anger and rage in afghanistan today as deadly protests erupt after a nato raid yet that's not making headlines so as mainstream media focuses on arnold schwarzenegger's love child is war reporting really worth the sacrifice. and food prices plowed through consumers' wallets but that supply and demand may not be to blame so is the cost of commodities rides and the g. twenty economic ministers cook up a recipe for success to tackle the problem. simulating life the chinese military uses this game as

a form of basic training and targets u.s. troops so is this glorious mission really mission impossible. good afternoon it's wednesday may sixteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster in your watching t.v. now in afghanistan today at least eleven people were killed an eighty injured when violent protests broke out after a nato raid that allegedly killed four civilians also a senior united nations official warns conditions in libya are quote a ticking time bomb as humanitarian conditions continue to deteriorate in the country and on the u.s. big cable news channels these are the top stories. tales of how arnold schwarzenegger was able to keep his love child a secret for so long and what went down when the real found out schwarzenegger

acknowledges fathering a child out of wedlock with a member of his household staff were going to new years ago. the tough guy on the road where you were not one of those but the story of models those lowlights are there. arnold schwarzenegger's split and his love child this is the top story this is the big news meanwhile journalists are risking their lives to cover wars and some pay the ultimate price as the creator of this afghanistan war documentary tim hetherington did he was killed covering the libyan conflict last month take a look at his movie. and then the foresight to try. and separate the music if you're going to sleep. in. the summer grey's are going to feel sorry for you.

the abuse for some of the bigger the experience to get the week to. and joining me now is tim hetherington collaborator on that academy award nominated documentary restrepo his friend and the author of the book war sebastian junger i want to thank you so much for joining us now i'm so sorry for your loss and the world's loss because obviously had intended very important and very good work and the question that i have for you. you've covered these wars you've covered these conflicts i don't know if you heard my report that you getting you know showing the mainstream media splashing arnold sortes knickers lovechild all over the headlines are these conflicts worth dying for are they worth covering in this way. i think they have to be covered and you know of course tim died in misrata libya and you know was the story he was covering that they were his life obviously not but if you

take the easy sort of aggregate of all of these stories through the years the decades the bosnia is the rwanda is liberia sierra leone afghanistan you take them together. is it worth it to have a group of foreign reporters covering the story so the world can know what's happening and possibly intervene possibly do something yes absolutely it's very much like firemen or for like policemen there is a casualty rate but but society is unthinkable without those without those groups i think that's true of journalism as well do you think that those stories are getting to you know the take care in america getting to americans are those messages getting to americans are they number of all when you know you have editors focusing on news that's going to have entertainment value or going to appeal to a large audience. well i you know i think it is affecting decision making i mean i know there's i'm sure there's a swath of americans the civilians who aren't really focused on afghanistan or

libya for that matter but let's face it it was probably press coverage of the humanitarian catastrophe in libya that triggered nato involvement nato action which saved a lot of lives in benghazi i mean these troops would have overrun benghazi and it would have been a bloodbath that did not happen because of the press so if someone's listening you said that that did not happen because of the press but you also had countries that were bowing you had even arab countries that were that were calling for intervention at that time do you think that it that the press has an interpol role really and that there are is that you know other factors. well without the press there's no information to rally around without images of people suffering without casualty figures without evidence that crimes are being committed against the civilian population there with the arab other arab countries would not have been stirred up against gadhafi you need that information and the press is at least in

the initial stages of the conflict that information gets out through the press and they were very brave bunch of people. very honored to have spent some years being one of one of the tribes and you know i really can't imagine a world without them after having your or your friend you know die in this way be killed will you go back i know i i've done this for almost twenty years now i'm going to continue reporting i'm going to continue covering conflicts probably in countries in turmoil but i'm not going to be doing stories where i'm on a very front line getting shot at. him out i'm done and what why is that what happened that made you come to that conclusion. well tim's death really was tremendously hard on me and i realized that if that same thing happened to me i would be inflicting the sorrow that i sold in this last month on the people i'm

closest to and i never quite thought of it that way before and maybe you have to be in your late forty's to even be capable of thinking that way. but now i am thinking that way and i think. i just feel like it's sort of sided move on you couldn't you could just redo the same thing over and over again and maybe you're not being challenged and maybe for me there's things that are more challenging that probably reporting that you know along those lines of some of the comments that you've made that then florence of the press the realization that there is a point at which it's not worth it anymore you know a lot of the videos that have come out are from citizen journalists on the ground that are experiencing the conflict in their countries that are living it this happened in syria where a lot of journalists weren't allowed in also those images we saw out of all rain that kind of brought everyone's attention the crackdown going on there those the world the source of all those images are so with so many people on the ground documenting his images putting them up on you tube is the role of journalists that

are coming in from other countries that are professional journalists is it diminishing and is it and is it it worth. well that's just raw footage and you can't verify its accuracy its authenticity and the citizen i would call the citizen journalist but these citizen observers with cameras they're not acting as investigators they're not asking people in power forward questions and getting to the bottom of stories they're shooting very important footage of cases you talked about carnage in the streets but it's not the same as journalism and for that matter images can be faked they can be they can be doctored and who's to prove what's to prevent governments from putting doctored images doctored videotape onto youtube proving that whatever whatever they want to prove that they're justified in this crackdown who knows so you really do need to press on the ground as much as possible to authenticate the things you seem to be seeing and do journalists ask those tough questions that are you know more and more when they cover these

conflicts embedded with the military you know i have a column in front of me from a diplomat who was talking about how objective coverage had doesn't really seem to be possible from what he's seen the journalist you get embedded kind of you know he says quote unquote lose it with the military and kind of get a narrative at all and aren't really doing the asking the question. well i think the press in tripoli for example was x. asking extremely tough questions of the gadhafi regime and they continue to with invented journalists you know there's all kinds of journalists and and i know many many journalists who are in bed with u.s. forces and wrote absolutely scathing articles about about what they saw was a really miss prosecuted war and there are other journalists who didn't do that when i was with the soldiers in afghanistan i really wasn't writing about the war i was trying to understand what it was like to be a soldier and so my my approach to them in some ways was almost to try to be subjectively within their experience and not be objective but i really wasn't covering strategy or policy so i you know as in everything you you get all you get

all things in the profession right you get all things what do you think overall do you think that that characterizing journalist as getting very enamored as the people that are covering it is you know fair or is that kind of defection. you know i don't i don't even think you can you can generalize that some reporters absolutely do kind of fall in love with their subject be a soldiers or the police department or whatever they are the poor people of new orleans in two thousand but i mean that's the risk of journalism it doesn't just happen with soldiers that's the risk of journalism if you fall in love with your subject and are unable to see them objectively it's a human failing in some ways probably a good one. but i think for every instance that that happens there are people to do manage to whatever their feelings are they managed to obtain you know sort of sustain an objective viewpoint and really deliver a very fair and impartial story and for me that's that's ninety eight percent of

the journalism that's out there certainly the print journalism all right well i want to thank you so much for coming on and for talking to us and for sharing also your experience that was the bashing younger author journalist and documentary filmmaker. now meanwhile while we're on the subject of war russian president dmitry medvedev held his first press conference in three years and he addressed the libyan conflict and the united nations resolution they're trying to rush abstain from and also spoke about syria where protesters have been violently suppressed and there's been some comparisons to libya art isn't it so now we have some of the highlights lots of issues are on the table all eyes now internationally on of course what's happening in libya are today in fact asked whether or not russia would be in favor of any kind of resolution to interfere in syria of course there was seeing an uprising and much violence lately president is made of mention but russia would be against any kind of intervention in syria because of what happened after the

resolution on libya. because it is a perceived support resolutions on syria frankly speaking they would disregarded by the actions that some states took even though initially russia supported the first resolution and didn't veto the second what happened often was demonstrated that these kinds of resolutions can be manipulated this is a poor bill because it undermines the authority of the u.n. . another international issue that came out was russian relationship with the west and with nato president madrid have said that he did believe the operation was going well but that they are still weary about missile defense both the u.s. and nato and that in the future we would be looking for transparency and it got was not the case russia would be ready to develop its missile systems on a lighter note many jokes were made a lot of light hearted questions were asked once again it was put on display how involved the president made it is in technology how he keeps up with his social

networks and with his blogs in fact one time he pulls out his right hand is red breaking news of how the head of the speaker rather than of the particular of parliament had been you wrote is out of his position and also he mentioned that it's through these social networks like twitter and his blog that he keeps in touch with what with what's really happening in the world and with the people that he's in fact the first russian president to do that i was r.t. correspondent and now we now meanwhile on the subject of the economy g twenty finance ministers are meeting in argentina to address commodity prices they're concerned about volatility now you may recall food prices have broken two thousand a record since about late two thousand and ten according to the united nations really been rising continue to be on the rise and in the spring world bank president said world the world is climbing out of crisis of financial crisis but that the risks of high and volatile commodities prices were threatening that now

the world bank also has just released a report saying the u.s. dollars dominance will be done by twenty twenty five so a lot of news coming out and earlier i spoke with peter schiff to break it all down he's president of euro pacific capital and i asked him what's behind the volatility of commodities because there are a lot of factors that go into it some of them are crop failures and of course and bester speculation is a big one here's what he had to say. all these countries are printing too much money they're all debasing their currencies of course we are the leader the rest of the nation is seen to be following in our in our footsteps unfortunately so since so many central banks are creating so much money our commodity prices have no place to go but up and the more money they print the higher prices are going to go you know obviously volatility is part of the market and when you get these huge bull markets that these countries are caused by their irresponsible money printing you're going to also have a greater volatility and if they want to put an end to the upward trajectory and the volatility they need to turn off the printing presses they need to let interest

rates go up but unfortunately few foreign country governments or the u.s. government are willing to do that so you're blaming kind of the thing for the rise that we've seen in commodity prices what to what extent though i mean because there are other things that go into food prices like you know the problems that happen with crop failure and fires and not sort of things that there aren't like a ration to what extent do you think that declaration is driving with writing about authority that we should think well i think overall the speculation might help smooth out the volatility but certainly there are times when the speculators add to the volatility i think we're in that time period right now but the underlying trends are not being driven by the speculators the speculators are attracted to these markets because of the trends but they're not causing the movement and they're along for the ride and in many cases they help provide access to the volatile excess liquidity which would smooth out the volatility so if quantitative easing and easy money is what's responsible for the rise of commodities isn't that

driven by the investors that are taking that easy money and investing them in commodities. well some of it but of course it's what is the source the source is the easy money if the money was and flowing so fleet freely from the central banks the speculators wouldn't be buying but i do think most of the commodities are being bought by end users it's not that you know all corner we are is all being warehouse somewhere it's being consumed is being used and you know people want to blame it on the weather or you know floods or droughts or whatever i mean this happens all the time and there's always problems with the weather and politicians always want to blame things on the weather remember in the old soviet union the soviet union used to be the bread basket of europe and as soon as the communists took over every year there was a drought and there wasn't a drought it was communism if that's why there was no agricultural output that's why they had to get grain from us because the comet is destroyed all the free

market incentives to farm and now what's happening is you have politicians printing money debasing our currency the natural consequence is that prices go up but rather accepting responsibility and saying hey this is just the a consequence of the quantitative easing if we want to prop up real estate prices well then we're going to have high food prices we're going to have high energy prices they don't want to admit that so they want to vilify the speculators go after opec or the oil companies or blame it on factors beyond their control like the weather ok along the lines of what you're saying as far as devaluing the currency the u.s. dollar is something that is the subject of a world bank report that's just come out saying that it does not expect dollar general in twenty twenty five is the date that they've that for the dollar to just play a role and a multi-currency monetary policy that includes the renminbi from china and the euro we've heard this from many people investors you might be one among them but i

haven't interviewed you but i know jim rogers george soros all of talk about the decline of the u.s. dollar as the reserve currency is it significant that the world bank is saying that and is it significant that they're getting a date. well i think that they're pulling the data out of a hat i mean there's no way to know i know that the current system is unsustainable and the longer the world tries to preserve the u.s. dollar as the reserve currency the worse the global imbalances are going to become the more inflation the world is going to suffer so the sooner the world understands this and look for an alternative i think gold is the best alternative then we can begin to tackle these problems of course when that happens america's ride on the global gravy train comes to an end and we're going to have to get used to living within our means which our means have been dramatically diminished over the years because of our industrial base basically having disintegrated due to high regulation i'd taxes cheap money all the things that we've done to undermine our economy but as far as i'm concerned the sooner that happens the better because the

longer it takes the worst these imbalances grow the fundamentally weaker our economy becomes and the harder it's going to be to rebuild a viable economy so the sooner we the world wakes up it's actually going to help america even though we're going to have to experience a lot of short term pain to get from where we are to where we need to go there's one thing i want to ask about because the report says that a larger role for the renminbi would result china's heavy reliance on foreign currency. and that builds their dollar kind of on the u.s. dollar against not have a customer for all of it treasuries anymore well china is not relying on the u.s. currency they're stockpiling it the u.s. currency relies on china to prop it up i mean people keep saying that china has an export economy they don't they have a production economy the fact that they export their bit to production is their loss if they simply let the dollar fall and their own currency rise they would still produce except it would be the chinese who would enjoy the products that are

being produced instead of americans and the chinese economy would be much stronger and instead of investing all their savings in treasuries where they're basically squandering them they can invest more productively and improving their own. plant equipment and their own efficiencies and have an even more vibrant economy than they have today and that's an area that is the u.s. is the u.s. kind of out of luck because the united states does rely on china to not to be the buyer of u.s. treasuries u.s. debt well our politicians are out of luck i mean the central planners the welfare state advocates are out of luck but i think ultimately as i said earlier the best thing that can happen to the u.s. economy is for the chinese to cut us off it's like we're drug addicts and they're the enablers they're supplying the drugs cut us off so that we can sober up it's not going to be pleasant for a lot of people but it's necessary and the sooner we begin the process this sooner we can begin building a real economy and i don't like all this money going from china the chinese

government to the american government because all that does is undermine our capitalist system it grows the government at the expense of the of the private sector and it's fundamentally weakens our economy sure we get a few more trinkets we get to buy more products but it we're selling our souls to the devil really quickly i want to just touch back up on commodities because our one thing i wanted to ask you about that just really quickly we think it's rising commodities we offer a seeing a rise in u.s. foreign land up twenty percent in the first quarter of this year what do i think is that having to do with commodities and speculation. well no i think it's a good business i mean i think farmers are making more money despite the fact that it costs more to grow your crops they're getting more money for them i think probably agricultural exports are going to increase and so there's a legitimate demand i mean this is this isn't speculation there might be some speculators who are suspecting on farmland but from what i can tell you can buy farmland you can either farm yourself or you can rent it out but there's real income there and i've said you know if you're going to buy real estate in america

you better be able to farm it or mine it but don't buy it if you're planning on building out bought it because that be a complete waste of money. i was advice you got from peter schiff president of euro pacific capital now he mentioned china and the us where china has been seen as an enemy by some the hollywood movie red dawn is being remade with a chinese invasion to replace the soviet one that came in that one nine hundred eighty four original film and lawmakers we've seen fearmonger over china's rise to justify defense spending and we've covered both of those topics here on r t and now it looks like china could be given the u.s. a dose of its medicine take a look at this. china has come up with a video game that you're looking at right there developed by china's giant network technology backed by the people's liberation army and modeled on the u.s.

army shooter game america's army made by the u.s. army now like the american version which was introduced as a recruiting tool in the u.s. in two thousand and two glorious mission as this is called starts with a simulated basic training and then it deploys the player to an imaginary battleground to duke it out in close quarter combat with which look what looks like u.s. troops also looks like a u.s. apache helicopter and now the news reports covering this it shows chinese troops dutifully playing that game so off to see if you know lawmakers and united states respond with you know more fear mongering here in response to it but we wanted to show you that video you cite here first hopefully now still ahead here on r.t. for pedophiles in russia paying the time for the crime may not be enough coming up some measures the russians officials want to take to ensure pedophiles never strike again already some of them going on in the united states you're not going to miss.

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welcome back a call is mounting in russia to introduce chemical castration for pedophiles now this is something that's already legal in nine states here in the united states now activists say the current laws are slack and allow criminals to re-offend in russia however there are those that believe that castration is far from a quick fix for this problem are to correspondent maria finish the notion and has more. elina is a mother of three last summer her four year old daughter was raped gansler learned what happened she found the man responsible and beat him to death. i don't want him back i can only say that i just wanted to be sure this animal was punished and would never do such a variable thing i did to my little girl. sadly it is cases not an isolated one in russia in a country where seventy percent of paedophiles up and rolled with their duty to

reoffend age learn to justice is often used as an eternity to a court of law so with him lynching is inadmissible it starts with the state fails if poor mothers and fathers knew that offenders would get fifteen years in prison or would be castrated before being released would never be released without a satellite tracking jeru as in the usa the police and know about americans then i'm pretty sure they would not reveal who. they have been numerous attempts to toughen the laws on paedophiles in russia in a decade dozens of bills stipulated in canada august ration life imprisonment have been discussed by the state duma but not a single one has passed. more files aren't without supporting russia this means some police officers receive money for allowing brother walls and dance to operate in the worst of the court system acquitted criminals but i am not always talking about the child porn industry that is so much money in so many people involved in

this corruption evil is too hard to fight for gaga but some don't give up and fight their own war so he's hiding his face he says the country's paedophiles on hunting for him gathering information from east papers and t.v. has created an online paedophile database with shock profiles and photos. for the ninety eight percent of cases of child abuse. as real people should know who they are they should know what they look like they should be on alert sergei says in the thirteen years he's been working on the site not a single official has taken any interest in his plight. but you have moderated databases which is don't want. the should have done or sex offenders here are divided into categories from those serving sentences to those to seized but there are many who are marketers at launch wanted

a terrifying thought for parents everywhere. every day some six the children become victims of paedophiles in russia that means in the two weeks we've been working on this report more than eight hundred kids have been abused for years russian legislators have been talking about protecting children but for each day they failed to act even more innocent lives are being told. written off not to be more. and to talk about castration here in the united states tune in at five pm i'll have an interview with kara globe he wrote a book on sex offender legislation in the united states and he himself is a sex offender you're not going to want to miss that but that is going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered at our website r.t. dot com slash usa or you tube channel r.t. youtube dot com slash r t america check out one chinese video game up on there and follow me on twitter at lauren.