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meant to fix the financial fallout failing. unveiling the burka a new ban in france is forcing women to integrate into society but it's revealing more than people face it. it's monday april eleventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine freeze out there watching our team or following breaking news right now a lot of questions tonight after a deadly blast at a subway station in el over as you can see government is the capital of bellerose in eastern europe so far reports say the blast has killed at least eleven people injuring more than one hundred others this happened just before the height of the evening rush hour just as people were rushing to catch two trains arriving in the station now a criminal investigation has been launched as to who or what caused the blast we

will stay on the story and continue to update you throughout the evening. well a two thousand and ten human rights report published by the u.s. state department came out on friday it's an annual report but one that comes out three months into a year marked by dramatic changes especially across the middle east and north africa. the governments of some of the very countries criticized in the report have seen some changes but still much of what is in the report echoes sentiments from years past here's a couple things we picked out venezuela is criticize because the government continues to use courts and intimidate and persecute activists in russia criticisms of attacks and murders of journalists and activists in china lawyers writers artists intellectuals and activists or arbiter turly detained and arrested and in pakistan oppression of racial ethnic and religious minorities. so what wasn't in the report well no acknowledgement of the many criticisms of the other countries

for so-called crimes committed right here to talk more about this is brian becker national coordinator for the answer coalition brian let's talk about this i know this is something an issue that you are passionate about your organization really does a lot with talk about some of the major flaws in this report that just came out well the people's republic of china issued its own human rights report that just came out today too that was kind of a counterpoint to the u.s. statement blasting the united states for its own human rights violations here reported violations that are not documented or even discussed in this report the chinese also interestingly condemned the united states government for using the issue of human rights in this report in particular to lecture and to specifically defame the other governments in the world that are become targets of u.s. foreign policy and as you go through the list you can clearly see that that's the case and let's bring some of those things up i mean for example china criticizes the u.s. for the civilian deaths in iraq and afghanistan it criticizes the u.s. government and the u.s. for what happened with prisoner abuse and also criticizes the u.s.

of for the restriction of wiki leaks for the attempted research of wiki leaks well calling for unrestricted internet access around the world in other countries talk about how this report is seen and some of these specific things are seen from the outside well i think it's. seen largely right now as an act of great hypocrisy a tremendous double standard for us trying to judge and be the judge for the rest of the world while practicing immense of human rights violations at home the united states has more people in prison than any other country in the world and this is the richest country in the world it has three million people in prison or two point five million people in prison a black boy born in two thousand and one according to the children's defense fund is three times as likely to end up in prison than in college thirty million people are unemployed or underemployed or stop looking for work in spite of the biggest housing construction boom in history in the last ten years nine million families have either been foreclosed that is thrown out of their homes or threatened with

foreclosure because they can't pay their debts while the u.s. government gave three hundred three trillion dollars to the banks when they couldn't pay their debts so when you look at the social issues people unable to get jobs people are unable to go to college young people especially from working class backgrounds being funneled towards prison you see a grotesque violation of human rights seventy percent of the people in american prisons are there because they pled guilty meaning they didn't have adequate legal counsel they didn't have a trial they weren't found guilty by their peers and so they went to trial because they were victims of an economic injustice the united states condemns china in this report for having cold black gels that secret prisons but we know the u.s. had secret prisons all over the world under the bush administration and the redish and policy of that is taking people from one country kidnapping them and taking them somewhere else to torture them that's continued under obama why isn't there a human rights violation i think let's say on the topic of china because a lot of critics call this an irony here we have this report and it is an annual

report it comes out every year and it's pretty interesting because just a few months ago this country this president welcomes chinese president hu jintao with open arms for the state dinner you know very festive visit and yet this report has a lot of kind of harsh criticisms of that that hunter you know the human rights abuses there. talk about this irony here well the irony is explainable it's it's explainable because the us as a state living in a system of states maintains diplomatic ties with many of these countries and the case of china if china starts buying u.s. treasury bonds if it stops buying u.s. and financing us the us government in the us economy would collapse the chinese market is great for us and western multinational corporations to end. and yet at the same time the united states would like to in fact carry out regime change in china as it did in iraq as it did in afghanistan as it's trying to do in libya as would like to do in cuba or venezuela because even though it has trade ties with

and makes profit from its relationships with these countries in particular china it has an organic hostility it sees them as competitors and i think that would be the case of russia as well the united states does not want any other regional or global power to emerge that would rival us or germany just real quick brian what's the point of this report i mean certainly the u.s. has no obligation to come out with a report that also criticizes its own policy it certainly does a good job criticizing the other countries and you know rightfully so on a lot of these charges but what's the point of this and you know is there an equal report that comes out elsewhere that looks at this country and there's not an equal report that comes out the chinese as we mentioned in their own report human race groups in the united states document abuses all the time but the real point of the report i believe is the deal a gentleman whose governments so that the united states and in particular the cia can work overtime to bend take a. government to

a regime and carry out some sort of political turmoil for a moment so that that government can be replaced with a government of the united states considers to be a proxy or a client certainly a lot of things coming out of this report will continue to be looked at over the next several months especially as we are going to take a look at what happens with bradley manning a lot going on as always brian becker national party leader for the answer coalition thanks so much. and sticking with this topic of human rights and with some of the decisions made in this country regarding them i want to move on now and talk about the case of lewis cutlass this is the cuban born venezuelan national and a former cia agent he's been linked to bombings in havana as well as the downing of an airliner in the one nine hundred seventy s. and one other has been living quietly with his family in miami census two thousand and seven release he went on trial in texas back in january on terrorism charges them for perjury and person immigration issues many people from around the world

see this as an insult to the cuban people and to some of those victims joining me now for more attorney. oh they want to talk about this case first of all the u.s. . on many counts i mean there's a new york times reporter there's a couple different situations here in rich posada probably has said or has admitted to some of these crimes to being involved in some of this but then there's you know sort of a back and forth about whether or not he actually said it why is he not being tried for any terrorism charges. well that's an excellent cause i'm here in el paso i've spent the last three months monitoring this case since it began on the tenth of january and the the evidence is very strong obviously the prosecutors played for the jurors the tapes of course are going to release his own voice already admitted being the mastermind of the bombs exploded and we ran in one nine hundred ninety

seven where he lamented the fact that when those bombs pilgrimage alyan by the name of value the challenge because he said the economy was in the wrong place at the wrong time but he went on to say on that tape that the jurors heard that we can't stop he didn't say they can't stop he said we can't stop and there are many many instances during the course of those recordings were posada really is it and it being the master noise. of this campaign of terror in cuba and on the last and cheery system is a very complicated and delegated so delicate system it is prone to manipulation by. the wily defense attorneys and that's exactly what happened here if you launch lease proceedings you see that with this will take the stand the government will do direct examination for a day and the defense attorney would add on the stand for

a week and a half cross-examining him and conducting really. a mini trial character assassination. and it seemed like a real. trial was the one to which you are going to. send similar witnesses simply evidence and the character of the witnesses and chants and unfortunately it worked out it really let's talk about some of the people that have protected him along the way and i know that when it comes to the cia certainly this is a dangerous job and records have shown that a lot of coalesce was actually in the cia i believe for more than ten years are a lot of people look at this organization similar to the military that when somebody is in trouble but we don't leave our you know fallen soldiers behind a player protected at every level. and it seems that in this case he has been protected at least over the several years and several years i mean this is somebody who had a hand in the bay of pigs invasion back in sixty one so talk

a little bit about to what extent he's been protected along the way and how protective he is now well in the queen's direction of all. the united states illegally consulting but when this will finally. and still the united states. get requests for these pows who will be there he was not only bought. the plane and we should mention too that he is wanted for murder charges in both cuba and venezuela which a lot of people might find pretty interesting that the u.s. is actually holding somebody wanted on murder trials in those two countries. there are seventy three counts of first degree murder and. incredibly us in the united states has so far not acted on it instead of their. it's final these charges

it lie from an immigration officer in the united states and it's really the wrong charges and i don't think this jury took the case seriously and you can even remember this is a border town because i'm sitting in a good states and people here if you can't get in or out of three not struggle if you lied to me laughing well you can't take what i'm a lot of time has a on but just real quick what do you think is coming next what do you expect to happen i know you've been on the ground there in texas sort of watching this case as it's developed well we saw that a spokesman for the department. sitting in added states was very disappointed. in his will and would suggest the united states should not be disappointed it should instead it's to go and pick an actress and i'm sure disappointment will be over but one gets. only charges not a penny against them are going to pull seventy three thousand. that's within.

our right and personally we're out of time thanks so much attorney has a parent here joining us from el paso texas. touchin here is now to breton what the original conference of bretton woods world leaders created at the global economic framework that is still in place today even though it was back in one nine hundred forty four or the one that took place this past weekend put on by the institute for new economic thinking was bankrolled by billionaire investor george soros and brought together some of the economic elite to take it apart so where is the global economy and specifically the united states had now artie's on us or parts. if these hills could talk. economic theory they would expound upon it. ladies and gentlemen please welcome ideas they could change the world in futures. or at least billionaire george soros bringing together ph d's and nobel prize winners with the backdrop of

historical bretton woods would suggest someone is hoping they will write you know it was here allied nations came during world war two with an economic system in crisis they came searching for stability they formed the international monetary fund the world bank and established the u.s. dollar as the global reserve currency it's here that decades later in the wake of the financial crisis a group of influential economists and former policymakers have got together to try to rethink that very framework to reflect a different world so everything that we have taken for granted for almost two centuries american and european dominance is no longer a fact and in adjusting to that fact and cleaning up the mess of the two thousand and eight financial crisis in the u.s. to move the country forward critics here paint a picture of near continuous failure of u.s. policymakers to do the job president barack obama's former right hand economic man

said the stimulus should have been bigger well the decision was political meanwhile the wall street bailouts of the time and federal reserve reaction favored finance they saved the big banks but they have not really gotten our economy going again. the financial reforms passed by washington supposed to end too big to fail haven't banks still aren't required to hold enough cash that's just one reason critics like this former j.p. morgan exact cite putting the country on course for another disaster turns on what one says about a crisis but i have to say yes the concentration of power in finance is greater to . that was before this crisis and that's courtesy of the cash flow from wall street to politicians and lobbying corrupting real reform and belief in the leaders tapped to make it despite some with noble goals i think there are others who are taken too much money from wall street and they are doing what you would say whatever the folks want that they are contributing to the door to your issue of competence

deterioration coming amidst an increase in inequality in the u.s. where the top one percent are getting richer while everyone else is largely behind with frustration starting to pour over into the streets i've seen recently a public union workers in wisconsin. nobel prize winning economist joseph stiglitz believes it's all sending the country in the wrong direction that's right and that was what has brought him so forcefully what was going happening wisconsin he has high hopes the mix of thinkers and policy makers here will lead to new priorities while others are experiencing their own crisis of confidence that new economic thinking will turn into direct action anytime soon the more things change the more they stay the same. more and mr r. t. new hampshire certainly some rather extraordinary interesting and knowledgeable minds getting together for this conference what actually does it all mean well here

to talk about that is andrew gavin marshall with the center for research on globalization hey there andrew let's talk about this i mean this event was held at the same place as the original bretton woods conference out of which came the world bank the i.m.f. a lot of comparisons are being made but it's not to say how much power to these guys have to do anything that's you know stays in place. well we're not seeing the same results as the initial breton's conference in one nine hundred forty four in there we're not seeing the creation of new institutions from out of this conference but there are similar ideas when unique and important parallel is bad in the one nine hundred thirty four conference you had john maynard keynes the british representative to bretton woods such as the creation of a global currency which he called the bankrupt. basis he thought it would stabilize world financial markets instead they opted for a u.s. reserve currency types. the grace of pulled in one way. and what's coming

out of this conference are similar calls for a new world reserve currency to replace the u.s. dollar if it was a currency now even joseph stiglitz was saying that george soros one of the organizers agreed with and you also had several other members. and speakers at this conference including gordon brown the former british prime minister and others who have said that we need a new political currency we need a new global central bank. to run this new global currency this is the general ideas that are coming out of this conference and it's a wonder considering that not only is the institute for new economic thinking organizing this but also a lesser known organization in canada called the center for international governance innovation which is basically i think and dedicated to global governance and so these are them this is the premise of the ideas i mean at its meeting

whether or not institutions result is another matter and that sense it hasn't had as much influence but this is a continuation of processes that have been going on for a few years and are let's talk about the timing on this you know why now certainly george soros has been talking about changes needed at least for the last two years at this conference but i'm now right before we go into some pretty important financial discussions at least at the lawmaking level we're talking about the discussion of raising the debt ceiling the next budget we've got a lot action is coming up do you think it's any coincidence. no of course not and there's also the g twenty meeting of economic. ministers in a couple weeks central bankers are meeting so the g. twenty is where the this these sort of ideas are being implemented. it's the according to the head of me right now and the head of the european central bank the g. twenty is essentially the center of global economic governance and you have several

of these institutions who are represented at this so-called bretton woods two conference including again for international settlements which is basically a central bank the world's central banks the most powerful financial institution in the world that almost no one's very. there deputy chief economist speaking at this conference saying that we need to we don't sovereignty get more global operation going on. and so there's again all of these and it's their general idea that is time in the whole premise is that right now they're trying to build the consensus to push forward these things because there's this feeling that we're in a recovery and so however and so the political will has almost faded in terms of advancing this agenda one important thing to keep in mind in two thousand and ten the director general of the i.m.f. dominic strong stance said big crisis is an opportunity and in the coming crises

economic crisis what we truly need is a global central bank and it was her answer how likely is that andrew though at how likely do you think it is that some of these i mean these are certainly argue we big ideas there are i guess they're not so much out of the box ideas you mentioned that at the sessions and taking place for decades but we're going to see quite a few challenges to getting some of these things implemented in the coming months. in the coming year and decade i think it will be incredibly challenging and even doing this knowledge that it's incredibly challenging. it's one of the biggest challenges in fact is now it seen china in this process in terms of a global currency their first moving towards this basket of current and see that the i.m.f. special drawing rights arrestee arts and this was endorsed by george soros at the bretton woods conference of strengthening us. this basket of currencies as yours or as embedded currency printed by the i.m.f. . and it's balanced against all others currencies such as the dollar the euro and

it's the idea is that this will sort of be a global reserve currency however in terms of implementing this in figuring out structural reforms and changes there's a lot of discussion of opening china into the basket that it will be necessary you saw moves last year to get china more seats and i'm so sorry to cut you off unfortunately we are out of time thank you so much for joining us from montreal canada and your gavin marshall with the center for research on globalization all starting today in france women are officially banned from wearing a full face veils in public the controversial law now in effect after many government officials there say they want to help muslims adopt better to the local community critics accuse president sarkozy of persecuting islam to win back votes from the right but in a country with europe's biggest muslim population the law rests igniting social tensions artie's daniel reports. in fact become

a critical problem today you french law bans covering your face public is designed to make integrate in society but the softly spoken single mom says he's had the opposite effect from. my friends have simply stopped going out at all the new rulings made some scared to speak out but many valid not to change the way they dress the move on the minds of the french republic stone's forces businesswoman he pledges to pay the hundred and fifty euro coin for anyone who continues to wear a veil and is taking the dispute over the last we are soon france in the european court of human rights it's about freedom of expression. that was fired as nicolas sarkozy's integration advisor last month after criticizing the president's approach he now calls on french muslims to wear a similar to the one forced on jews one of the nazis big. loss

these government should learn how to negotiate opinion polls show record low approval ratings for the french government with bank is asians the liberally stirring into racial tension friday prayers in paris muslims are forced to worship on the streets the government knocks the building of basic public prayer rooms more discrimination say worshippers against the muslim population rolls as seen riots in recent years against government policies there are signs of more brewing it is a distinct possibility especially when the domestic. decisions and events in foreign decisions and events come together and those foreign influence have also reached partners in europe joining claims from illegal deport haitian of roma and sending north. fiji's instantly in the face of international ngo that

splits the frame code german axis and drives the u. this is. axis as as it has been called sometimes is god functioning and list here france could no longer make sure muslim regimes when it picks all its own ethnic minorities why should we start persecuting christians if you are persecuting muslims saying you have absolutely no credibility and reliability to tell us what we should do let's crack the forming within the french government over its hardline policies civil court approval of politicians in the ruling party last week quits more expected to do the same in the coming days the new bush will see how this opposition in france is expected to continue both in the form of protest and with women either knowingly breaking the law or not leaving their homes as we just on the report earlier i spoke to dr saeed m.

saeed who is the director of an islamic society of north america he wanted to clear up some of the misconceptions about veils in a muslim culture namely that they were fired i asked him for his thoughts on this burqa ban in france and here is his take. they are living in a democracy and we help respect the choices i mean this is one set an intimate course no decision what one wants to run does not run there so it's not right that beguilement. these things but i was saying that at the same time since i am representing major. muslims in the west living in a polluted as democracy where a lot of women are part spitting and deciding who goes to the white house who is electoral power center congress and at the local level they decide as. how the schools should be shipped what the teachers should treat their sons and

daughters and so on it's a measure on how to remember not only in the west i mean in the most no woman everywhere in the world so they have to play an important rule so we want to make sure that the message is clear that it's not an islamic requirement i'm saying that when you do things this need this nature there has to be larger education muslim leaders themselves internally should have initiated a robust. dialogue discussion there should be discussion and. quite the last forty years we have been intensely involved and. saw as the secretary general of decider going to zation we do a lot of masks are good ones so we should invite our neighbors to come and see how we play what we do in. so although i am saying that there are three things which

have to be made clear number one is it. number two is that the french leaders the government they should have been wiser in in promote. what they wanted to do it needed a lot of. number three is the message to muslims in general that there is a. message i want to profit that if something of this nature which is not central to islam is not liked by you or neighbors particularly the majority of french don't like it and it is to do p.r. muslims. prophetic dukie that they should make themselves likeable people should trust them loud them people should appreciate their islamic values if there is a barrier it just becomes a barrier of not just part of woman but between them islam.