it's wealthy americans who foot the bill president obama signs this stop gap or to raise their taxes as part of the deal to avoid plunging off the fiscal cliff. that the state's military marketing machine has its eyes on the asia pacific to try and cement its influence and make billions of dollars from its allies. that's why the church of england needs a face lift as its founding creasing out of touch by britain's population because to keep it centuries old palace.

broadcasting live from the heart of moscow you're watching kelly jones to. president obama signed a law increasing taxes on wealthy americans the deal was passed by congress after months of political bickering to avoid the fiscal cliff and the threat of a destructive recession it was rushed through on tuesday night before the financial markets reopened after the new year holiday twenty four hours after getting senate approval the move prevents deep spending cuts on middle class tax hikes which technically took effect at midnight on a journey the first of the compromise increases taxes on household incomes over four hundred fifty thousand dollars and delays spending cuts for two months some economists see it as being of little help to revive america. they really leave to really big question. have to tackle in the. one or

two month's time the number one priority will be get silly. government already english desailly of sixteen point three trillion you as follows they are using this. tricks to get over to govern us government over for two months but in february they have nowhere to go they have to go back to the congress a request for a high ceiling and the other one is the long term solution would be budget deficit fiscal deficit is running one trillion dollars a year. tax increases spending because the problem is only reduce the deficit by several like two hundred billion dollars it's way short the government the u.s. government have to cut the deficit to zero or actually to

a surplus in order to pay off the huge debt. face america is unlikely to rake in a few more dollars next year is on sales and there is most likely to be in pushing weapons in the asia pacific we have analysis on that to come later in the program. where the new country taking charge of europe's revolving presidency promises to secure economic stability that country is ireland one of the bailed out nations with second only to its own debt crisis while financial analyst robert oulds told me this may prove too big a task for doubling. one of the key challenges facing many countries in europe is of course the economic difficulties. is of course rigidly sticking to the austerity drive which the european union wants which it mandating arlan to do it's effectively running its budget policies in many different areas amount of money that it can be can spend to deal with the deficit but of course arlen's medicine

that they're taking and partly suffering from but they're getting on with it isn't really vied for the rest of europe so if they're going to be driving forward the agenda in the european union for the next six months that's not the. economic problems let me ask you this i mean this coming year twenty thirty in the e.u. has come up with something called the european year of citizens to essentially highlight the rights people have because they're in the e.u. what do you make of that one of the key what people should have is a via to elect their own governments and for that to actually make a real difference but of course with the european union power has become too centralized amongst the into two sions in brussels and that just takes away power from ordinary citizens so the european union can tell us why it's that we have but of course we don't actually have the violet to make a real difference to the elections because far too many decisions now are made at the supranational level major decisions being made in brussels away from the

citizens whether they be the citizens of britain or spain or greece for that matter ok but what you are going to be restored but were there any success stories in twenty twelve must have been something i mean after all the country is predicted to have collapsed by now are still surviving. well course unemployment continues to go up at that for the states within the euro zone that's very alarming and their economic problems will not be resolved until of course it recognize the you know the single currency is the wrong cover for these countries really we need to have a back of powers away from brussels to all the different member states and of course britain should of course have its own referendum on our membership as well and have our own say but it needs to be recognised that the european union is of course failing economically so it still is still there it still exists but the price of people are paying is of course no economic growth and of course massively high unemployment which is now reaching alarming proportions for many different

eurozone states. now the church of england has defined the u.k. and its laws for centuries but its privileges now appear to far outweigh its place among british society in the past decade the number of people who consider themselves christian has dropped by more than four million reports on whether it's time for today's religious mix to get more recognition. one of the most religiously diverse nations in the world with one official state religion to some it's a paradox i think any institute any faith institution like the church of england is going to have some potential threats on the horizon and those threats on the horizon are basically around its relevance to communities in general other faiths are significant and growing in there not only population but the voice in a social and political level so it's really important to have a plurality of opinion rather than just focus on one institution as being

reflective of the nation yet the national church has twenty six on the elected members in the house of lords the upper house of britain's parliament and it enjoys financial privileges courtesy of the u.k. taxpayer by the church's own admission the number of people coming through the doors of this and every other church in england has harvard over the past forty years a very strong report even warns that in the longer term the established religion faces fading away to virtual embellishments twenty anglican churches just like this one being closed down for worship each year entrepreneurial property developers a snapping them up and converting them to luxury housing or even light clubs while the number of church goers in the u.k. continues to fall some one hundred thousand britons have converted to islam over the past decade three quarters of those white women as you know broaden my

knowledge about islam and compared with christianity i must tell you i found a more logical you know it just resonates with me i like what the prince of wales but he wants to be if ever he becomes king he wants to be the leader of faith of all faiths but i think it's a wonderful statement because certainly our society here in britain is very multi-core. very multi-faith so everybody should be included while other faiths enjoy popularity the church of england says recent rejection of women bishops and disapproval of gay marriage has reignited the age old debate on the separation of church and state people feel alienated if they're not part of that church and so few people are because only two percent go to church on a normal sunday so that's why we must i think make sure the church is disestablished and the twenty six bishops that vote in the house of lords the

only country in the world to have a parliament where they have the right to do that should be extinguished britain now has one of the lowest rates of church attendance in europe there is a rule. in terms of religious opinions there is and that will grow and that future may actually become wider as time goes on and so i guess what we have today is is the church effectively being relevant to certain parts of this country despite centuries of tradition some question what will be left of the church of england in fifty years time oh the statistics are very clear very clear almost disappeared with something i think the twenty fifty figures are one hundred thousand people in the pews on an average sunday out of a population of sixty million that's miniscule but the privileges and political

influence afforded to it are far from trivial and that's what's fueling the calls of those who say that it's fairer to separate the church from the state party boy r t london. garza's struggling farmers are turning to rooftop crops their land is often in the line of fire with israel so they're having to get creative with the. hobbist as we report later. on is silent decades after the summer of love is one of the generational risks from deadly but time to see. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard luck and was a big picture. which

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back here with our. top u.s. songs makers are forecasting a significant rise in sounds in the coming year after a pretty saw it twenty twelve washington has been shifting its sights towards asia looking to. neighboring china but independent journalist james corbett joins us now from japan thanks for joining us america is then on top of its own mitchie shift towards asia pacific and how worried is the u.s. about china's growing military progress. well that's an interesting question because i think what we can see here with this strategy of the shift towards the asia pacific and then suddenly this report saying that now the u.s. arms contractors are going to be gaining billions of dollars in contracts from this shift what we can see is really just a return to a very old imperial strategy to building a bogeyman in order to then create the sales to to combat those boogeymen so it's

a very old strategy it was identified by name by president eisenhower in his farewell address in one nine hundred sixty when he talked about the military industrial complex and we here we are half a century later with the exact same strategy at play and before it was the communists then there was the terrorist threat and now there's china and that threat so i don't know if it's a question of a real existential threat that china is posing here so much as a chance for contractors associated with the u.s. government to make billions of dollars that you mentioned sales that what is the key gain in your opinion geo political muscle as you say billions of dollars in sales from arms sales revenue that is. i think one of those feeds into the other and i think it creates a situation where the economics may be what's driving this and we give it towards asia pacific but that in turn creates geopolitical realities so that for example china now sees all of these arms sales going to korea and taiwan and japan and some of the u.s. allies in the region and they respond with

a military armaments of their own so it's a kind of self-perpetuating. prophecy that fulfills itself by the economics of the situation so i think it becomes a geopolitical reality and it's no no coincidence that just after they announced this asia pacific pivot in the last couple of years suddenly we see all of this commotion about the south china sea in the east china sea in these territorial disputes. looking on the widest sense and how much is north korea's missile launch last month being used as a military marketing tool that's where well i think that's the right frame for it again it's not really a question that there is a the imminent sense of an existential threat for north korea so much as another excuse to use north korean launch as the panic to create the market for for more of these devices so now what for example just last month we saw a new one point two billion dollars sale of global hawk to drop spy drones to north

to south korea as on the back of this this commotion about north korea and obviously we see the opening of a brand new market for for drones which are normally aimed at either north korea or china and again just helps to fuel the billions of dollars of contracts that are that are being open greeno so with all this going on i mean how do you expect north korea to react when it sees countries like japan and its neighbors getting american military upgrades. well interestingly enough we've just seen kim jong un come out and talk about the possibility of creating some kind of detente or peace with with south korea so we really don't know that's a big big wildcard a joker in the deck that we can't really say much about but certainly i think china specifically understands the type of threat that's being built up right now and the deep integration that the u.s. is trying to achieve with. their allies in the region so i think china is probably going to be more of the concern in the years ahead and still with china what about

their response i mean since u.s. almost manufactures help upgrade the efforts of taiwan for example a territory china still claims as its own i mean what would it do to washington relations. well obviously it's not going to help relations at all and of course taiwan is one of the most sensitive parts of the entire region and has long been a vision to the place that might be the tinderbox that sets off the bigger explosion in the region so i think china definitely beijing has its eye on what's happening with taiwan and the effort to retrofit the f. sixteen fleet of taiwan and also the japanese x. ray to expand radar for example that just recently has is being expanded and worked on i think has to be seen as a threat by china as well so i think definitely we're going to see an increase in tensions and that will probably create more situations like we saw in the past year with the dispute between japan and china ok independent journalist james corbett

thank you for your time today you're welcome. while the asia pacific is largely to take a lot of the limelight in twenty thirty eight as we've just heard later on artie's cross talk peter the valves experts explain why. the prime problem that the united states sees with china is that its economy is too strong and that it's building up its military so these are two things that the united states prides itself on my giant military and a big economy right what the weather what a big economy in china reflects is number one a lot of hundreds of thousands of people being lifted out of poverty in inch inside china but also means help for the united states because trade is obviously mutually beneficial and so trade in international borders being a little more open to trade this is a good thing for the united states and washington wants to paint it as a bad thing they're playing a very sort of great game geo politicking in asia and because china is having

success they're moving to try and contain china so that means backing a lot of unscrupulous people in asia pacific surging military forces there naval forces there this is all very bad it's an interesting way of the united states turning something positive into something very terrible and it makes it easy for people to go china is our next greatest enemy. we think. well this is the sort of crosstalk is only about fifteen minutes time here not. israel is easing restrictions to allow building materials into gaza the blockade still severely affects those who live there even farmers have had to leave then that and then the buffer zones to grow food on rooftops instead and of course the

reports the recent assault on gaza leave some fearing they may not to see their next list. there's not a lot of greenery in gaza at least not in the places you'd expect to find it like abu hafs arms farm which since the israel gaza war four years ago has laid a barren and deserted. look to you all had a very nice plantation a lot of visitors came to see it also students from the farming school used to come and study at my place. but what gets from israel raining down on one of the most densely populated spots on earth meant i will have needed to find another place where he could go to scraps and so he looked towards his own home and afterwards. i needed an alternative so i made this plain station on the roof and started working again. creates a lot of things if he has time and energy i can make fifty thousand suppling from

these centimeters on the roof. it's an idea that's taken root in farms along the gaza israel border where much of the agriculture has been repeatedly destroyed by the israeli army many farmers are unable to access the land because of the buffer zone that's one of at least a food of gaza's farmland your. today there is no space to have a farm in gaza it is very crowded everybody is building new houses. now used to be a plantation for oranges and lemons and you can look at it now you just see buildings. fall out of five people in gaza are dependent on food aid homegrown food projects like rooftop gardens can help combat christian and severe poverty by allowing farmers to sell their produce marry any woman in the world i work with my husband and my daughters till midnight is that half a lot of farming should be on the ground but we heard that we can plant in volcanic rock on our roots so i tried it. out farmers grow wheat barley and

a variety of fruits and nuts on these rooftops they also raise. and chickens showing how a little ingenuity can go a long way ask anyone in israel of gaza whether they think the situation is stable and i'll tell you it's only a matter of time before the next gaza showdown they might be a ceasefire in place between the two sides but no one believes it will hold least of all the gaza farmers who are always the first in the line of fire. on the israel gaza border. over in the west bank dozens of palestinians have been wounded after they rounded on the israeli troops who are described as vegetable sellers during a botched mission to capture suspected militants for the details on our website. also online has the vatican lost its faith in trusting that stuff workers are given swipe cards to track their movements around papal premises in the wake of

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a silent epidemic stalking the baby boomers of the sixty's but in a cautionary reports now on the call in california to get checked for deadly hepatitis c. . california was the center of the hippie revolution amount of music drugs and sexual freedom we did drugs that we didn't think about there was no process because everybody was doing their deen make chill is a baby boomer born during the pos world war two years nineteen forty six and nine hundred sixty five his generation now is paying for that lifestyle a life of things drugs and rock'n'roll all fueled by flower power and the summer of love they say few remember the sixty's you were intrigued there the baby boomers out of the sexual revolution may have lost some of their memories and they had the

mists of time but there is one legacy of their past which is anything but harmless and the centers for disease control has already named him patatas c s n and recognized health crisis according to their granny station current he won in thirty baby boomers are infectious with the virus the silent killer it can lie dormant for decades that's what happened to dean mitchell's friend who died just two months after being diagnosed with the disease they're paying for the car consequences because there are now so. they have to get medication. it's a disease that i understand can kill you but worst of all it's not just baby boomers who are trysts many could have a knowing if you contract the virus through blood transfusions screening was all improved during the aids crisis in the ninety's californian's bay area has been the hardest hit with more people dying here than anywhere else in the country it is

also a very costly problem for the bankrupt state costing billions of dollars. in order to. have when. there are. more widespread than age i.v. have to tie to see kills around twelve thousand people in the u.s. after a year and with the baby boomers in the highest risk group the center for disease control has called for mass screening they say they could identify almost a million people now living with the disease and save many more lives but the question remains if the present generation will listen my to the question archie reporting from los angeles california. well shortly we have expert insight into what's behind america's latest interest in the asia pacific region crosstalk is

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