the situation continues to watson of japan's fukushima nuclear power plant with reports saying to suppose have partially melted cooling systems have failed at pool six three outfits that far as i reported at the facility for a second time with workers withdrawing into the radiation fia's. meanwhile the people of japan coping with the all to mouth of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in which thousands have died a few of the all sorts is i'm not telling the whole truth and the situation is getting out of control. also the death toll from friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami climbs to over three thousand with over seven thousand considered still missing. something you could draw months forward in japan films i suppose

a world like to question the overreliance on technology that often proves no danger is that helpful. as the course isn't japan is going forward in the eye you want to show looks at the coverage of the tragedy has been politicized in america that's up next. up in the lower show we look at the real headlines with none of the mercy me live out of washington d.c. after trey s. takes the stand we'll have details on the general senate hearing and what he calls the fragile and reversible progress in our longest war so why are we still there then we'll focus on the disaster in japan and how lobbyists for every energy industry out there never miss an opportunity to capitalize on these catastrophes

and lots of valuate the justice system in the u.s. on international day against police brutality have police across the country improve their methods and tone down their often too violent approach or has it only gotten worse then hookers for jesus they can save you from a life of working in the sights industry or just because one of these women to find out what their message really is all about and it's a mash up of the hottest stories making a buzz on the wet snow he takes her trashy ways to the w w e and kids might be allowed to sext in one state after all they're but impossible give us her take on all of that at the end of the show but first let's move on to our top story. general petraeus reports to washington for the first time since taking over command of the war in afghanistan the general came to capitol hill today to reassure the lawmakers that it's still in america's best interest to keep troops in the country how many americans agree with the traces comments about this war that's now lasted for a decade archies christine purcell has more. it was meant to be an honest and open

conversation about the state of the war in afghanistan and who better to report in general david petraeus himself the past eight months have seen important but hard fought progress in afghanistan over port card of sorts for those serving on the senate armed services committee like senator joseph lieberman of connecticut mogadishu under any illusion this is turning the question that seems to have many answers is in which direction it's turning here's one side we're here for a reason we're now. king progress we have made a great deal of progress in afghanistan since the last hearing of this committee on the subject just over a half a year ago while the security progress achieved over the past year is significant it is also fragile and reversible this line fragile and reversible uttered so many times in the last few days it may almost be worthy of a drinking game as progress remains fragile and reversible but in the same hearing

room just last week a bit of a different tune was sung we have enjoyed. patchwork of peace in operation successes against the taliban however the taliban does remain resilient and will be able to threaten u.s. and international growth in afghanistan through twenty a weapon also at the hearing and intelligence assessment about the future from national intelligence director james clapper i think. the concern that we have is. after that and the ability of afghan government to. pick up where their responsibility for government over the last few weeks there has been additional hardship in the mission and an increase in anger after nine afghan children were killed in a nato led attack here's secretary gates last week like to begin by joining general petraeus and offering my personal apology. for the accidental killing half

nine afghan boys by coalition forces and here's president karzai talking about incidents like this and civilian casualties as a whole they want it stopped. they want to go traduced they want to stop president karzai said he actually wanted foreign troops out of afghanistan so not only are they losing the u.s. supported president of afghanistan now new evidence that the war is losing support from the general public as well this washington post a.b.c. news poll just out shows sixty four percent of americans do not think the war has been worth fighting and a much larger number seventy three percent thinks the u.s. government should withdraw troops this summer as a originally planned michael prysner veteran and member of the antiwar answer coalition agrees resistance in afghanistan is a popular uprising of afghans from all walks of life from all backgrounds in every

corner of afghanistan who rightfully see the occupation of their country as an empire trying to gain a foothold in the region that's of certificate poor and for resources and for dominating the region back in the hearing some signs that transition in kabul could be in the works it is afghan police who are the face of security on the streets it is the afghan army a bit further out. security responsibilities in every given light in that city so what's the purpose of these hearings well what set inside these walls is meant to give lawmakers inside a progress report so they know how to best vote for the future of what happens in afghanistan but what could become increasingly difficult for them to mix messages when what they're hearing from general petraeus continues to differ immensely from what they hear from reports inside and outside of afghanistan in washington i'm christine present on our team. general david petraeus urged them. where can people

today to remember the reason why we're in afghanistan and all gave was one single date nine eleven the record number of americans now saying that this war has not been worth fighting with a progress report ten years in it says nothing more than a fragile and reversible perhaps we have to wonder why general petraeus why congress why president obama won't just come out and say it straight that we can't win it that we can't change afghanistan that basically. we might be screwed earlier i've got a particular verso co-founder of veterans for rethinking afghanistan and dr james carafano a senior defense analyst for the heritage foundation and i asked them just that. well i think because i would agree with it i mean first of all why you there we would argue there because the u.s. has a legitimate interest in being there that having afghanistan being a haven for the taliban and al qaeda doesn't work very well didn't work well before nine eleven and so when you're an interest he's thirty you get it right and you

know the i think that there has been a change. and so that shows that you can do things different i change in what way what kind of changes that are there have no change there hasn't been change i mean last year was the worst year in terms of afghan deaths in terms of afghanistan last year was the worst was the year's worth your to me for u.s. casualties and oh by the way the biggest nightmare of all probably the worst case scenario every year we've been in afghanistan or proven public approval rating inside of pakistan has decreased and a poll came out two weeks ago pakistani approval rating just by the general public with eighty percent disapproval rate policy in afghanistan doesn't make sense anymore for our interests or for national security purpose whatsoever at this point and you and me are both conservatives you me both what president obama out of office next year how does it make sense for us to be arguing for policy for him he wasn't well first of all i don't care who the president is the president the constitution is a job to provide for the common defense so i don't this is not about who's in

office no defense is no more though it's all of those who disagree i mean i know that we have a i don't think there's a u.s. interest to have taliban roll back into afghanistan how about this over the last year last year there was seven attempts minimal seven attempts we know by unclassified documents wiki leaks and others there's another was seven attempts to get their hands on nuclear weapons inside of pakistan and then states did nothing to prevent it because we're bogged down in afghanistan our priorities are wrong our prior to this has been sort of afghanistan trying to nation build not an actual counterterrorist activity the only way to get out of afghanistan right now and the only way that we're going to find any sort of fixing the solution is can your troops have their number one reason why is because in order to get this. fragile situation of pakistan dealt with by bringing pay. between kashmir india and pakistan and the only way to do that is to get troops out of afghanistan. very quickly interrupt you when i ask you something about what it's like to be on the ground in afghanistan writing so much of our strategies as to about winning hearts and minds but i want to know do you think that these are hearts and minds that can

actually be won or are these only people whose hearts and minds minds you can rent for a short time you can pay em off for a couple weeks or a couple months until they then again turn against you yeah this is this is a credible we're renting what you're doing by our presence here we are renting their public approval granted our soldiers are due to a credible job of trying to protect the population and train the afghan forces they're not the ones to blame but the bottom line is with this terms of afghans they have a one hundred year old mentality that's based on hundred years behind us and that's not going to change unless you stay there for another hundred years so how long are we supposed to stay there we want to stay there for hundreds of years well they catch up spending billions and are hurting ready for your interest which is to build up the capacity afghans to defend govern themselves i haven't heard a strategy from you which is basically walk away and oh yeah the kashmiri chrysler three simple right here you have can study group this is how we get out afghanistan james this is a two way they could over the directivity foundation give it to long guns were going to get out of it logically why is that you know walked out

a way that would be talking about the way what you're saying it is like after pearl harbor if we just walked away and let the japanese have the pacific i mean the policy no what you want of a trading room no we're talking about training the afghan national army by the even about twenty five to thirty five thousand troops there would you can do counterterrorist activities by attacking or kind of with that you simply get out of the east and get out of the south were the taliban if you throw the taliban it's a thirty thousand person a tribe you're just missing one step which and i agree with you this is it afghan solution is turn this over the afghans train them to do the job but until you can stabilize the situation you created a territory for the operator and that's not very by ok he can't. now kind of i do not see anything you say james that we should walk away right this man i write but there is of course talk that we have to begin a troop withdrawal starting this july there was talk of this twenty four deadline day nobody seems to want to commit to the day care some telegrams did introduce

legislation saying let's have a completion date let's actually have some numbers a type of timetable that's that's been dry up like can't we just commit to something like that because asylum for wars it's not like after pearl harbor people say president roosevelt tell us where they work is going to be over in the war is over when the war started yes but who decides when the war is done even if not only two percent of american people say that this war isn't worth fighting the war that the american people are losing their lives for that i guess you could say technically the chinese are finding they are you know and of them are here in hard hats are there any. thought the civil war wasn't worth winning either so i mean what you know this is not i mean you know something of the american people don't want to live in a democracy not a place where haven't they generals are going to tell you how long they last the constitution or the constitution and say we vote every day on whether we should be in the know in the way congress until we've got a very clear war congress goes and we'll tell you what just like jefferson with the barbary pirates is what the congress needs to do today with terms of terrorism here are terrorists and they do pose

a threat but those terrorist the pull the threat of a bigger safe haven in yemen and somalia than actually doing it instead it's not because they're there it's because. if you look at what the theology if you look people. know there's they have more from every day after you know they're in yemen and somalia and other places and if we were shortly doing a counterterrorist effort we would go to yemen and we would start working with actually so that the cake take your homes you know what are you shy about this because we're in here to talk about invading somalia yemen i'm not talking about invading i'm talking longer talking about other stories of. general petraeus said himself that there are only about one hundred members of al qaeda even left in afghanistan so if afghanistan isn't where they are if the mountains of pakistan if there was here a stand is the safe haven then what do we do about that right. we keep fighting a war that we do spend hundreds of billions of dollars on if the safe haven isn't even where we are because i think the green you know look that's very rude to to to do that right i think they agree that part of the solution of dealing with pakistan

is dealing with afghanistan and that's the reason why they call it because they go together i mean if you if you run away afghanistan they just walk back in from pakistan just like we pushed them out of afghanistan they were going to pakistan you have to deal with both sides of the problem the pakistani side the problem is hard but the pakistani problem so the problem gets a lot harder if you walk away from afghanistan and you let the tell of that market that doesn't explain how you do it no it doesn't does. it you have to look out with the taliban is the taliban are pashtuns who are pashtuns in pakistan and they're pashtuns in afghanistan what you have to do is allow the at the pakistani government to shield protect himself from any sort of insurgency and you have to allow the afghans to shield their themselves from an insurgency it doesn't mean continue to make pakistanis married afghans and afghans men of pakistanis who were in were siding in a civil war so you know during the civil war there were americans in the south and the americans in the north and the solution was to get a political solution to live together but until you created military situation that

could happen it could happen the same things through here you can't just say well we need a political solution you have to have the security situation that allows of what she said i mean you are the solution definitely isn't doesn't seem to be showing itself but that's why i feel like at least somebody talk about that talk about the fact that this isn't working because fragile reversible yes that's obvious in ten years and fragile and reversible aren't what the american people want to hear and i want to thank you both very much for joining us and this is the traces first hearing on capitol hill since taking over and who knows he might not be heading this way for too much longer if there are rumors to thanks. still to come tonight a dire situation in japan as a threat. nuclear fallout across the country tonight in the debate over nuclear power and why some are now trying to capitalize on this disaster and that it's international day against police brutality so why ask if it's an issue that's getting better or worse let's face world problems human rights.

for the fee we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. or is the same or do you consider. mark the hour of peace hope in the deadly reaction to. our tunisia and egypt leading the way or our lives. as we continue to watch the crisis in japan on thought after last friday's nine point zero magnitude earthquake and the following tsunami a situation only seems to be getting worse the death toll is now estimated to be over ten thousand people aftershocks keeping the country at a nuclear crisis is unfolding at the fukushima daiichi plant or of seen numerous explosions and radiation leakage is now prompted mass evacuations at a no fly zone covering a ninety mile radius around the facility but here to help watching this disaster

has turned into playing politics the writing on which shall you turn on you might be told that this is a clear sign that nuclear power is dangerous but we need alternatives that the u.s. is not safe. nuclear power production is kind of a high wire act when the whole idea behind what you're doing depends on this plant controlling a nuclear chain reaction you really can't afford anything that might interrupt your control. or you might see exactly the opposite there are no reports of leaks president obama today said we need to focus on what he calls clean energy i have a safe a nuclear reactor can survive this devastation that's a pretty good real world test that we should give nuclear energy more of a chance. one thing here is clear whenever there is a crisis there is always somebody willing to capitalize on it so how are we

supposed to know what's in our best interests how are we supposed to make educated decisions for our future of this crisis is me as christopher chambers georgetown university professor and author of the blog as revenge chris thanks so much for being you now of course this iteration japan is unfolding as we speak i just heard breaking news that there is another fire at this plant and another reactor so it's obvious that there's going to be you know a bit of confusion when it comes to the reporting that the facts aren't always going to be straight but have you noticed the instance politicized station i think every. this is a political hot potato energy generally nuclear power and it's got all the hysterical elements of the press once when the press kind of advocates its watchdog role and just because it's theory or mongar we even when you saw that were true with the oil spill in the gulf people were investigating the root causes and the lack of regulation or what you know sweetheart deals were going on in the

exploration in the construction and shoddy materials it's just mysterious theory is theory of what's going on keeping score that's what's happening here so of course you're going to have people lining up on both sides so you know nukes no nukes is going to destroy the world or oh it's not so bad i mean the this this is business as usual you know while thousands of people are dead and you know i mean i think for the press obviously in these types of situations those who do have the resources at their disposal to send people to japan to be covering this from on the ground i think they do a good job at that but then what's the point if you have those resources if there are so many so many pictures so many visuals to then be bringing in pundits and various lobbyists from you know from different groups because that's the model we have it's going to generate ratings when you have people running up and telling people what they want to hear their preconceived notions have. a kid from some think tank talking about you know the fire and the steam and you know whether this

person might have kind of a a cautious spirit or nuclear energy or a more aggressive one that's boring you know when you can when you can hit hit hit you know we can't do this we can't this is going to kill us all if we have nuclear power or it's not that bad you know this is an act of god a nine point zero earthquake i mean this is something out of a movie for god's sake that is more you know ratings driven analysis is going to take a backseat and that's what you have and it's basically as i said you know business as usual despite the people on the ground reporting the facts hopefully the japanese government is trying to sort this out q but even they are having their problems be in europe they're taking some reactors offline to check them you know which is fine i mean how does that mean that nuclear power is going to destroy the world no they're just being cautious but at the same time if the press is doing its job you can you can kind of peel out that layer of what's hysteria and what's just people being cautious but again we can't do that because we're so tied into this

let's take sides and fight and we internally of course see reactions here like you mentioned germany is taking some there reactors out i would go back to the b.p. oil spill last summer when you know instantly because there is such an outrage over this because it was being covered nonstop by the media that obama decided to ensure a moratorium on drilling fast forward to today and he is now telling the fact that he has signed new contracts for new drilling so they can avoid having to talk about the fact that his administration is also pushing for nuclear power and i'm sure that a couple of months or now people might forget all about battle of course and again nobody did the the investigative work i mean t.v. definitely not i mean not not our t.v. but you know the major networks definitely not nucleated newspapers and websites of have done a fairly good job of keeping on top of the root causes we were talking about. this in japan or the b.p. oil spill but again the media is not investigating the media is just putting it out

there almost is there's a horror show as entertainment as a horror movie rather than really investigating it so whether you're an official in japan that might have some shoddy work you know fukushima or you're trying to push nuclear power here or you're an anti-nuclear activists i mean you've got the stage now because the mainstream media is not doing its watchdog role but at the end of the day who is if it loses out it's people like you and i right it's your family how are we supposed to know. course that we did have a how are we now supposed to know and make decisions about what type of energy we think we might want our country to be investing in or we want our taxpayer dollars going towards you know somebody says that i have a form of energy for you that carries absolutely no rights are americans going to be willing to do that at double the price i don't know i mean because again the media is not doing its education job the media is just there. and you can't make rational decisions either personal or policy wise with that kind of atmosphere so i

really don't know i don't think we can make rational decision on the future of this energy source or any other in this current atmosphere but in the end of the day yes it is a nine point zero earthquake everybody either side is going to have to admit that but after that they just fall back into their old pattern so there were in trouble and i think you know yesterday on this program to we were talking about the fact that so many americans now have have turned against science that's not really something that we we tell our kids to to really learn any more right now they don't don't strive to be an astrophysicist anymore you are a strike to get rich and so what happens is when you turn your back on science when you have this lecture a lesson that of course we're not going to know right and the only novel that we supposedly can believe is who we think we see on t.v. exactly exactly the pundits are. we're going to believe the people who are going to wrap us in our old beliefs the people who are the real experts you know they're

going to not have their point of view we don't want to listen to them because it's boring. that's not really going to grab it and that you can't make a decision and i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight. ok is the international day against police brutality today to reflect on and work to fix broken justice systems crooked cops to highlight those countless videos that we've seen of raids gone wrong or innocent victims have lost their lives to ask if the problem is getting better or only worse so joining me to discuss it is hip hop journalist david thanks so much for joining us today now we talk about police brutality and its international police brutality david let's talk specifically about america do you think this is something that is getting better or is it only getting worse are we starting to see more of it. i think it's getting worse for a couple of reasons the first and foremost says that you have a situation where good cops aren't speaking up you don't see them holding press

conferences you don't see them taking bold stances to denounce any wrongdoing within your own ranks so it leaves people with an us versus them type of perception the second thing is that you have a scenario where a lot of laws are being put on the books primarily by rich folks who fear the impoverished nation that is rapidly coming up so for example here in oakland you have a lot of people that are getting tickets and getting their cars booted by police so they're running into the police and this is a revenue generating scheme by our city council you have other situations where property owners are now calling the police more and more because they want panhandle those from out of their store or people who are a lot of rain who don't have a job and cetera et cetera so the point that i'm getting at is that you have that sort of gauge men happening more and more and it's not just the you know the traditional folks who you would stereotype as being the ones to come across law

enforcement and then lastly you have a situation where. you know there was a third point that i was going to make with the police themselves are passing laws for example you have several states or cities where you can't videotape them and then you're seeing video evidence of police misconduct so that becomes a situation where you're looking in you're saying well are you guys willing to be accountable for your actions you have all the tools all the laws on your side and you have. situations where pundits or or or talking on your behalf what about to sit in serie the citizens who feel that they are being mistreated what recourse do they have now the last thing which would have been you being able to thirty or take them you had the police standing up and rejecting that sort of situation so no a better i think it's getting worse now you mention of course this brings in revenue the perhaps there are some class warfare going on but is also still an

issue of race in america do you still think that blacks or latinos are unfairly targeted by the police absolutely i mean in many of the lead penal communities with the aid of ice and the various laws that are coming down to that that are in place definitely where you have law enforcement saying well you know where even though we have a situation where many of the police chiefs say that it's not a good thing for them to act there's ice agents there are programs in place and in places like arizona and in some parts of texas where that is the case so yes that is becoming a situation you also have the cold and cold war and terror so there was just recently an article that talked about how police departments are being trained to look for the quote on called terrorists and those terrorists aren't the lone wolf types or so they're described the late males who we've seen who terrorist acts is usually the middle easterners and muslims they're supposed to be profiling and

looking out for and protecting us from quotations around the words and texting now of course you mentioned that. fact that these days there's a lot of pushback when it comes to video tape but the taping cellphone cameras they've also opened up a lot for us that's why we got to see the rodney king beating that's why we got to see the murder of oscar grant on video but at the end of the day you know the sentencing when it came to the top of the oscar grant case a lot of people would say was very soft so does law enforcement when no matter what at the end of the day that's the perception which is why i was saying that it's got worse when you take a look at the oscar grant situation and if you do not have any police departments or unions come up and denounce it if anything they're going to sacramento in your lobby behind johannes noisily and then he got a light sentence and from what we're hearing he's not really doing hard time it's like a country club jail so the situation is well how egregious does the act after people who are copies is justly convicted you know there was an eighteen months by you

here in the bay area to finally get this cop on trial and to get a little conviction that he did have what it was a slap on the recipient of the day and then you go all the way back to what twenty years ago with rodney king which is where all the videotaping really came into the source and what it tells cops to do they got acquitted so i mean for the average person who feels that the police only always acting in their best interest video cam videotaping should have been the equalizer and it winds up it's one of not being that way are david want to thank you very much for joining us today and of course you know the reason we're talking about it is to bring it out to make people have a discussion about police brutality thanks so much now we're taking a break away back some.