to children seven minutes before he actually says any then imagine what it must have felt like to say you know here in india air from one of the aids mr president america is under attack we haven't been through all the americans haven't been through and then like that before certainly a year or so ago out of probably said yes any means necessary if it's going to protect british and american lives but after what's come out recently about guantanamo bay etc etc and some of the unsavory perhaps is our own secret services have been alleged to be getting the truth then one has to consider that again doesn't it or which is as you say is an exception or is most of that we can accept people that are not bush also describes the acts prime minister tony blair as his

closest foreign ally when it comes to the issue of iraq he says twice in the book but twice he gave blair the chance to drop his support of the iraq war but blair said even if it means losing my government i'm still going in how did blair blow its legacy by doing so and why did he come out how to bush. well of course over hey we was portrayed as a poodle to bush and if you read blair's own book as well when he says he was willing to lose the government he was says he what he means by that he was quite willing for members of the cabinet and the government to vote against him it was a very very close vote as you remember and of course it will spawn on our forty five minute claim in the dodgy dossier of ourself was in favor of the invasion of iraq i still agree with pushing blair to a certain extent that they got rid of an evil tyrant but one has to say there was no real evidence was there in the end of weapons of mass destruction and blair misled it all was laid lead to mislaid the british public his legacy is so badly

damaged by this you are correct two million people marched on the streets of london blair ignored them and in his book today george bush effectively says he had no regard for british public opinion and a lot of people in britain sort of says this illustrates the disconnect between mainstream politicians in the united kingdom and perhaps in the states and their constituents and their and their people which is why people are getting fed up with mainstream political policy as a clearly as tomorrow you claire is out of your reasoning george bush does say in his book that he simply didn't care what the british members of the u.k. thought about the invasion he was just going to work unilaterally here but moments ago see bush was saying he invaded iraq aid to look for w m d's now you're saying ok you dispute the fact they were never found but he was also an american he was claiming that he was attacked on nine eleven he was blaming iraq but there were no iraqis involved with the attacks on nine eleven and he still approve of course you still approve the invasion the do you do approve of the invasion because i think it

was all about regime change and i think air bush was basically quite gone how about the fact there's been about rivet regime change there was no way that tony blair would have ever got that through the houses of parliament if he'd said it was purely about regime change he said it was about the weapons of mass destruction that was the far. another thing that i felt was the full justification for going as we now know that dossier was incorrect that dossier was wrong however we still got rid of an evil dictator and let's keep the ship perspective that's the important part of it as well saddam hussein was removed now so i'm very briefly i am running out of time here but do you think this book you think will help to restore bush's stained image or simply make it worse. it's going to make it worse is that when you started by saying tony blair where was he staunch ally he was only ally i don't think he's a saudi friend in the world it is amazing to me that he's come out with such a blunt book to be actually honest with you i thought he would have candy coated it

a little bit a bit like blair did in his book but it's fascinating reading these were extraordinary challenge it's an extraordinary part of world history and history will be the final judge indeed john go on british radio host thank you thank you. well doctors say a russian journalist who was severely beaten up in moscow is still in a critical condition oleg kashin was rushed to hospital after two men assaulted him with a metal rods on friday night nearly beating him to death russian lawmakers say they'll consider a draft that would toughen punishments for attacking journalists cautions assault follows a series of attacks on reporters in russia in recent years vesta gaiters named cash and work for the commissar newspaper and his internet blog as the most likely cause for the incident the journalist made a name for himself by slamming several high profile government officials now president dmitri medvedev their first vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.

well the far right british national party is back in court to face charges that its membership rules discriminate against non-whites the equality and human rights commission is behind the legal action and is demanding that causes it says are racist are removed let's now get more details on this from marty's a lawyer everett who is following the case for us live from london hello to you so to tell us more about the b.n.p. is constitution and why is it caused such outrage. well this is a case that the original legal battle began last year when the b.m.p. was ordered to remove a claw through its constitution that banned nonwhite members and this court appearance that's going on on monday and tuesday this week is about failing to failing to comply with that order because the equality and human rights commission says that there are still clauses in the b.n. piece constitution which are discriminator e and racist they cite two specific clauses one that still requires

new members and existing members to oppose the assimilation or integration of what the b.n.p. calls indigenous british people which has to be construed as meaning white people the equality and human rights. commission says that that's impossible for those who are in mixed race relationships and another requirement of joining the b.n.p. is that new members submit to a two hour vetting visit at their home just by existing b.n.p. members and the equality and human rights commission says that that could be intimidating for nonwhite prospective members and basically what they're saying is that nick griffin the party leader is playing with he has slightly amended these clauses and done what he calls suspended and no one's quite clear about what that means the equality and human rights commission accuses him of being a persistent offender and also a lawyer lying when he says that he doesn't understand what the terms of the order are and we're not sure whether this case is going to be decided on tuesday but the

party faces a hefty fine they have to may have to pay their legal costs and possibly have their assets seized as well now lower despite his potentially radical views the b.n.p. has grown in popularity what do you think are the reasons behind this rise. well we've seen that across much of europe haven't we right wing politics all over europe really has gained quite a lot of ground in the last eighteen months these right wing parties are more playing up the support of people who feel that the mainstream political parties aren't supporting them in their beliefs that immigration is out of control that domestic societies are being diluted by immigration and that is always particularly common in times of recession the b.n.p. one two european parliamentary seats in two thousand and nine and that really was the pinnacle of its achievement the party faithful see this particular case is going on the moment as a win win situation the old adage there's no such thing as bad publicity and

earlier today i spoke to our john walker who's the party manager let's hear what he had to say about it regardless of the outcome or think it's a win win situation differently you know if it's a throw it out if they don't throw it out the. door the general public will see that once again we are the dogs and we're being picked on for what we believe in. walker also told me that the b.n.p. is signing up hundreds of new members every week but regardless of what they might say they are certainly in trouble these these european parliamentary seats that they want in two thousand and nine really that's the best that they have done in may's general election they had high hopes the winning parliamentary seats but in fact they won none and they also lost all but two of their local council seats and since then the party's been beleaguered by public sparks a leadership contest which went horribly wrong with a lot of expulsions and really if the enemies of the b.n.p. and thinking of unite against fascism and mainstream political parties they

couldn't have planned that better if they'd done it themselves in terms of division in the party the result of this case also may be that nick griffin may lose his european parliamentary seat he because of the way the party stacked up is personally liable for the debts of the party or certainly could be under the terms of the judgment that's going to be released some sources say that debt and legal costs already run for over a million dollars which apparently nick griffin won't be able to afford to pay he may have to declare himself bankrupt which would automatically mean that he had to give up his european parliamentary seats so be n.p. to a certain extent may be imploding again it's not clear whether decision will be made on this case but we'll keep you up to date when that happens or indeed r.t. is already reporting live from london thank you for. the vietnam war thirty five years ago but the suffering it created remains to this day the us used poisonous herbicide called agent orange to destroy forests on agricultural land but

the deadly chemical also killed hundreds of thousands and continues to cause horrific birth defects you may find some images and caterina as i was reported disturbing. no maybe one of only five socialist states in the world but its economic progress is knowable. business is booming hirees offices sprout up everywhere and the people have opportunities to improve their lives but that wasn't a vietnamese struggle and not friendship reasons. that saying all is fair in love and war has been used to justify many military decisions but when during the vietnam war the united states began deploying chemical weapons nicknamed agent orange over this country not many could have predicted that those from the most well be the soldiers on the battlefields but their children most of whom one even born at the time. hootie 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 suckers of the hospital. and the doctors did some blots that's one 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 ranch 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 disability 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 there is 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 for one who can treat 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 while 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 baits some compensation for what they did no money can give my daughter her life back nothing can pay for this pain.

gas runners are our team vietnam. and there's always much more for you to sink your teeth into on our website that's all i'm waiting for you there right now you can find out how. many iraqis to smuggle alcohol to neighboring iran at the risk of their freedom. chasing beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of fake cosmetics flooding the market all the details whether. the business news with korea. our welcome to our business program here in r.t. and we go straight to our top story gold and silver surged to a record high fueled by inflation and eurozone sovereign debt woes gold is hovering around peak levels exceeding the fourteen hundred dollars per ounce mark silver is

also maintaining its gains having risen to a thirty year peak and say the demand for precious metals could continue to climb and with low interest rates the european sovereign debt crisis and just as over the global economic slowdown. well for more of the prices for precious metals we're now joined by and my knowledge flood via senior trader at e.t.f. capital from london hello and thank you for joining the program is there a clear link between this latest surge that we've seen in the gold price and last week's decision by the us to print up to a trillion dollars in new money. i think there is a very good link arena between what the us federal reserve did last week in pumping more money into the us economy and the way gold is behaving at the moment what they've served to do is put more money in the economy this is to depress the price of bonds depressing the price of the dollar as well and this is a natural catalyst to push the price of gold higher and so what we've seen in the

last few days is the price of gold pushing through that fourteen hundred dollars level push your moves are not good for the foreseeable future is is difficult to see where this rally would end a lot of market commentators are saying that there's a bubble like conditions within gold with a bubble like conditions we're not seeing the volatility that you typically expect in a bubble like in the tech bubble of the late ninety's early two thousand the housing bubble of a couple of years ago now speaking of this price target i mean is there any other price hike is there what's the price target for the gold rally and do you think that basically the gold price is driven by traders themselves. well it's difficult to put a price tag at the moment i see the round figures as obvious levels for gold fifteen hundred dollars now that it's broken through for three hundred would be the next level up from there above that you possibly got two thousand dollars which is a massive increase in the underlying price of gold but you're seeing more and more

traders buying futures contracts and i think most importantly by e.t.f. sixteen traded funds and that's serving to push the price of gold higher now it's questionable whether these contracts will be deliverable through the online where there is there is enough of young acid there. to. be able to be delivered if the futures contracts work take is expiring so it's a difficult situation we're told that he could come screaming back down if it does choose to sell off now over the past decade we've seen many governments selling their holdings of gold who owns most of the gold now days you think. wolf on the enough the u.s. government still owns the vast majority of the world's gold is obviously held at fort knox and they've been they've been steadily increasing their stake. as it has been well documented sold large reserves of these gold a few years ago down near the lows we still own a significant chunk but then of the u.s. you've got germany you've got the i.m.f. does still hold a very large stake people would think that china would hold a super significant amount it comes to around about number seven in the world and

is mainly the u.s. and the european countries that dominate the top five and do governments actually own enough gold to say return to the gold standard. i think it depends on which government certainly the u.s. government and if they colluded with the likes of the i.m.f. and the european governments then yes i believe we could return back to the gold standard but that would be on the extreme conditions well thank you very much for joining us in the program that was senior trader at capital talking called prices thanks very much. now let's have a look at how the markets are performing at this hour stocks in the u.s. are mixed in early trading a decline in financial companies overshadow a better than expected forecast at priceline it's eight percent boosted by growth in hotel bookings and international flights gold is extending its gains as investors continue to buy on fears of inflation and a weaker dollar and shares in europe have also climbed to their highest level in

more than two years on tuesday following better than expected results from adecco and barclays dechen start quarter profits surged forty two percent and barclays britain's biggest banks that its capital ratio remained strong while makes gains of about eighty seven dollars a barrel in europe supported by rising stock markets and we could dollars well. that's all we have time for now join me next hour for more business news here in r.t. . for

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