when the economy's bad unemployment heart 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 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 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 us you look at who we were electing to congress to the senate they can't read 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. fear mongering thrives where there is a lack of information with ignorance making people more susceptible to. this and some us politicians take advantage of it but a question they don't answer is it here will be able to remedy the country's economic difficulties or make americans more secure going to check on our take washington d.c. . well u.s. foreign policy changed significantly during the george bush era especially following the nine eleven attacks and 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 and it is memoir decision points he reveals his

thoughts of the most historic and controversial parts of his presidency and for more this let's now talk to us independent filmmaker and blogger danny schechter. there danny thank you for joining us now in his book george he says that the decision to invade iraq was right even though he was shocked that no weapons of mass destruction were ever found and what do you make of this. well this is a self-justification image or a vision exercise that not only bush is engaging in but his whole team he has his white house media people working with him on a whole media turris had a ghostwriter in the form of one of his speechwriters actually write the book and the focus of it really is less the politics and more george the man you know he grappled with alcoholism and he defeated it he had a good luck in finding a beautiful wife he has two beautiful children the whole focus of the book is to

try to human eyes him and at the same time deep politicized him and so far the american media seems to be going along with this at least on television focusing on the alcoholism focusing on the human side of it and avoiding some of the tougher political issues all right well in the book where he might have focus on these personal things but there are a lot of very politically motivated questions that are still being asked by the public and one of that would be waterboarding now this he said that he personally approved the use of waterboarding to interrogate suspects because he believed it helped prevent terror what do you think of this. i mean i don't think very much of it he's very proud of it he also says well the cia wanted him to do worse things and he didn't do the things they wanted him to do therefore he's even trying to spin this as if he's a humanitarian only choosing the waterboarding option and of course this is a crime in anybody's book it's torture and you know the fact that he's admitting to

it at the highest levels of the government you know shows how pathetic the rule of law is in the world that he is going to be able to admit this without any consequences are you said that he has been humanized that this do you think that humanizing him would be able to justify a lot of the things that he said in the book politically. well you know he justifies his war on terror not because it was successful but because quote we weren't hit so in every mind the a many who died in iraq and afghanistan and europe in all kinds of other terror attacks in india and elsewhere no that's not really of concern to him it's we we weren't hit the american people weren't hit and that's his justification he sort of asserting a negative to prove a positive and this is the kind of logic that's consistent in the book which is written in a sort of a storytelling style homes like

a fairy tale ok well does he admit that responsibility for any of the trouble that he has left brock obama one of which is of course the troubled state of the economy now is it taking responsibility for that. well you know he doesn't really take responsibility for anything it was sort of his bad luck that this happened and he praises obama in the book he praises his surge in afghanistan he speaks very kindly of him he criticizes john mccain for not letting him help him when he ran for office and so he's a little bit miffed by that he criticizes wrapper for calling him a racist out seem to think we did thing that upset him the most in the rapper has now apologized kanye west so you know he stays stays with the trivia he stays with the least significant aspects of it and so does the media that now is basically willing to accept him back as a thoughtful self reflective self-critical person who really was misunderstood at

the time that's the image he's trying to convey and he's getting away with it the some degree in print and many people are taking him to task but on television in the interviews there's a lot of hype and there's a lot of hyperbola where i will thank you very much that was daddy's schecter at independent filmmaker and blocker. and still ahead for you in the program nationalist anti socialist find out why the british political parties membership rules have landed the very party in ports and. talks a legacy u.s. soldiers left vietnam a decades ago find out how america's controversial use of chemical warfare continues to cause suffering. doctors say a russian journalist who was severely beaten up in moscow is still in a critical condition all they did was rushed to hospital after two men assaulted him with a metal rod sort of friday night nearly beating him to death russian lawmakers say

they'll consider a draft that would toughen punishments for attacking journalists captures a soldier follows a series of attacks of reporters in russia in recent years investigators name was worked for the commerce and 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. now while politicians are trying to bring peace to the middle east thousands of palestinians say they're living under a poor third of our year almost seven hundred kilometers long has been dividing the west bank for eight years but israel says it's for security but palestinians insist it's segregation paullus leader 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 these

radio 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 but over all the soldiers try 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 if i took the money and left the country construction on the wall began eight years ago along 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 of hate and the international court of justice has said it breaches international law since the wall was built though ironically as well as keeping people out it's also been bringing others in business man abu 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 we have been occurring in the polls you know on the i have like some jewish people come with an office i have jewish americans but jewish israelis aren't allowed to sign up to go into the palestinian territories it's 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 not deep 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 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 enter 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 onto a goal to gussy is leaving for america which 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 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 territories and a true if it involves a palestinian raid but it's no holiday for honey because while tourists can come and go he's stuck here him didn't buy ms rady wall paula sphere r t israel. the vietnam war may have ended thirty five years ago but the suffering that created remains to this day the u.s. used a poisonous herbicide called agent orange to destroy forests and agricultural lead but the deadly chemical also killed hundreds of thousands and continues to cause horrific birth defects you may find some images of us report starving. vietnam may be one of 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 the vietnamese struggled and not financially 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 all suffer from that most will be the soldiers on the battlefields but their children most at home or even born at a time. hootie whom is thirty four years old but you'd 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 to 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 so you care of her because she's 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 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 there is international organizations like the red cross who have set up so-called peace villages there affected children get their chance to live a life with as much normality as their conditions allow a 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

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. vietnam. well there is always much more to get your teeth into on our website r t v dot com including find out how poverty and despair forces many iraqis to smuggle banned alcohol need to risk their freedom and their life. in a picture perfect sing beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of fake cosmetics flooding the market all the details of our t.v.

dot com. now the far right british national party is back in court to face charges that its membership rules discriminate against non-whites the quality and human rights commission is behind the legal action it is demanding that clauses it says are recessed on the move to now a ruling is expected next week as a law and that reports. this is a case that the original legal battle that began last year when the b.m.p. was ordered to remove a cloth or its constitution that banned nonwhite members and this court appearance that's going on on monday and tuesday this week is about failing to comply with that order because the equality and human rights commission says that there are still clauses in the b.n. peace constitution which are discriminator e and racist they cite two specific clauses one that still requires new members and existing members to oppose this simulation or integration of what

the b.n.p. calls indigenous british people which have to be construed as meaning white people the equality and human rights commission accuses nick griffin the party leader of being a persistent offend 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 belief that immigration is out of control that domestic societies are being diluted by immigration and that is always pretty. peculiarly 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 achievements the party faithful see this particular case is going on the moment as a win win situation the old adage there's no starch thing as bad publicity regardless of the outcome or think it's a win win situation differently. if they don't throw it out the. door the general public will see that 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 no one and they also lost all but two of their local council seats and since then the party's been beleaguered by public spats a leadership contest which went horribly wrong with a lot of expulsions the result of this case also may be that nick griffin may lose his european parliamentary seat and to some other world news this hour british prime minister david cameron is in china for his first official visit to the country he's met with the chinese premier one job who described their talks as food for the camera wants to double trade between the countries but it's also facing

pressure to raise concerns over trying this human rights record. so iran has offered to open dialogue over its nuclear ambitions with six major powers islamic republic is pushing for negotiations to take place in turkey next week four sets of u.s. actions have been imposed on terror on the loose from issued after talks stalled last year it's a national concern still remains over whether iran is developing it. clear weapons are terrible and insists that its program is only for peaceful purposes. as main a pro military political party has won eighty percent of seats in the country's first election in twenty years but the election calls fighting between the rebels and government forces and even forced over fifteen thousand new homes to neighboring thailand the poll has been widely condemned as being fixed with opposition parties alleging fraud but china has praised the results. more than

a five hundred people have been confirmed dead from the outbreak of cholera in height there are still fears that the epidemic could spread to the capital port au prince nearly eight thousand people are being treated in hospitals across the country dozens diagnosed with the disease in the capital authorities also fear the outbreak could worsen after last week's here kate. and time now to check the latest business news with kareena. our welcome to our business program here in r.t. it would 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 sobers also maintaining its gains having risen to a thirty year peak and analysts say the demand for precious metals could him to new to climb amid low interest rates the european sovereign debt crisis and the jitters

over the global economic slowdown. earlier i spoke to my knowledge seen a trader. capital from london and he said that the shop 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 they have 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 acts as a natural catalyst to push the price of gold so what we've seen in the last few days is the price of gold pushing through that for three hundred dollars level pushing all moves are not words for the foreseeable future it 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 years ago. the shares of russian biggest metal companies jumped twenty

percent only for the last two years at a list that most the domestic metal giants are still under ballyards on the stock market while these companies are m m k. but in the court finds that more. mats will was one of the industry's hit hardest by the global financial crisis and it's among the fastest to recover shares of top producers have jumped eighty percent in two years and say they still haven't reached their limits we think the recovery or for construction market. sells well will be the year central or for russian producers the main driver is increasing demand from china the growth of metal consumption in the country has boosted mantles prices to buy three times in pasta gate from some two hundred forty dollars to over seven hundred dollars per ton russia's domestic market also house along with government subsidies

so for the car industry the next driver will be the recovery of residential construction demand for some a finished model products is still twenty five percent below pre-crisis levels to meet the small in from the next to yours. we'll see an upturn in real estate boosting demand for long term mental production if you look at the way those trends the fourth quarter rise looking kind of stable to marginally up words the pro-social for blue skulking call was looking up quarter on quarter metals producers remain undervalued and that includes m.m.t. which accounts for some sixteen percent of all metal priest in the country the shares of the rose four times over the past three years still remains the least valued model stock in russia's top five followed by year for us to match my dinner business r.t. . and now let's have

a look at how the markets are performing stocks in the u.s. are lower this hour a decline in financial companies overshadow a better than expected forecast at priceline it surged eight percent was to buy growth and hotel bookings and international flights cold is extending its gains as investors continue to buy on fears of inflation with end and that we could dollar and in europe a strong batch of corporate earnings help shore up stock markets the footsie close point four percent higher and the dax was up half a percent s. despite mounting concerns that arlen's will have to be bailed out by its partners in the euro zone to stay a stable default shares in rolls royce group up slightly the rise comes after the company won a one point two billion dollar order from china eastern airlines for trent seven hundred engines to power seventeen airbus aircraft here in russia markets closed higher on tuesday as well the r.t.s. finished under two percent higher and the markets ended up over one and a half percent higher gold prices lifted shares of precious metals companies noticed make it was leading on the r.t.s.

up more than three percent but after vos was by far the biggest winner on the line six its shares soared over thirty percent without any corporate news. brewer carlsberg has lost market share in russia where it's the top brand one of the rising cost of grain especially barley. the price of beer however all of calls burke's east european markets grew in contrast to slumping sales in western europe third quarter operating profits rose twenty six percent of the company raised its full year forecast to more than ten billion krohn or one point eight b.n. and. russia is set for a period of rapid growth according to the organization for economic cooperation and development the paris based financial institution says the prospects for leading economies are diverging and basis is forecast on a series of forward looking you call it cannot make indicators the united states germany and japan will also recover strongly the always c.d.c.

says britain france and india will see a moderate downturn however brazil and china face an extended slowdown. and that sort of puts all the update for now join me in the next hour with more business news here on our team thanks for watching.

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tourist would be scared of such cold water. and would never die none was in the arms for me. they are not to. be our researchers. and few more sunlight. in deep water. you're watching our team that's now have a look at our top stories for this hour the u.s. is accused of fear mongering as critics say china and russia are bad about divert attention from domestic failings new york's mayor michael bloomberg says washington is playing in people's hands risking

a trade war with. global pressure. to tear down its seven hundred kilometer barrier in the west that israel says it's for security but palestinians claim they're living under her fate as others cashing in on the segregation. and the vietnam war bad officials. over thirty five years ago but the suffering rages on for hundreds of thousands of vietnamese children born with defects these are the effects of agent orange a poisonous herbicide which the u.s. used to destroy agricultural land. and we can all make disagreements between the u.s. and china are expected to dominate talks at the g twenty summit which kicks off in south korea later this week they're trying to which holds hundreds of billions of dollars of american debt is be pushed by the u.s. to revalue the you want it that's the focus for today's interview as u.s. economist michael hudson speaks to our teens lauren lyster.