it's a third of the u.s. military budget and the u.s. military budget is half of the global the winter budget which is now without a trillion dollars and if you asked the question could we reduce the u.s. military budget by a third. and shift those expenditures into poverty eradication population stabilization earth restoration i think it's clear that we would do far more to ensure our future that if we just stay with the half trillion dollars of u.s. taxpayer money going to military purposes. the environment is an intergroup part of our national security and i don't mean that in a trite and cliched way our resource constraints even if we were to defend ourselves physically we need those resources and if we're not going to be able to preserve them it is strategically tactically and just common sense wise

a big mistake as security concerns are discussed the environment is immediately dropped and people say well we have to move forward because this is a matter of our survival and what we have been suggesting is that the environment itself has a very survival instinct element to it so protecting the environment should be considered at that level. environmental harms should be considered what we call in the political theory common over in the us if you are at a crossroads you have two cars that have divergent interests one is going in one direction the other in the other direction and they're not going in the same direction but they have a common aversion which is getting into an obstacle. and they're likely to cooperate over that common version whether it's through a stop sign but from some kind of traffic regimen. even sides that do not like to

cooperate on other things and have divergent interests they may still have common of versions. rising temperatures rising seas and intensifying storms eroding coastlines falling water tables vanishing habitats and species the broad threats facing us in the twenty first century are environmental yet the environment is consistently overshadowed by the immediacy of war and preparations for war it is an extremely difficult to get the nation mobilized against something that is a long term as opposed to a short term problem. as long as there is no weapons or insufficient emphasis from the national leadership to protect the environment you probably cannot expect the military to give it high priority what we're looking at now is a threat to our probable civilization and saving. our civilization is not

a spectator sport we're going to change the system now and that means become politically active it means supporting pleasure candidates who understand the issues about to do something about it it means letting elected representatives whether members of the city council or members of congress or part of that's around the world let them know about our concerns and what we expect them to deliver after this is going to decide whether we make or not we have to become politically active .

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everyone while in ca this is also a line from moscow and the city international has called on libya's new all thought to prevent human rights abuses their allegations of on nations committed by great rivals under. colonel gadhafi is troops most of the country is now under rebel control with only a few pockets of daffy loyalists still fighting but some people in the capital say the only fruits of the revolution they're seeing are uncertainty and fear as artie's refund reports. it after free tripoli just can't stop chanting to celebrate the birth of new libya . all reminders of a recently overthrown dictatorship are suppressed but used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for laughter. shoot for his show of shoot earlier we call him

shoot because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it it's only actually put some out smiling believe in the freedom is nothing but the mirage a crown has been arrested three times in the last two weeks rebels and tara gaiters him and took his documents the reason the twenty seven year old copilot says is his family's ties with gadhafi his regime we cover his face and change his name in supposedly free libya it's man is afraid of being thrown to jail again or even killed and you can see a budweiser roger graef you can see about a bed was of water it could be a national icon of what we are talking about democracy this is not democracy ikram says libya didn't get rid of a dictatorship but only fell into another one of the rebels' run ins in a city where the gun has become a common accessory just like a cell phone and where one can only cross the town's numerous checkpoints with an

obligatory a large variety of the winners this is a reality not hard to believe. know everybody we are happy we are free them their fears do run away this is not true believe me because they are free to all three turn back to tripoli you see the same people same people same person and think they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope it was comes after war is often different the. those who drove egypt's recalled this year was two of the streets this week and seven months after toppling president mubarak angry at the life of progress on the reforms he was future to is still far from clear the post gadhafi libyan capital has been the scene of euphoria with celebrate three gunfire and singing out here around the clock for more than a fortnight already like all parties however some believe there could be

a serious hangover after wards and the form of retribution and uncertainty as to how the future country will be governed. original show artsy tripoli libya. meanwhile the rowing concern in libya. after the fall of gadhafi could fall into the wrong hands brian johnson thomas former u.n. experts all of r.t. what needs to be done to stop the flow of weapons. all start off by being illegally maybe the league could be sold but at some point the guns that cause the problems being diverted and the case of libya the concerns as you move a lot of the rebels who are until fairly recently also regarded as being in the with al-qaeda in some cases so there are some orders to what they might do with those people the reservation for the across the market which would obviously get interesting what happens in libya i want to get support for the resolution of any sort when you terms of loose control of some of the individuals within it is one of

the problems of the. beauty where you could have a society worth of doing business as if it's rituals respect the rule of law and what georgia gun crimes. because people all wants to hold an illegal weapon because they don't have any trust in someone else looking after them so unless the libyan transitional national council can very quickly establish the trusting impartial independent police of course because my own system is pretty good for me there would be a temptation of people to keep guns for their own defense and not them resist temptation to use a gun or something could you shouldn't be used. where you can see the full interview with brian johnson thomas former u.n. experts on the arms trade later this hour here on. the u.s. congress is considering president obama as

a four hundred forty seven billion dollars jobs bill to help america's ailing economy the country's looking at all possible means to raise the cash it needs. one idea being mooted is saves money is a reduction in the number of people being kept behind bars however one group of people has a vested interest in keeping prisons as full as possible as artie's. out. america's financial crisis has been something of an unseasonable monster swallowing up millions of jobs homes and businesses throughout the nation yet amid this ongoing economic armageddon one industry has remained recession proof. private prisons. with more than two point three million people behind bars the united states trumps china russia and the rest of the world in both the number and percentage of people doing time where it falls short though is being capable of containing such a large population it's

a political dilemma turns cash cow for dozens of corporations creaming profits off punishment private prisons make money. the more people in iraq the longer that you and the more money they make so they have the same perverse incentive to expand our justice system and increase our number of people or our number of citizens who are behind bars because it increases their profit margin. the profitability of private jails depends on the prison population continuing to go up the rate of incarceration in the us has quadrupled since the eighty's when america's war on drugs are short in the three strikes policy which ties judges to mandatory minimum sentencing even for nonviolent offenders since the late eighty's and into the ninety's and now today we see a turn away from that rehabilitated model so across the country prison programming is cut rehabilitation is being cut there's less opportunities for education to gain

work skills and instead there's just this drive towards isolation towards punishment private prison companies are paid between forty five and one hundred thirty dollars a day per detainee rates for juveniles women and immigrants could be higher while public prisons are accountable to the public private ones answer only to shareholders and are not subject to external scrutiny that means many private contractors face few consequences for the poor or even inhumane treatment of detainees and we just see more and more isolation sensory deprivation and prisoners who literally never interact with human beings. come. seventy there would be a sign out front with their stock price to let them know how the company was doing corrections corporation of america and geo group are the two largest private prison companies with combined revenues of two point nine billion dollars last year but

critics say they've been using that financial clout to line their own pockets even further encouraging politicians to keep going with the heavy handed sentencing program by launching an influential lobby campaign in the corridors of power bob being in in order to influence public officials only a small power and private prison industry. policy check and others include campaign donations so the companies make hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and politicians nationwide both on the federal and state levels with most states and the federal government currently operating under record deficits and budget cuts private prison companies are pitching their facilities as lower cost alternatives and while most americans continue struggling during this economic downturn mass incarceration may grow even more profitable. artsy new york.

so they have the. extremes of tourism of creating a firsthand experience of a pair of such a collective wild c. away inside the exclusion zone around the chernobyl nuclear plant. and this is welcome a round president in new york next week a billboard in times square accuses iran of being an ally of al qaeda. obama will reach out all the heads to the u.n. general assembly. now thousands of people turned out at the funeral of lives hockey play out xandra gallimore if you notice novel to see him all with a sea of flowers and tears he dies in a hospital five days after the plane crash that killed almost the entire look last week the twenty six year old line from severe all the spiritual tracts family friends and fans gathered up a team's home stadium in. to pay their last respects the plane carrying the cape he

is side crashed in central russia it was on his way to batteries for the first game with the season a crew member from the plane is now we're the only survivor. in the news we're just getting it here on the. streets of kabul weapon the same surgeons carrying out chord major attacks against government buildings rockets have been fired at the u.s. embassy in the afghan capital and all the reports say the nation the coalition headquarters are also on the time. to be firing from concealed positions throughout the city. while these turkey's prime minister has described israel's raid on michael's abound for terror last year as a cause of for war but said his country refrain from taking action and korea did however expel the israeli ambassador and cuts military and trade tied for the jewish state after it refused to apologize the killing nine in the operation and

ahead of a trip to egypt turkey's leader warned israel it faces growing isolation in the region relations between the jewish state in cairo are strange to after rises ransacked the israeli embassy. a massive fuel pipeline explosion in kenya has killed at least eighty two people and severely injured over one hundred the blasts created a giant fireball which involved a heavily populated slum nearby the kenyan red cross assisted in search and rescue operations and schools of severely victims hospitals in nairobi the explosion was most likely caused by attempts to siphon fuel from the pipeline. directional rains a widespread flooding in southern pakistan have claimed the deaths of over two hundred people and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes pakistan's financial sense corruptions among the cities paralyzed the streets of london and

schools and businesses closed nearly one million homes have been destroyed or damaged since the monsoon season started in early august. it's deja vu time for the greek economy with more speculation is close to the fold the greek finance minister is set for talks with his german counterpart after some officials and berlin suggested athens could be forced out of the single currency unless edward house and says any default carries the real risk of contagion. i think what's going to happen is the eurozone is going to say look this isn't working we realize that there's no way they're going to be able to repay and do the austerity we have to take some haircuts that is we have to write the debt you know default and then we're going to have some sort of program to deal with that in an orderly instruction is going to be losses and we know that those losses are going to mean that we're recapitalize banks both banks in the lead of countries like

germany and france but also the greek banks themselves you know there might be a powder flask type of attitude meaning that you know if we cap was your bag that means that you probably have to flout some of them off and sell them for foreigners things of that nature there's always going to be some recrimination and tension but at the end of the day once these debts are unsustainable are written off i think that that's a positive thing if greece defaults and then everyone says ok which is the policy and luckily we have the way greece the other a special case. good let's. see or they could. default and what about ireland what about portugal what about spain and italy they look kind of like greece maybe they'll do for two and so. and then get out of those countries and then the same sort of serious a play out there that just played out in greece. adventurous travelers are waiting

to see if they'll ever be admitted to one of the globe's most surreal tourist sites the dead zone around nuclear plant in ukraine twenty five years after the worst ever atomic disaster trips to the area that halted a of allegations they are illegal. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiation for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of did it catered to the police of the one nine hundred eighty six chernobyl fallout over the years the chernobyl museum in ukraine's capital kiev has become one of the top tourist attractions especially in april this year when the world marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the firsthand course the political experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and there is an adventurous alternative to the contaminated zone around should a novel itself over the past decade stories have been floor can hear more than ten

thousand of them each year that's why forbes magazine named the dead zone one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations. alexander a former resident of the goldstone of prepared has been organizing these stories for several years he told us the visitors are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. thank you you keep will have different reasons. some want to see what an apocalypse could look like. someone to feel the history. of their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important not why they come here but what effect it has on them. but since june that this radioactive tourism has been suspended the prosecutor general's office conducted checks and ruled that the emergencies ministry had grown

in the lot with these trips as well as making an unhealthy profit every tourist to the zone has been paying around one hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. we urge the ministry to inform the governments of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money has been me we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve problems. that the ministry is defined it says it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters and says they could help fund new industrial projects on contaminated land the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours through the contaminated zone and the court is expected to start hearings in that september ukraine's thirty kilometer nuclear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then with the debate remains very much open.

alexi russia ski odyssey reporter from q. and should not go in ukraine. all for more exclusive stories in the da's t.v. shows and check out dot com he's also online view right now in the u.k. prime minister david cameron says it's a rough circuit herold a real founder for nations between the two countries has to offer calling for an in-depth analysis. under russian communications satellite phones been lost in space has come online after three weeks of radio silence more i'll see dot com last check out all of all that's videos on each you challenge. me is easy. to.

download the official ulti ugly cation enjoy a phone call charge from the dumpster. joel she lives on the go. video on demand she's mine old girls and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. machine on the call. now iran's first nuclear power plant is on stream after being officially launched the russian built facility only substation in the my middle east is currently running at forty percent capacity of both reach full power until december russia will continue to provide help and fuel for the plant and around it will send spent fuel to russia's east tension in the west over any uranium enrichment program

the u.s. and the e.u. have long been concerned the country is building a nuclear bomb but around insists its ambitions are strictly peaceful and if at all unusual research at least school of oriental and african studies at the university of london leads around has the right to peaceful nuclear energy just like any other developed nation we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the worst. over the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped up over the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions canonic sanctions and if we just listen to the most authoritative source when it comes to analyzing the iranian nuclear

program which is the international atomic energy agency and if we read their reports we see that there is no evidence for any weaponization and also this is confirmed by numerously and on numerous occasions by the u.s. intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. to all the evidence that we have. well the warm welcome for iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad in new york when he visits the u.n. general assembly a massive billboard in times square accuses iran of allying with al qaida huge profit was put up by ninety against nuclear iran group which opposes two rounds media ambitions it also wants he tells to refuse to accommodate after the shot but even ilands of the independent institute think tank told r.t. that it's hacking around risks increasing.