opinion on so many things look at me were the same about four more years. well i think the president is going to be able to make some very sharp contrasts with with mitt romney i think you have you have two candidates one candidate you know you have the president who you know put forth has put forward a plan that really deals directly with the middle class and i think mitt romney there's a perception out there that you know his focus is on you know really the top one percent protecting tax breaks for them for the for corporations he had this huge gaffe yesterday where he said he didn't care about the very poor people he has you know history and i'm not casting aspersions here on the private equity world but you know he does have a history there he has accounts in the cayman islands all these things that make him seem a little bit unusual i think to most voters felt dispersion on these people and like that ok feel free to write a lot. i mean along with i think record you know he was forty seventh in job

creation in massachusetts so he's going to have a really tough i think a record to explain himself but look the bottom line is we're a very divided country and this campaign is going to play out across you know eighteen twenty two battleground states and i think it's going to be very close and the president needs to be very prepared i think he is but i do think in the last month or two i think democrats have got you know the the concern about mitt romney has been reduced a bit because we've seen over the course of this primary that you know he's not as he's not as powerful as i think many people thought he would be you know john i get the impression sometimes that obama's not so much worried about someone like me but he's actually more worried about people that he's disillusioned from two thousand and eight to the president a lot of i mean we know that there was a lot of enthusiasm form when it when he was elected during the campaign campaign and i've seen a lot of that enthusiasm dissipate and particularly again i have an international

audience here obama's foreign policy looks very different very little difference with the bush foreign policy actually even more neo-con for again outsiders looking in. sure and one of the ironic things about the obama presidency is that people thought he might be fine on domestic policy and would be an absolute nightmare on foreign policy i think most conservatives in the country and a lot of independents would say it's been quite the reverse that they're not happy with obamacare they're not happy with dodd frank which is the financial regulation bill but they've been very pleased with the way he's continued to keep it mopin for the noncombatant the detainees or for the combat detainees he's you know he was the one who called the shot on going and getting osama bin laden so most independents would probably say that he's done better on foreign policy. one of the groups that you talked about that seem like they've been disillusioned or for him just did a survey of hispanic registered voters in florida couple weeks ago with resurgent

republic and they in an obviously very important state florida typically determines the election forty six percent of hispanic voters who voted overwhelmingly for barack obama fifty seven percent of them supported him in two thousand and eight in florida forty six percent said it was time for someone else forty five percent said he deserves reelection and that's a key group that if he doesn't do better with hispanics i don't see much chance for him winning reelection between if i go to use talk about another candidate i could be right his. head in that i want to talk about ron paul i was just going to say. just going to say john john's right hispanics are a key group but you have to also remember. barack obama wasn't matched up against mitt romney there and i think mitt romney you know many of the you know the way in which he has been very hostile i think to the hispanic community perceived hostility towards them you know he has no real immigration reform plan that has that will play a role in the general election the republicans being against the dream act opposing

sort of my or you know there are a lot of number of issues that are important to this man a community that when they're pitted when he's pitted against a living breathing human being you know those numbers will i think dissipate he may not do as well as he did in no way as long as they any republican is going to do to well. john you well as if we look back at two thousand and four george w. bush won forty four percent of hispanics now a lot of change since then but part of the problem for president obama it's not just enough to say well look at me compared to new look at me compared to romney. those people just might stay home and that's a key problem for him if the young people are disillusioned and they stay home and spandex stay home to any significant degree then that puts him in jeopardy even if he still continues to be relatively well among those who turn out ok when you guys always read the same to george. i want to do good point everyone agrees with what happens between if i go back to dallas let's look at ron paul here because i've

watched some of the debates on you tube and when he when they introduce him i mean there's a really charged small but loud ok who's more afraid of ron paul romney or obama. if he goes only runs on money a third party you know an independent. if he doesn't see i don't think he will because then that would hurt rand paul in the senate so i we can probably be very comfortable that ron paul will not run a third party but his supporters could indeed determine who the actual winner of the primary is if it does go down to the convention and that's very important because his people have been waiting on this day for a very long time they've paved the way to put up ron paul or rand paul and ron paul's place when his when his dad finishes and they have delegates they are the ones who are going to those caucus states positioning themselves to be delegates so

even though rick santorum might have won iowa my i bet you ron paul has the most delegates out there so i think mitt romney should be really worried about ron paul if he decides to throw his delegates to someone else at the convention when you think about the. polls play in the in the in the rest of the campaign here. well it's going to be really important i think if mitt romney becomes the presumptive nominee it's going to be very important how he treats ron paul supporters you know there's a i think you know i look at this contest and i look back to two thousand and four where you had a insurgent candidate howard dean who had a lot of support and love from the grassroots and then you had a kind of a you know you had the kind of the candidate of the of the part of the kind of the party bosses in john kerry and it's very important to you know it was very important how john kerry reached out to at that time to bring them into the fold i'm not sure if he did a very good job but that's the sort of you know it's an analogy to this time where

i think it's going to be very important how mitt romney makes those overtures and there's a chance that they may stay home i mean you know look they clearly have a gender that i don't think really is in line with what mitt romney wants to do and there's not a they don't necessarily go to obama either i think many of these people or a neighborhood with ron paul his message is a very strong libertarian message and it doesn't really fit with what mitt romney is saying about you know protecting huge tax cuts for you know huge corporations and millionaires and billionaires ok i tend to think that the republicans and democrats. i would like to add to that though. not only that but i think you might see the ron paul people get in gauged if mitt romney is the presumptive nominee simply for a couple of reasons the political landscape is very very different and you have had republicans out there campaigning to expand the terrorism the war on terrorism which is strange if the war is over and the troops are coming home they have passed

the bill to legally detain a united states citizens indefinitely and mitt romney said he supported that and i don't know they may come out against him ok gentlemen i'm going to give you the last word on this program and maybe you can make some history here we had soccer moms in the past i mean is there a category out there that you are looking at that is coming. and to play you know that you know uncles that drink beer i mean what is there a category out there that you think they can swing things one way or another. that uncles who drink beer is a pretty broad category out there that it's almost like saying men. one of the interesting things that we found in our polling is we you know we've talked a lot in the past about how union workers people who are part of a union support democrats overwhelmingly. what we've seen in the last year especially through the two thousand and ten cycle now into two thousand and eleven in two thousand and twelve there's a very distinct difference between the union workers who work for the government typically teachers oftentimes other government employees versus the private union

workers who work for a car company and work in a factory those folks those blue collar folks who are private union employees tend to are more likely to vote republican this year than they have been in the past and i'd say you know the republican nominee probably does very well among that group if they split out between really the right and up on those loans very interesting discussion we'll keep our eye on the campaign many thanks to my guest today in dallas and in washington thanks to our viewers for watching us here arky see you next time and remember. if you. want to. get out sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought

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am. i. protests spread across egypt with more killings reported as people vent their anger against the military rulers for not doing enough to stop wednesday's football and left seventy four dead. the un the makes headway on a new resolution on syria with references to regime change removed to answer russia's concerns. and close on the boat all polling stations across russia get their own digital observer as well candy store ministers orders.

that they are watching r t a very warm welcome to our top story now protests rage on across egypt with reports of at least three killed and some four hundred injured as police fired tear gas to disperse crowds on rest broke out after wednesday's football violence when seventy four people died in post match clashes in cairo protesters continue to gather around the interior ministry blaming police for doing nothing to prevent a soccer pitch that's also calling on the mitchell council to step down but let's now talk to a kind of they are but journalist and writer in egypt he's also the editor of the current affairs chronicler blog thank you for joining us here on our team now the military council head says the clashes were an orchestrated bid to destabilize the country one of course the muslim brotherhood which came out on top in the recent elections blame supporters of the ousted regime so who do you think is really behind all this violence. well at this stage it's very difficult to say who is

actually behind the violence and whether it was a spontaneous. street it but what's certain is that there's a security vacuum and in egypt and this security vacuum is intentional the police and the security apparatus has wanted to since the revolution began has wanted to punish the people for rebelling against it and. like immediate aftermath of the revolution the police disappeared off the streets and now they haven't returned to full capacity there was huge gaps in the security at the stadium so even if there was no intentional hand behind it. these lapses enabled the violence to take place. if i could just interrupt or supporters off caras football club pledge the new water defend their reputation as they believe that wednesday's clashes were an attempt to punish them

for their part in an overthrow of hosni mubarak could this become another full scale uprising that. it's highly possible i mean. the soka the beautiful games they call it has become a real political football in recent years and there's been the groups of fanatical fans if you like who have become very politicized they've been known as ultras a kind of modeled on. italian politicise supporters and yeah i mean it's also a classic case of blowback and backfiring the regime in recent years has tried to use football as a distraction you know get people caught up in petty. tribalism and factionalism of club football and promote patriotism through football because you know the regime was very like ice you know thin ice and people with sick and tired of it so whenever it won an african championship this was

a chance for the regime to promote itself and try and build some patriotism and it used cynically for example in two thousand and nine in the run up to the world cup in the war of words that erupted between egypt and i'll gie area ok but as we know these live pictures now from cairo thousands of people still there protesting critics of egypt's interim leadership have been saying that the only outcome of last year's uprising is chaos and what sylvie. no i think. the people who cry chaos have a vested interest in a promoting that chaos and in be using as an excuse to hold up reforms the supreme council of the armed forces barak's ouster have been trying to sell themselves as a guarantor of peace and stability in egypt and so they jump on every opportunity to drive home the message that egypt is in like. a hymn in chaos and the only

way we're going to get out of this is be you to support us as your leaders and groups like the muslim brotherhood. because of their close association with the military council and because of of. the way the elections came out in their favor and the way they've been calling you know they didn't want to engage in the revolution from the start they also jumping in on the chaos bandwagon to try and like you know finally get. a taste of power after ninety years in the political wilderness when indeed and some of the protesters are calling on the ana to choose between the military council you mentioned and there is running against them is the army like it's a sport a new revolt. know that the army is unlikely to support a new revolt in the first revolt it pragmatically supported the protesters because

that mubarak's game was up and since then it's tried to hamper and delay reforms and. like basically the changes that have occurred so far have largely been cosmetic ones to try and give. the army the generals a sheen of legitimacy but i don't think they have any intention of stepping down just yet unless forced to do so by the street. ok and indeed as we look at those live pictures from the streets of cairo would have to leave it there after an hour khaled the opposition journalist and writer thank you for joining us. well you can tell us what you think about the latest clashes in egypt at r.t. dot com today we ask you why commerce failed to return after egypt's revolution last year so far prince to be believe it's because it's the same officials who are in power the answer to present a dark cloud running the country down a quarter think they're continuing on arrests is in the interests of radical groups

some of you also believe that everybody should great system downfall it's like if you are so far say the unrest goes on because the people protesting on the streets will have no jobs to get into the figures now that change if you like cost your vote county dot com. you can see firsthand as events unfold in car as you say at r.t. dot com we're streaming the protests for you live on our web site. the u.n. is edging closer to a deal on syria with a new draft resolution softened to overcome russia's objections references to present i said stepping down and an arms embargo have been dropped from the revised text which is still pending approval when moscow continues to wall it will oppose any attempts even to hint at targeting the syrian regime parties honesty churkin it has more from you. after see three days of diplomatic deadlock over this arab and western backed regime change resolution it looks like russia's calls that

it would not support such resolutions have finally been heard and we're seeing somewhat of a game changer take place delegates and diplomats seem to have agreed on new elements that they are considering putting into a new document and we do know that these new elements are being sent over to governments at home for consideration approval and deliberation and form what we know russia's a master to the u.n. has said that this does not mean that anything has been fully decided yet and russia continues to reiterate that even if the hint of a regime change clause continues to be presented in such a resolution it would not be supported now what we what we're hearing and some reports that this clause will actually be nonexistent in this new text being considered whereas earlier the arab league and the west have been seeing that the syrian leader needs to step down if this does not happen within fifteen days

further measures could take place another clause that we're hearing is going to be removed from this document is the arms embargo that russia has also been opposing but from what we understand what will continue or mean in a new text is a support of a facilitation of a political transition now of course i have to again say that some of the details are still largely up in the air some diplomats are saying that a vote could come very shortly we will just have to wait and see exactly how events play out of the security council in the days to come. and walk us through this senator over politics first magazine but is the u.s. is still committed to seeing power in you hands in damascus. western interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by wanting to advance human rights democracy or the rule of law in the region if it was about that then we'd probably see an american naval flotilla off the coast of saudi arabia which happens to be one of

the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world it follows a pro western foreign policy syria is a huge player in middle eastern politics and the west principally america has a very problematic relationship with syria so it would be very much within america's interests for the syrian government for president assad to fall from power and for a more accommodating a more sort of pro western government to come to parallel should that happen that would give. almost full dominance politically in the middle way so instead of western governments the british and the american and the french ones talking about president assad stays being numbered they should be more responsible in their outlook and the main focus should be on bringing pace to syria. because i put up a set of politics first magazine talking to us from london there. there's a lot more coming up the next few minutes religious to the extreme. it's scary and

it's freaking people out this is a misinterpretation of your secret groups. some extreme rhetoric from a radical islamist group shocks belgium society including fellow muslims. live pictures from every polling station in russia will go online there's a web cameras are installed all across the country ahead of next month's presidential election the move was introduced by current prime minister and presidential candidate that he may put in as one step toward stopping food during the vote has details. inch after inch mile after mile big brother is preparing to cast his eyes on polling stations as the massive campaign to install web cameras is in full swing across the entire nation but actually sometimes but i think if anything i ask the central electoral commission to install web cameras at all polling stations across the country so

that everyone can watch online what's happening there almost twenty four hours a day seven they go we want them there. the idea was put forward following the biggest protests in russia since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. with tens of thousands demanding fair elections so wiring up over ninety thousand polling stations is the scale and around a half of a billion us dollars is the price tag. coming into this system is not be made only for one day we hold this project want only develop elections acknowledges but will also help modernize telecommunications infrastructure across the entire country. all cameras will be feeding the videos the theorem to local digital storage facilities after computer processing will be then sent to seven large storage and distribution centers via cable radio and satellite these centers will then broadcast the information to several web portals it's estimated that all together

the cameras will film and broadcast four hundred and ninety years of video information in good quality however there is still down to this technology will help make the vote more transparent. you'll get a story i'm sure the observers won't be able to check in advance if these cameras work or not now. everyone knows about cameras in supermarkets but this still doesn't stop robberies from happening. it's every ballot box will be monitored by two cameras one with the general view and another with a close up of the slot there are many ways to rig a vote and the cameras don't provide one hundred percent guarantee against them but using them should still make it much more difficult to stuff boxes of course there's nothing new. or web cameras. using them to monitor elections on such a scale is a first for any nation and regardless of the success of the idea everyone will

be able to monitor the vote online and not to mention no one is against having more real life observers on the spot you want this kind of r.t. moscow. well that voting video isn't online just yet but there's a lot that is streaming right now alan you can check it out at r.t. dot com the web sites a new craze suffered it today blackout altering attacked by hacker groups but shutting down the palm sharing users. and the crew members will be stuck in over the next forty five days point out what's course of the labor party dot com. is.

the official altie application. from the. video on demand. old girls. and. now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. the u.s. announcement that its combat operations in afghanistan would end earlier than expected has stirred up confusion among afghan officials who say that it could be a disaster for the whole transition plan american defense secretary leon panetta said the country wants to switch to a role of supporting and training their core forces before the end of next year war correspondent and author eric margolis thinks that the upcoming election is the

main motive for the decision. first of all pressure from up this year's elections poll shows sixty percent of american voters are fed up with the war in afghanistan or against that. price is approaching true dump dollars a time when washington's very hard cash is cutting budgets and obama wants to be leander john now mcgregor party member he was he's presidency brown student states and this is a very important step you must draw to a smaller no for a fortified bases and the drone attacks will conduct special forces it's not over yet understand what's going to have the eighty thousand u.s. paid mercenaries who are in afghanistan remains uncertain. that it may be a minority but they are making their presence felt in belgium a group of radical muslims are attracting mixed public reaction from fit to

ridicule as i want to use it to saucily the scope of their extreme message may contradict the very religion they claim to observe. bearded wearing a camouflage jacket and constantly surrounded by men for what about is hard not to notice he heads the islamic fundamentalist group sharia for belgium in september the group opened the country's first sharia court in antwerp to mediate domestic disputes among muslims with our own system our own belief our own a manner of handling things if you want to accept it accept it if you don't that's your problem but there is judgement day if you if you're a muslim you will go to paradise if you are this will leave or you will go to hell so any further controversy may have ended there if that was all there is to it that video such as these. have caused outrage.