commies bad unemployment hard i 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 the beauty of accession we are just going to bolster that latter group that people don't want to do business with the west sending mixed signals has become normal business in washington d.c. has the media organization which oversees america's international broadcasting walter isaacson has recently included the country's suppost partners china and russia on his list of america's enemies as he put it a statement that he later backtracked on speaking of capitol hill is popular trending demonizing china michael bloomberg warrant that the consequences may backfire badly. if you look at the us you look at who were electing to congress to

the senate they can't read a bit 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. this 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 u.s. foreign policy changed significantly during the george bush era especially following the nine eleven attacks 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

a memoir decision points he reveals his thoughts on the most historic and controversial parts of his presidency now to discuss those let's now talk to the former democrat member of congress tom andrews. thank you very much for joining us tom it is both a pleasure george bush says the invasion of iraq was right because it was about changing the regime pursuing weapons of mass destruction what do you think about the strength of that case. well there is no strength i mean you know it's rather extraordinary for president bush was on national television last night here in united states and he said that his lowest moment the lowest of the low as he described it was when a rap artist kenya west accused him of not caring about black people during the katrina debacle of the failure of the federal government to respond to that hurricane disaster when in fact you have a war against iraq a violation of international law an invasion that killed thousands of american

soldiers. over one hundred thousand iraqis all to go after weapons of mass destruction that did not exist and make it worse you had american soldiers seven hundred of whom lost their lives in iraq because in this war of choice ministration did not think it important enough to provide them with the protective armor but if they had it they would be alive today and in this interview based upon this book the president said his lowest moment was when he was criticized by an american rap artist for his handling of the katrina disaster. i don't think anyone buys this the iraq war most americans the vast majority of americans now believe that it was a tragic mistake and the fact that it was done in the way it was done makes it even even worse well it seems that he's trying to highlight this katrina as well and he had missed some of the mistakes made during his presidency and this is apparently

something that he has kept in his mind to do you welcome his honesty on this and do you think why do you think he's bringing this up as this priority. well i think what he's trying to do is rehabilitate himself i mean as we saw in the last election members of his own political party or ran away from george w. bush he has a very low opinion rating certainly one of the lowest in fact the lowest opinion ratings from americans leaving office of any president in modern american history and i think he's trying to spin his his ministration and his legacy perhaps to get a better judgment from historians than what the american people are giving him now but you know even in those instances in which he admits wrongdoing let's take a train for example what he admits to doing wrong was not stopping in new orleans on the flight back from his ranch in texas from his vacation on his way to

washington that's what he thinks was his biggest mistake with respect to katrina and then telling the man in charge that he was doing a hell of a job i mean this does not even begin to recognize the fundamental failure of leadership of competency and of and of ability to a set priorities that this administration failed to do in in new orleans and certainly in iraq and to mention only two ok let's go on to another very sensitive a point on the interrogation of terror suspects bush says legal advisers told him that simulated drowning was legal and he believes that helped prevent terror attacks in the u.s. now do you agree that this method can be justified if it helps save lives. no it is a it is first of all it is illegal you can get an attorney to say anything you want but the fact of the matter is it is illegal secondly it violates international law it violates the geneva convention and thirdly it puts american soldiers at risk so

that when they find themselves god forbid in an enemy's hands then you feel they're faced with the prospect of having the same treatment given to them that george bush was authorizing given to those who were the united states brought into custody so whether you look at it from the point of view of international law or the point of view of the safety and security of our own armed forces it was a tragic mistake and the fact that the president can't recognize that mistake is not surprising but but again unfortunate ok thank you very much for being here that was former democrat member of congress tom enders. now while politicians are trying to bring peace to the middle east thousands of palestinians say they're living under up orotate of our almost seven hundred kilometers long has been dividing the west bank for eight years says it's for security but palestinians insist it's segregation artie's paulist lire want 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 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 one 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 so ironically as well as keeping people out it's also been bringing others in businessmen abu his son runs what he calls alternative to is and brings tourists to see israeli settlements checkpoints and border fences but he's highlight the wall well 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 it shooting this well we i mean i as a fan of pink floyd that i thought that this world belongs belong to the past so this is people here cannot get inside jerusalem nobody some of them there but they have to go through checkpoints. you know what's the what's life. 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 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 live without having certain permits. 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 i'm a tour that 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 an israeli wall paullus fear r t israel. and still ahead for you in the program toxic the legacy u.s. soldiers left vietnam decades ago or find out how america's controversial use of chemical warfare continues to cause suffering. a new report shows a staggering and ninety two percent of the european union's budget is open to irregularities and corruption the paper also shows the e.u. lost one point three billion euros in fraud and a regular payments last year for some analysis of this we're joined by

a martyr and m.e.p. who sits on the european parliament's budgetary control committee thank you very much for joining us now martha ninety two percent of a large budget that doesn't have to be accounted for that's really a large amount were do you think the money is going. well what i can tell you is the money is not going to the right person for the right purpose and this is enough for the taxpayers to be concerned about this situation i think it is appalling that for the sixteenth year in a row the quarter of all the prelude to cleared ninety two percent of the budget. ok well over the summer we witnessed strikes and violence against a certain measures but what else can the e.u. do to be allowed feeling economies. european union has now been involved in trying to save. countries from the crisis.

if it doesn't succeed in managing properly. the funding then you know i don't think it can provide any solution for the crisis in the different member states ok well to begin with should the e.u. be bailing out those countries. e.u. is interested in bailing out those countries because it is this excess of the ural that is at stake so they are interested in bailing those countries but they cannot use taxpayers' money to bail out countries who have breach rules because you have breached the stability pact ok but what else can be done do you think that the european can do what else can the can be done. well i think the european union should be more serious about controlling who are the european budget is going to be

more serious about finding out about the success of the programs they're running or finding out where the money is really going to and i think the european commission who is the executive arm of the european union should be blamed for the fact that ninety two percent of the european union budget has not got the clearance from the other turds ok will britain's prime minister david cameron help persuade the cap the spending increase of two point nine percent but you still call this an acceptable why's that. well simply because we shouldn't have any increase in the budget firstly because as i said before sixty this is the sixteenth role when the other players have been cleared by the european union budget and they find irregularities year after year that are not resort and secondly because we are going through our severe crisis who are people who are

having trouble to make ends meet and therefore you know we are not in a position to put more money into this european union project. we should be looking to resolve the crisis in the different member states i think cameron is showing this as a success and i think it's a complete failure because he has given in to a two point nine percent increase when he should have come here to brussels to request for a reduction in the european union membership let's go back to a sensitive topic that you were fired for criticizing but you use accounting system as fraudulent and you're quite a fierce critic of the union spending what do you think is the way out of this like always we called it. well the way out is for the european commission to assume responsibility on the funds that are entrusted to the european union

commission phrase to assume responsibility and blames the member states for the funding for the problems in the funds but in reality it is we give the money the taxpayers put the money in the hands of the european commission and it's up to the european commission to exercise the proper controls now i frankly think it is difficult to get any sincere and honest improvement because the people who are handling the funds have been there for many years and have refused to put in place the proper controls ok well thank you very much for insight as marta and various and a member of the european parliament. now president dmitri medvedev has voiced concern about north korea's controversial nuclear program he was speaking to south korean media ahead of the g twenty summit in seoul the russian leader said north korea's ambitions are a challenge to the entire nonproliferation regime and pose a greater threat than iran he also stressed that moscow is worried that the

secretive state conducts its test so close to russia's borders but he says the problem must be resolved through diplomatic means alone north korea has carried out several nuclear tests since two thousand and six and tensions increase withdrew from the six party talks on disarmament last year all of you can read the whole interview with president medvedev on our website that's our dot com. all 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 orange to destroy forests and agricultural but the deadly chemical also killed hundreds of thousands and continues to cause horrific birth defects there you may find some images of us report disturbing. maybe one of the only five socialist states in the world but its economic progress is notable business is booming. everywhere and the people have opportunities to

improve their lives but thousands of vietnamese and not. the saying all is fair in love and war has been used by many military decisions 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 will suffer from that most soldiers on the battlefields but their children most of whom were even born at the time. thirty four years old never guess by looking at or born blind and with many severe. physical difficulties her parents feed and bathe her to this day her life was taken away from her before she was even born. my daughter was born blind and we didn't know why until would soakers of the hospital in one thousand eight hundred one and the doctors did some blot says that's when they said she was affected by agent orange it's very difficult taking

care of her because she's completely helpless completely dependent on us. for a decade american jets dispersed eighteen 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 someone 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 ok they study in a school on site play with friends living in the village and get medical and physical treatment from the doctors but now 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 bade 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 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 their freedom and their life.

and a picture imperfect chasing beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of fake a sweat exploding the market all the details are at our call. while kareen is here now with all the latest in business. how i welcome to our business program it's good to have you with us we start with our top story today gold and so it was such a record high fueled by. and that was gold is hovering around pick levels exceeded . the fourteen hundred dollars mark so it was also maintaining its gains having risen to a thirty year peak say the demand for precious metals could continue to climb amid low interest rates the european sovereign debt crisis and jitters over the global economic slowdown. earlier i spoke to my large larva senior trader at the iti x.

capital from london and he said 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 while those served to do is put more money in the economy this is to do 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 for three 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. that you typically expect of 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 the shares of russian biggest metal companies jumped twenty percent only for the last two years analysts that most of domestic metals

giants are still undervalued on the stock market how long these companies are m.k. you have are as much in the caution and finds out more. matta 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 of trucks and markets. themselves. will be thankful. 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 pasta gate from some two hundred forty dollars to over seven hundred dollars per tonne russia's domestic market also helps along with government subsidies so for the car 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 should look at the way those trends the fourth quarter rise. kind of stable to marginally up the process of the offered 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 pretty used 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 in match my dinner question on business r.t. . and says a new cars and light commercial vehicles in russia rose twenty two percent of the first term longs of this year compared with the same time for the same period

a year ago they association of european businesses has said in october alone sales jumped sixty two percent the total of what i have. million units sold from january took tobermory russia is well ahead of the a forecast for one point six million car sales for two thousand and ten that takes the year to date growth above twenty percent none of top ten best selling models of passenger cars produced in russia. now let's look at the markets here in russia markets ended today's trading day on a positive note the aussie has soared two percent on the mars extended up over one and a half percent higher gold prices lifted shares of precious metals companies noticed nicolette only r.t.s. getting more than three percent but after vas was by far the biggest winner on the minds eggs it's preferred stock soared over thirty percent without any corporate needs. stocks in the us a low of this hour both the dow in the nasdaq are losing point four percent gold

prices reached new highs as the dollar edged high on tuesday a week a dollar has been a boost for companies that rely on exports and overseas operations point to some revenues. and then europe a strong batch of corporate earnings gave a lift to the stock markets the footsie close point four percent higher and the dax finished half a percent that's despite concerns that arlen will have to be bailed out to stave off a default transit rolls royce group are up slightly and the rise comes after the company won a one point two billion dollars order from china eastern airlines for trent seven hundred engines to power seventeen aircraft. in other news the e.u. has fined eleven airlines as a total. a total of eight hundred million euro for fixing prices on international cargo shipments top international airlines including british airways singapore airlines air canada and air france kayleigh are fine for coordinating their action on search charges for fuel and security without discounts that's between one

thousand nine hundred ninety and two thousand and six skip the fine as it blew the whistle on the cartel. and. it's all for me and the business team here but you can always find most stories if you log on to our website and i remind you it's our t. dot com slash. wealthy british style done some time to put it on. target.

market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kinds of reports. here with our t.v. time now to have a look at our top stories for this hour the u.s. is accused of fear mongering as critics say of china and russia being bad to divert attention from domestic failings new york's mayor michael bloomberg says washington is playing on people's faith and risking a trade war with b.j.

. global pressure mounts on ease roll to tear down that seven hundred kilometer barrier in the well. back israel says it's for security but palestinians where you are living under up or tape as others cash in on the segregation. and the vietnam war may have officially ended over thirty five years ago but the suffering major saw for hundreds of thousands of vietnamese children along with the facts these are the effects of agent orange a poisonous herbicide which the u.s. used to destroy agricultural land. next to our financial pundit mark scars or is here to explain how the gold and silver markets are being manipulated by traders and big business to stay with us.