as to the charge of first degree murder verdict as to count one we have a jury on the planet not guilty a not so guilty pleasure for the mainstream media which shouldn't just be case closed now. what lessons do you see more to be drawn from the way the u.s. legal system and though this transpired. welcome to sir philip garden where the new i.m.f. chief has to balance her job with the d.s. cate case so why isn't the mainstream media asking if you can tame the world sinking economies instead. and white house is all a twitter with obama's town hall today because social media reach

a character limit when it comes to privacy. plus ready aim and fire a new television ad puts a target on gun rights and wrongs while debate. good evening it's wednesday july sixth i'm lauren lyster in washington d.c. and you are watching r t well yesterday if you were in a cave maybe you didn't hear but if you weren't you probably learned the casey anthony saga that is compelled never ending coverage on some mainstream news stations to come to a climax the verdict was delivered take a look. you know the jury on the defendant not guilty i was stunned. jaw dropping moment this is a historic rejection of the prosecution's case. she wakes up thinking i could face lethal injection tonight she's thinking i'm going to

be free probably in forty eight hours i don't think i was wrong i still believe that women older two year old child. it inspired analysis hours into the afternoon into the evening no change really for what we've seen over the last few months in fact a smart politics study of transcripts looking at fox c.n.n. and m s n.b.c. a.b.c. and n.p.r. found that more news reports mention the casey anthony trial at least one time more than any of the republican presidential candidates since opening statements were delivered may twenty fourth and today a fresh day we thought with the verdict behind us maybe this saga would be put to rest maybe the cable stations would look at something else think again take a look somewhere around there. the devil is dancing tonight this was a good mother you see this is the silver of the. consumer to be acquitted of killing her two year old daughter people across the world are comparing it to o.j. simpson do you believe casey's lies or was this just orchestrated but it's

a sad day for the criminal justice system i believe it's still been all over today and while casey anthony is now a household name because of all of the attention this case has gotten i wonder if most people had ever heard of another mother accused of killing her baby in the u.s. ready gives now this case is in mississippi gives became pregnant at fifteen she lost the baby though is thirty six weeks she had a miscarriage that was in two thousand and six the baby was a stillborn prosecutors however found out that this mother had a cocaine habit and they charged the girl under a one hundred and thirty year old statute this statute is just prayed heart murder is what it's called it's filed when someone is suspected of putting another person in imminent danger of death one hundred thirty years old this is an old statute it convicted under this law though gives faces a mandatory life sentence mandatory life sentence and she is the first woman in mississippi to be charged with murder relating to the loss of an unborn baby the

first one and this was argued before the state supreme court and we're still waiting on the. asian but it's one that would have an effect on the rest of the country it could have a huge effect on like casey anthony which has an effect on casey anthony and i guess her family and the people who are bit obsessed with her fate and i guess the cable news stations have seen their ratings surge as a result of their coverage so why though is gives not being covered or talked about every day and every hour that casey anthony has been or even a tiny fraction of that we can answer that question for you we don't run the mainstream news networks were quite contrary to their coverage but we do want to be asking those questions and that's what we think is important to look at here at r t upon the livery of this verdict meanwhile over the i.m.f. the international monetary fund the new head christine lagarde she held her first press conference on her second day of work now this comes at

a very important time it's just as moody's cut portugal's bonds to junk and warns the country needed a second bailout now this is following an even lower rated greece with a second bailout for that country being talked about but what it archy's christine has outlined that a lot of people want to ask the guard about the sex scandal circumstances surrounding her predecessor strauss kahn take a look. from violence on the streets of the middle east. to protests in north africa. war in libya. to europe. for portugal's credit rating has been deemed junk. in greece. for unemployment hovers about sixteen percent and the debt crisis has sparked anger. in ireland a blanket of despair as people there too have come out to speak out in hopes of

igniting change entire cities as well as their policy. these have been lit up in flames looks like a nearly all of this anger stemming from poverty and failed economic policies in the us as well high unemployment sits atop a mountain of problems like a housing crisis and slow financial growth this is the world christine legarde inherits as she begins her new post as managing director of the international monetary fund in her first formal meeting with the press at the i.m.f. headquarters in washington she seemed optimistic in her hopes to get the country back on track the international monetary fund is here to serve and to provide services to its hundred and eighty seven members if not perfect the effect of news stories by fill in on the world press conference with the new managing director of the i.m.f. then garner quite a bit of media attention most likely it had left to do with her feel of our self

and more to do with the reason why she is here. inside the room cameras and tripods stood like soldiers guarding the entrance of the castle keeping close watch and wondering aloud about the guard's predecessor what lessons do you think or could be drawn from the way the u.s. legal system handled the strauss kahn case we could be any reforms in the human rights and human resources policies here do you plan any changes in them in light of the controversy over mr strauss kahn the controversy of course with dominique strauss kahn accused of raping a hotel maid in new york and that case now starting to crumble after it turned out the maid had credibility problems back to the i.m.f. were low guard will take over but yes you have covered issues what worries you the most guarded her best to stay on message we cannot be only driven by the

hope to reduce. fiscal deficits and organize fiscal consolidation in a big way whether you look at advanced economies with or you look at emerging markets or low income countries the issue of employment is a critical one the one hundred eighty seven nation organization has already lent one hundred sixty billion dollars to cash strapped nations many of which have little hope for paying it back. so the real questions are manifested here on the streets of some of the nations suffering the most are expecting aid from the i.m.f. has been presented at times as the only option is austerity measures are now being put into place the questions too are in the dollar and how its value may or may not change under her watch for managing the debt crisis around the world will fall at the top of her agenda as the rest of the world watches with hope first ability in

an unstable world in washington christine for south r.t. . and for international debts to the national debate the us is less than a month away from developing on its debt at the lawmakers can't get a deal done to raise the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling it's really going down to the wire for u.s. lawmakers now to break the stalemate we've seen and it's the eve of more debt talks obama yesterday invited the top leaders from both parties to the by house that's tomorrow and they're going to try to move towards an agreement so far nothing has been reached despite numerous deadlines that have passed obama is still go calling for a longer term solution to the country's deficit not a short term deal take a lesson by total ports there may be some in congress who want to do just enough to make sure that america boards defaulting on our debt in the short term but then wants to kick the can down the road when it comes to solving the larger

problem of our deficit i don't share that view. but is this kind of a solution possible or lawmakers going to continue what some of called a game of chicken with the u.s. economy using that debt ceiling as leverage and of kind of a poker chip now for more on this i spoke to country to abandon hubel she is editor and publisher of the nation magazine i asked her because she is one who has called this kind of a debt ceiling circus i asked her who though she holds responsible for that for the debt ceiling theatrically on capitol hill their first take. you know i hold the structural obstacles of our system responsible but mostly at this stage republican party or it has failed to understand that unless we achieve until it is one of shared prosperity that includes increased tax revenues and not just spending cuts we're never going to get anywhere in terms of a. strong america so i think when i wrote this up that the other day about the

fourteenth amendment it is in our constitution that president obama could invoke article four of the fourteenth amendment to say that this depp's debt ceiling is unconstitutional it is a tool in the toolkit to have leverage as we face an increasingly obstructionist extremist republican party unwilling to consider tax increases on the richest on corporations on those who have taken their money across it so i think that's where i replaced the plane home so then why haven't we seen president obama make a move like you're saying and instead we thought him yesterday call for a long term deal to majorly tackle the deficit as opposed to just getting their debt ceiling raised and getting it done well you can't get the debt ceiling raised if you have no one to tangle with in the republican party isn't willing at the station any kind of compromise so i think what president obama is trying to do is

keep this idea of the constitutional amendment in the backdrop as leverage in this game of chicken coup i think president obama we use it unlikely in light of the kind of leadership we've seen from him he has confrontation of course i do think it's useful though because as i said earlier and as some republican commentators have argued in these last days this is not a normal republican party this is a republican party unwilling to make any kind of compromise because it is unwilling to see that you can't have a healthy industrializing advanced country we. increasing taxes on the very richest who would benefit the most one of the politics of this is maybe in that we will see a president trying to crisis or they would increase the global instability we just saw footage that would increase the pain in this country leaving more financial institutions to collapse mortgages to collapse more unemployed so i would say we

don't know i would say never say never because we are living in uncharted times we see that across this quote in ways that we had not anticipated and in this country we have a system which many people is not working is not working for everyone though the rich might think it's working for them we're not seeing a country that is pulling together and doing the things we need to do we are sitting watching silly trials were failing to invest in an infrastructure that is deteriorating and we're not doing the politics can rebuild with some like to think of as the american dream right i'm curious if you think first of all that it's inappropriate for our politicians to be playing a game of chicken over something like the debt ceiling which many argue could derail the entire global financial system do you agree with that but it's sort of i mean i think if there is self-serving it's provincial of these people particularly

to rip the republicans at this stage the democrats have need come from us and they're willing to make compromises some of which i would disagree with many i've worked with would disagree millions would say don't cut my medicare or you give it more tax breaks why are you cutting funding for unnecessary to fence budgets so i think it is selfish and it's got all hostage the global financial situation hold hostage the financial economic pain of this country and millions in it but at the same time you see democrats you've seen president obama and every time he is the talking point over the corporate jet tax for example. you know in saying that that's something that is really important needs to happen but the white house can't even quantify what that would save some say would only be you know three billion dollars over ten years which really isn't much when you're looking to cut trillions of dollars so isn't everybody kind of guilty of playing politics in a situation like this no i think some are more guilty of playing politics than others because you know we're looking to the country or where the tax burden for

the very richest is lower than it has been decades we're looking at a republican party that believes you can cut your way to recovery or prosperity we're looking at a republican party that has been unwilling to consider any kind of revenue producing increase in the sick room and just do one to one people in the democratic party who said ok fifty percent revenue fifty percent cuts that's you know parents of fifty let's make a deal i may not agree with that but that's out on the table republicans have refused the republicans are even adding a little gimmicks that they long for like the hollands budget amendment if this moment in this negotiation it's only. that was banned in hugel editor and publisher of the nation magazine well as obama tries to get a deal on the debt done any questions he's answering today on the economy aren't at

a press conference with by house reporters but over twitter he held a twitter town hall starting out by saying he was the first president to live tweet in that tweet he asked the public for there and put in order to reduce the deficit what costs would you cut and what investments would you keep he asked now he's relying on twitter for this town hall the same week that fox news reportedly had its account hacked with tweets claiming president obama had been assassinated and this kind of little story points to how socially media driven our world has become but also how in this world often times anything goes things are with they seem privacy is an issue. and for more i'm joined by declan mccullagh he is correspondent christine at new ways to try and assess where this is all headed so thank you so much for being with us it's nice to see you know one thing i want to really get to facebook is the world's largest internet social network where i've read different accounts seven hundred million worldwide is what some have it's approaching as far as user ship at the same time you do see these reports now that

it's the tenth most hated company in america according to a c.s.i. which ranks companies like this based on complaints and one common complaint is privacy and personal information protection you also see reports that trace but that facebook's traffic is plummeting in the united states so even though we see all this hype that social media is the future and are we seeing a trend where it's going to go downhill well i mean you eventually reach the point of diminishing returns a very sports growth has been phenomenal but there's a limit to how much you can do that you're into this law of large numbers you can't keep growing where you can present in perpetuity and you know that everybody wants everyone who wants to be on facebook right now at least in the us is on facebook and they haven't proven themselves very well or put another way they've made a lot of missteps over the years in terms of privacy because if you look at the followed the information was originally but people posted that it's growing every

year it seems more and more and is it ever widening circles available to the general public so we've made some missteps some are intentional i think some are probably intentional so you're not missteps at all these meetings were public in there and oily users which is why google but getting a lot of attention right now some are predicting that facebook's hype will fade out one writer says that we're seeing the beginning of the end and he cites the decline we saw my space he said that goldman sachs facebook investment is a sign of facebook cashing out do you agree with that. maybe there's so much because we don't have all the figures we don't know much about facebook's internals they are not large enough in terms of the number of investors they're getting close but by the end of the year it probably will be they should disclose their finances. and so we're speculating about a block off base but we know that some companies have with ability to print money

who both microsoft outlook. isn't there yet on the same level on the profitability is really low for the first valuations were during thinking around like eight hundred eighty to one hundred billion so i suspect that if it's drip expose them and you're not convinced that you're going to you're going to be able to produce the type of profit that google microsoft will do then you're the one exception of quickly as possible you're in there might be a bubble ok now you mentioned some of kind of the issues surrounding privacy and some of the more people have made their information private i'm curious because a group of internet intellectual property law professors they wrote a letter to members of congress opposing the protect ip act now this would give the government new powers to take web sites offline to censor search engines sue internet publishers accused of infringing activities should people be more concerned about what they are putting on social media when you have acts like this

that are you know being contemplated. it works on there really are two separate topics in the first intellectual property copyright mess with the perfect i was but it was that many laws off the letter that went out earlier this week are probably right in that this is the second question of the end facebook kind of change the default over the years to make beings that are were originally started in that era . being private public and twitter was always pretty much public and so people weren't surprised on twitter now google launched google last week it's actually pretty interesting and sometimes when posting around here we are looking about a month or so and you can look at those you say these are friends these are families or coworkers these are all of them are that with but still follow and it's just acquaintances maybe these are people who were part of my whatever club i belonged to a school or work and so they were good been inventing other people just broadcasting

baby photos to all of these different groups so i think that the next button and there were things glue on the facebook kind of scramble to catch up to what google is doing to announce something earlier today that was about as emma terms of the video conferencing was not as good as was google announced last week really quickly i'm almost out of time but i just want to keep this going for one more second because you mentioned that twitter has mostly been public but i'm curious what you think as some are writing that this twitter town hall is basically giving a high profile endorsement to twitter and have kind of these connections between the co-founder that buys the state department on how to use twitter and you know what the u.s. considers repressive regimes and the chief executives there is an adviser to obama telecommunications policy and national security i thought there's a few of these connections do you see any nefariousness in these collaboration between twitter and the government and any threat to people's privacy what probably

happened is that the facebook that is found following april. the president who will did one earlier in the presidency and they just want to do one to one so i don't see i think that these executives here in san francisco's or gallagher but are generally. progressive looting and so that's not an ounce actions i don't think there's anything especially pernicious but it is part of the part of just as. you would say it's all right jeff and i thank you so much we have to leave it at that we're out of time but i was declan mccullagh his analysis is correspondent for c.n.n. is now at last month a spokesman adam gadahn appeared in a video urging followers to exploit u.s. gun laws to attack i mean of islamic if you missed it here's a little states to put it in the worst you've got a lot at your disposal let's take america as an example america so absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms you can go down to

a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle without a background check and most likely without having to surely difficult card so what are you waiting for well then new york mayor bloomberg used that ad in one of his the ads to push gun gun policy his agenda here it is. the latest kind of plot instructs terrorists on the bike america so what are you waiting for. or your member of congress tell them to close the loopholes that with terrorists and criminals barred guns and we wanted to take the opportunity to exploit this subject for the purpose of our debate over gun control in the u.s. earlier i spoke with our tease adam koch cash host of adam vs the man i asked him what's so wrong with mayor bloomberg and others fighting to close loopholes and keep guns out of the hands of people listen haven't here's his response. well there's nothing wrong with having a legitimate debate about that policy but to say here's something that we can make

people really afraid about and we can leverage politically and exploit it to push our agenda you know that really lowers the debate because there's no logic there's no rationale behind this we can't have a result conversation we can't say what actually leads to better reality from gun control policies what leads to worse effect in terms of making people prone to attacks by criminals are less able to defend themselves or more money wasted in a government bureaucracy that's ultimately completely futile and being able to have that discussion is very important and i don't mind being able to say well let's have a rational discussion about the state of gun control right now but to say let's start with the very very afraid because the terrorists are going to come get you well then let me ask you this what do you take away from that video of adam gadahn but what alarms you about that well it's alarming in the sense that. it's another excuse and it gives people like mayor bloomberg an excuse to push that in any time there's a tragedy nothing about it added to the international video concerns us that when

you as a gun enthusiast and as firmly believe in second amendment rights that video devan alarm you at all well it does concern me in and of itself but you know i'm from new mexico and in new mexico i open carry everywhere i go and that's a great benefit of living in a state where i have more freedoms than i do here in the district of columbia so if you if you live in a city where you're not allowed to arms are allowed to put a lot on farms and you're already completely dependent on the government for your own protection then yeah it would because be afraid but you shouldn't be afraid that your over all are concerned that someone is taking advantage of you for being disarmed but that there's a massive government effort to keep people disarmed under some power to keep these rights away from us despite our founders' best efforts to protect them and the constitution ok so you're talking about that right that when it comes to guns i want to ask if there's more at stake than just gun rights i want to run a video with you more later on because i want to feel like i want to clarify that when you when you said go i haven't had the real reaction to. the kind of video you know i mean i do i think for the same reason that anytime there's

a tragedy involving a firearm you know it's not just a tragedy in the south but it's a tragedy or potentially a greater tragedy as the fear from it you know like the four year old who was shot in in baltimore on on independence day this past weekend or you know i mean any any shooting that shouldn't have to occur you know makes you know i feel that and i'm affected by it not just because of the tragedy in and of itself and and yes there is an emotional for tragedy out of the this al qaeda video points out that you know a because we have firearms rights to a very limited agree here in united states there's an opportunity for them to be used against us but the logical fallacy behind that is like well if americans are able to breathe air you know we should cut off air because in the terrorists won't be able to breathe or they're going to kill people guns do an ecological model don't kill people law enforcement officers kill people all that kind of money and then it's going to have a chilling european eight times more likely to be killed by a police officer and by terrorists ok well let's talk about the people that have been killed by police officers because this is a video that we ran when this home

a video came out i think you did tape of a of a swat team killing you know i'm married in a town let's write a little bit out of it i can see it. so they bang on his door they shot off seventy one rounds the part you don't see is this guy lived in his home and he was pointing an air fifteen at the cops allegedly allegedly because we've already seen so many lies break the law by getting the love you've been ok we know exactly what they like that is what eventually led to coining and they are picking at the police and granted that perhaps he is allowed to do that by law but if he wasn't pointing an air fifty at those police when they bang on his door do you think he would be alive well again instead of making the case from reason this is a case based on a single incident and i'm just reactionary yes because i think one of the our how

did that all right you look at it was another really protect yourself but in this case that having a gun is that we contributed to have games held there well the cops had more guns and none of them know that he was like oh the lobster's little rides you don't know because you know think about the oscar grant shooting thing where he was face down on the floor in a bart station in california and had shot in the back and that's a great point but i think that's a problem that i'm just curious if sometimes gun rights backfire on innocent people no i think you can look at a free case and you can always make that argument but more often than not and there are plenty of francis's to back me up on this when civilians use firearms because they have accountability for the way that law enforcement doesn't they are much less likely to fire them their farms are much more likely to be used to prevent crimes rather than as a lot of work out and got it from a prior to the guy where he was holding it and nobody got shot right in the crime was by the swat team there right but he's dead so who cares a crime was he ought to buy why don't that's that's

a tragedy and that's what we've been talking about this is why you need to be looking at this from a fundamental human rights perspective that marine out of. right to be safe and secure in a cell not just as a human being living in peace ok to get along but under the fourth amendment the us constitution and the answer isn't to say well let's take away more rights and let's think of what this law is let's take away more rights until you know we're all just completely disarmed government wage slaves whereas instead we can say no let's give people more rights let's respect privacy let's respect property let's not knock down their door in the first place with these you know no knock raids where people are are being ambushed in their homes and there's more moraine was under the assumption that rightly so that his home was being invaded right was speaking to misuse so the u.s. is the primary source of weapons for mexican drug cartels assets that are they going to u.s. and mexico in the past two years or smuggled from the united states whether it's the a.t.f. problem or the united states those of us guns that are involved in islands that is a problem as a result of all kinds of united states how do you not look at that.