when the economy's 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 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 trending demonizing china michael bloomberg warrant that the consequences may

backfire badly. if you look at the us you look at who are 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 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 u.s. foreign policy changed significantly during the george bush era especially following the nine eleven attacks though 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 of the most historic and controversial parts of his reign he says he was shocked and angry with no weapons of mass destruction were ever found in iraq but nevertheless he believes the u.s. invasion of the country was right he also describes his lifelong problems with alcohol on the interrogation of terror suspects he says he personally approved the use of waterboarding because he believed it helps prevent attacks former cia officer reva covered says no such methods can ever be justified. well number one it saved no law that in itself is a big lie the proof is in the putting torture creates more terrorists secondly it could ever be justified torture is one of the techniques but one of those things is always intrinsically wrong just like slavery. or genocide always wrong or george bush is. 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 if you don't care at every meeting to disengage psychologically from a dependency searchers are alcohol without help this person is 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 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 also ahead for you in the program going to. find out why a british political parties membership rules have landed their party in court and talks a legacy of soldiers left vietnam decades ago but find out how america's workers

are for the use of chemical warfare continues to cause suffering. while politicians are trying to bring peace to the middle east thousands of palestinians say they're living under apartheid a barrier almost seven hundred kilometers long has been dividing the west bank for years israel says it's for security but palestinians insist it segregation artie's policy or want 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 among the nine hundred forty nine armistice line between israel and the palestinian west bank israel insists it's for security but palestinians complain it's a part 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 his highlight the wall of the mill mine mainly the work your shop i have a lot of people 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 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 these people here because i know deep 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 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 onto a goal to gussy is leaving for america where she's arranged to give talks and raise money to help palestinians you know surrounded by a wall and that she can't live without having certain elements. here 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 of north korea's ambitions are a challenge to the entire nonproliferation regime and pose a greater problem than iran he also stressed that moscow is worried 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 on this on the middle last year and you can read the whole interview with president medvedev on our website that's r.t.e. dot com well there's always much more to get your teeth into on all website r.t.e. dot called in to find out how poverty and despair pushes many iraqis the smuggled bad alcohol to neighboring iran at the risk of their freedom and their life. and

a picture imperfect how chasing a beauty becomes a game of russian roulette with thoughts of vegas medics flooding the market all the details are all to dot. 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 the ruling is expected next week as artie's 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 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 p s constitution which are discriminator

e and racist they cite two specific clauses one that still requires new members and existing members to oppose the assimilation 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 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 b.n.p. one two european parliamentary seats in two thousand and nine and that really was the pinnacle of its achievement the party faithful see this particular case is going on the moment as

a win win situation the old adage there's no such thing as bad publicity regardless of the outcome was a good to win win situation for you know if it's. if the dog threw it out the. door the general public will see that we are the only dog 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. doctors say

a russian journalist who was severely beaten up in moscow is still in a critical condition all a good caution was rushed to hospital after two men assaulted him with metal rods on friday night nearly beating him to death russian lawmakers say they'll consider a draft that would toughened punishments for attacking journalists cache and assault follows a series of attacks or reporters in russia in recent years to gator's the clashes were for the calmer sun newspaper and his internet blog as the most likely cause for the incident the journalist made a name for himself by slamming several high government high profile government officials president dmitry medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice the vietnam war may have ended a 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 cost rethink

birth defects and you may find some images and got that you know 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 french all 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 a claim agent orange over this country not many could have predicted that those suffer from that most will be the soldiers on the battlefields but their children most at home or even a boy at a time. booty whom is 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 blots that's when they said she was affected by agent orange it's very difficult to even care of her because she is completely helpless completely dependent. for a decade american jets dispersed eighty million liters of the then brand new herbicide over the territory of vietnam operation ranch ranch did not win the war but did achieve its goal of destroying millions of hectors of agricultural fields and expose nearly five million people to its deadly poison. half a million children in vietnam were born with severe physical and mental 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 probably more 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 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 paid some compensation for what they did no money can give my daughter her life back nothing can pay for this pain. guess who knows r t vietnam. and now to some other world news this hour it is prime

minister david cameron is in china for his first official visit to the country he's met with the chinese premier one job all will describe their talks as fruitful camera was to double trade between the conferees but he's also facing pressure to raise concerns over china's human rights record. iran has offered to open a dialogue over its nuclear ambitions with the six major powers this lawmaker public is pushing for negotiations to take place in turkey next week four sets of us sanctions have been imposed on terror with the latest rout issues after talks stalled last year international concern still remains over well. the iran is developing a nuclear weapon but tehran insists that its program is only for peaceful purposes . burma has made it pro military political party has won eighty percent of seats

in the country's first election in twenty years election caused the fighting between ethnic rebels and government forces and even forced over fifty thousand to leave their homes to neighboring thailand for the ball has been widely condemned as being fixed with opposition parties allegedly fought bus driver has praised the results. officials in haiti have confirmed that the cholera outbreak there has reached the capital forth across more than five hundred people have already died from the epidemic and over one hundred suspected cases are being investigated i thought is also clear the outbreak could worsen after last week's hurricane the millions across the country are at risk. well economic tension between the u.s. and china is expected to dominate the g twenty summit in south korea later this week america is pushing china its biggest creditor to revalue the water well that's a focus for today's interview as it was economist michael hudson speaks to r.t.

. in just a moment. dr michael hudson is a renowned economist he's a. 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 hansen 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 their comics just like japan did we want you to follow the same thing we want you to revalue their currency we want you to squeeze your companies we want you to go bankrupt so we can make a profit at your expense we want you the chinese to allow our banks to gamble on

your currency and make a huge gain on foreign exchange speculation sort of our banks 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 the global economy with money and this means that other economies are facing and a lot of american money coming in to buy their land their buildings the real estate companies their currency. you have. this financial system and the banks are 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 all there is is yet another broken promise that unfortunately the united states has been conducting

diplomacy for the last fifty years deals that for other people to follow the united states that puts itself over and above the agreements the g twenty reached to steal thereby 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 go to make a phone 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 veto power within the i.m.f. the loss of. it is that in order to increase the economics or plus you have to reduce living standards and you have to impose austerity what about the g twenty then where does that fit in but 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 to 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 is 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 of foreign exchange you're spending your budget deficit on military. basis to ring us around to take aggressive action against us to 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 realize 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 don't want 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 what 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 slowly shrink because how can it. support its military bases abroad if nobody will accept that 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 they're sacrificing america's position in the world and when does this all come to a head in korea. meeting so 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. wealthy british style like it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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in india in the movie going to join people chose. the gateway to the grand imperial truly the told us to. return to go and. brenda said the colonel was her job as a treat. in watching r.t. and here is a recap of our top stories for this hour the u.s. is accused of fear mongering as critics say china and russia are being bad now to doug flutie attention from the most feelings york's mayor michael bloomberg says washington is playing in people's interests and risky

a trade war with beijing. global pressure on israel 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 apartheid as others passionate desegregation. of the vietnam war may have officially ended over thirty five years ago when the sun for a great was on for hundreds of thousands of veterans children what would do facts these are the effects of agent orange a poisonous road beside which the u.s. used to destroy agricultural land. all of. the cars a report today back stacy herbert discussed why the world's top economists think white collar criminals are hampering financial recovery and how britain became a shade list with a third of adults surveyed not embarrassed by the prospect of that.