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 us 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. fliers like this are being turned down by a major conservative think tank in washington their designs 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 w t o accession we are just going to bolster that latter group the 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 u.s. 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 why where there is a lack of information with ignorance making people more susceptible to fear and some us politicians take advantage of it but a question they don't answer here will be able to remedy the country's economic difficulties or make americans more secure get a check on our team washington d.c. . well still ahead for you in the program here on the national list and see socialist find out why a british political party's membership rules have landed their party in court and legacy u.s. soldiers left in vietnam decades ago and find out how america's controversial use of chemical warfare continues to cool. doctors say russian journalist who was severely beaten up in moscow is still in a critical condition oh leg cash and was rushed to hospital after two men assaulted

him with 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 investigators name because shien's worked for the comma sun 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 president dmitri medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. while politicians are trying to bring peace to the middle east thousands of palestinians say they're living under an apartheid barrier almost seven hundred kilometers long has been dividing the west bank for eight years israel says it's for security but palestinians insist it's segregation. 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 both 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 i was told just trying different ways to get me to move they tried 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 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 it and brings tourists to see israeli settlements checkpoints and border fences but he's highlight the wall part of my mind mainly the work he was shot i have a lot of people been occurring in the truth you know on the have like some jewish people come with an offer of to have jewish americans but jewish israelis until now to sign up to go into the palestinian territories and it's it's it's shocking this really i mean i as a fan of pink floyd that i thought that this world belongs to belong to the past so this is these people here they cannot get inside jerusalem nobody some of them there but they have to go through checkpoints. you know what's the what it's like. israel insists the kept suicide bombers out army spokeswoman avatar leibovich says most of its nearly five hundred kilometers is in fact 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 her 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. live in poverty but the wall 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 or 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 polish fear r t israel. well 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 that his thoughts on the most historic and controversial parts of his presidency for more on this are now joined by ross baker who wrote a book called family of secrets the bush dynasty america's invisible government and the hidden history of the last fifty years hello to you so in his book george bush says that he personally approved the interrogation technique of waterboarding of terror suspects he says he stands by his approval on that and that it helped prevent further terror attacks what do you make of this. i think that statement

like many of the other statements in the book are basically self-serving probably a majority of americans are comfortable with that statement that if it saved lives it was ok basically the reason the book is called decision points to my mind is it's like talking points all of these things very very carefully considered constructed for a particular purpose and i think that long term purpose is that the bush apparatus is already working on its way to get back into power. well bush says that he still feels sick to his stomach every time here members how the iraq invasion didn't discover any weapons of mass destruction and yet to this day he still justifies the war your take on that. well in family of secrets i reveal another side of this i actually had the opportunity to interview a man who was in direct contact with george w. bush when he was running for president of the united states i described their conversation they were working together on

a book in one thousand nine hundred nine this man asked bush what he intended to do in office because he needed to put something into the book bush actually told him that the one thing on his mind was that if he was elected he hoped to invade iraq and this was quite astonishing to this man he said why do you want to do that and he said you know i've become convinced that you really can't have a successful presidency unless you're seen as the commander in chief you need a small successful war to get your ratings up high enough in order to pass your agenda. well in the book he does describe a life long battle with alcoholism do you think that this perhaps paint symbol human side of him and could it soften the public's impression of him off to such a controversial presidency. no actually my all of these things are very carefully considered for their psychological impact you have to understand he was probably the most packaged candidate in history so all of these things are calculated in fact the this story of his drinking i discovered in my research for five years for a family of secrets that day exaggerated the drinking he is drinking was pretty

normal by the standards of many many people in his circles in texas at that time but by focusing on that they distract attention from other things that were much more deeply disturbing things that i describe in family of secrets. you're saying here in this book is a calculated approach to the bush family getting back in power in the future can you just go a bit further on that what are you saying. absolutely yup and you have to look at a man named karl rove who was a bush family's chief strategist he's been with the family operations in one thousand nine hundred seventy three the most recent elections here in the united states in which was really a sweep for the republican party largely engineered by that very same man karl rove he's very much back there very much back in there working their way back into power the other brother jeb bush the former governor of texas is testing the waters i think it's not impossible that we will see him also running for the presidency of the united states and finally so if i may in his book bush also says that he

regrets the economic mess that he left to current president barack obama is a case of just too little too late. well you have to look at the entire sweep of his administration there one of their principal purposes was to basically defund the government and turn a lot of the government services particularly domestic ones over to private companies profit centers for people who were big funders of his campaign and friends of his so this was a very much of a deliberate effort. a co-author a family of secrets the bush didn't see thank you. well the vietnam war may have ended thirty five years ago but the suffering it created remains to this day the u.s. used the poisonous hope aside cooled agent already to destroy forests on agricultural land but the deadly chemical killed hundreds of thousands and continues to cools birth defects you may find some images and cut a ring out of his report to stopping. vietnam may be one of the only five socialist

states in the world but its economic progress is notable 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 french or 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 a chemical weapon nicknamed agent orange over this country not many could have predicted that those from the most. 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 one and the doctors did some blots 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 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 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 the 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. yes rumors are that r t. well there is always much more for you to sink your teeth into on our website dot com waiting for you there right now you can find out how despair pushes many iraqis to smuggle banned alcohol to neighboring iran the risk

of their freedom and live. picture perfect beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of flooding the market all those details waiting for you. now let's check out some other world news making headlines this hour british prime minister david cameron is in china for his first official visit to the country he's met with chinese premier. they describe their talks as fruitful cameron wants to double trade between the countries but is also facing pressure to raise concerns over china's human rights record. iran has offered to reopen dialogue over its nuclear ambitions with six major powers the islamic republic is pushing for negotiations to take place next week now four sets of u.n. sanctions have been imposed on tyrone with the latest round issued after talks

stalled last year international concerns still remain so over whether iran is developing a nuclear weapon but iran doesn't says that its program is only for peaceful purposes. but. military political party has won eighty percent of seats in the country's first election in twenty years the election cause fighting between ethnic rebels and government forces and even the forced over fifteen thousand to flee their homes to neighboring thailand the poll has been widely condemned being fixed with opposition parties alleging fraud but at this point china has praised the results. well made and the u.s.s.r. almost half a century soviet cartoons are now enjoying a revival renowned for their humor and. these go. old and oldies are rated by fans as a bigger draw than more modern creations despite the huge appeal of soviet animation some say today's cartoonists are struggling to continue their legacy artie's tom

barton reports. it's cartoon time in the mask of 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. board there but if into 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 of beard on but mostly it's about good over evil he was lonely and fearful

in the fog but able to tell who or what was around him then he was helped by his friends and was rescued to hear the cartoons creators say is 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 cartoons day 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 without the violence of some of its western counterparts. when i was small i love to watch just to wait as for who is my favorite character i always pity the world so the wolf was perhaps my favorite more than the hare. 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. . stocks so far is sold well but its critics say it is just a copy of american cartoons before 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. nor 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 characters their parents watched soviet and russian animators have long innovated despite

a lack of funding the cartoons they created seen if anything to be growing in popularity with the current funding situation as bad as it is the question is whether you question animation can survive inspire children like these tom martin r.t. pesca. well gold and silver surged to a record high on tuesday now let's turn over to the world of business leader and try to get some insight on this so why is the price of gold surging up so much well rory the price keeps going up renewed concern over high sovereign debt and euro zone countries and inflationary pressures now one that coming up in the program in just a few moments but first to other stories 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 and flowers and russia could be on the receiving end of them all. parts.

stimulus war and. the biggest offensive from the west strong is washington's decision to print new hundreds of billions on greenbacks japan was first with over sixty billion dollars of freezing but the u.s. shot back with a round of stimulus ten times as big huge waves of hot money i expected to hit man in the eastern and southern emerging economies russia's official response so far is surprisingly positive to. 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 too many voices are critical in germany calls the u.s. policy clueless it's believed to artificial economic growth in the u.s. asset prices bubbles all over the world and eventually a much higher inflation that will erode incomes and savings if you're

a businessman and you want to get a credit to develop your business the bank would incorporate this inflationary expectations you know it's great it's eventually would mean that traits will go up . as a result will slow. analysts say developing countries inflation is already quite high and they cannot match the u.s. moved by increasing their own money supply so analysts predict the dollar will depreciate against many currency is speculative capital will do stock markets and keep assets overvalued in ben 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 broached as it must once again that's in the political of of business are to. gold and service record high fueled by

inflation and eurozone sovereign debt woes gold is hovering around peak levels exceeding the fourteen hundred dollars per ounce mark servers also maintaining its games having risen to a thirty year peak analysts say the demand for precious metals could continue to climb amid low interest rates european sovereign debt crisis and jitters over the global economic slowdown. early i spoke to my knowledge large senior trader at the capital from london and he said that the sharp increase in demand for gold was also heavily linked to the federal reserve's decision to inject another large amount of cash into the market. what 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 and so what we've seen in the last few days is the price of gold pushing through that fourteen hundred dollar level and push your moves are not good for the foreseeable future this is difficult to see

where this rally would end a lot of market commentators are saying that this bubble like conditions within gold well it's 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 it's difficult 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 why. i'm not going to push the price of gold it's questionable whether these contracts will be deliverable into the on line with enough of young. to be able to be delivered if the futures contracts worth take is expiring so a difficult situation we're told that he could come screaming back down if he does

choose to sell off. and now let's have a look at how the markets are doing stocks in the us i make this our i decline in financial companies overshadow a better than expected forecast at priceline eight percent boosted by growth and hotel bookings international flights gold is extending its gains as investors continue to buy on fears of inflation and weak a dollar. and shares in europe are also up at their highest level in more than two years on tuesday following better than expected results from adecco and barclays deco's third quarter profit forty two percent and barclays britain's third biggest . said it's capital ratio remains strong oil makes gains about eighty seven dollars a barrel in europe supported by a weakened dollar. and russian stocks closed higher on tuesday the r.t.s. was up just under two percent and the my six traded over a one a half percent higher gold prices lifted shares of precious metals companies nor is

it was leading on the r.t.s. more than three percent that's up from a solid performance on monday where the mining giant closed four percent higher bucking the trend though was their back that's for over half a percent. so for now join me next hour for more business news here in our.

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years ago. it was the final target. to move through from some from the army. its country became the symbol on the fall of the financial tsunami. big three are nazi germany. we are coming to you live from moscow this is your headlines now the u.s. says it. has critics china and russia. to divert attention from domestic. michael bloomberg says washington is people. risking their trade with beijing. global pressure mounts on israel to seven hundred kilometers

in the west bank israel says it's for security but palestinians claim living. in the vietnam war may have officially ended over thirty five years ago but the suffering rages on for hundreds of thousands of children born with defects these are the effects of. which the u.s. used to destroy agricultural land. well as we heard just a few moments ago with korean business bullets and gold. trading on tuesday now the kaiser report accuses traders and big business deliberately manipulating the precious metals market for maximum profit to stay with us.