and more bad news out of japan as a third explosion rocked the earthquake damaged fukushima nuclear power complex as the nuclear crisis unfolds in japan we're going to take a look at whether california could suffer the same fate. what you get is real very real. whatever happens the rule of law has to be followed your top stories treated so as bradley manning just getting what he deserves and what about the now former state department official who criticized the pentagon over many streetman we're going to hack into the issue in just a bit. and the u.s. is arguing that a cia operative accused of shooting true pakistanis should receive diplomatic

immunity and now it's up to a pakistani courts to decide so what can the case of raymond davis tell us about the tangled u.s. pakistan web. and it's more money more problems right where the government seems to think that cutting spending will pull the country out of debt but will it really work for the spending money to make less problems. good evening it's monday march fourteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine up in you're watching our team now a new development in the ongoing crisis in japan as a third explosion rocked the quake stricken fukushima nuclear power complex but the latest blast centered around the number two reactor but no immediate word of the extent of the damages we did know that the japanese nuclear safety agency confirms that. explosion was heard at twenty one ten g.m.t.

we are still trying to get the details for you but safety officials have admitted that they cannot rule out a full meltdown at the moment now the fukushima crisis now reads as a more serious accident for the one nine hundred seventy nine three mile island disaster in the united states so how will the fukushima disaster if that's the nuclear industry here in america and could age upin style crisis happened here at home and earlier i spoke with king who is the founder and creative director of dancing in productions about the crisis here's part of our conversation. the situation is very dynamic right now there were still waiting to find out is there going to be a nuclear core meltdown if so will there be multiple or a meltdown if so how widespread will the radiation be the problem with radiation of course that it's invisible you can't so it could be around for generations and the effects are long lasting and in india then not generally short term an obvious in

many things so the nuclear industry as a whole if there are no immediate and obvious casualties from what's happening in japan it really depends you know how to go and now it's a situation did you need to escalate and become more apparent that there are dangers than expect estimates of the industry as a whole and hoping we really rely on for accurate information about the dangers here because i mean the japanese government obviously does not want to panic its people we have the mainstream media where there's all kinds of experts and so-called experts fanning the flames of fear i mean is it possible that we don't actually know the expense of the damage that the situation could be more dangerous than then it seems sure i mean we have first interest rate of eight point nine magnitude we have here in the united states you know two nuclear plants at least two that are built in seismically dangerous in california one of which is near the shore and the other is. most of them are not equipped to deal to be able to.

plate of this magnitude coupled with a tsunami so you know it really is a dynamic situation and the aftershocks in japan right now are seven point zero magnitude or higher in many cases so we're still looking at a situation where containment dome could be cracked and another tsunami could impair the relief efforts or the recovery effort i'm glad you mentioned the california plan as aside there are two operational nuclear power plants operating in california at the moment there's one in diablo canyon which is a power plant that's actually sits near several vault lines and then there's a second one that you mentioned and some san diego county i mean i'm sure a lot of california or absence of cells right now could this happen here. absolutely it could and it really comes down to luck of course industry has had to we're five and the possibility of a catastrophe i mean there are multiple contingencies that are there plans work but what we're looking at now is a dynamic environment in which nobody people say you can't predict i think it's

a failure of imagination of course you can predict but it seems so unlikely that business models are not constructed around the unlikely a possible scenario and yet that's what we're looking at here in japan and so could happen in the u.s. i'm not an alarmist i'm not saying because it happened in japan it will happen here but of course absolutely it could happen there you know when it comes to united states and power in general our reliance on power it seems like it's almost a lose lose situation obviously we've seen the dire consequences of our reliance on oil the unrest in the middle east leaving gas prices so on and so forth and then when you come to other sources of power like nuclear power we're stuck with this fear we're stuck with the potential of a meltdown is there any way of sort of getting out of the snap i mean what can we turn to for for sustainable fuel in the in the situation where we've barely even begun to tap the possibility of a true alternative solution we really haven't come to terms with the idea of

responsible consumption we are really just at the nascent beginning of that of that effort and so part of what we're seeing right now there's one thing intrinsically for us today you know are the kinds of our hearts we're going to look at the situation and try to find a better way that almost never happens particularly in the united states with regard to energy consumption and power as you say. but now that we're faced with one global crisis after the next then we have to get past that point saying you know sure it's science is job to figure out what caused it but we're in it we're in it now i mean if you look at haiti and look at japan and look at pakistan and its one flood and wonders with. and one volcano after the next so we're in it now we need to really learn how to be agile and nimble and creative in that complex in your environment to really look at the options at this point and i believe that while there are challenges to all sorts of alternative energy we really have not

become a widespread campaign of understanding how to harness and work together to make it happen but we don't unfortunately when you're talking about politicians and what actual policy that comes out of washington people are very shortsighted if we actually were to make a concrete switch to all of these alternative powers there would be some cost adjustments that would not be a cheap thing to get into and nobody wants to raise prices in the short term so i don't really see as optimistic as it is these crises resulting in any sort of concrete ships in power i mean even had president obama talking about tapping the strategic petroleum reserve just a question against the oil prices so you really genuinely think that folks in washington will somehow wake up and magically change their tune overnight i don't think they will ever change their tune i think that we are because we're at the nascent beginning of this shift right now we're still navigating one crisis after the next but inevitably if this continues and even with power grids getting knocked

out across the entire nation i mean and we're not you know mutual here as you said in post katrina gold coast the power grid was completely knocked out in huge sections of the gulf coast and so people are without power for a long time and what if that were to happen in an area of the united states where. that seriously cause more her reaction to your angelus right and so do at this point i'm not optimistic that we're that we're going to make which nor do i think moratorium on nuclear power are they can't law is a cheap source of electricity but it can happen here and it only luck that that prevent that all right one fortunately it's only in times of disaster that we unfortunately ask ourselves. difficult questions that was read educating founder and creative director of dancing in productions. now if you aren't familiar with the case of bradley manning you should probably a pickup that remote change the channel back to jersey shore or wherever else to get information but to recap he's

a young soldier who's suspected of leaking classified documents to the file sharing website wiki leaks and of course he's being held in solitary confinement virtual solitary confinement and a marine base in virginia and despite the fact that this guy has yet to be convicted of a crime he spends twenty three hours a day in a small window less cell forced to strip naked every single evening and the saga has divided the country but also it seems the obama administration and the latest developments the public face of america's foreign policy i'm talking about p.j. crowley who's been forced to resign after speaking out about manning streetman saying it was quote ridiculous counterproductive and stupid on the part of the departed defense department so is this treatment productive course bradley manning getting what he deserves our producer lindsey garfield takes that question to the streets of washington p.j. crowley resigned his post as state department spokesperson yesterday this just coming after his comment saying that bradley meetings treatment is stupid counterproductive and ridiculous we know what the state department thinks about

this but what do you d.c. residents think let's find out if the number counterproductive but probably stupid you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. and so i don't think that that is indicative that he is being considered innocent until proven guilty if he's already being tortured everybody could have their day in court and could be treated with dignity or were you surprised to learn that he was in solitary confinement had been forced to strip naked and had been essentially tortured does that surprise you . well it doesn't surprise me considering all that happened with you know iraqis and you know finding out that those who were put in jail were treated unjustly and they were you know the same thing happened with them so it doesn't surprise me the government cover that up and i did you see what you're saying about iraq because a lot of people have been comparing this to iraq and i'll be grave but you know they're saying that this is one of our own u.s. citizens being treated the same way that we treated iraqi citizens you know that's fair karma goes around comes around i mean i hate to say it but you each three

others you know that way don't think it wouldn't come to your own citizens i mean at the end of the day you know it's kind of it's really crazy but it's kind of like you know what goes around comes around you do it to other countries who's there who is a line crossed you know it's until guilty so no one should be treated badly you know while they're in custody before they've been tried including in solitary confinement is that. you know quite grateful psychological torture if you is guilty he'll serve the time that you know he needs to serve and that's how it should be but he should not be he should not be tortured you know this isn't a police state we're not this isn't a fascist government that the u.s. has so no i don't i don't think that's appropriate or you know what this country is about but what it is wrong very wrong but whatever happens the rule of law has to be followed in terms of how he's treated if it is trail if it turns out he is being

found guilty of leaking this information do you think that the punishments more warranted. i think torture is warranted ever. this is going to be a military dictatorship my family from argentina you know a military dictatorship it's it's sabots what you expect from a military dictatorship and this is a democracy and you know the us is about equal rights but it's just not. acceptable . well the hacker collective anonymous has taken up the case of bradley manning the good of the u.s. military until today to improve its treatment of the twenty three year old army private or face dire consequences as a collective is threatening new attacks against major u.s. corporations and even government officials as part of an escalating cyber war against those who they claim are abusing power so are they criminals or activists fighting for justice earlier i spoke with barrett brown who is the informal spokesman for the group anonymous and i asked him if the pentagon was listening to

their demands here's what he had to say. i'm afraid to say god has decided of us but they haven't quite managed to reach out to us and so a shock is just a little bit of course is a deadline they're not an addition as such we're going forward with our original plan which was to avenge really cause some distress for those responsible who do you sort of bring commander in a certain other former big man. also sort of goes in for a certain five sided building issue that we are also going forward with operation vote here to concede today operation metal gear concerns a company called. who's allen hamilton the federal contractors intelligence work for a number of companies as offices of the crew or some general person replacement us . that we have to know they have a project going on we know this from the e-mail that was required from h.p. gary during our best occasion we know that the project is considered to be

exceptionally dangerous by a source who is posting with the nature of the project. but his product still is caused by software based and we know that has it we know if it is of interest to the same people that it is this a bigger conspiracy or isn't terrible are was brought in for a meeting at booz allen hamilton daucus in late january right around the time he was going around i think is anonymous coverage is research that he thought he had and as such we know that and since they discussed the project with their inbox for the on the phone e-mails and because of other things that sound out we know that it therefore is is relevant to the kind of research their own bar was doing which we all know called a lot of dangerous stuff involving the privacy of individuals association of legal parlance using their families as sort of anchors. and even some of the air force that they were asking for bids on a program whereby a single airman to control if i were

a person army of fake people on want these are dangerous developments anonymous and so it isn't so this an official declaration of war against booz allen hamilton and possibly other contractors. you know we just got under during the war just now that we've been out all day all right well let's talk about the situation with bradley manning. obviously we've seen p.j. crowley the state department spokesman resign not a fan of bradley manning or wiki leaks for that matter what does that say to you when essentially the face of america foreign policy sets down for calling his treatment stupid and inappropriate. if you were to step down. i know that that i mean that's absolutely incredible and i'm really stunned that a stunning event obama. number of people has come to own this act of torture against u.s. soldiers. the pentagon has been resources for to respond to probing us we would

happily tell them exactly what we're going to do transpire they should be they should spend more time figuring out what damage it does to this country and its ideals to treat a soldier like well barry i have to ask and we've seen how the u.s. government has treated bradley manning we've seen how they're now going after giuliana sourness there's rumors of potential extradition to the united to sweden and potentially charges what the night within the united states are you not worry that even an informal involvement with anonymous is going to end up with you targeted what if eventually going to jail for this. i mean sex isn't violence like a like a texas bar mitzvah i mean my my downs and. i have friends haven't died down in prison i mean and you know it happens you know and they're cool with twenty three hours a day make it in a cell with one hour to get to that i'm not a soldier you know bomb of civilian out of out and serve my country so i get treated better. that's how it is for some reason. it's going to come up you know out we already know my name is going to talk to me they're going to sell to the

feds you know if there was a few months ago. it looked so political to send an obscene bonuses from the capabilities to the social commentator threat to a lot of vested interests in the such we know we're being targeted by governments and rather with contractors and other parties well people are definitely is as us will essentially have access you know an artist do you think that any concrete change can come of these kinds of our releases that you guys are going to want an artist and many unknowns or an artist as well and so many people who support us more than those. are you sure the web has come so far arbitration is bigger is the most insidious successful investigation there conducted by non-state it revealed a great deal of telling information about the way this nation operation terms of cyber security and other things but a little about the ethics of major corporations and even just foreign so i think it's been so so far and it's far from over and very quickly you know we see me out of favor talk about freedom internet freedom abroad do you think that there's been

a clamping down on internet freedom here in the united states. oh yes all right well that was barrett brown spokesman for anonymous making news right here on our t.v. . now the ongoing case of arraignment davis the cia contractor who ceasing murder charges and a whore for the execution style slayings of two men reportedly pakistani intelligence agents has sparked a diplomatic crisis between the united states and pakistan but the details of this case are lost among the rubble of spin room or and even secrecy in fact it seems the only certainty in the situation is that u.s. intelligence operations are increasingly being contracted out to private companies and what has contractors do wrong for blowback can be severe so now we turn to one man who's seeking a close look at what's really at stake in the raymond davis case scott horton is a contributing editor at harper's magazine and he joins us right now from our studios in new york scott thank you so much for being here now there is a lot that doesn't really seem to add up in this case now if you listen to the

united states they would have us believe that this is just you know a clean cut former soldier a u.s. diplomat with immunity who killed two men but did so in self-defense which of course is not really what we're hearing from the pakistani side walk us through some of the more glaring inconsistency is here. well if you're reading the press accounts in pakistan you know the ray davis was not a diplomat that he was a cia contractor probably the station the acting station chief in lahore pakistan that he shot two young pakistanis through the windshield of his car then got out of the car punched further rounds into their bodies and photographed them all this was done coolly and methodically and if you're reading the pakistani press you also would have heard that the two pakistanis he shot were not young street thugs they were pakistani intelligence officers who had been assigned to tail him

because of concerns by the i.s.i. pakistan's intelligence agency that he had crossed a red line so we have entirely different accounts and i have to say frankly if you're following the pakistani media you're getting a lot of information that's hyperventilated and excited but also a great deal more detail about what's happening most of which stands up for scrutiny i mean we start with the fact with what was actually in his honda civic when he was captured and that included two fire arms that included an arsenal of weapons including armor piercing bullets is included theatrical make up a g.p.s. device which evidently have been used to help target drone strikes and was era stand and id badges in different names for different consulates so all this of course points to the fact that he was a spy which you know two weeks later the united states grudgingly had to admit and

you know they have the media coverage and this is so unusual because you have what i don't understand is how it is that this could be felt by the report in a pakistani press and yet almost i don't file and when it comes to the united states press in fact it wasn't until london. british newspaper spilled the beans that the american media suddenly said ok we knew that this guy had cia contacts but he may have been involved in the cia talk about the inconsistency here in the media coverage and the role that the u.s. press played in sort of playing up the u.s. line essentially. what do you call it exactly right i mean i was looking at these issues in real time and was being told by our reporters that major publications we can't trust this information that's in the pakistani newspapers and i would go back to them and say but they're reporting what the police report says and the my experience police reports don't mess with this sort of information and of course

act of the fact that we have the new york times acknowledged that yes they knew all along he was a surprise but they didn't print this information because the cia had asked them not to print it and that's a pretty serious matter. and i think it's serious and several scores i mean we can understand in fact in fact i think publications in many countries will withhold the identity of spies of their countries on the request of intelligence services that happens almost all the way around the world but it what was going on here was essentially we laying false or highly misleading accounts of the totality of what happened so they were misleading their readers and they only got around to correcting that much later two or three weeks later and of course most readers already formed their opinion early on so why is all this of course when greenwald here at the salon dot com harshly criticized the new york times washington post and others for their basically play being propagandist for the united states government

i think no matter how you cut it that's true but their defenders have said no they're patriots and that may be true to a certain extent as well except one has to wonder about the patriotism that results in their readers giving false information or incomplete information now doubtless cotton contributing editor of harper's magazine. now more than one hundred thousand people filled the streets of madison wisconsin this evening at this weekend's and what he described as the largest protest in that state's history the battle that's unfolding in wisconsin. well as in vienna and elsewhere in the united states we've got really just about human rights that a bigger issue at hand is how cash strapped governments are trying to do more with less at a time when unemployment foreclosures high deficits and more have kept the united states in the worst economic downturn since the great depression and the solutions from washington are surprise surprise few and far in between but it does seem that

spending cuts are now in vogue after being virtually ignored in the last administration cutting workers' pensions social security home heating assistance programs these are all up on the table for cuts everything it seems in fact except for meetings with meaningful cuts to the pentagon's budget but with a push to spend less actually pull the united states out of this economic mess well earlier i spoke with dean baker of the center for economic policy and research and here's part of the conversation. you know it's a war to see i always want to go around and ask you know store owners factors go well you know we just laid off however many government employees you intend to hire more workers basic story doesn't make any sense or in this downturn because we had a collapse the housing bubble that been driving the economy because through construction the housing wealth created by the bubble led to this big consumption boom that's gone now the reason why we're in the downturn is a lack of demand the government has to fill the gap it has to spend more with after run deficits if we instead say oh no no we have to cut government too we didn't

need deeper hole it makes no sense and that's what you know seems to be the agenda for the day you just said spend more and more in washington i'm just shocked that the floor can open up below you and you know what you know the commonsense economics you know enough to be you know ph economists to get this one spending is what drives the economy and the reason we're hurting is we relax spending and it be great if we could snap our fingers and get the private sector to spend but it doesn't work that way so until people can climb out from their indebtedness the government has to pick up the tab and they may not like it but that's the world how do we get this situation now where it seems like the rhetoric the message war is that it's really the pensions that are screwing us and getting us in trouble it's really all of these are union workers it's really all of you know the working people and not really the people that have led us into the crisis in the first place how did that message get lost somewhere along the way it's really remarkable i mean part of it is much of it is that you have some very powerful moneyed interests that have wanted to well they've been beating back workers' rights for

decades and they you know if you look at public sector workers well they still have pensions for the most part they still have health care those were lost by lot of private sector workers over the last three decades because of deliberate efforts to weaken the power for workers in the private sector so you have serious moneyed interests that have been under south and i have to say the media has been willing to go along so you have the situation where most reporters think it's good reporting that someone comes out there and just you know accuses accuse me of murdering some of the you know. no evidence for and then they let me say oh no i didn't and they go ok we gave you the story i guess as long as you scream that while they are talking that's on the evening news now switching gears a little bit the utah legislature recently passed a bill that basically would paint gold and silver coins to be used as legal tender in the state what is the simple. of moves like this i mean there's been so similar moves in other states to either move to alternative currency or return back to the gold standard what does that say about the dollar and the confidence that we have without economy whoa i think it says a lot about

a lot of crazy economic news going around i mean if anyone doesn't want to put us in they can send them to us i mean it's close to crazy and you know the fact is the best majority of people in the world are very confident in the dollar they're going to hold them and if people in this country don't want dollars you know there will be up in paper you know and you know look we have things we could look at like the inflation rate is actually very low and i know people will say i think it's made up there you know i'm sorry it's not you know you want to leave the moon is made of clean sheets are welcome to we could look at the interest rate that people are putting tens of billions of dollars on what they did me when they want to lend money to the u.s. government's very low three four three four if they thought the government was about to collapse the dollar's worthless they won't do that so but if people don't want dollars you know by all means go kerry go next year then actual sound tech and all the people are promoting that i mean you have a lot of people who have a political agenda some are profiting from that some so gold you know so you don't

trust i was part of my goal you know so people do that oh i can speak to the economic reality there's no basis for this now one of the most unfortunate economic realities that and continues to this day is there's a growing gap between the rich and the poor and it really does seem like more and more of the golden pie is going to those at the top while the rest of us are sort of left out in the shadows do you think do you see anything at all and the current economic climate that could potentially change this trend the economics perhaps not politics yes i mean that's why. a hundred thousand people are protesting in madison wisconsin is really a big deal because we've got this huge gap in inequality because the conservatives the business interests took over the political system and rigged the rules to their benefit if the people wake up if the middle class you know the workers wake up and say no we're tired of this rigging we're going to adjust the rules so that all the money doesn't flow outward that could change it but that they have woken up and yet i don't see any big changes being talked about are well known is a long way to go most people you know the stand you know the moment ago talking

about the dollar well we said not a dollar before because of who won an increase or benefit from cyprus the best thing we could do is get the dollar down to twenty or thirty percent against other currencies most people say that here in washington i've got what you want to weak dollar and although i want us to manufacture goods in the united states that means we need a lower dollar today and i was dean baker of the co-director of the center for economic and policy research well unfortunately that does it for now to see minute my full interview with the in baker or for more on any of the stories that we've covered tonight things that are to dot com slash usa and check out our you tube page it's youtube dot com slash r t america and of course feel free to follow me on twitter it's at least the captain of a great night. with the low end. of the free world that these women young people are suggesting she's up there you'll see says she's a star.