nobody announced a war young would say. and nobody has confirmed that iran is trying to create nuclear weapons either or neither one of those statements is easing tensions between israel and iran also you have the us is stuck between iran and a hard. someone is going to step up at some point and they're going to say we've had enough of this the real issues are not being addressed it was like both republicans and democrats are striking out with opinion polls so could it be time for a new party to step up to the plane. and the space race may be over but it looks like

nasa is throwing caution out the window these days i'll tell you help control codes to the international space station from the news starts now. all right well this weekend thousands of people will be heading here into washington d.c. for the annual conference and pac is the american israel public affairs committee and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and american president barack obama will be speaking at the conference they've also scheduled a meeting with one another on monday and no doubt our discussion will be dominated as will the conference by talks about iran the u.s. and israel of course longtime friends but at least in public there is a disagreement about what to do when it comes to iran's nuclear rumored nuclear program the u.s. seems to prefer sanctions to action but israel seems to want to america's assurance

that it will stand by israel if it decides to take action i'm joined now by robert naiman name and policy director for just foreign policy and i know robert you've done quite a bit of writing about this and i want to put up a poll for our viewers that you point to this. this poll shows that forty two percent of israeli if people living in israel support an attack on iran if the u.s. backs it but just nineteen percent of israelis say they would support that attack if it's not approved by the u.s. and then thirty two percent of people in israel actually oppose an attack all together now a poll also found that people in israel believe that this would not be a short war if it did happen. shortly we're going to teach you a lesson or twenty nine percent say months twenty two percent say it would actually last years and just eighteen percent say it would be days so robert it seems to me that this goes against this long standing argument that you know standing against

the war with iran is standing against israel talk about that. very striking results of the poll conducted by shibley telhami of university of maryland and brookings in to go she was in this really research center in this room and you don't see that maturity is really he's actually even a situation very similar really to the statements those of us who show restraint me about it in the interest of us humans public officials like general dempsey. i think this is really that would not have. and long skinny people. you know they know that the u.s. orders really because you're so wrong are you could make worse the really crucial leaders of the american israel or chris kelly and a lot of meters in congress like senator lieberman and grounds came and tried to

attack you with issues what is the lord it's really striking that maturity has really actually agree with general dempsey and administration officials more than the group with israeli prime minister netanyahu wants them to go skeptical of the alleged benefit. and worry the likely cause i think the really important point that you bring up i think that you could say the same thing about the majority of american people although i don't have poll numbers for that in front of me in terms of the desire to support israel in an attack on iran but if so many people in israel so let's say of so many people in the united states feel this way what's going on with the messaging war here because everywhere you seem to turn at least on the mainstream media you hear obama criticized for being weak on iran and you hear you know again and again iran nuclear program it's you know one step closer to being dangerous. well one huge piece of the story it's a to master u.s.

political story the republican presidential candidate is not run while the other republican presidential candidates and republican leaders in washington have children and this is the warm policy issue to attack president obama there's a longstanding republican strategy and tactics with grads are good we on national security you can attack him iraq because the majority of americans are only too delighted to see us troops come out iraq they want to see the logjam again attack them on afghanistan because a majority of americans want to see us troops and some of that and say they get it back in my ear isn't going to kill her the record the killing of osama bin ladin and their terror acts is us so the jordan is kind of a issue of the iranian threat that makes agree with them with god and the fact that it's kind of a. it's thing to attack president obama because you know issues not

sought and are still the crime scene and there are political actors in it well funded and shown gentlemen when we get we're just camping it's a quarter really hot so then it's really a big pieces let's try another three piece with driving if this is netanyahu in this really right now this is a longstanding propaganda point crude and. to keep the focus on iran we channel changer keep it away from what israel is doing the gulf news was being. tall and pressure here. forever not at all clear it also there's anything that you know the military believes that a group of military threat has to be credible even though many people don't actually in his return the states don't actually think that the israeli government has a credible. new through let's talk let's talk about

a real quick about about this weekend certainly you know the conference starts is going to be a lot of discussions. about the future of iran and what to do about it and elise as of now there is sort of a disagreement between israel and the u.s. leaders about what to do about it i want to show something from last night this is president obama speaking and he was interrupted by a woman it's hard to hear exactly what she yelled out but it was something about a war with iran let's have a listen to how he responded. oh. change none of nobody's announced a war young lady. but refreshing yourself. all right the president a lot and they can't carry you know i'm going out to war. what do you think about this incident that mean it you think president obama just sort of reacting to you trying to send a bigger message here well look if you're oh no security right people in the united

states are concerned about this. there's all this program rhetoric that's going through ten years of war or a wars in iraq and afghanistan people are concerned by all this progress or the right to be concerned they're ready to pressure president obama and other u.s. officials say no no war no way and i'm glad that president obama is being a meta we're. concerned it's good for him to be good to reassure people that he has no glass right and that's you know that's not exactly where the magic map that she should be pressured to do that is the responses that i think with you know in terms of what's happening this weekend there's going to be a lot of rhetoric i think to watch the israeli government and the reaper man back to pressure is president obama trying to remove the so-called red line. obama

administration is not going to allow that. didn't wasn't that we had no evidence that iran is trying to get a nuclear weapon so that you know that's the red line. reason for why israel is i can remember may want the red line to be this is a thing of israel having nuclear weapons capability which i don't need to. think there are scores of things to watch and so far as you have on the ministration has given you three. and among the people who are pretty angry about that certainly prime minister benjamin netanyahu and yet when he comes every single time he comes into town he always draws a very very big crowd and there is talk that he's doing everything he can to try to make sure president obama is not reelected house me just real briefly about. the reaction it received by prime minister netanyahu every time he comes to washington is this simply just to be expected. no question that the american israel public or

it really has tremendous influence in congress because of the rules of the school with a lot. so the thing from watch is not the rhetoric the blood there is you know if there's any movement underway if you when you're choosing you know we're early through the can get ninety five percent of congress we're just going to come out with a war with iran a lot of members of congress are not on. our we're concerned about is that we want certainly a lot of our reading between the lines to do a big conference that always draws a whole lot of people and brings out a whole lot of issues robert naiman policy director for just foreign policy. well here at our team we try to take a different approach to most of the stories we do to give you alternate perspectives and we also like to stay away from were taping the same tired soundbites from the same tired people you'll see played and replayed on the

mainstream media so we're in the thick of the primary to see who will become the republican nominee for the twenty twelve election it's pretty clear there is dissatisfaction with the current field but part of that might come from a bigger issue of the two party system red versus blue that we're so used to might even change so we want to introduce you now to peddle lindsey she's a twenty what twelve presidential candidate of the party for socialism and liberation and she joins us now from los angeles california. there but i think from being on the show to start out i'm going to put aside the fact that at twenty seven years old you're too young to even need the constitutional age requirement to hold office but tell me that you are a self described marxist running for the party for socialism and liberation you're a young black woman what is the america in which you'd be elected look like. well in the country socialism and the variation fundamentally believe that a job is a right we believe that people new york know it's a right to a job every right to

a free quality education all the way through college that we believe in cancelling our student loans and we believe that the bulk that is created publically in this country should be used to fund the things that people need so we believe in an end to all the interest or if you want withdraw the troops we want to use that money to fund schools to pay for health care for the things that people really need i think that i'll phrase this because it's a common criticism of the occupy wall street movement and it kind of is along the lines of something that you just said and that is having the wealthiest people in the country pay for what everyone needs i think that it. you know it sounds good especially for those of us who aren't wealthy but the wealthiest people in this country also control what happens so how can you realistically put forth these ideas i mean are you just trying to see how people react or or do you have some reality and some real ideas based on this ideology and what we believe in organizing we believe in organizing the masses for change and if you look at the history of this country the only way to progress or change is ever come about is

two people getting organized and getting active in the streets from the labor movement one nine hundred thirty s. to the movement for civil rights for women's rights and every single time to change the name it was never given to us by politicians it's only if you will organize and part four and one what do you think today here we are in our twenty's what do you see as the most significant issues that will be brought forth in the selection i think unemployment is a huge issue and one that needs to be dealt with i mean if you look at the masses unemployed people in the country under the current system that we have been booked for a couple of partition but they can't vote for a job but enough to have a job those are rights all of us are for capital only was a people who own the property we believe in organizing the masses when employed and we want to represent their struggle and we want to take it out but on the campaign trail this year we'll talk about a major challenge that you and others like you face in this current system and that is that the u.s. is. involved in or does have a two party system and i know you know people are frustrated you see it in the approval ratings for congress even former republican presidential candidate jon

huntsman says it's time for something to change so i want to play a little bit of what he said and then we can talk a little bit more probably about this conundrum here. i think we're going to have problems politically until we get some sort of third party movement or some alternative voice out there that can put forward new ideas that are going to be me by the way i've heard the facts question i'm not interested in what someone is going to step up at some point and they're going to say we've had enough of this the real issues are not being addressed so petter why is it the parties like yours even the independent party so rarely stand a chance in our country's elections and i think it's because you have to process them asunder mentally of the of a class rule and it's just an expression of power the almost undiluted power of the one percent and if you look at like the spending that kept presenter cares has been this year this is something like one billion four billion a combined total of what you can sustain this year so anybody without that kind of

funds but out of the backing of the biggest banks and corporations doesn't stand a chance to try to reason they were running us to expose the system is a sham and to bring out the ideas and the issues that working people really care about and the system that are now who do you think are the biggest winners and the biggest losers i mean i guess the working people are the one through losing every single time i think that's going to change i mean obviously the biggest winners are the big banks and corporations the people whose interests are represented the white house the people who are on tuesday have to go to war and they're the ones that winning artists. talk to me about i know you're a self described marxist i see in your campaign website and you talk about a lot about capitalism versus socialism. socialism even now seems to be a little bit of a derogatory term or a bad word i know i've gone to tea party rallies before and people are holding up signs you know obama is a socialist and. you know some people say so but

a lot of people still say you know that's that's scary you know one of the things you wrote about in the campaign is a new pew study came out that showed the majority of young people and a majority of african-americans actually respond favorably to the word socialism so i think that's really changing you know are people in my generation it's pretty much after the cold war and we've seen the last two decades or so they'll korbel exploitation of horrible oppression that capitalism is weak all over the world you know we've had all this decades of war unemployment of skyrocketing tuition and crippling debt and we've seen that it's not just. last week people are in motion people are questioning the system and i think they're looking for a change and socialism is that change another criticism again occupy wall street is simply that you know they certainly came out in the masses. people still struggle who are trying to understand get a grasp on the movement to understand what it is that they would want the results to be the concrete results talk to me

a little bit about that and how that sort of manifests itself in your campaign and what you're trying to do. with real list of ideas you know and things that people can understand. yes. and you know i think the idea that the occupiers were not clear about the wanted is kind of a myth it was the introduction to discredit the movement and no offense. particularly but i think that the people were very clear they want solutions out of climate they want big business out of government and people are very clear about the things that they wanted so if you want to know more about what you stand for should our website which is the p.s.l. web dot org and check out a ten point program we were for things like for example seizing the carpets of the biggest banks and corporations and using that money to fund things that people need like i said and we could talk more about that kind of thing. yeah i know i mean i think certainly. i mean we've covered occupy wall street and i've looked into your stuff and you know we are pretty harsh on the banks and kind of the system that has allowed for them to get away with all these things but the point remains that they

still seem to have a lot of power is there a solution is there something that you've heard from someone else another candidate perhaps a mentor that you see as making that happen is making the banks be held responsible and it'll take the mass movement of people like i said i mean we're in the party for socialism in liberation we are for revolution and we believe that people can organize and that we have the right to run this government to run the way that things are run think we should run and so we believe that that's the solution we need fundamental change and that we only get people's revolution all right well we appreciate you being on the show certainly good luck to you in your campaign carolyn's in two thousand and twelve presidential candidate of the party for socialism and liberation and los angeles. all right so here's some disturbing news in the last couple of years for a dozen high tech computing devices at nasa have well they've gone missing or been

lost or stolen or something this was revealed this week in congressional testimony by nasa as inspector general and among the items that have disappeared a lot of talk computer that contained the code it needed to command the international space station now of course i know what you're thinking probably funding for nasa has been cut in recent years but guess what that's the still spend about one and a half billion dollars each year on i t related activities and that includes approximately fifty eight million just on the security now earlier today we brought on our cyber expert in chief andrew blake who's also part of our web team here at r.t. and he's got a little bit more of a grasp on all of this than the average person so we had him sort of break down exactly what happened and give his take on nasa's lacking security. so what happened this week was inspector general testified before congress and said you know there's a couple different problems with nasa right now and they were very big problems not

only did you see that there was a slow pace encrypting the spot but he just admitted that nasa is incredibly vulnerable to cyber attacks not only are the incredibly volatile cyber attacks we miss that they are constantly bombarded with cyber attacks and there's been last year as well for five thousand instances where malware or unauthorized access is somehow corrupted their files and they're aware and they say that oh well we've been trying but they still managed to give away the code that controls the eighty billion dollars that flies around the world not just the world it's a very special space station is kind of important thing yeah absolutely and i know just yesterday the f.b.i. director robert mueller was speaking to a group of sort of cyber security experts and he warns that cyber attacks in the next to yours will actually replace terrorism as the most serious threat facing the u.s. so if that's the case why aren't i isn't nasa more fully protected and what do you

think he's trying to get out there the nasa testimony and miller's comment cannot have calm i do worse time because coincidentally former head of the cia also this week. said. it was a really good you know that the stuxnet worm the fellow that corrupted the iranian nuclear program years ago he was the former head of the syria said you know that was a good idea that worked that was great so we have the series saying he going after the first grams of other governments that'll work and we have the f.b.i. seeing that this is the actual threat and then we have been in. the nasa saying hey this is happening and there's nothing we can do about it right in fact. what you were saying i mean i was reading up on this a little bit and you were saying like our computers are our system actually gets hacked i think i found fifty four hundred computers have essentially been hacked i know that he said security incidents occurred that resulted in the instant

installation of malicious software on these computers or on authorized access into its systems i mean what could happen with us will be you know just the hacker could control the international space station. or. nasa has a bunch of rockets i think and other sorts of cool stuff so it's not good it's not something you want to just put in their hands of anyone and it's different than what we've seen with anonymous where they do lots of like being a d.d. o. s. attacks will take down a website it will cripple a government website or they'll go in and they'll go to a local small time or even big time law enforcement agency and publish a bunch of the mail it's not a case of strafford yeah it's not just correspondence and it's not just home addresses it's it's codes for the international space station and it's not even that they're not encrypted now so they admitted to congress inspector general that they kind of just have been making mistakes actually discovered that over the last

few years there were at least ten instances where nasa went to go take their old computers and sell them off to the public but kind of just forgot to erase the hard drives oh my goodness yeah this seems like. the opposite of rockets to make a horrible joke but this seems like you know even when elementary schools have drives for computers they make sure that this doesn't happen i mean and with what we know about cyber attacks i've been to a few conferences here in d.c. where it really is made the biggest deal of that that every organization whether it's a news organization or a government organization needs to be worried about cyber attacks i mean is nothing the barest of help we should be i q security is such a huge business in america and internationally that. the there is no reason for this to be happening and not to mention they spend fifty eight million dollars on security a law and security out of them want to have. it together so it's it's not

good will come out of this and are they going to is nasa going to get smarter is this are people going to learn a lesson from this or no no no absolutely not it is so that they've done audits for the last several years and they regularly find mistakes and oh we try to fix them but i don't know that the smirk isaac has gotten smarter. and nasa is lose a bunch of codes have they said anything i didn't see in terms of this laptop that was missing that had the information to the international space station i mean have they gotten it back or it's still out there somewhere they haven't actually gone into that but they also said that there's a good number of things that they actually can even try to keep track of because when when mobile computing devices are loaded out to employees the employees are responsible for keeping track of them and if an employee misplaced or something well out of a system of thousands of computers they don't necessarily have to report that

something happened to them so there's only forty eight left ops in this thing that they're aware of but if it's only sold here national space again i think i read that they weren't even sure exactly what information was on those computers an interesting story i think it's an important one to get out there to show that even nasa is vulnerable and what does this mean artsy web writer andrew blake interesting stuff thanks so much thank you all right well the leaders of almost all european union states have signed a treaty designed essentially to prevent another greece from happening the fiscal pact was drawn up to keep national budgets under the control of brussels with strict punishments for countries breaching that limits the only two states that refused to sign where the u.k. and the czech republic and our correspondents has our silly is in brussels to break this all down. it's been talked about for months claimed as a solution to europe's crisis fiscal compact but because car park the new fiscal rules by the end of this today summit this fiscal stability compact will have it

signed sealed and delivered this pact comes with tight budgetary rules that must be strictly adhered to or else face automatic sanctions member states must maintain a balanced budget or have a surplus keep a budget deficit of three percent or less enshrined a balanced budget rule international legislation with it one year preferred within the constitution if budgetary targets are not met the guilty nation could be brought to the european court of justice and be obliged to make penalty payments the reins of strict budgetary oversight will be in brussels hands now we've in europe in brussels we've got our first saw and it's a good start but he's going to police all the bridges all the member states and these member states will rule sovereignty in the field of budgetary policy now is the population going to accept this. a population that's already been forced to accept tough austerity measures after another all good economy if you are doing if

you will you go towards crisis if everybody is no tackling people because if we are cutting expenses everywhere then crash nobody's consuming. but the point of this treaty is a continuation. of the. so we are exactly going to what we have done in the last fifty years. in the mess you readers see the budgetary discipline the school civility pact is expected to bring as a step closer to solving the result structural imbalances and help crisis hit countries ease their way out of their predicament but it's a one size fits all approach worried about the impact it could have on healthier economies improve lead to huge addition. to. the penthouse situation. calms.

the press coming. at a time when banks face problems and they don't want to you want to land not a desirable scenario when the new buzzwords are growth and employment just are still your archie brussels and don't forget to tune in to our team next week for a brand new line up earlier tonight we showed you the fine line that the u.s. is walking when it comes to tensions between iran and israel well it may be about to get a little more tricky here president obama is set to meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu on monday right after a weekend full of apac elbow rubbing next week we'll show you how u.s. relations with israel might not be as lucrative as they were in the past. and while president obama tries to get into the good graces of the israel lobby this weekend republican presidential contenders are gearing up for super tuesday and americans in ten states will be heading to the polls now voting in america has come

a long way from the days of announcing votes under oath to the lever machines paper punch cards and more there's always a margin for error but this is the twenty first century that we're talking about so why are two million people who have already died so registered to vote next week will show you just how flooded the u.s. electoral system really is and last but not least the american government is supposed to be an institution of the people by the people and for the people but defining who those people are is a little harder to do is that american citizens or is it corporations or even an ideology well ask you when it's ok for the government and the media to have an opinion polls are just a few of the stories that we have on tap for you next week along with much more news and in-depth interviews so keep it tuned right here to our team but for now that is going to do it for more on the stories you saw today or anytime this week you should r.t. dot com slash usa.