had previously supported abortion rights reg and gingrich for supporting abortion rights which gingrich doesn't i mean it's misinformation that it's coming out here and negative advertising this is not constructive that it's not only turns off floaters towards the election but it also increases the cost for buying campaign ads for the candidates on the parties who have serious messages to offer no this is drowning out he added in a rebuttal of a serious message the d.n.c. is full of. excuse me i had a question when it went a.b.c. long and they're rewarding when n.b.c. lies in their reporting they're not they're not held to this accountability standard that you're applying to private citizens why is that. well i mean. are there. laws it's practice journalism no no no no no look here's the thing about. the whole citizens united and super pacs we have to see this in the historical context of the destruction of the fairness doctrine in one

nine hundred eighty seven by the reagan administration there are another. public airwaves they are public in the interest to regulate the public airwaves to have a healthy democracy and by these corporations and wealthy individuals being able to funnel in tens of millions of dollars they are controlling the public airwaves and now what it has to do is. of opinion it's not about that you can spend hours or days maybe finding a dissenting opinion it's what people are bombarded with every day that's why they start to believe that global warming is a fraud even though the evidence is. there they. are ever found. again and it is what matters here it's the buying of the

political process ok i want to stay with that note here craig i want to go back to you do you think that media is complicit in this is well is because they make an actually a lot of money off of this i mean these ads are expensive they make money off of it and they would like to see the process go on as long as possible because it's very profitable for television stations it has nothing to do with journalistic values or democratic hopes or anything else it's about making a lot of money and they're pretty pleased with it they love the primaries. you know you know by the way it's not only the media who's getting rich off these elections off of these super pacs it is also many of the people who are running these super pacs if you take a look at the super pacs since they're unaccountable to any real candidate or political party they tend to hire their own people to do the media work their own colleagues their own partners there is a flood of money go into these super pacs and we find it all being circulated within a very small elite circle of people who are running the super pacs because they

lack accountability so it's not only a dangerous trend for elections this is this is ripe for corruption here ok it's it seems you know a free speech or free markets ok but i mean is this just buying elections now i mean you crowd out the space with negative. i mean go ahead of the american people . american people are shape you know we heard your talking points enough times already yes of course it is about buying elections look i just spent the last three loves here i like i mean it's going to be swayed by i had to know you know as of our poll i talked to hundreds of people all across the country in various cities who were all saying the same things our voice doesn't matter they said things like you can't you're not a corporation unless you have a senator or two in your pocket you know we can't buy the political process like corporations can people across the country raising and here is going to. have

americans on a lot of people that is own bought and sold by the corporations and you can go out and find this and i didn't write i was going to get elected. but it was i was and i free market brother and i received huge amounts of money from wall street barack obama is part of the problem ok i'm not a partisan like you. money has fundamentally on the art of the political process that's how wall street that's how brazen. and centrally crashing the global economy ok they have bought the political process they have already. they they were able to buy a huge huge bailout and then they were able to essentially sabotage any sort of finance reform there's been no sort of process prosecution the democrats and republicans are peas in a pod on this issue and on many other issues you know barack obama has the.

climate change talks. craig had joined and there. are the most frightening aspect about this is super pacs are not just buying elections this time around they're actually trying to buy the white house and. that's a very frightening prospect here where we're seeing not only so much money going in there we're seeing super pacs that are really essentially coordinated with the presidential candidates pumping five million ten hundred million to support a presidential candidate whoever is going to be elected president is going to know who he or she owes their election to this is this is a frightening prospect for america i'd like to also you know i want you to do a lot of this. village x.l. pipeline which i think you can tell by the lack of civility. going on right now.

ok gentlemen. which i think is a great example there was a recent vote in the house on the x.l. pipeline in terms of the representatives who voted against approving the x.l. pipeline they had received perhaps about one million dollars from the oil and gas industry for those who wanted the x.l. pipeline and the vote was pretty close they had received over eight million dollars from the. well and gas is our story so it's going to have it into the buying of the political process. that is going on go ahead jump in excuse me you know just naysaying is a way certainly a. second of all money chases ideas it's not the other way around i wasn't a liberal until somebody wrote me a check and then all of a sudden i was a conservative that's absurd the money chases the ideas not the other way around ok craig you know if i could go. through if i go back to campaign financing you know

up until the supreme court decision you know computing campaigns you know there was accountability do you think there's any reason for middle class people to write a check for any candidate these days if so much big money is out there that crowds out the process being part of the political process and supporting candidates is it's what's the point in doing it i mean if ten dollars is nothing compared to the numbers you just mentioned being part of the political that's a story with the average americans are going to have a lack of money take. take take a look at the occupy wall street movement the occupy d.c. moment the what occupy k. street with the tea party i mean this is where groups citizens of average americans are finding their frustration and many many of these people especially in the occupy wall street movement are all actually advocating don't bother voting it doesn't matter anymore we're not going to see it is very easy to. do with thousand

year and they don't have a ton of money wait a minute wait a minute the tea party elected sixty plus republicans in the house live here and they don't have this kind of money so what are you talking about what are you talking about so if you have to. go to. others who are out there. they're out there is. going to to increase. forty seven percent of. it is when i want to say that i mean i'm spending they had a ton of money i had a ton of money. and they didn't i know the top three tea party groups believe me they'd love to have a ton of money they don't ok that's absurd and i mean this is this is go ahead go ahead. this is essentially a distortion a rose on it's basically. you know we hear these blatant blame lies at least least on this show that we you know were able were able to counter some of these

lies but the but the thing about citizens united and what you already have your so they are able to essentially spew propaganda with no opposition whatsoever and this and i think it's true that when it was where it was going to have as you know no you know i think we should we should. mention two thousand fitted like nascar drivers where it shows their sponsors on their suits you know they they should have to wear logos sort of like that exxon mobil and the koch brothers ok. we're going to see eight eight eight billion dollars spent in the two thousand and twelve elections and we're going to see a decrease in voter turnout because most of that money is going to be very negative it's going to. leave most americans feeling disgusted with our campaign finance system and it is not going to help mobilize or increase the confidence or increase the integrity of the democratic system in the u.s.

ok we're in a very dangerous period i want to call that ok see them with the last word twenty seconds. well first of all government was strong we wouldn't have to do all those second of all the reason tara is going to be down is because obama's. magical run is over and a lot of the new first time voters who never voted but voted for him will be gone next time ok gentlemen very spirited discussion thank you very much many thanks to my guest today in los angeles and in washington and thanks to our viewers for watching us here r.t. see you next time and remember cross talk. and you can. download the official placation to your i pod touch from the q saps to.

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hello and thanks for being with us four thirty here in moscow on parents. reject the arab league proposal for president to cede power to his deputy and the formation of a national unity government with the opposition damascus called the initiative an interference in its internal affairs and then attack on syria sovereignty arab league observers are set to stay in the country for another month this is at least six hundred people are reportedly killed since the arrival of the mission.

some more sanctions on iran targeting the country's main source of income oil the union has reiterated that the move is negotiable provided holds its nuclear program that the west sees as a threat and returns to the negotiating table russia says the measures will only jeopardize diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff. and croatia says yes to e.u. membership at a port turnout for the referendum and violent protests exposed deep divisions within the whole nation the country is now set to become the union's twenty state by july next year but only after all the other members ratify the. next thirty takes you to see the stunning scenery of the caucuses nature reserve in southern russia that's in our special report don't go away.

southern russia. this faraway place can be reached by helicopter. the first few special permission to travel around here. mitri says and his son can have such damage. to film the landscapes. oh and this close read it's all set up i can't tell you how beautiful. the weather was right back up. this mountain crossland. this place has declared

a world heritage site. of the total area of the caucuses. a long time ago the people of the caucuses used to shepherd droves of sheep across the a bug of lambs were often targeted by hawks even today they're. back to this past. july. but i bet he'd know. this is a bearded vulture i needed. on the skull with loads of this kind of bitterness on low lying logs of thirty or forty kilometers from here.

but when they go hunting for. fifty kilometers in search of food. they're interesting creatures. the above go is situated close to the greater northern slope of the caucuses mountain range from the grassland you can get a panoramic view of the mountain ridge of the caucuses nature reserve. there is also a clear view of mt fished one of the highest points in the western caucuses the local problem let's try to get the mountains in frame filming is best done from the highest point on the bar go it's about nine hundred meters above sea level here dimitri is teaching a son killed how to set up for the filming. look. normal

you can see that the lighting is on one side or the mist covers most of the valley . we don't want to film only the mist we need to focus on the foreground look at the grass gleaming in the sunlight and it's light of the valley is dark. so the light strip will show this shot to the best advantage. no. the great in northern slope is a continuous chain of mountain ridges tops by snowy peaks millions of years ago there was a vast sea in this place the smallest part of it the black sea is now hidden behind mountain ridges they form a shield in the way of warm breezes blowing from the sea the warm air creates a sub tropical climate in the foothills of the southern slope of the greater caucuses ridge there is a moderate zone further upslope the kingdom of eternal snow and ice on the mountain

tops is more than three thousand metres above sea level. which is the. i'm going to film these magnificent landscapes we never know in order to show them. to the hundreds of people who never venture here. or with either because they have no time. when you go because they don't understand the meaning of nature. be able. to go live side by side with the pass translated from the caspian language don't go means the mountain of caucasian goats the reserve is the only habitat of western caucasian goats in the wild here they don't move about very much a small herd might well stay for decades in the same area high in the mountains one thousand nine hundred metres. the only trail leading across the past

begins in the above go grassland. caucuses reserve ranges often use it to make rounds of the area they always do it on horseback a round trip usually takes one week. where they come across perches interests on this path is broken europe is the only way here there are rocks on one side and i think a tangle of red and green on the other it is very difficult terrain. all. the ranges campout and small huts

and it's always cold in the mountains at night. or. shortly before dawn the metering killed head to a small flat mountain top according to an old caucasian legend do you often meets the sunrise in the mountains lives a long and happy life get real you can now see mode you go and you're right in that the sun will rise from behind the aspen pass. we're going to choose the highest point for filming will only have ten to fifteen minutes for that.

when you. form. the sun rises a mystery of the woman used to it no single one is ever the same the villain in. its truly wonderful. the nearest settlement is far away radio is the only means of communication with human civilization. hey folks if you're listening to our movement of radio show us your hosts once again you katrina and

your last term and talked about the history of the caucuses nature reserve getting up close to the small studio broadcasting the movement show is in the town of scores of kilometers away from the a bar go for schoolchildren tell locals about the caucuses reserve journalist. oversees the programs the children talk about the reserves animals surviving trees mountaintops and rare plants. they draw on their experience as reporters and engineers working in various protected areas therefore they always fully prepared for the program when they go on there.

who have then i think when people look at it and they try to imagine one place a tree saw a long time ago. as for me i always have this on the county feeling that my agent stature martin significant in front of the or inspiring giant. one of the most famous parts of the caucuses nature reserve is the growth situated close to the black sea coast the oldest tree here is over a thousand years old. the grove has survived several generations of tourists and many natural disasters. according to scientists the greatest of them took place some eighteen million years ago. a rupture in the earth's crust created a natural labyrinth and the gorge the gorges bed was filled with water from a mountain stream. this landscape has undergone no changes since then.

visitors are fascinated by the mysterious origin of the grove and the agent trees there in they think of it as a living relic of the distant past. i can tell you that i really do feel mystical about it was that people rarely break the rules here they're not eager to destroy or cut things down to the bush that some people might say i'm crazy but i honestly believe nature herself is at work here and i think this place is protected by higher forces. a small canyon in the outer edge of the grove marks its natural boundary in the north the west and east in horns of an infamous mountain river called the hostile joint where the canyon is at its most narrow and the never ending roar of water is a sign of its dangerous allure. then you'll know. this canyon is

notorious because the water rises quickly when the snow melts or after terentia already has been above though the whirlpool formed a strong water splashing against one side of the ravine and then against the other . anything that falls into the whirlpool gets sucked down to the bottom people trying to swim or walk across and end up drowning the mood there have been several deaths as a result. that's why this place is infamously known as a devil's great meal when the top of a bottle. there are four major waterways in the coaxes reserve a river is one of the deepest and wishing down has been put up there a small hydro power station supplies electricity to the heart's in the upper reaches of the reserves northern sector where ranges stay for the night.

but the. water is clean through there is a. when you push through wherever you go you can get from any spray or small river or do it you're more going to get out when it's all fit for drinking and. international rafting competitions take place on the bella river every year the route is extreme the rapids and near impossible to clear. a clique. you. meet.

a cargo helicopter flies through a mountain coach before it reaches the weather station and juga good is situated in the mountains of the caucuses nature is a as an altitude of more than two thousand mixes above sea level it is the optimist station in the western culture says its total square is two hundred eighty two thousand head to our reserve is the only one in russia that occupies the territory of three russian regions it's really unique.

the directive the coaxes reserve personally i've a sees the rotation of stock and food supplies in this remote area. the helicopter rarely stops at juga for more than twenty minutes but even such a short period of time is enough for dimitri says an anchor and his son killed to get several shots on take. most of the world's weather stations located in major cities record changes in the atmosphere resulting from industrial waste and vehicle fumes the data collected juga and similar stations is important for fundamental research into how the

earth's climate changes in areas situated far away from manmade sources of pollution what you're going to get now the temperature a jugar is fifteen degrees above zero but a couple of days ago trees were falling to the ground under the impact of strong gusts of wind which by the way where the snow is usually one meter deep around this time in december temperatures were unusually high in november it may well turn out to be the warmest november in twenty five years. each day courses reserve staff record temperatures wind velocity humidity and amice ferric pressure. one team is on shift for two months.