it 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 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 ratified start by not going forward with w t o 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 trend in demonizing china michael bloomberg warrant that the consequences may backfire badly. if you look at the us you look at who were elected 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 ignore as making people more susceptible to ball game theory 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 team washington d.c. . american foreign policy is some source some big challenges during the george w. bush era especially following the nine eleven attacks having been out of the public eye since leaving office almost two years ago the forty third american president has published his memoirs and his years in the white house the book decision points reveals his thoughts on the most historic and controversial moments of his presidency president bush claims that iraq's lack of weapons of mass destruction came as a shock to him but that his still believes the u.s. was right to invade the book also discusses what president bush believes to be his

lowest moment one of the west accused him of not caring about black people but former congressman tom andrews says there were much darker moments in the bush presidency including the authorization of torture. 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 they are faced with the prospect of having the same treatment given to them that george bush was authorizing given to to to those who the united states brought into custody it was a tragic mistake and the fact that the president can't recognize that mistake is not surprising but but again unfortunate you know it's rather extraordinary for president bush was on national television last night here in the 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 in the failure of the federal government to respond to that hurricane disaster when in fact you have a war against iraq 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 watched their lives in iraq because in this war of choice this administration did not think it important enough to provide them with the protective armor that if they had it they would be alive today. still ahead for you in the program going to extremes. that's

a british political parties membership rules which landed at important races. also look at the horrendous legacy today i'll be getting with many living with dread poured sickness and deformities after american agent orange poisoning which not a cent in compensation has been paid by u.s. governments or companies. while politicians are desperately trying to bring peace to the middle east sounds of palestinians say they're living like refugees in their own land a separation barrier almost seven hundred kilometers long has been dividing the west bank for eight years and although israel insists it's for security measures only aussies policy a look at behind the peace for us harm. 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 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 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 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 part of my mind mainly the work he was shot 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 of jewish americans but jewish israelis aren't allowed to sign up to go into the palestinian territories where it's shutting this will be 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 can not get into jerusalem nobody some of them there but they have to go through checkpoints. you know what's the box like. israel insists the walls kept suicide bombers out army spokeswoman avatar leibovich says most of its nearly five hundred kilometers is 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 on to a goal to gussy is leaving for america which she's arranged to give talks and raise money to help palestinians you know surrounded by a wall and that she can't leave without having certain candidates. live in poverty but the wall means money for some travel agencies winning business from showcasing or perhaps revealing in israeli security measures. if you're planning a trip to the holy land gone are the days of visiting traditional religious sites now if you go online you'll find two is like the ultimate counterterrorism mission a tour with the army territories and a true if it involves a palestinian raid but it's no holiday for honey because while tourists can come

and go he's stuck hear him didn't buy an israeli wall pulis fear r t israel. president dmitry medvedev has voiced concern over north korea's nuclear program ahead of the g twenty summit in seoul where he's expected to discuss the issue with barack obama and china's hu jintao the russian leader said. our challenge to the entire nonproliferation regime and pose a greater threat than iran north korea has carried out several nuclear tests since two thousand and six with some just around one hundred kilometers from the russian border innovative however the problem must be result through diplomatic means alone young withdrew from the six party talks on dissolve in its last year raising international concern present vet of his remarks come ahead of the imminent publication of the un report on the shoe it suggests that north korea may have supplied syria iran and myanmar was nuclear technology. and you

can read the whole interview with president medvedev and get into apps and now this is about the stories we're covering on our website including. with at least seven million citizens living below the breadline some have resorted to smuggling alcohol to lavery iran risking their lives across the border where booze is strictly forbidden. in. the ugly side of the beauty business customers you'd buy cheap prices face serious health risks from counterfeit cosmetics and fake franken says that in the russian market all the details that are. viral british national party is back in court to face charges that its membership rules discriminate against nor whites the equality and human rights commission is behind the legal action and is demanding that that closes it says our races are removed ruling is expected next week as reports this is

a case that the original legal battle that began last year when the b.m.p. was ordered to remove a claw through 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. 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 have to be construed as meaning white people the equality and human rights commission accuses nick griffin the party leader of being a persistent of fair and 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.

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 cases going on the moment as a win win situation the old adage there's no such thing as bad publicity regardless of the outcome or think it's a win win situation if we you know if it's. if they don't throw it out the. door the general public will see that we are the dogs that were being picked on for what we believe in. walker also told me that the b.n.p. is signing up hundreds of new members every week but regardless of what they might say they are certainly in trouble these these european parliamentary seats that they want in two thousand and nine really that's the best that they have done in may's general election they had high hopes for winning parliamentary seats but in

fact they won no one and they also lost all but two of their local council seats and since then the party's been beleaguered by public sparks a leadership contest which went horribly wrong with a lot of expulsions the result of this case also may be that nick griffin may lose his european parliamentary seat. it's been over thirty five years since the end of the vietnam war but his grim legacy remains today in the form of this suffering endured by innocent victims of american poisoning around a two million liters of the toxic herbicide agent orange sprayed by us forces to destroy the vegetation left many was dreadful illnesses and new borns with her renders genetic conditions and disabilities and you may find some images in catarina as i was reported disturbing. maybe one of only five socialist states in the world but its economic progress is notable business is booming i resolved to sprout up everywhere and the people who were too nice to improve their lives. yes

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 at home or even born at a time. hootie whom is thirty four years old but you'd never guess by looking at or born blind and with many severe physical difficulties her parents feed and bathe her to this day her life was taken away from her before she was even born. my daughter was born blind and we didn't know why until would soakers 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 get 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 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 one 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 while 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 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. doctors have a russian journalist who was salvaged that talks in moscow just days ago will be able to speak again soon after undergoing a third operation like cashen was rushed to hospital after two men nearly beat him to death on his way home in the early hours of saturday morning russian lawmakers say they'll consider a draft law to allow stiffer punishment for attacking john let's investigate

a suspect kushner's work for they called their son newspaper and his internet blog as possible motivations for the vicious assault the journalist made a name for himself by slamming several high profile government officials president dmitri medvedev has vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice cautions assault follows a series of attacks on reporters in washington recent here yes. let's now take a look at some other news from around the world u.k. prime minister david cameron is on his first official visit to china taking with him the largest ever british delegation one official visits to the country the chinese premier said talks were fruitful but added that britain could do more to help chinese companies investing there including making fees is easier to obtain cameron hopes to double trade between the countries with his studio visit but he faces pressure from home to raise concerns over china's human rights record. iran has stated interest in

a new dialogue over its nuclear ambitions with major posed excuse me and is pushing for negotiations to take place in turkey next week the islamic republic faces four seats in four sets of u.n. sanctions with the latest round issued after talks stalled last year the international community still has serious concerns over whether iran is developing a nuclear weapon to iran and says that its atomic program is only for peaceful purposes. on the first caller a case has been confirmed in haiti's capital port au prince threatening in the potomac among up to three million people more than five hundred have already died from the disease throughout the country with more suspected cases to health workers are urgently trying to stop the outbreak of the water borne infection flooring flooding caused by hurricane marks the risk of it spreading is worsened by around five point five one point five million living in desperate conditions and the capital made homeless after january's earthquake which killed three hundred thousand. economic tensions 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 beyond the yuan and that's the focus of today's interview as u.s. economist michael hudson speaks to his lauren lyster in just a moment. 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 world 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 new. we recently saw last month g. twenty leaders come to some kind of an agreement on not competitively evaluating 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 in 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 economic 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 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 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 to flood the global economy with money and this means that other economies are facing an onslaught of american money coming in to buy their land their buildings the real estate companies their currency. you have. financial system and the banks acting as an army to raid foreign currency so 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 the plumber say for the last fifty years deals for other people to follow the united states that puts itself over and above the agreements the g twenty. reached a still though by giving more voting power to emerging nations 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 refine 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. it is that in order to increase the economic surplus you have to

reduce living standards and you have to 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 who 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 and 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 bases. to take aggressive action against us to put your spy

planes for the bump into our spy planes to. interfere in our waters you want us to pay for your military budget. 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 for a lot. it's on china to finance its fourteen trillion dollar debt how does president obama have any leverage problem obama doesn't really have any leverage at all because he needs the 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 than 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 u.s. as a global power. shrink because how can it. support its military bases abroad if nobody will accept that stalinist 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 their sacrifice. saying america's position in the world and why does this all come to a head in korea. meeting so i want to thank you so much for talking to us about this but it's been a real pleasure thank you very much for having me on the shop. a moment when the world has changed forever.

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news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are today. hello again this is aussie coming to life for most of the headlines. u.s. politicians are accused of scamming going over russia and china to divert attention from problems at home some fear and on the chinese will send the same on the right when politicians push targets america's biggest creditor could spark in

a trade really with a chain. reaction keeping out of the public eye since leaving the white house george w. bush rides back in to deal with the is no longer useful president has no regrets about invading iraq despite no weapons of mass destruction being found and says also rising torture was necessary to protect american lives. also another barrier to peace is rogue refuses to pull down its a west bank separation rule saying it's for security purposes but medically steenie and say it helps influence apartheid like conditions and making them refugees in their own land as some israeli companies organize tolls to enable visitors into the . station five years since the end of the vietnam war and many new borns in the country are still suffering from severe physical deformities after the toxic homicide agent orange was sprayed by u.s. forces and while the two are still hasn't paid a single cent in compensation the the vietnamese.