easily just bankrupt america overnight only got to do is just dump dollars and trade freeze switch to euros radio the current that's the end of america except experts agree china would never do that because beijing is just as interested in preserving the value of their u.s. treasury holdings as well as the rich market for their manufactured goods but this economy interdependency becomes a headache for washington when china demonstrates policies independent from america's will and the white house has to stifle this content behind full on smiles china blocking the u.s. backed resolution on syria is one example russia came under fire from washington for opposing forceful regime change in syria while the u.s. criticism for china was far more muted for taking the same position but the reality is that china the west have to treat with much more with kid gloves because of the integral relationship in terms of the way that the chinese economy now is so

totally woven in with the western one neither country is capable of dominating the other and neither country is going to win a cold war type situation as china's influence grows president obama has pledged to strengthen u.s. positions in the pacific going as far as the plowing extra troops to the region this is made some wonder whether the u.s. can reconcile with the situation when it's not dominating obama announced this a pivot at the pentagon by the way the pivot seems from that middle east to asia this means more u.s. interference is so also in the sauce china sea military station the starting in norse in australia but may be in contacts with the philippines singapore and thailand specially very close allies of us here in southeast asia so the chinese they look at this in a big circle washington's treatment of this and that country depends on its into.

it's there is nothing surprising about that but it seems with china america may find itself hostage those interests in a situation where you cannot simply dictate its policies in the meantime beijing's economic clout is growing feeling america's fear i'm going to check our reporting from washington are the. u.s. presidential contender ron paul has warned that his country is slipping into a fascist system with a broken government ruled by big business peeking to supporters in kansas city the republican candidate said america's individual liberties were being stripped away and it's now talk to an issue of ali he's an author based in houston texas so ron paul says the u.s. is slipping into fascism do you agree with that i do agree that something i've been talking about january two thousand and one. is the only candidate republican side talking about this the loss of civil liberties is the.

really. and and the illegal is making the connection between imperialism and the loss of rights so i think he's on to something and he is the only one you know in the republican presidential contest talking about that. and it looks as if others agree to it appears that he could have won a caucus in maine so do you think that is an illustration that quite a lot of people within the american public to support his claims that. i think he does have a hard core support maybe it could be quite interesting to twenty percent of people on the conservative side but he runs against the problem and it's his support i think could be right here but the media never treat a candidate like kerry in so with seriousness they will just dismiss him as a fringe candidate because he's talking about for example his very far stance on iraq and he's saying let's not get into not only are we just can't afford it and

any time we do this it just makes you know the governance of the whole. difficult so out of the little said well he's just not interested in national security and they dismiss him so there's there's there's there's all his or you can only go so far before running into you know that sort of problem but i do think there is a hardcore you know libertarian constituency in this country both on the left on the right and he's tapping into that he also cites picks out big business and also the suppression of the individual echoes of the sentiments of the occupy wall street movement perhaps is he trying to jump on that bandwagon. i think perhaps he may have a. clearer idea than even the occupy wall street people who he is maybe are hard core celebrities i think that the paranormal perhaps they're more concerned about economic inequality but actually if you look at these things are completely

connected and you know when he talks about fascism and copyright these do look at it as an extreme form of class warfare and you know corporations working with governments you know. this is for i was talking about was being made throughout the ninety's you know the on drugs which drug policy talked about a lot more to do with which we went out into the river and. into the people which is what we've been seeing in the last twenty or so yes they do have some of the occupy wall street movement but i think there has yet to be. someone making these very clear connections because between why. you have economic injustice grows with the source of terrorism tactics on the part of the story which is well run called quest for called scratches on. the stage where he's talking about the state. just briefly on a subway you talked about him being

a fringe candidate maybe not being taken that seriously by the mainstream media but some would say it is an extraordinary claim isn't it for a republican to make this to make this claim because critics of the party say that it's a right wing actually verges very close to fascism at times. exactly and he was talking about this inside the party i do hope that he doesn't. have a third party candidacy and really you know could you describe it and not end it so he's he's really could be from the inside and he's very right and these these right wing of fascism tendencies they've been robbed for at least twenty years because if you go back to the beginning of the reagan presidency so it's been a continuous. really does joe torre you know understands that so it's good he's critiquing the party from the inside the republican party really amused and the media actually taken real serious actions

and it's really good to hear your perspective your thoughts on this thank you for joining us live there in houston and texas thank you so much. opposition protesters have taken their calls for fair elections to the capital's central highways hundreds of motorists brandished banners as well as their creating their cars with white ribbons and balloons the color of the movement the country's or several mass rallies after last december's parliamentary elections which protesters claim were rigged what is going to kind of has been following the running. here we are again on the gordon ring one of the me. moscow which was also recently become a stage for demonstration of support schools of course decorated with colors found on the. banners which armor as long as white it means the score is taken forward in a drive around the garden ring and across the city center in support of fear

elections a similar drive was organized only jane resembled thousands of cars gathered for that several thousand supporters of prime minister and presidential candidate why do important to court in their drive around the corner ring on saturday but it's fair to say that the jump in public activity really started following the parliamentary election early in december and since then we've been seeing various rallies marches android's taking place across the entire country including rallies which have been gathering tens of thousands of people so the biggest ones which russia has seen since the early ninety's really and with the presidential election now just around the corner is set to take place on march the fourth it's expected that this activity is only going to increase. now to some of today's news making headlines around the world and twenty people are being killed in baghdad after an explosion struck a crowd of recruits outside a police academy the group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast which was

so sore at least twenty eight others wounded iraq's police are considered to be the weakest element of the country's security forces which are the target of bombings and shootings almost daily. a prison riot in northern mexico has left at least forty people dead the unrest started in the city of when a group of cell mates took one of the guards hostage the rock then spread to a second block that rest a mexican prison is common with gangs often attempting gentle breaks some thirty one inmates died in general in iraq in the gulf coast city. with two months ago until the french presidential election held his first major campaign speech in the city of los a president was met by thousands of cheering supporters this is the latest opinion polls place him behind socialist wife and current front runner hollande is now facing an unemployment rate nearing ten percent and has been forced to cut spending and tax cuts. in the whitney houston is being

laid to rest at a private ceremony in new jersey the star was buried next to her father who died in two thousand and three comes a day after an emotional farewell service attended by some of the biggest names in music at the church where. the choir as a child six time grammy award winner was found dead in a bath at a beverly hills hotel last week. but if they can then i'll be back with an update on the latest developments on the week's top stories in a couple minutes from now stay with us life in moscow. to

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thank. you. the latest news on the week's top stories on r.t. this is that weekly tehran says it has stopped exporting oil to france and britain amid growing pressure and sanctions over iran's nuclear program the country's own industry says it will still sell its crude to new customers. the u.n. ramps up the pressure on the syrian regime as the general assembly adopt the binding resolution demanding president assad steps for russia calls for talks to

break the stalemate while damascus promises reforms. and we can get spills out of the streets once again there's no make clear more cuts to secure vital rescue cash which could now be cleared on monday but the rage of a good population is still but the forefront of greek society. that's it for me to . be with you in less than half an hour as the news continues here on r.t. in the meantime a special report on how art and creativity can become ammunition in the battle for peace and justice that saw a special report next on r.t. .

sure my. feet. here's one of the largest rivers in the world the plan is to dam all the major tributaries of the amazon river. there will be immense pressure not only on ecological reserves but also on the communities and the territories that are used sustainably by indigenous people. meanwhile agribusiness is encroaching

illegal logging is taking place and so the shingle basin is now at a crossroads and this is there's a resistance against this dam project that has gone on for twenty years. so we are gathered here to defend all waters as it on demand so right. to finish these energy will power and the big aluminum companies and on mining companies. oh well and resources. the. the. the. people. to the grief and anxiety

that the indigenous people are suffering. and i don't think this story will end well. and there will be a lot of conflicts and. why did we choose belmonte for a dam to work we need height and lots of water was it the stuff bellemont a demo we will stop brazil stop bellemont a dam or we will stop brazil was the was

the. will be viable that was the kayab all war cry nobody should underestimate the indignation that they're feeling that. we're going for that i think that the federal government should see this as a message a message that much more blood could be spilled in the chamber river valley if they continue to pursue the project in this way as the. the one day i belong to do something to do. out in the open and not behind people's backs like the government my tribe and i i'm not going to accept this.

board's solution. for button century i thought this was what took him away. by britain by frogs but damn it would look good and. the sauces were exported from have been for the british ones fighting all for my jail for because. when the i didn't vote phylogeny the africa the i did what if you leave the people with money pleads so that was too good ignores those of africa for next to nothing to do to get by you have already put a little bit. on his last visit doesn't help i dunno yet does it only cause man because the whistle. it is a thing of the future i was about thirteen when my father was thinking about all those i'm forty seven now and i find myself still singing about these things my

follows fashion for in this times are young to get some really nice one by. the end of the. night nothing else. there. is no one that looks. good on t.v. but i reckon i can effort those are going to beg me to watch. accounts or comparable or sickness is going to do just what the republican. it's going to do. concrete ish. well for a minute is enough to rule out the long haul and groove for peace on the river front of the lens. at the end of the day see that his seal did not. so do their language and stick to those on this only to trade up to deval and luke

does that in either of them and we all tend to be of those lost or dish on the puzzle because that is a loss also a whole problem because the multi-nationals it is a new problem with all that is going to. say i told her to stop to read. that book for. me i thought of this the money will go. before i can drop it off the wall why what else will be there is. no get out of the movie. because of all those things to my vest i ask are you going. to give us something that. you know just for the way i'll put this to you know they'd friend ken so. you know was making a peaceful protest sat that president not that's not in a good. team he's a good leader the montra good to see kids are we but let

a peaceful campaign against a sham well company. the dictator something not should hang on trumped up. it doesn't demote was guy we michael matz martin luther king the son koran a comment who my my father will be me people have sacrificed risking their lives to put the truth for the generations to understand. that. we've got to be like us are we on the podcast i think it. was these molecules you want to pass that you can read we have twenty words we've got. that's very hard to say nonviolence is distributional. if there predated you know we have elections we don't have what it is of our people you don't listen then in law generation comes and says well i'll buy this tried nonviolence maybe we should try violence how do

you bring people in without we way the government has look if i did force people. there is a way to do this. at the bottom but when one speaks of genocide one chance of a wonder or darvell or alysha member speaks of the congo. or the united nations and is there be a conflict in the world since world war two. languages geological scandal because of the enormous mineral wealth that's in its soil the. conflict is based on who's going to control the resources of the congo that's really what's at stake we're talking about ten year rainy i'm cobalt or you name it ira and they have a new medium is there in the congo and nothing is ever africa but you ask all the

soldiers who bring them out of bed what the children at odds are it's on so you have a number of major corporations that are implicated illegally exploiting congo's mineral wealth so you have cabot corporation out of boston massachusetts o.m. group out of cleveland ohio you have freeport mcgraw hand out of phoenix arizona microsoft panasonic touchy you have new kia motorola being questioned about the crime by tattoo that's used in their cell phones congo as anywhere from sixty four to eighty percent of the world's reserve of coal tan three letter conductive and is found in almost every cell phone in the world and in almost every electronic device so these are some of the corporations that have been involved in benefiting from the cargo while on the other hand we have the congolese people dying to the tune of

fifteen hundred a day forty five thousand a month five point four million in the last ten years hundreds of thousands. women raped. so what really discouraged as you is to see a patient you treated in two thousand come back five years later with the rape or and even worse than the one she had before this is terribly discouraging is acute what gives us courage is the capacity of these women to fight. through this. if one person is bring the lies in front of it ever worn by the time that ends everyone in the area are going to take their baggage and leave the community. if they are being displaced these is the region where are most of the minerals i look

at it so death which costs way to move the people. so the actual rapes taking place the rap on the lions and the report of people and these two rapes in the extra complete make you. believe i am afraid are a lot of your. fish . fish. in the name of mine organization is uber does boeing you not are you were just blown. away they all want to see.

change or people complain buy things. now i would go out into my space improve. we take new trucks give it to the flights. on the roof oh he's ok just get care and have a mobile money for the thirty years it's a. new war our friends and i kill all the people. i was in this group of students movement. you can see there's a man day he has gone. down and i want to do is and i want to. make sure this kind of just shooting. in on you from no one line down but oh it was so so i so sides. i want to ask. i think we just

want to talk move on we just bought by this company alcoholism is a mile. from the also the drawings i didn't want it was a formal you know documenting it was taking place when i was close to in place around me as an artist. because i felt i was mildly christian while the recorded account you know artistically even though i was doing there was in doing so. we lost artist who try to encourage the people we show you know what we sing it or write about it and know people are picking up. again but you can make

a little better and want to rule in transforming the lives of the people. to day is the opening of the international women's. to the finish president madame. you know the one who made a movie have come out to be deliberate welcome welcome welcome. the liberian women have always been strong we have the only woman president in africa. and we want to make sure that they are more women that is what this coming together is about for us to sit down every three months if we want to do. business with. friends of liberia partners of liberia. i welcome you all to see me that. these women.

they are placeholders. sometimes they are the boldest of all of the people trying to stop the war because they have so much invested they know it's their daughters that are going to get raped they know it's their sons their are going to be picked up as child soldiers it's their husbands who are going to get killed so they care deeply about stopping that violence. not forgivable cool lukewarm. distant tragic events they're going to need to listen to. one million people. who are not on they came with machetes spears shouting and looting holding us they were after the ethnic tutsi we thought towards.