before materials used for heat journalism one of we. we wanted to present. something. live from moscow this is our time for your headlines now the british prime minister turns to. sales pitch seeking arms deals with nations in for six it's a move that many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clout this comes on the heels of the united states building up its military presence in the region. peace envoy kofi annan says the syrian government has assured him it will respect the u.n. brokered cease fire with rebels with

a deadline now less than twenty four hours away. countries again lashing out at the assad regime for its alleged failure to stick to commit. second tsunami warning indonesia following a series of powerful aftershocks in the wake of an eight point six magnitude quake the warning originally stretched to several other countries in the indian ocean with tourists who are here from the coastal area. now with the u.s. elections coming up in november what's really on the minds of the american people. spoke to the sea of international polling giant gallup says pollsters are often more in tune with the public than the politicians are. i'm sitting down with jim clifton the c.e.o.

of gallup the organization that conducts opinion polls in over one hundred forty countries and that's where you go when you want to find out what americans think about some of the most important issues of their day basically and thank you very much for joining me my pleasure seems clear about it came polls is that it very much depends on the questions asked and with this regard there's something i'd like to do kind of dark there were two different polls not by gallup first given a choice between israel conducting strikes on iran's nuclear program or the united states and other world powers pursuing our negotiated solution with iran nearly seven out of ten americans choose diplomacy and there was another. when the question was asked differently would they support a military action if there is evidence that they're building a weapon the majority said yes so there were two polls one where the majority said yes to war and another one or two already said yes to diplomacy. if you think about

that. the wording of question just makes an enormous amount of difference one of things that we've noticed is if you put the word freedom. or free in a question it really changes its outcome that's also one of the reasons why special interest groups try to put the word free in their campaign so like unions with that card check you know interest rate is going to free choice and. any time you put the . very powerful. in our questions if your question is do you believe that the people writing the question can make it come out any way they want i would say pretty much so what if you're pro so you're glad he ran. americans are not nearly as war aggressive as we were. a few years ago we have enormous. war fatigue now that's not really a positive for

a run in the way that americans believe that iran has nuclear capabilities they believe that they're evil and they want to do bad and all that kind of thing but americans really want to take a break from war this is what the polls say yeah policymakers say they probably regularly follow your poll of polls but i'm posting to an all right do you think a very negative poll can stop a war well that's a hell of a question. can it stop a war i think it can play a role in stopping a war by the way. president roosevelt so that we might have to take our boys to war against germany americans i mean overwhelmingly said no war and roosevelt went to war anyway so

it's certainly a gallup poll and public opinion certainly didn't stop that war whether or not it causes just to pull out of iraq pull troops out of afghanistan i don't think the poll does that but like a lot of other. information i'm sure it plays a role you mentioned iraq in the run up to the iraq war gallup showed right before the war seventy two percent support among the americas and that support was much lower before the war was and now so there was a factor of rallying behind their leader what do you think of the facts and more on what the pinion polls on the leaders or the leaders on the opinion polls. sort of neither a lot what it is is that is that americans are getting educated on what the crisis is so so in america only about twenty percent of americans follow the news like you and me and all those people that were in here

a little while ago so when we're taking our polls like of the possible war in iran you've got a whole bunch of americans aren't following it all up until it gets serious you see them and so it's about spinning thing it's worth renting is gets there and i would say spinning as much as just advancing news but for being a poll by gallup recently that you would look at and say oh boy why doesn't the government pick the result into account and act accordingly. and i roll around on the floor i've had this same job for twenty four years but i roll around on the floor all the time i just look and say how how can you know how can you not see this. one is there's about six million. businesses in the united states most of nerves small so what the government thinks is that the businesses aren't growing because the banks won't loan a money. that's a real important promise that they have so then they all say what are we going to

do get banks the law is a perfect example of not knowing what's on the minds of the people and then making stupid policies that make everything worse so we do a poll of the six million businesses and we say to them what's the biggest problem you have for growth they don't save they don't say get the money they can get money what they say is that they lack confidence in the economy because of the all the new regulations as far as foreign policy one of the places that i get concerned are state department intelligence defense everybody. there's a huge black hole. in that we're not very good at. mathematically describing huge shifts of the will of civilizations of people others give you an example right now if you were to ask the united states government to mathematically

describe the relationship between muslims and the west so you get a little better it's got a little worse or staying about the same. they're honest answer all of them as we don't know. well how the hell do you manage relationships between i mean that's a really important. relationship as far as geopolitics for the united states goes russia goes everywhere it goes but they have no math and so they don't know if it's getting a little bit better if it's getting a little bit worse but if you don't know that when you're making policies around it you make a mistake mistake a mistake. yeah i think it's you don't know is what's driving let's just say he's suffering so let's take egypt we saw suffering rising very quickly before the revolution so he knew about it beforehand but the government was rocking absolutely

we as a group of leaders in the united states aren't very good with what i'm a call behavioral economics so we tend to deal with activities after they've happened rather than. earlier on the curve before they happen and see what we could have done is i mean let's say that you wanted. to help egypt i don't know if you want to help the barracks leadership or not but we could have said hey guys you'd better be careful of suffering is rising very very quickly who requests those words and nobody. has to decide on the question we have a group of what we think are the best pollsters in the world employed here. and then we go out and and there's a whole bunch of very very good pollsters and behavioral economists at universities and then we go and ask their opinions that's where we get a phone call from a government official saying thank you as the american people what they think about this and that very important issue. yes we know we get those all the time

so i'm so we probably got i saw i was soon we got hundred will get hundreds of them this week. and there they also give the questions to ask what you know we take it into consideration many questions drive you see bias a lot and all that but then our analysts go into a room and they write what they believe to be a no question other people pay us is polling a business. it is for us. where does the money come from well actually. our clients we do proprietary work for fortune five hundred companies and what we're really good at is doing polls of their customers with huge samples we help them build strategies so they can be more competitive what's the dynamic in terms of her opinion polls as far as the economy

among the american people running the way it was four years ago and the rate is now well. of course we were going just fine and two thousand and seven first part of two thousand and eight then we crashed down and we've been down. but now it's coming back a little bit not a lot but back up you know but put that back a little bit enough to when president obama for next election i don't think quite yet know well we ask right now if you were to vote tonight who to vote for obama or romney and according to the gallup poll if we vote tonight romney will beat him because you're right you may very well vote for romney but not for him you're just voting against the president is there a survey what are the main reasons not to vote for the president just strictly on climate. one reason i think just one reason for this

firestorm policy i think foreign policy plays no role at all right now i mean if something really big happened so israel bombs are ron and we've got to back them up or not i mean some good will make a little bit of a difference but americans are a place right now they don't want to hear about foreign policy they should adopt i mean they should be concerned about all of this same with. we don't hear about war we don't hear bonnie and we want to hear about how come my brother in law and my sister in law and my sister and my kids not only don't have work but they have no hope for a job we get up those unemployment real close to twenty percent in this country. not eight point five or twenty because you know if i come over and know your lawn and you pay me twenty dollars that department of labor statistics does not count me as an employed very few people know that so the number of employed is very very

soft there's a hundred fifty million people that want work so i means that thirty million are out of work sixty percent of them gallop they have no hope for getting a job so that's eighteen million and that just puts a damper on voting. for president. there's two questions or do i think they should know do they yes thank you very much my pleasure. the official policy of. the phone called touch from the. on the go. video on demand oxys minefield

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lifelong injuries and. unpunished. headlines on r.t. the british prime minister turned his tour of asia into a weapons sales pitch seeking arms deals with nations in the pacific it's a move that many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clout this comes on the heels of the united states building up its military presence in that region. peace envoy kofi annan says the syrian government has assured him it will respect the u.n. brokered cease fire with rebels with a deadline now less than twenty four hours away despite some western countries again lashing out of the assad regime for its alleged failure to stick to commit.

tsunami warning issued in indonesia following a series of powerful aftershocks in the wake of an eight point six earthquake the warning originally stretched to several other countries in the indian ocean with tourists evacuated from coastal. all right into the world of sport we go with kate . but i would like you to joining me as you are the latest sports headlines. final bids to number last go prepared to host calder after revealing well the last off on sunday finals day in the russian camp. while thrilling phenolic any delegation lawrence is live of course side victory in five games after andy carroll is in three so i'm heather gets a ten on red state three to win that struggle. and fighting talk boxing

a bad boy gary just saw a talk about punching punditry and perkier as a fighter speaks exclusively to r.t. . but first a football and stood on my moscow has a chance to reach their first russian cup final thirteen years if they win at home to fellow premier league side dog in the second this wednesday semifinals while there are other favorites despite having won only two of their last seven games their joint sub score is also struggling a little having netted only ones in his last four outings but he'll want to lay a few ghosts to rest in this if their two sides met last summer welker ronnie is expected to leave the line we got on in our goal go here in the bottom half of the table are unbeaten in full. well that game is the second seventy final of the day of the first season the also face premier league struggles ross thought rubin are looking to reach the final for the second time in three years. well meanwhile in england on tuesday night a stoppage time goal by record signing only carroll gave ten manager for

a three two victory at struggling in a premier league thriller that had absolutely everything the reds quickly went to no luck thanks to a rocky road league as drake's a rush of blood from standing alexander dhoni for the italian sense of the far country as you point it well good choice going to brian jones then saved i used them and resulted. penalty but the writers strike us with needs a different type of callback so you want then only our jones inexplicably pull down you and this time when i hear him go to the spot get to to him but hell to the last gasp has made the reds betrayed release the kenny dalglish and it all spurs victory by the but then both they remain in the relegation zone. all this wednesday evening leaders manchester united go through relegation threatened weakened manchester city who are now eight points behind in second place host restaurant struggling q.p.r. welcome swanzy and arsenal could consolidate third place with the world's manager also is worried as the league's possibly. over. a

new group of results and probably. how much. the next game. because you can. keep going to explode. with your favorites so all for us. it is simple don't conform to go forward but it is where. we could be consistent since towards the end of mon's. doing right. for me while over in spain defending champions barcelona and now just a point behind lead israel madrid off a four year old thrashing of play at the nou camp x. the sun just scored twice to move the catalan side to the been touching distance of grey are they still have a game in hand while in other results as assumed i kept up their europa league bit with hopes of a win and so over the winter over espanyol and rail subsidised through one one with

real betis. from you want in france the fairy tales over first first division is like hero after they lost for nearly eight hundred just little in the semifinals of the french cup the corsican site had stunned league one leaders to finals but this time the game turned into thirty eight minutes after anthony quinn i was sent off for a violent tackle you. riot in the second half at a time they like as that's not the first and his sons are locals see another curious resistance crumbles granny a piled on the agony of the third ten minutes in time don't be having the final or no final meal either so the division to be or start all play this wednesday. and in the meantime before inspectors have kicked off their three day tour of southern russia as the country prepares for its first ever world cup to be held in twenty eighteen thousand dollars the first stop is one of the thirteen cities to

stage the ultimate football spectacle only eleven will make the final list already provides the home for a couple of top flight sides but a brand new stadium will be built for the world cup the local airport is also due to be upgraded to meet the possible influx of fans something that was going on as hoped the region. regionalism and nutritionist from the start. everything because it was just. because of the. venues will be used and there is already. something. that will be built. well in the meantime russia has moved up one place to eleven in the monthly fee for world rankings that it sticks out because man it's just about four more world cup european champions easily who dropped out of the top turn into all the european holders spain are still untouchable at the top of germany and are right

behind with the euro quite cracking the top three for the first time in their history in london dropped one place to seventh as the f.a. has yet to name a new manager to head this from a share of game championships a potent time she prays. now for the once again my bernie ecclestone insists next week's bahrain grand prix will go ahead despite security concerns but the. could be scrapped in the future however this weekend focus turns to the culprit in china and ferrari's twice former champion fernando alonso will be looking to stretch his lead at the top of the driver standings in shanghai the spaniard to top spot after a surprising victory at the malaysian grand prix last month but ferrari admits their car needs some improvement if a long day is to keep his title hopes alive. i certainly wouldn't but. what i want rugeley tranship of the moment you know from the early testing we have to realize we've got quite a few issues that we need to foreground with everyone at the factory working hard.

and we've still got a long way to go. now boxing's bad boy derek just orate says he enjoyed his public problem with david haye the audience are sorted so at least his british boxing license in march he may never fight again but in an exclusive interview with r.t. the heavyweight had few regrets. instead of the most. he's sure his boxing skills in the ring becoming the bridge to nowhere in twenty jan but more recently we've seen him out of control out of the ring pulling his controversial pre-fight slip off the telly and spitting in the young klitschko brothers face the michalis bad boy has caused their just sore on his career the twenty eight year old had his professional license withdrawn by the british boxing board of control this march after the last straw press conference brawl with

david hague so what made you do it all with two zero and pressure all rounder while from the hope of being told you why i will fight it was for me more for me. because i enjoy my motion and. unfortunately stories no longer allowed to enjoy doing this professionally boxer and we might be the first here see him in your role of bucks an hour just clarify. and that's true. and then for oil so for. one. being everybody. perfectly. reasonable both before small

about a movie. come. on skills and skills. and while many still wonder why one of the most anticipated belts of recent years and me whether versus black yellow is yet to happen stories sure white know will. force their make more money when they far more people if i were in one of the rules since pointless. artsy. and finally two competitors have pulled away in this year's ultimate insurance test the marathon they stop after three stages of the two hundred fifty one kilometer race across the sahara desert in southern morocco well the men's leader is morocco's russian element to beat the defending champion turkeys both victory from as many stages on tuesday finishing the thirty

five kilometer stage in two hours and thirty five minutes while all along klein also completed a hat trick of stage wings in the women's race and also remains on course to defend her title that's the french woman on the right and this wednesday stage that's just over eighty kilometers. west of stuff that's all the sport for this person has more in just under two hours until then i think. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future .

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