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 us politicians use 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 quincy's may backfire

badly. if you look at the us you look at who are 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 get a 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 now 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 it is memoir decision points he reveals his

thoughts on the most a story controversial parts of his presidency now to discuss those let's talk to former cia officer covered thank you very much for joining us now mr mcgovern and his book george bush justifies the use of simulated drowning to interrogate terror suspects helped prevent terror attacks how do you think torture can be justified in this way if it saves lives. well number one it saved no lies that in itself is a big lie the proof is in the putting it creates more terrorists secondly it could ever be justified torture is one of those techniques or one of those things that is all was intrinsically wrong just like slavery or like rape or genocide all was always wrong and the whole civilized world recognized that after world war two that's why we have the international agreements the convention

against torture domestic laws and so forth so this is a departure from what george bush is saying is that some lawyers that he hired to give him the correct answer said you know you could go ahead and waterboard people waterboarding being universally recognized everywhere but in the white house as torture ok well i know there are a decision that he justifies is the war in iraq even though no weapons of mass destruction were ever found what do you think of this attitude. well at least he didn't repeat the justification that he made on the first of december in talking with the interviewer charlie gibson at that point he said we had to attack iraq because saddam hussein wouldn't let the u.n. inspectors in. we know that the u.n. inspectors were already in and we know that it was george bush that asked them to leave this disingenuousness this this story about i was deceived by

intelligence is another lie we have documentary proof in terms of the memorandum of conversation between tony blair and george bush dated january thirty first two thousand and three almost two months before the invasion where bush admits we have no evidence of weapons of mass destruction we'll have to find some other way toward . perhaps we could pay to you in plane a u.s. plane and you in colors and have it shot down by saddam hussein that would be perhaps a cost was fairly in other words it was disingenuous from the get go george bush fully knew that the intelligence seduced was spurious ok well let's go to something a bit more personal now he describes a life long battle with alcoholism the do you think this paints a more human side to him and could it soften his image after such a controversial presidency. that is the intent of his admitting that or playing

several themes on the subject what it tells me is that he really needed to go through a twelve step program you don't get you don't get this disengage psychologically from a dependency such as alcohol without help this person is about the almighty intervening in his turning himself over to the almighty is cynical in the extreme he needed professional help and when he listen to the almighty tell him to invade iraq well that's where it gets really ridiculous it's not the almighty that i know about ok well just very briefly how much value do you think this book has a shouting a light on recent world history. well it's an attempt to whitewash what bush did and the proof will be in whether american citizens or knows or abroad will hold his

feet to the fire and say you know torture is always wrong you committed a war crime. all right thank you very much for your insight this former cia officer ray mcgovern. and still ahead for you in the program nationalist anti socialist find out why the british political parties membership rules have landed their party in court and a toxic legacy u.s. soldiers left vietnam decades ago but find out how america's controversial use of chemical warfare continues to cause suffering. all doctors say a russian journalist who was severely beaten up in moscow is still in a critical condition although a caution was rushed to hospital after two men assaulted him with metal rods on friday night and you'll be beating him to death a russian lawmakers say they'll consider a draft that would toughen punishments for attacking journalists questions assault

follows a series of attacks on reporters in russia in recent years vesta gaiters the questions work for the congress sun newspaper it is internet bloggers the most likely cause for the incident well the journalist made a name for himself by slamming several high profile government officials president dmitri medvedev has valid to bring the perpetrators to justice. while while politicians are trying to bring it peace to the middle east thousands of palestinians say they're living under a perth feed a barrier almost seven hundred kilometers long as been dividing the west bank for eight years israel says it's for security but palestinians insist it's segregation artie's spotlessly or went to a track called what's hiding behind the peaceful 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 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 parties 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 businessmen up to 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 office of jewish americans but jewish israelis aren't allowed to sign up to go into the palestinian territories it's shirting 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 in 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 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 started by a wall and that you can save yourself 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 true if it 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 sphere r t israel. the vietnam war may have ended thirty five years ago but the suffering it created remains to this day the u.s. used a poisonous herbicide called agent orange to destroy forests of agricultural lead but the deadly chemical also killed hundreds of thousands and continues to cause horrific birth defects you may find some images and. report disturbing. 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 thousands of vietnamese struggle and not financially reasons. the 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 a claim agent orange over this country not many could have predicted that those from the most will be the soldiers on the battlefields but their children most at home or even born at the time. 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 of the hospital. and the doctors did some blood tests that's when they said she was affected by agent orange it's very difficult 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 various 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 our homes who can cheat 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. r t vietnam. well there's always much more to get your teeth into on our website r.t. dot com including find out how poverty and despair pushes many iraqis to smuggle bad alcohol to neighboring iran at the risk of bare feet up in their life. and that picture in perfect health chasing a beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of fakers medics plotting the market all the details that are to dot com. now the far right a british national party is back in court to face charges that its membership rules

discriminate against non-whites now the equality and human rights commission is behind the legal action and is demanding that clauses it says are racist are removed now a ruling is expected next week laura emmet 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 the 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 offender 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 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 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 if we you know. we've all 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 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 for winning. parliamentary seats but in fact they won no on and they also lost all but two of their local council seats and since then the party's been beleaguered by publics back a leadership contest which went horribly wrong with a lot of expulsions the result of this case all three may be that nick griffin may lose his european parliamentary seat. and now 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 at all who described 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. so

iran has offered to reopen dialogue over its nuclear ambitions with six major powers the islamic republic is pushing for negotiations to take place in turkey next week four sets of u.n. sanctions have been imposed on terror with the latest round issued after talks stalled last year international concern still remains over whether iran is developing a nuclear weapon but terrible and insists that its program is only for peaceful purposes. berbers main approach military political party has won eighty percent of seats in the country's first election in twenty years the election caused the fighting between ethnic rebels and government forces and even forced over fifteen thousand to flee their homes to neighboring thailand the ball has been widely condemned as being fixed with opposition parties alleging flawed but china has praised the results. officials in haiti have confirmed that the call over

outbreak there has reached the capital port au prince more than five hundred people have already died from the epidemic and over one hundred suspected cases are being investigated authorities also fear the outbreak could worsen after last week's here kate. years across the country are at risk. now the e.u. has fined eleven airlines a total of eight hundred million euros for fixing prices on international cargo shipments karelia is with war this is the business news so can read out what airlines were fined well all our top international airlines like british airways singapore airlines air canada and air france kill them you name it well we'll have more on that in the program but first 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 our say the demand for precious metals could continue to

climb i mean lower interest rates the european sovereign debt crisis and jitters around over the global economic slowdown now earlier i spoke to my knowledge blood was a senior trader at capital from london 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 those serve 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 it is difficult to see where this rally would end a lot of market commentators are saying that it is 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. shares of russia's biggest mobile companies jumped twenty percent only for the last two years and i must add that most of domestic metal giants are still under a value that the stock market among these companies and then k.-u. ever as i do the coach has more. machel was one of the industries 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 markets to solve themselves. will be of the essential driver for growth for russian producers the main driver is increasing demand from china the growth of metal consumption in the country has boosted models prices to buy three times in cost to

kate 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 call industry the next driver will be the recovery of residential construction demand for some a finished metal products is still twenty five percent below pre-crisis levels to meet the small in from the next two years will see an upturn in real estate boosting demand for long term metal production you feel look at the way those trends the fourth quarter rise. kind of marginally up the price of oil for the list coking coal is looking up quarter on quarter metals producers remain undervalued and that includes m.m.p. 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 it remains the least valued model stock in russia's top five followed by year for us to match my dinner

business r.t. . here in russia markets and it is trading day on a positive note the r.t.s. or two percent and the lies ended up over one of the half the sad cargo prices listed shares a precious metals company's girls regularly lead on the r.t.s. getting more than three percent but after vos was by far the big. just winner on the mind six it's preferred stocks soared over thirty percent without any corporate news. and stocks in the us are makes the day after the dow jones snap to six session gaining street with a modest decline go prices reach new highs as the dollar edged high to the tuesday but we could dollar has been a boost for companies that rely on exports and overseas operations for increasing revenue. and you have a strong batch of corporate earnings boosted stock markets as well that puts you close point four percent higher at the dax finished half a percent higher that's despite concerns that our lead will have to be bailed out to steve all the default to stave off

a default sure as the rolls royce group are up slightly the rise comes up for the company one by one point two billion dollars order from china eastern airlines for trent seven hundred engines to power seventeen airbus aircraft. out in other news the e.u. has fined eleven airlines a total of eight hundred million euros to fixing prices on international cargo shipments top international airlines including british airways singapore airlines air canada and air france kayleigh were fined for coordinating their action on so charges surcharges for fuel and security without discounts between one thousand nine hundred nine two thousand and six two thousand that escape the fine as it blew the whistle on the cartel. protocol's brokers lost market share in russia where it's the top brand and more and that rising cost of grain especially barley will boost the price of beer however all of calls brogues east european markets grew in contrast to slumping sales in western europe third quarter operating profits rose

twenty six percent and the company raise its full year forecast to more than ten billion clone or one point eight billion dollars. and finally russia is set for a period of rapid growth that's according to the organization for economic cooperation and development the paris based financial institution says the prospects for leading economies are diverging and base its forecast on a series of forward looking economic indicators the u. west germany and japan will also recover strongly the o.e.c.d. says britain france and india will see a moderate downturn however brazil and china face an extent that slowdown. that's all we have for you for this hour i'll be back with more in about fifteen minutes from now but you can always go untold website r.t. dot com slash business for more stops.

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the official. from the. video. now in the palm of your. home. here with our team let's have a look at our top stories this hour the u.s. is accused of fear mongering as critics say china and russia are being badmouthed to divert attention from domestic failings new york's mayor michael bloomberg says washington is playing on people's ignorance and risking

a trade war with beijing. global pressure mounts and easier to tear down that seven hundred kilometer barrier in the west israel says it's for security but palestinians claim they're living under a fade as others cashed in on the segregation. and the vietnam war they have officially ended over thirty five years ago but the suffering rages on for hundreds of thousands of vietnamese children born with defects and these are the effects of agent orange a poisonous herbicide which the u.s. used to destroy agricultural learn. next to me the children of those who suffered from radiation. after nuclear bombs were dropped on the japanese cities at the end of the second world war. the theory and here's the thing here.