call it the comeback kid the private sector is showing some small but significant gains in the newest jobs report but no one is celebrating just yet i'll give you two hundred twenty seven thousand reasons why the public should be excited and a few more want to start. we're talking about the right economic liberty this is the right of someone to earn an honest living in an occupation of their own. well that sounds reasonable and it sure sounds like a good way to get the ball rolling on the road to recovery warns ensnared in red tape from regulating flower shops to funeral homes we'll show you how silly some laws can be and who is benefiting from them. for twenty six years. in

children interest rather. sad stories strewn across the mainstream headlines brought to life by a documentary that shows one side of a complicated story we'll bring you the other. good evening it's friday march ninth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our team. all right let's start with the economy this evening jobs numbers for february are out today and here they are laid out sciences a forty u.s. labor department says two hundred twenty seven thousand new jobs were created last month and the unemployment rate stayed at eight point three percent a lot of people speculate that more people started really looking for jobs which is why the unemployment rate then go down any how we are in a time right now called by many a time of recovery but today we want to look at what recovery actually needs than

for whom earlier i spoke to michael hudson an economics professor at the university of missouri and i asked him with these job numbers who's winning and who's losing in the current economy is what he had to say oh it's hard to find very many when you talk about recovery and the question is what is going to be recovered there is sort of aleutian jobs we're returning to a normal situation but it's not a normal situation at all of the economy is still having debt and in fact the same day. there were going to be in feet jobs numbers you had for the first or year consumer debt went up again not in step because the mortgage market is still going but the other this new credit card debt so the employment did go up for the reasons that you mentioned the consumer in didn't go

up that's remained constant so that's not right on the jobs. going up it's been a shift from the high paying jobs to the little things you want to get in here right now because we do have a on sort of breakdown of the jobs created and i just want to play that for our viewers in terms of these new jobs created last month they were in the health care and manufacturing field but they were also in reserve and hospitality that category so we're talking about maids in busboys hotel and motel front desk clerks. so in other words jobs that are often pretty low paying jobs and then if you take a look at last jobs those were in retail but also in the public sector and construction jobs people can make a decent living off construction jobs so i think that goes sort of along with what you were saying michael with wages not going up and in terms of the type of jobs that are actually coming into this economy jobs that plug holes rather than help people sustain a life that right you're right that's exactly what's happening and that's just what

the republican nominee mitt romney said yesterday he was. about i was going to say . this but look what it is we're having people who used to have still jobs trying jobs they're not getting the students you know getting rid of the one hundred that whatsoever it was so you have the students graduated with a lot of doing well and been able to repay the loans so loving it on the parents. but that's you doing up on all the guests are exactly the kind of little things you're talking about that's all kind of they don't. do their job so and i know today's news is of course viewed as positive by a lot of people who wanted to put something else out there last month also saw the worst monthly deficit in history according to the congressional budget office so the deficit and physically are twenty twelve is already more than half

a trillion dollars do you think this should concern the american people. what should really concern the most for the money is all this money is going to bail out the banks it's not going to the people it's not helping you it's not me it's going directly into mr obama's campaign and you have in the bank already been bailed out . they are getting. a month ago this program like a forty five billion dollars and promise not to send them to jail so not only there in the mail well the justice department as you. using the prosecute the crime and says well we can't prosecute you think that we did good go under and you couldn't spare the recovery so we're not going to prosecute you we're going to give you forty five billion will you please began one thing you know again and the banks are in but doing it so they're paying their own punishment they're paying shellings they're putting the money rod but the drain on the economy is the worst in the finance sector in the river it's not going and in fact the position of the obama

administration is you have to reduce wages thirty percent you have to assume he's realized that you can be sure he's going to push the unemployment rate way up because he's basically saying i live in the river although i haven't read it in europe so i think what the reason is that the rest. of the afternoon here and i think that you brought up greece we can talk about it i know that news on the european debt crisis has not been you know major it's been a little harsh but i know an announcement came down today that greece is nearing its second bailout after winning that crucial that flop in greece finance minister as well as the i.m.f. they're praising this part of the story that you think aren't being told. well i was not being told of all the riots in the street. the vision of the bailout reached the last. light. water system but it turned over what was probably for many foreigners to be able to make a huge foreclosure on

a property and all of the papers the financial times wall street journal say look there is no way reach can repay this bailout money it just repaid the banks by allowing money to the european governments so in effect the european governments say greece they repaid their own banks and not only governments the last meeting rooms in europe they don't raise their own money. so essentially it's another thank you the way in europe just like we've been having all the rest of the work and i think that's something that a lot of people don't really understand when they look at the european debt crisis and they look at greece let's bring in right back here to the u.s. just for just one more question for you there michael i want a lot of people talk about the economy and jobs one of the areas they look to is the auto industry are people buying cars what kind of cars are they're buying you

know back in the sixty's and seventy's cars were about comfort and luxury and for a lot of people now it's about what's cheap now i want to bring up something interesting the chevy volt is now out and it's a plug and car people are talking about how much money it will save even though it's forty thousand dollars to buy what do you think you think people are going to buy these you think these are going to be the car of the future and how can that sort of symbolize what's going on the economy right now i. feel that all that was so. yes. but your guess is other than that i think we're going to hold off because they're not sure. they're not sure. this is just. totally no i just it's one of those areas people are talking about but we do appreciate you being on with us certainly a lot going on and a lot more to read than just what the numbers themselves say michael hudson economics professor at the university of missouri. so let's turn now into

a complaint that many of the actual job creators home some of the difficulties they face when the idea is there and the money is there but the excess ability always isn't there many companies cite harsh regulations as the biggest barriers to getting their businesses off the ground there are of course environmental regulations and zoning regulations but what about those other laws that are in place while our few correspondent live long looks at the bureaucratic waste that time gets in the way of progress. america once considered the land of opportunity home of the american dream where the entrepreneurial spirit thrives that is all that name of the past now it seems a ridiculous bureaucracy has people jumping through hoops to start a business in the field that makes for a nurse to useless things for no. yes many business owners are finding today tanya edwards and bill mayne own sags in the city and the heart of washington d.c.

important thing is before you get on make sure the green light so that. they guide their customers on tours throughout the nation's capital be a segue i want to bring you think forward one of oh what they're doing is illegal because they don't have a license to speak to tourists will be sent to jail for ninety days for not having a large but he believes he should be licensed to talk to people. the first amendment overcome the constitution. and they're not alone in buying government bureaucracy to keep their business afloat want to become a florist in new orleans you must pass a test some say is more difficult than the bar exam to become a lawyer are completely subjective test was evaluated by other florists who were going who you're going to be competing against or if you want to build a viewing or a home in st paul minnesota but the government is forcing them to spend. that he goes no longer in those in need these are just

a few of the many occupational licensing cases the institute for justice says they're fighting against we're talking about the right to economic liberty here this is the right of someone to earn an honest living in an occupation of their own trues ng so how are these laws able to get enacted lobbyist special interest groups they infiltrate politics on the federal and local levels urging lawmakers to pass regulations by benefit them and keep the competition out the results in america growing. recently regulated and the night in these a one in twenty occupations required a government license. it's one and three and all this red tape is costing taxpayers billions the interior department is in charge of salmon well they're in freshwater but the commerce department and them when they're in steak what i hear it gets even more complicated once there's smoke. but it's no laughing matter a report from the government accountability office shows billions of dollars spent

on bureaucratic waste and the federal government all the lyall president obama vows to fight unemployment by creating jobs it's not my message to business leaders is simple ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed but what the government needs to do so many business owners is get rid of all the red tape that's creating hurdles to reaching economic success and maybe too much regulation that's choking the life out of the u.s. economy here in washington liz wall r t so how much of these laws are actually necessary and how much are simply bureaucratic waste earlier i spoke with the founder of survive and thrive t.v. george hemminger and i started out by bringing up a change in our society in our in our government that in the one nine hundred fifty s. just one in twenty occupations required a government license but today it's one in three i asked him how he interpreted

this. well it's just the government growing out of control these bureaucracies are monopolies and government is the cancer that just will not grow until blub blub grow it until it kills this country and i've talked to many of my subscribers that watch my channel everything from truck drivers to dentists are just sick of the regulation they're not only hurting small business owners they're hurting the people trying to get jobs because there's less jobs because there's so many regulations to get those jobs so let's take this for example i think it's a great example that you bring up here truck drivers there was a time when truck drivers were allowed to work and work and work more miles they covered it the faster they get to their destination the faster they can go to the next job the fact is if a truck driver decides i don't need to sleep tonight i want to drive falls asleep at the wheel and get you know an accident and that's

a situation that happened over and over so the government comes forth with regulations you can only drive eight hours a day and i was there were whatever it is you know there i thought i would argue there needs to be a fine line i know a lot of people conservatives libertarians like to argue the government shouldn't regulate at all you know what businesses take care of themselves but don't you think there are some lines that need to be drawn here. well i mean those those lines could be drawn by the courts if if a business does something that the they can be sued upon by someone else sure other businesses will take notice it's just it's an issue about freedom you know are we going to have freedom in this country or we're going to have over regulation and the problem with this regulation is a lot of the times it's coming from the business owners themselves that are trying to limit competition so in the end that's just higher prices for you and me it hurts all of us the best thing for my point of view is to have choices have multiple businesses now the business does something wrong you can choose not to buy

from them or you can sue them in a court of law so there are you know without all this regulation there still are consequences for businesses that don't do things that people agree with for example you know working drivers you arden knowledge and go to sleep i think it's a really good point i know that that it's really popular where you are in los angeles and also here in d.c. we have a you know the whole food truck movement and a lot of the regulations that have been put into place have been by you know long term restaurant owners that are cozy with lawmakers and don't like the competition and oftentimes there are the winners that what do you think needs to be done george to make it so that just because you're a wealthy or longstanding restaurant for example. just goalie the competition around the world we need to we need to stop the overreaching arm of the lobbyists controlling our government i've read articles and seen videos of people that have

visited washington d.c. and our democracy has been hijacked by corporations big companies that come in there and push huge bills huge legislation and are the you know they're behind the scenes creating all this overregulation so that small businesses can't be started in this country so we need to have a ban on the. all logging if we need to bring congress the charitable to the people that vote for them and we need to house some sort of big and some serious consequences of logging i just there's no point to the law being i don't agree with it and i think it's hijacked our democracy and our free market system and i think there is a lot of people agree with us that unfortunate thing and a lot of situations as the lobbyists have the money and the power and the power to overturn things and are certainly not going to put themselves out of business here's something that was interesting and i think liz mention this in her report the government accountability office reports that one hundred billion dollars every

year are wasted you know and bureaucratic waste in the federal government now we were talking about. you know some of the businesses that are in place but then there's the government don't you think we already had thousands of people whose job it is to regulate the regulators why is this much money being wasted. well this is the g.a.o. is have come out against some of the waste that goes on in government and i read a article from dr coburn now a quote of me actually says we are spending trillions of dollars each year and nobody knows what they're doing the executive branch doesn't know the congressional branch doesn't know nobody knows do you think they're turning a blind eye and they all lie now or is it just not enough people to deal with the problem with the what do you think it is. once again it's like it's like a cancer you give government a chance and you're going to grow and grow and grow and the left hand isn't going to know what the right hand is doing and that's why we're having all this

overlapping specially in the military budgets you know. different departments of the military are are paying for the basics same basic services that they could share so you know i would say they're doing it in a in a mean way they're just they're doing it in a way that is just ineptitude and the only way that we're going to bring this country back on track is to have a whole fire sale of the federal state and even local government i'm talking about a fifty percent reduction in government spending well there's certainly a least one presidential candidate that would probably agree with you that things be ron paul's message and a whole lot of other people that least look at what's going on and see as you say in attitudes bad but certainly just and things that really could be changed in favor of country a whole lot of money toward how much our founder of survive and thrive t.v. joining us from los angeles thanks so much. still ahead here on our see if the

documentary staring international outrage about uganda's lord's resistance army is not completely accurate coming up well actually the film. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through that's already been made who can you trust no one who is your view with noble mission would see where we had a state controlled capital. sessions when nobody dares to

ask we do r t question more. all right let's go now to a video that has gone viral i'm sure you've seen it or have the at least heard about it or seen the link i know i watched it and i was at this morning i was one of seventy million people who have done so it's a pretty moving video and a well produced one at that it's produced by the group invisible children and here's a short clip. from twenty six years tony has been kidnapping children into this rubble they're. turning the girls in the sex slaves. and the boys into child soldiers. all right so according to the group's website coney twenty twelve is a film in a campaign by invisible children that aims to make joseph koni famous and to celebrate him but to raise support for his arrest and set

a precedent for international justice now most people agree joe's of kone is a pretty bad man the film advocates for more u.s. involvement and even direct military action president obama has already sent in one hundred combat troops to try to get rid of just of kone which is in no uncertain terms the u.s. government using resources to try to take down and most likely kill a man in another country so we want to talk about some of the implications of the release of this video and earlier i spoke with marcel cartier a pop artist he's got a cd out called revolutionary minded and he offered his thoughts on this campaign take a listen. well i think that is an excellent excellent propaganda piece and not for the reason the jewels of connie is not a bad man not that he's not guilty of these atrocious crimes against humanity because he certainly is but we really have to ask ourselves the question why this sudden interest in uganda why the sudden interest in africa and when you're calling for military invasion or intervention in

a sovereign country we really really have to question the motives of the united states we have to question the motives of the european powers and certainly of invisible children this organization that put together this documentary now when you're calling for a military intervention in my opinion it smacks of the white man's burden basically saying there's this evil man in africa that african people are defenseless they cannot rise up against him on their own and they need us to come in and be some white saviors in uganda you know i think it's very interesting also that six million people have died in the democratic republic of congo in a little over a decade why have we not heard about this how come most people when you ask them will not be aware of this holocaust well it's because the united states has benefited greatly from this proxy war in the congo every cell phone every computer needs cold hand in order to function so of course you won't hear about them you know and i think we can learn a lot from the recent conflict in libya the recent nato intervention there about

how to really address and put this in context there was a humanitarian intervention in libya and what's the result of there what's been the result from black libyans for example we just saw last week video footage come out of black libyans being thrown in zeus' and being forced to eat all the libyan flag by these so-called rebels these darlings of the west so the in let me ask you this concern marcel just because you just brought up like several interesting points so let's let's look at libya and a lot of people at the beginning of your answer you said you asked the question why do people all of a sudden care about uganda and i think. you know sort of another aspect of this story is the social media aspect is you know they care about it because they saw it on facebook they didn't see stuff about it on facebook before now that they have they care about it this is interesting because in libya there's oil there is a u.s. interest in getting involved in making sure that territory that country is stable

and whatever that means to whomever but so just talk about this i mean there's no interest that we know of for the u.s. to get involved in libya i was sorry in uganda and yet you know president obama has already sent troops and this film the goal of this film is to try to get more talk a little bit about that i mean do you think there is in fact a u.s. interest. most definitely i mean it's no coincidence that just a couple of years ago all the oil was discovered in uganda but also a key component of this is the people's republic of china and this has to do with the entire world context of the moment for example the u.s. is very interested in knocking down the syrian government they're very interested in nothing down the iranian government after syria syria is basically the domino they have to take out to get to iran but the u.s. if you look at obama he's really talking more and more about the u.s. being a pacific power which means after syria iran they can go for china you know possibly

russia as well in their final showdown because they want to you paul the world they want this world to continue but china has a lot of contracts in africa china has become a very appealing partner for a number of african countries because it's not involved in africa in the same parasitic way that the united states is involved with these multinational corporations from your point of the actually provide much better terms which is really more about mutual cooperation so i think it has a lot to do also with countering china's growing influence in uganda and throughout africa that's an interesting argument i haven't heard that one yet what do you think i mean if the u.s. did get you know stay on top of this and just to get more involved what impact do you think it could have in terms of bringing stability to what is very much right now a conflict ridden country. well it would bring stability is going to bring stability under imperialism is going to bring stability under you know basically subjugation to u.s.

interests and you know they are going for this we see it because our for com was launched a couple of years ago there's the u.s. african command you know they may be very clear that they are very interested in having a deeper role in africa of course everything gets clouded in humanitarian rhetoric that they're doing things for the people of africa in reality you know this is the united states has never intervene anywhere on the face of the planet for the interests of the masses of people there's always a geo strategic political reason for their involvement same thing in uganda i mean this is going to continue to bring plenty of misery to the people there here's another very important fact the united states they work hand in hand with the ugandan government which is so accused of major crimes against humanity which is a point about the money told video that wasn't pointed out these sort of very one sided view of things but the ugandan government is involved in putting the colli people in concentration camps all with the backing of the united states of course you know so any stability of that region is going to be

a stability of exploitation and oppression and i felt we're almost out of time but i do want to talk about the impact of this video again as we said seventy million people and counting and if you turn on the t.v. today just about any of the cable networks many of them were hovering the story and many of them were doing so in a pretty positive light i want to show a quick clip that we saw on c.n.n. from piers morgan. and if you have been in any other country it would make a new page in twenty six years and nine years of our work to say this is important these children's lives matter and we need to get that we need to understand and we are waking up and changing the world. so what do you think i mean is the mainstream media doing a good job of sort of painting that as a propaganda piece or is that. you know not telling the whole story. well the mainstream media should do is interested in human rights talk about it bush twenty two or bush is easily the biggest war criminal walking around freely in norway

across the planet he's directly responsible for the deaths of at least a million and a half iraqis that four dwarfs anything the jewels of conley is accused of you know in obama's a war criminal to list is be honest about this you know he's a nobel peace prize winner he definitely should have received that what about netanyahu two thousand and twelve you know i guess the message here is that it's ok to kill is not ok to kill children unless you're the united states or your israel and then it's suddenly just fine right certainly some interesting perspective there always good to have you on marcel cartier a hip hop artist in our studios in new york thanks so much all right well that's going to do it for the news but i'm sure to tune into our next week we have a whole lot on tap for you the illingworth the chaotic situation in the middle east is certainly a balancing act and no one knows this better than the u.n. security council since the beginning it has been a tug of war on one side the u.s. and on the other china and russia from the air strikes in libya to the situation in

syria one thing that's certain is that there is no magical formula that's we will show you the latest in the power struggle and question if intervention really is the best solution and the location may have changed but activists are still determined to protest the upcoming g eight meeting at camp david however it could cost them dearly that's all thanks to a new bill passing through congress that makes protesting on federal grounds or in the vicinity of someone under secret service protection a federal crime looks like a little piece of mind for some means and women hating free speech for all what are you why some think protests could become a thing of the past. and finally the occupy wall street movement was born when average americans got fed up with the status quo it was reborn when occupiers moved their battle from wall street to d.c. and beyond six months on we'll introduce you to one of the movement members who has been through it all those.