politicians use that tactic to get elected this year maybe you ought to run for senate try 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. fliers 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 ratified 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 u.s. you look at who were 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 so wives where there is a lack of information with ignorance making people more susceptible to bogeyman theories 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 of us 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 and he is memoir decision points he reveals his thoughts of the most historic and controversial parts of his reign he

says he was shocked and armed with no weapons of mass destruction were ever found in iraq but nevertheless believes the u.s. invasion of the country was right he also describes his lifelong problems with alcohol and one of the interrogation of terror suspects he says he personally approved the use of waterboarding because he believed it helped prevent attacks former cia officer ray but government says no such methods can ever be justified. well number one it saved no lie that in itself is a big lie the proof is in the putting torture creates more terrorists secondly it could ever be justified by torture is one of the techniques but one of those things is always intrinsically wrong just like slavery or like great or genocide always wrong or george bush is saying. is that some lawyer said he hired to give

them the correct answer so you know you could go ahead and waterboard people waterboarding being universally recognized everywhere but in the white house as torture because you don't care to disengage psychologically from a dependency such as our alcohol without help this business about the almighty intervening and his turning himself over to the almighty is a girl in the extreme he needed professional help and when he listened 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 well still ahead for you in the program going to extremes find out why the british political parties membership rules have landed their party in court and the legacy u.s. soldiers left vietnam decades ago but find out how america's controversial use of chemical warfare continues to cause suffering.

while politicians are trying to bring a peace to the middle east thousands of palestinians say they're living under up or stayed a barrier almost seven hundred kilometers long has the dividing the west bank for eight years israel says it's for security the palestinians insist it's segregation artie's paul sr went to check on what's hiding behind the peaceful side. 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 for 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 i want to clear as well as keeping people out it's also been bringing others in businessmen who his son runs what he calls alternative to is and brings tourists to see israeli settlements checkpoints and border fences but he's 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 have jewish americans but jewish israelis aren't allowed to sign up to go into the palestinian territories where it's shutting this wall where i mean i as

a fan of pink floyd that i thought this world belongs to belong to the past so this is these people here they cannot get inside jerusalem nobody some of them 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 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 are injured by a wall and that she can't live without having certain candidates. live in poverty but the war means money for some travel agencies winning business from showcasing or perhaps revealing in israeli security measures if you're planning a trip to the holy land gone are the days of visiting traditional religious sites now if you go online you'll find two is like the ultimate counterterrorism mission a tour with the army territories and a tour that involves a palestinian raid but it's no holiday for honey because while tourists can come and go he's stuck here him didn't buy an israeli wall paul is here r t israel. 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 post a greater problem than iran he also stressed that moscow is worried that the secretive state conducts its test so close to russia's borders but he said the issue must be resolved through diplomatic means alone north korea has carried out several nuclear tests since two thousand and six tensions increased after pyongyang withdrew from the six party talks addis ababa last year you could read the whole interview with president medvedev on our website that's r t dot com. well there's always much more to get your teeth into on our website again that's our team dot called and clothing line down problem all over t.v. and despair pushes maybe iraqis to smuggle banned alcohol to neighboring iran at the risk of their freedom and their life. and that picture imperfect chasing

beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with tons of fake cosmetics flooding the market all the details that are to me dot com. 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 land but the deadly chemical also killed hundreds of thousands and continues to cause to rethink birth defects you may find some images it got that he does a lot of us 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 that wasn't a vietnamese struggle and not for financial 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 of whom one even more 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 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 to 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 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. we 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. 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 they've some compensation for what they did no money can give my daughter her life back nothing can pay for this pain. castro's r r t vietnam the far right british national party is back in court to face charges that its membership rules discriminate against whites the equality and he will rights commission is beyond the legal action. that clause as it says a racists all removed a ruling is expected next week as artie's a lorette reports. this is a case that the original legal battle that began last year when the b.m.p. was ordered to remove a clause writs constitution that banned known white members and this court

appearance that is 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. piece 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 has 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 beliefs that immigration is out of control that domestic societies are being diluted by immigration and that is always particularly common in times of recession the b.n.p.

one two european parliamentary seats in two thousand and nine and that really was the pinnacle of its 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 was it good to women should you or should be for you know if it's. if the dog threw 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 public spats

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 doctors say a russian journalist who was severely be beaten up in moscow is still in a critical condition all a caution was rushed to hospital after two men assaulted him with metal rods on friday night you'll be beating him to death a russian lawmakers say they'll consider a draft that would toughened punishments for talking journalists questions assault follows a series of attacks on reporters in russia in recent years investigators named passions worked for the commerce not 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 of president dmitri medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice. and out of 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 chinese premier one job described their talks as fruitful cambered was 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 this all but republicans pushing for to go see a shift to take place in turkey next week four sets of u.n. sanctions have been imposed on terror all with the latest round issued after talks stalled last year international concern still remains over whether iran is developing a nuclear weapon but tear rod insists that its program is only for peaceful purposes. gerber has made it pro and military political party has won eighty percent of seats in the country's first election it's what he hears the

election calls fighting between ethnic rebels and government forces and even forced over fifty thousand to flee their homes to neighboring thailand the poll has been widely condemned as being fixed with opposition parties alleging fraud but china has praised the results. officials in haiti have confirmed that the color alberich there has reached the capital port of prose more than five hundred people have already died from the epidemic and over one hundred six but suspected cases are being investigated authorities also fear the outbreak could worsen after last week's cade's of millions across the country are at risk. economic tension between the u.s. and china is expected to dominate the g twenty summit is south korea later this week while america is pushing china its biggest creditor to revalue that's the

focus for today's interview as u.s. economist michael hudson speaks to our. dr michael hudson is a renowned economist he's a wall street analyst he's a professor and he's an economic advisor to countries he's also the author of super imperialism the economic strategy of the american empire recently he's been

outspoken on the global currency tensions what some are calling a currency war and this will be a key issue for leaders at the g. twenty summit which is coming up in south korea so we wanted to get his input i want to thank you for joining us dr hudson now we recently saw last month g. twenty leaders come to some kind of an agreement on not competitively devaluing their currencies with details to come later at this g twenty summit but with no details and with no real way to enforce this do you think it will be possible for them to reach a deal and would it even matter there is no possibility of any agreement when the united states is declaring a financial war on other countries the united states is going to china and saying we want you to commit that comic suicide just like japan did we want you to follow the same thing we want you to revalue your currency we want you to squeeze your companies and we want you to go bankrupt so we can make profit at your expense we

want you the chinese to allow our banks to gamble on your currency make a huge gain on foreign exchange but you. can get out of the problem that we've got them into will you please help us by going bankrupt for our benefit or you can imagine what the chinese are saying they're laughing they're thinking you know are you guys jochen countries don't work like that so the american policy is not only to devalue the dollar but to the global economy with money and this means that other economies are facing an onslaught of american money coming in to buy their way him or build. the real estate company is their currency. you have. to the financial system and the banks acting as an army to raid foreign currencies you don't have a deal unless you have penalties for breaking an agreement if you don't have a penalty for breaking an agreement there is no agreement there is yet another

broken promise that unfortunately the united states has been conducting diplomacy for the last fifty years deals for other people to follow the united states and puts itself over and above the agreements the g. twenty reached by giving more voting power to emerging nations as you know clearly there's been a shift in the balance of power in the world that is starting to be reflected in global governing bodies giving a country a voice in the i.m.f. is like telling an ambassador you can go to times square and you can get a megaphone and you can yell to times square it doesn't make any difference at all i am a philosophy is a very pro-u.s. philosophy. states has a veto power within the i.m.f. the loss of the of the i.m.f. is that in order to increase the economic surplus you have to reduce living standards and you have to actually impose austerity what about the g twenty then

where does that fit in that doesn't have a body of theory that is based on economic austerity for the rest of the world and a free lunch for the united states u.s. president barack obama will meet with chinese leaders jintao on the sidelines of this summit and one of the main issues the u.s. has been pressing for is for china to revalue its currency saying that it's been undervalued its currency to boost exports can the u.s. even make this argument big fiction that the united states balance of payments is caused by trade deficit is caused by a capital outflow of money managers here putting their money abroad and the military deficit. china says look we've been financing your budget deficit with our two and a half trillion dollars in foreign exchange you're spending your budget deficit on military bases around to take aggressive action against us so put your spy planes for they bump into our spy planes to. interfere in our waters you want us to

pay for your military budget threaten to make us do what you want us to do you must be crazy what leverage does the us even have it's the largest debtor nation in the world china is the largest creditor nation in the world the us from lies on china to finance its fourteen trillion dollar debt how does president obama have any leverage the problem obama doesn't really have any leverage at all because he needs a favor from china and from other countries from brazil from. russia from india saying please accept our ious our paper dollars even though we have no way of paying for it and even though we can never pay off these steps please accept them and let us buy out your real estate and your companies with dollars that will never repay other countries dollars what is the point of accepting more dollars so then what is the future of the us dollar as the reserve currency it means that it's finished other countries and basically all the countries at the g.

twenty meeting that are coming up in korea realize that the dollars over the question is how do you bury it in a way that is polite you want to do it slowly you don't want to do it suddenly but very politely they'll to the us your time is over and what does this mean for the future of the us as a global power. shrink because how can it. support its military bases abroad if nobody will accept the stars how can it import from other countries that people won't accept dollars in excess of what the united states earns the united states. won't be able to buy other or invest in other countries abroad because the countries will not let other american or other investors using dollars by their domestic currency to pay for exports or to pay salaries of these companies

so essentially the dollar will be a paper currency that can't be used so the irony of this is that the federal reserve in order to save banks that got into trouble by running crooked dishonest operations to save these banks are sacrificing america's position in the world and when does this all come to a head in korea. meetings i want to thank you so much for talking to us about this it's been a real pleasure thank you very much for having me on your show. a moment when the world has changed forever. thousands passed to nothingness. thousands wounded.

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a trade war with waging. global pressure mounts on to tear down that seven hundred kilometer barrier in the west bank these are all says it's for security but promised in his claim they're living under all partied as others cash in on the segregation. and the vietnam war may have officially ended over thirty five years ago but the suffering bridger's on for hundreds of thousands of vietnamese children one with democrats these are the effects of agent orange a poisonous herbicide which the new west nusa destroyed agricultural land. well with fears over nuclear proliferation still a reality today children and grandchildren of those living in hiroshima when the u.s. dropped the atomic balled at the end of world war two are striving to keep the memory of the horror alive also that history is not repeated part two of our special report is coming your way shortly.